WASHINGTON — I admit it: I hate this campaign. There is no moral high ground. President Obama and Mitt Romney are both splashing about in a swamp of negative ads and per...
Welfare reform, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996, was fiercely opposed by many on the left.
The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan called it the most “brutal” law ...
Just this week, the state of New Jersey proved that it doesn’t have to be difficult to be fair to teachers while weeding the ineffective ones from the classroom.
Gov. Ch...
In late June, Congress froze the interest rate on federally subsidized student loans at 3.4 percent for another year. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus claime...
There's something to learn from the life of Lagene Lawson, who committed suicide in Cranberry Township early Saturday while being pursued by police.
Lawson's life and th...
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or pra...
On Wall Street, as elsewhere, he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
The latest proof of this adage comes to us from a firm called Knight Capital, which managed to...
Despite knowing that they are tax cheats, the federal government continues to pay hundreds of thousands of people and companies.
The latest example of this nonsensical p...
Four days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Balbir Singh Sodhi, an Indian Sikh, was gunned down in front of his gas station in Mesa, Ariz., by a man who’d vowed to a...
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson hopes to issue a ruling on the state’s new voter ID law next week. He’ll be doing state voters — and election offici...
