WASHINGTON — For four and a half years, we have waited for a powerful and self-sustaining economic recovery. More than once it seemed imminent. Then, for various reasons...
WASHINGTON — This report on the State of Conservatism comes at the end of an annus mirabilis for conservatives. In 2013, they learned that they may have been wasting muc...
Cheers to Butler County Mental Health Association as it begins the new year under new management. For more than 55 years, the association has provided services and advoc...
2013 will be remembered for many things, not least the miles of red tape that were imposed on Americans. It has been a very busy year indeed for regulators, who imposed ...
WASHINGTON — Federal Judge John Gleeson of the Eastern District of New York says documents called “statements of reasons” are an optional way for a judge to express “vie...
“Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan,” said Harry Truman, “I know he is going to vote against me.”
The hosannas to bipartisanship accompanying the budget deal pa...
Today is Boxing Day, an official holiday in Canada and Great Britain, and an unofficial observance here in the States.
Boxing Day is a day for returning and exchanging ...
“Congress is finishing this year less popular than a cockroach,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the other day. The reason, he charged, was simple: “mind...
WASHINGTON — The lie of the year, according to Politifact, is “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” But the story of the year is a nation waking up to ju...
Some stories are timeless ... like the letter an 8-year-old girl wrote 116 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagle repr...