Troubled second terms are a fact of presidential life. No modern chief executive has escaped.
Like most predecessors, President Bush has brought on many of his problems ...
Sure, it’ll take a lot of money to rebuild the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast. All the more reason to ensure that money isn’t wasted.
It won’t be easy. The federal govern...
WASHINGTON — When in 1962 Edward Moore Kennedy ran for his brother’s seat in the Senate, his opponent famously said that if Kennedy’s name had been Edward Moore, his can...
Who’d have known that Harriet Miers would have caused such a ruckus just by saying “yes”?
At first blush, President Bush’s nomination of Miers as the successor to Justic...
Some people seek redemption to correct a mistake or right a wrong. This can be painful and might require a great deal of courage.
Butler Memorial Hospital recently annou...
"Disappointed, depressed, demoralized." That's how Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, reacted to President Bush's nomination of His Girl Harriet to the Supreme...
The environmental movement needs to re-examine some core beliefs before the public-opinion train that forced welfare reform down advocates’ throats runs them over, too.
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President Bush, in his post-Hurricane Katrina address to the nation, said, "And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsib...
Whenever a political leader speaks the truth about the Kyoto global-warming treaty, the chattering classes treat him as if he were that upstart kid who said the emperor ...
What do you call it when someone takes your money without your knowledge or permission?
Honest people call it theft. Our governor, our legislators and our judges call i...
