When assigned an important and infrequent task, it’s helpful to study others going about the same process and to adopt their best ideas. A good example of this is develo...
Congress is once again taking up the farm bill — and continuing to treat agriculture like it was 1933, not 2013. The result: billions of taxpayer dollars going to waste....
The civil war in Syria is heading in the wrong direction. In the past year, rebels had won control of big slices of territory, including much of the country’s largest ci...
Most children — and many adults — can remember their earliest bike riding experiences. Whether it was graduating from a tricycle to training wheels or the first wobbly t...
“This war, like all wars, must end. That’s what history advises ...”
— Barack Obama, May 23
WASHINGTON — Nice thought. But much as Obama would like to close his eyes, cl...
While state lawmakers work to complete a budget by the June 30 deadline, debate continues over Gov. Tom Corbett’s pension reform plans to ease taxpayer pain caused by sh...
America’s 100 million cable and satellite subscribers are forced to pay ever-higher bills for a growing number of channels they do not watch. The American people are bei...
The movement to force the labeling of genetically engineered food is gaining momentum. In November 2012, an initiative to require the labels in California was on the bal...
General Electric’s entry into the oil and gas extraction industry should be welcome news to all but the most ardent anti-fracking activists.
Although the use of horizont...
WASHINGTON — It’s good to know that the war on terror is finally over. It was all so ugly, what with the beheadings and bombings.
Wait.
Weren’t we just talking about the...
