When my wife informed me that Target had been the target of a data breach during the holiday season and we might be among the 164 gazillion people affected, my instincti...
Recently I found myself in the intensive-care unit perched above a 91-year-old man plunging a large needle into the side of his neck to place a catheter into his jugular...
When recent headlines roared that Fallujah had fallen to al-Qaida, the American public became mildly interested, recalling U.S. troops’ 2004 fight for control of the cit...
WASHINGTON — Here in your nation’s capital, things are not always what they seem.
There is great excitement that an actual “budget” has been hammered out in Congress, av...
WASHINGTON — By early 2011, writes former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, he had concluded that President Obama “doesn’t believe in his own Afghanistan strategy, and doe...
During World War II, President Harry Truman made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, and he said he never had any regrets. When an anguished J. Robert Oppenheime...
WASHINGTON — Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems ...
Democrats in Congress are making a play to shore up extended assistance for 1.3 million long-term unemployed in this election year, though it’s hard to be enthusiastic a...
WASHINGTON — As we evaluate the efficacy of the War on Poverty, a single, unquantifiable factor stubbornly demands attention: luck.
When it comes to the fortunes of the ...
Judiciously cutting cost-of-living increases in military pensions is the sort of tough budgeting Congress must do if it’s going to responsibly restrain government spendi...
