WASHINGTON -- The selection of Paul Ryan -- chairman of the House Budget Committee -- as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candidate has the potential to turn this dreary ...
“This plan of action is about putting an end to empty promises from a bankrupt government.” — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on his 10-year blueprint for fede...
On most issues, it would be troubling to see Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s name appear on the same piece of Senate legislation as those of tea party favorites Rand Pa...
Republicans complain that the Obama administration is moving to gut the highly popular 1996 federal law that put strict time limits on welfare payments and required reci...
Are you a NObama voter?
Or will you say Mitt-No! in November?
You might not have heard, but the difference-makers in the presidential election this year will be PSVs: pr...
Millions of Americans still are feeling the effects of the Great Recession while others’ problems relate to job losses and other setbacks extending from long before the ...
The city of Butler's explanation of how a sinkhole behind Pullman Park will be eliminated leaves much to be desired.
Butler's longstanding solution of “we'll correct it ...
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...
