WASHINGTON — For a whole range of reasons, the confirmation hearings on Harriet Miers, President Bush's choice for the Supreme Court, have now become a supreme test for ...
When a deadly cloud of chemicals being used to make pesticides killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, in 1984, Americans wondered: Where could it happen here?
The ...
The line between promotion and coercion is a thin one, as United Way of America CEO Brian Gallagher can attest. He recognizes the downside for his organization when well...
We all expected the bird flu virus to reach us from Russia, now the question is how to prepare.
Stockpiling antiviral drugs, like Roche's Tamiflu, is essential, and the ...
WASHINGTON — General Motors took an interesting turn on Monday. It is going back into the automobile business.
Granted, GM has always been in that, but it has also becom...
The emptiest suit since Dan Quayle. The female version of a cigar-chompin’ crony. An inspiration to unqualified people.
Now that we have this image of Harriet Miers, can...
Immigration reform is like a puzzle with five extraordinarily difficult pieces to fit.
The first is the scope of the problem: What does the U.S. do with the estimated 11...
American writer P. J. O'Rourke once said: "There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner." This should come as no surprise to anyone who has cast ...
As a former state legislator who sought major reforms in the legislative process without success in the 1990s, I have been very pleased to witness, admittedly from the s...
WASHINGTON - Mel Laird has a unique perspective on the U.S. engagement in Iraq. Not surprisingly, the man who was secretary of defense in the Nixon administration and th...
