Priests are in the praying business, and political conventions long have invited men and women of the cloth to seek God’s blessing on their deliberations. But in asking ...
WASHINGTON — Larry Summers knows better. In a column in the Washington Post and Financial Times, the Treasury secretary under President Clinton and former adviser to Pre...
The 2007 state law Act 44, created as an alternative to leasing the Pennnsylvania Turnpike to a private investor, requires that the Turnpike Commission provide funding o...
WASHINGTON — Either Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan Horse or it is on the cusp of a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
What’s...
The presidential campaign has already become nasty. Both candidates knowingly misrepresent the other side’s position, hoping to scare or anger voters. With two months le...
The other day I was watching former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean on CNBC do his best to bash the Medicare reform plan authored by Paul Ryan and endorsed, with a key change, ...
We need to sympathize with Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., and come to a better awareness of mental illness.
A recent picture of a grim, almost gaunt Jackson at the Mayo...
Environmental regulation is a complicated business, but the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is, in principle, fairly simple. It aims to ...
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much, but they do agree on this: the middle class. At their conventions, the two parties will compete fiercely for ...
There are plenty of things not to like about this year’s presidential campaign, including how nasty and negative a mud fight it’s become, with both sides engaging in sha...