The move by the U.S. House last week to cut food stamp aid out of the farm bill legislation may have been mostly symbolic, but that doesn’t make it any less outrageous.
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The Internal Revenue Service has been rightly criticized for wasting millions of dollars on conferences, including a single California event that cost $4.1 million and f...
WASHINGTON — Here’s a somber thought: We may never — or at least not anytime soon — regain “full employment,” meaning an unemployment rate between, say, 4 percent and 5....
Dispatcher: Are you following him?
Zimmerman: Yeah.
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The first tragedy of the Trayvon Martin case is that it didn’t have to ...
Reports of animal abuse, or at least allegations of inhumane or improper treatment of horses, have been making news in Butler County in recent months.
There is broad sup...
WASHINGTON — Republicans seem to be adopting the self-immolation tactics of principled martyrs.
Of course, principled or not, you’re still dead in the end.
At this stage...
Before we knew that the IRS was targeting conservative groups, what a mess the Obama administration would make of Benghazi, or the Justice Department’s monitoring of sel...
For kids, summer should be about fun. Too often, kids become bored due to lack of things to do. Beyond that, many kids suffer what's called “brain drain” over the long b...
WASHINGTON — The conventional wisdom evolves. Yesterday, Washington was merely broken, gridlocked, dysfunctional. The passive voice spread the blame evenly. Today it’s a...
WASHINGTON — As a courtroom junkie since my early reporting days, it is at great personal sacrifice that I suggest the following: It may be time to get television camera...
