The financial crisis facing the Federal Highway Trust Fund has been known for months, even years. Yet the response from Congress to this long-term infrastruture problem ...
The Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster should have been a wake-up call for Vladimir Putin. It wasn’t.
Instead of decreasing aid for pro-Russian separatists who almost ...
America’s effort to use our prisons to stem the illegal drug problem has largely failed.
Incarceration of drug offenders has seen prison and jail populations skyrocket, ...
WASHINGTON — The boys and girls of Congress are returning from summer camp — er, Capitol Hill — to their real homes where they will 1) raise money and plead to be return...
It’s a chaotic world out there. But we’d better get used to it; this may be the new normal.
The Middle East is in flames, not only Gaza but Syria, Iraq and Libya as well...
News stories this week focused on how little Congress has gotten done this term, noting the recent Department of Veterans Affairs compromise reform bill as a rare except...
The nation’s retreat from a maniacal and misguided mission to arrest and imprison our way out of our illegal drug problem has taken another important step.
A federal com...
When talking about his $1 million donation to Butler County Community College at a ceremony Tuesday, Robert Heaton offered a few thoughts worth remembering, about hard w...
In a rare display of compromise, Senate and House negotiators Tuesday agreed to a $17 billion bill to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs. The bill is expected to ...
“The Great War” and “The war to end all war” proved to be neither. The conflict that would bleed to death some of Earth’s proudest empires — while killing 16.5 million s...
