If by some bizarre twist of fate the Senate fails to confirm Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, I have a suggestion for President Bush's next pic...
When Congress reconvenes this month, lawmakers likely will try to resolve their bitter standoff over the budget. Which raises an interesting question: What do the self-s...
When you spread food out on a picnic table, you can expect ants. When you put $3 trillion on the table, you can expect special interests, lobbyists and pork-barrel polit...
If you fear Samuel Alito is more of a revolutionary ideologue than a cautious judge, chances are that you slept pretty well last night.
The Supreme Court nominee didn't ...
It was nice while it lasted. The interlude of relative quiet in Iraq had me believing we had turned a corner, that maybe the new year would mean a new beginning.
Two day...
When John Roberts Jr. was confirmed as chief justice of the United States, one of two recent vacancies on the Supreme Court, a lot of commentators said the next nominee ...
The public will witness another awkward dance between senators and a Supreme Court nominee with Samuel Alito's confirmation hearings. Understandably, the appellate judge...
WASHINGTON — The two names uppermost on the minds of official Washington at this moment represent polar extremes of reputation. Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff is an ad...
Like so many coalfield tragedies, the deaths of 12 miners underground in West Virginia now seem to have been sadly predictable.
The federal government knew the mine was ...
Ariel Sharon’s nickname is “The Bulldozer.”
The nickname perfectly captures the man in terms of girth and psychological disposition — unstoppable in shoving aside opposi...
