John Kerry

Obama's 'Katrina moment'

2013-05-17 06:05:00

It has been a rough week or so for the Obama administration. From Benghazi to the tapping of reporters' phones to the IRS admitting that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the press is in a frenzy, and many are questioning President...

Georgian president visits Baltimore

2013-05-01 17:05:16

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili visited Baltimore on Wednesday as part of a U.S. tour intended to build support for his country's bid to join NATO. Saakashvili visited the city to meet with Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat. He has also met with...

'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'

2013-04-25 00:00:00

"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...

Adoption ban elevates politics over protecting kids

2013-04-23 11:42:00

Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland recently met with the family of Sergei Magnitsky. The reasons for the meeting: In 2009, Mr. Magnitsky was jailed in Russia for exposing governmental corruption. While in prison, he died after allegedly being tortured. In...

Johns Hopkins graduate killed in bomb blast in Afghanistan

2013-04-08 12:44:32

Anne Smedinghoff wanted to help the people of Afghanistan, those who knew her say. The 25-year-old Johns Hopkins University graduate was attempting to deliver textbooks to school children there when she and four other Americans were killed in a car bomb...

Can the GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?

2013-04-01 03:00:00

Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...

Chuck Hagel survives

2013-03-01 00:00:00

After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he indicated he...

Opening the door to peace

2013-03-25 11:02:00

Given how low the expectations were for President Barack Obama's highly publicized trip to the Middle East, it may not be saying much to declare that he exceeded them. But given the precarious state of Israeli-Palestinian relations, it would also be...

We should not be aiding Egypt when Maryland needs help

2013-03-08 06:00:00

What! I can't believe it. The Sun reports that Secretary of State John Kerry promises to give Egypt $190 million to help the government pay its bills ("Egypt deal with IMF of paramount importance: Kerry," Mar. 2). Last week I heard it was $60 million....

Obama is a lame duck who knows how to quack

2013-02-18 08:42:37

It's sometimes said that a lame-duck president is a weakened leader from the first day of his last term. The two-term limit of the 22nd Amendment, imposed by wrathful Republicans in 1951 in response to FDR's breach of the George Washington tradition, is...

Since when does it take a political campaign to become secretary of state?

2012-12-03 08:51:00

There was a time when a president and the opposition party in Congress could agree on certain basics, such as the right of the chief executive to select members of his cabinet with no fuss or bother. The president's most important choice in this...

Why did Obama defend and then drop Susan Rice?

2012-12-18 03:00:00

Whether Susan Rice jumped or was pushed from consideration to succeed retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her removal from the equation clears one bone of partisan contention from President Barack Obama's plate as he heads into his second term....

Secretary of State John Kerry (L) greets the press as Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta welcomes him in Rome on Thursday. Kerry insisted Thursday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will have to step down as part of any political solution in Syria.

2013-05-09 00:00:00

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) boards his plane prior to his departure from Moscow at Vnukovo airport on May 8, 2013.

2013-05-08 00:00:00

Secretary of State John Kerry, fourth from right, and Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, fourth from left, speak to the media following a meeting with members of the Arab League at Blair House in Washington.

2013-04-29 00:00:00