Last week, over the course of several days, millions of cellphones across the Western United States buzzed like fire alarms — loudly and, to some, annoyingly — as author...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s increasingly grandiose claims for presidential power are inversely proportional to his shriveling presidency. Desperation fuels arrogance as,...
WASHINGTON — “Colleagues,” said the June 27 letter to 98 U.S. senators, “now it is your turn.” The letter’s authors are Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the...
WASHINGTON -- When I was a young reporter in the 1970s, one of my assignments was covering the troubled U.S. steel industry, which was taking a beating from new technolo...
WASHINGTON — In today's contentious political climate, when hardly anyone agrees on anything, here's a rare subject of consensus: Health spending is slowing, and almost ...
WASHINGTON — America’s public K-12 education system isn’t making the grade.
It’s not adequately preparing our students to succeed in college or the modern workforce. It’...
WASHINGTON — Jen Psaki, blameless State Department spokeswoman, explained that the hasty evacuation of our embassy in Yemen was not an evacuation but “a reduction in sta...
Even before former National Security Agency consultant Edward Snowden exposed the breathtaking extent of the intelligence agency’s electronic surveillance programs, civi...
Last year, in the heat of his campaign, President Obama boasted that he had put al-Qaida “on the path to defeat.” This year, with 19 U.S. consulates and embassies closed...
Which factor is most disturbing about Monday evening’s fatal shootings at a township board meeting in northeastern Pennsylvania?
The proximity? It happened in Monroe Cou...
