It's "let's focus on health care" week in Washington, and, as most Americans know, attempts can't come soon enough to try to chip away at this crisis. About 45 million A...
The parallels are striking — and scary. Coming up on five years since 9/11, neither Washington nor New York has its act together.
Like an earthquake's aftershock, the fa...
If there was any doubt that Washington politicians live in an unreal world, their latest efforts to cope with the government's finances should lay that to rest.
Exhibit ...
Need proof of how pork-addicted Congress has become? Consider this: Some in the Senate are looking for ways to shift funds from the troops in Iraq to some of their favor...
When it comes to the looming deficits in Medicare and Social Security, Congress is like a child who thinks something unpleasant will disappear when he covers his eyes.
B...
WASHINGTON — Indiana politics was rocked last week by a story that went unnoticed outside the borders of the Hoosier state.
In the May 2 Republican primary, state Senate...
As if you needed more proof that the U.S. Senate is completely out of control, the Senate voted last week to pass a $109 billion emergency spending bill for the war in I...
Life, as Harry Chapin ("All My Life's a Circle") and Joni Mitchell ("The Circle Game") sang to us over the years, repeats itself.
That is why it might be prudent to look...
In a world with Yahoo Maps, GPS devices and OnStar-equipped vehicles, why does knowing geography matter, anyway?
Can't find something on a map? Google it. Studying all t...
Once upon a time on Planet Earth — before the scourge of AIDS — the subject of condoms rarely came up in polite company.
Today, condoms have become the coin of the polit...
