By now, we’ve all seen and heard the parade of public officials predicting doom and gloom if the $85 billion budget “sequester” kicks in on March 1. Both sides of the ai...
I had the privilege of being with a group of newspaper publishers at the Georgia Press Association’s winter gathering in Atlanta.
It is one of those times I wish my mom...
WASHINGTON — Even during this desultory economic recovery, one industry thrives — the manufacture of synthetic hysteria. It is, however, inaccurate to accuse the Hysteri...
Sometimes it seems like you just can’t win. For example, on one hand, Republicans criticize President Obama for not being more specific about the spending he would reduc...
President Barack Obama is stepping up the pressure on Congress to avoid the sequester, across-the-board cuts to federal government spending.
The president’s the-sky-will...
We Americans are stuck in domestic purgatory for reasons other than raw partisanship, although the Cain-like desire to dominate is part of the reason our political syste...
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s super political action committee, Independence USA, is spending at least $2.1 million on the special election campaign in Illinois’ 2n...
WASHINGTON — “Zero Dark Thirty,” a nominee for Sunday’s Oscar as Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This p...
On Tuesday, attorneys for the largest agrochemical corporation in the world, Monsanto, presented arguments before the Supreme Court asserting the company’s rights to the...
We got a good long look at the second-term edition of Barack Obama last week, and he’s sounding more like Bill Clinton every day.
It’s not all that surprising. Over the ...
