While members of Congress negotiate to avoid sending the nation off the fiscal cliff, they should be sure to include a proposal to give states the authority to collect s...
Republicans believed a Mitt Romney win would seal Obamacare’s fate. Democrats — or rather, the lonely two-fifths of Americans who support the president’s beleaguered hea...
WASHINGTON — Put Social Security on the table — clearly and irrevocably. Protecting retiree benefits is the left’s political equivalent of the right’s “no new taxes” ple...
The nation’s political leaders will spend December trying to stave off the deep, automatic cuts that will go into effect at the end of the year. Congress must find bette...
Liberals’ strenuous objection to vouchers is that vouchers, as the functional equivalent of cash, empower individuals to make choices.
WASHINGTON — With a chip on ...
WASHINGTON — Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation?
House Speaker John Boehner already made the pre-emptive conce...
The campaign against genetically engineered foods didn’t disappear with California’s defeat of Proposition 37, which would have required the labeling of most foods conta...
WASHINGTON — As a practical matter, the debate over higher taxes is finished. If there’s an agreement to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” it will almost certainly contain large...
Behind closed doors, negotiators in Washington are working to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, the $500 billion in tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect in...
If only we could hustle President Obama and Congress into a screening room and require repeated viewings of Lincoln.
And if only we could lock ourselves in there as well...
