WASHINGTON — By early 2011, writes former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, he had concluded that President Obama “doesn’t believe in his own Afghanistan strategy, and doe...
During World War II, President Harry Truman made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, and he said he never had any regrets. When an anguished J. Robert Oppenheime...
WASHINGTON — Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems ...
Democrats in Congress are making a play to shore up extended assistance for 1.3 million long-term unemployed in this election year, though it’s hard to be enthusiastic a...
A relatively low-level player in the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commisison corruption case agreed to a guilty plea Monday. While Raymond Zajicek, 68, of Florida was accused o...
WASHINGTON — As we evaluate the efficacy of the War on Poverty, a single, unquantifiable factor stubbornly demands attention: luck.
When it comes to the fortunes of the ...
Wise old sayings become what they are because — no surprise here — they contain wisdom.
Old sayings like “Too many cooks spoil the broth” explain themselves.
We wonder i...
Judiciously cutting cost-of-living increases in military pensions is the sort of tough budgeting Congress must do if it’s going to responsibly restrain government spendi...
Let’s get a few points straight regarding the federal government’s “big” $2-billion-plus settlement with JPMorgan Chase over the bank’s complicity in the Madoff case.
Fi...
The booming U.S. energy industry is on pace to produce more oil than Saudi Arabia by next year, but it can’t sell a drop of that crude overseas.
The United States has ba...
