Another deadly shooting rampage has stunned our nation, this time in the quiet suburbs of Connecticut. Twenty-seven families have lost loved ones. Parents are preparing ...
“Dilbit” — drop the word in casual conversation and listeners might think you’re talking about the comic strip engineer who can’t get a date. But dilbit actually stands ...
WASHINGTON — For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan last week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously un...
WASHINGTON — One of my great hopes for a Barack Obama administration — and thus one of my personal disappointments — was that he would use his bully pulpit to emphasize ...
WASHINGTON — If you have worked hard for five decades, made pots of money and now want to squander it all in Las Vegas on wine, women and baccarat, go ahead. If, however...
An odd thing happened in this year's presidential election: Religion didn't play a major role. The diminishing of its place could set an appropriate precedent for the 20...
KABUL, Afghanistan — It appears that millions of dollars paid by international forces to rent a piece of land in Logar province for use as an airstrip went to six well-c...
Well, isn’t this another fine mess? We’ve gotten to the point that hard-liners on both sides are starting to say, “Jump!” — let the “fiscal cliff” happen. You wonder wha...
The partisan debate over how to reform the nation’s immigration system has been stalled in Congress for the better part of a dec-ade. Republicans shoulder much of the bl...
In 10 years of U.S. contracting boondoggles in Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps the most notorious is the Jadriyah Lake Water Park on the Tigris River in Baghdad.
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