The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has long been the redheaded stepchild of federal agencies — unloved and underfunded. A decade ago, the agency was in the cros...
What is the necessity for cable that makes it less of a luxury than Internet? I think that in many ways the Internet is used for luxury, though I can say that I use it o...
As Butler County residents prepared to celebrate Christmas, they also faced the unhappy reminder of a virtually unimaginable tragedy that gripped news pages in 2005. Ami...
For those who believe in miracles, there is the legitimate possibility that John McCain could win the Republican presidential nomination. If so, he'll make Bill Clinton'...
It's now official: There is nothing that can't be magically transmuted into a "values issue."
The chief characteristic of a values issue, and its inestimable advantage f...
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
And all...
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Barack Obama has become a one-trick pony. But what a trick it is!
The stump speech he has developed in the closing stages of the pre-Christmas campaig...
Some stories are timeless . . . like the letter an eight-year-old girl wrote 110 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun. Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...
WASHINGTON — Floating crosses, love babies and hag photos. We're all tabloid now.
Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, politics has gotten not just ugly but unseemly and ...
The Federal Reserve took unprecedented action Tuesday to curb predatory lending in the subprime mortgage market as a coming wave of foreclosures threatens the nation's e...
