The silly season is upon us. With Hillary Clinton's cleavage and Judith Giuliani's expensive handbag passing for big news, the presidential campaign, or at least the med...
Achieving ethics reform in Congress is akin to subjecting 535 people to simultaneous water torture. The slow drip, drip, drip of change takes a long time to wear down po...
In Darfur the marauders got away with murder. Will it continue apace?
That's the question, after the U.N. Security Council finally pledged to send a massive peacekeeping...
WASHINGTON — Since almost everyone in Washington knows that members of Congress and their staffs have some of the best health insurance in town, you can imagine the surp...
Democratic congressional leaders and their labor allies held a big Capitol Hill rally the other day to hail the increase in the minimum wage, their first 2006 election p...
When the Democrats took control of Congress last January, they promised thorough ethics reform to curb the kinds of abuses exemplified by the recent Jack Abramoff and Wi...
WASHINGTON — The distinguishing characteristic of this Congress was on vivid display the other day when the House debated a bill to expand the federal program that provi...
In two succinctly damning sentences on June 5, the Wall Street Journal summed up the record of Rupert Murdoch, the media baron poised to purchase the newspaper, which is...
For more than two decades, Washington has been trapped in gridlock over energy legislation and fuel-economy standards for automobiles. Suddenly, with this summer's energ...
State government has recently — and rightly — been under scrutiny, and the passage of this year's budget is no exception. There is a misconception in the media that some...
