WASHINGTON — Whatever the final impact of the Iraq Study Group report being issued today, for the 10 commission members this was an exhilarating experience, a demonstrat...
WASHINGTON — James Baker almost smiled.
When the poker-faced co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group heard a commentator, who had been invited to advise the group, say that ...
Five-year-old Steven Olson of Minnesota was playing on the swings when he noted a remarkable thing. If he yanked on the chains just right, he could make the swing go sid...
WASHINGTON — Now that the "realists" have ridden into town gleefully consigning the Bush doctrine to the ash heap of history, everyone has discovered the notion of inter...
Over the past dozen years, members of Congress have engaged in an orgy of earmarking. They have abused their power to slip provisions known as earmarks into legislation,...
When does an elephant become an elephant? That is the question.
At least it's the one that popped into my mind as I viewed images from an upcoming National Geographic do...
There's a great anecdote about Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, a delegation touting itself as "the weighty men of Delaware" visited Lincoln at the White House. Li...
Despite feverish lobbying from the barge industry and its client businesses, Congress appears unlikely to finish packing a new barrel of water-projects pork before Chris...
It was only a matter of time. Depraved Palestinians first sent young adult men wearing explosives to blow themselves up on Israeli buses and in pizza parlors. Then came ...
Congressional Democrats have dug themselves into a public relations hole on the subject of "earmarks," the catch-all term for dubious projects that are often quietly tuc...
