WASHINGTON — Put Social Security on the table — clearly and irrevocably. Protecting retiree benefits is the left’s political equivalent of the right’s “no new taxes” ple...
The nation’s political leaders will spend December trying to stave off the deep, automatic cuts that will go into effect at the end of the year. Congress must find bette...
Assuming that Pennsylvania Act 108 will be upheld during an appeal to the state Supreme Court, Butler County commissioners in office four years from now should do what t...
Liberals’ strenuous objection to vouchers is that vouchers, as the functional equivalent of cash, empower individuals to make choices.
WASHINGTON — With a chip on ...
WASHINGTON — Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation?
House Speaker John Boehner already made the pre-emptive conce...
While elected officials in Washington are rightly focused on the approaching “fiscal cliff,” there is plenty of evidence that health care reform needs to be revisited. T...
The campaign against genetically engineered foods didn’t disappear with California’s defeat of Proposition 37, which would have required the labeling of most foods conta...
In the rest of the country, it may be just another movie, but in Washington, Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” has become a political Rorschach test.
It seems as if every pun...
WASHINGTON — As a practical matter, the debate over higher taxes is finished. If there’s an agreement to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” it will almost certainly contain large...
Behind closed doors, negotiators in Washington are working to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, the $500 billion in tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect in...
