NEW YORK - Former President Carter, who already has a book coming out this fall about his post-White House years, is working on a memoir about his mother, Lillian, to be published next spring by Simon & Schuster.

ATLANTA - Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, fresh off of a trip to Nicaragua to monitor preparations for November's elections, plan to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Friday with a quiet day in their Georgia hometown.

JERUSALEM - Former President Jimmy Carter brokered the first Israeli-Arab peace deal, but he's getting a cool reception in Israel during his latest visit to the Mideast.

AIRPORT CITY, Israel - Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday he hoped to help open talks between Hamas and U.S. leaders, saying Washington's policy of not meeting with people it labeled terrorists was counterproductive.

Looks like we have another Jimmy Carter President in the White House. Barack Hussein Obama has been kissing up to the Muslim world since he became president. Could it be from his Muslim childhood in Indonesia? He hardly had a “Yankee Doodle Dandy” childhood. His parents met at a Russian language class in the 1960s at the University of Hawaii (now who studied Russian back in those days, Marxists maybe?). On one of his first overseas trips as president he meets the King of Saudi Arabia (Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques) and gives him a full bow from the waist. No other president has bowed down to any head of state in our history. Then Obama apologizes to the Muslim world for America’s past “transgressions” at the University of Cairo. Yes, Cairo, where our U.S. Embassy was overrun. What does the Obama Administration do? It issues another “apology.” “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts of misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims...”

September 7, 2004

ATHENS, Ga. - Former President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that the storm of criticism he has faced for his recent book has not weakened his resolve for fair treatment of Israelis and Palestinians.

Former President Jimmy Carter denounced Israel’s plan to build a fence in Palestinian territories as a land grab rather than a security measure at a Tempe book signing Tuesday, as protesters with ethnic ties to the Middle East conflict squared off outside.

Q school, even the name sounds ominously quirky. Most pros dread it like the flu, but at the same time it’s almost the only way to get to — or get back to — the PGA Tour and the good life.

KUWAIT CITY - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the Bush administration explicitly warned former President Jimmy Carter against meeting with members of Hamas, the Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip and which is regarded by the U.S. as a terror group.

Poor Jimmy Carter. Such wonderful intentions. Such ghastly naivete.

Democratic elder statesman Jimmy Carter recently stepped across a partisan battle line. “I am very proud of what nuclear power has done for our nation's security and well-being,” he told a group of employees at the Donald C. Cook nuclear power plant in Michigan.

Sunrise Mountain High School conducted a national search to fill its vacant head football coaching position, but ended up hiring a guy who lives within walking distance of the north Peoria school.

There is an old saying about being "penny wise and pound foolish." This saying certainly applies to the Congressional budget super committee. The time is rapidly running out for this committee to come out with $1.2 trillion of budget cuts in the next 10 years. If they cannot, then automatic cuts kick in with half of them coming out of the Pentagon budget and other national security programs. My guess is we will get the automatic cuts.

Racism is alive and in full swing as defined by the Left. They define a racist as anyone who criticizes President Obama. Really? The criticism is directed at Obama because of his policies, which are diminishing U.S. standing in the world, preventing the economy from recovering with robust employment and reasonable prices for food and oil, and policies that bring more regulation and interference in every aspect of business and our personal lives.