WASHINGTON — Judging by the political reaction, you’d think that Paul Ryan’s budget takes a meat ax to Medicare and threatens economic havoc for the elderly. Just the op...
The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm the right of public universities — particularly competitive and prestigious ones — to consider race as a...
WASHINGTON — Vice presidential picks always are judged by their effect on the coming election. They rarely have any.
This time could be different. The Democrats’ Medisca...
The Corbett administration has exercised the poor-mouth option in regard to finding money for the repair of Glade Run Lake.
In response, the Glade Run Lake Conservancy h...
Because the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is a part of the federal bureaucracy, it can make even groundbreaking news seem mundane.
Take this understated sentence in...
Do you automatically assume that a headache is a brain tumor? Do you worry that a minor cut could lead to flesh-eating bacteria ravaging a limb and requiring massive sur...
August is a great month for celebrating human stupidity.
On Aug. 6, 1945, we all but disappeared Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, and then did it again, three days l...
WASHINGTON -- The selection of Paul Ryan -- chairman of the House Budget Committee -- as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candidate has the potential to turn this dreary ...
“This plan of action is about putting an end to empty promises from a bankrupt government.” — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on his 10-year blueprint for fede...
On most issues, it would be troubling to see Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s name appear on the same piece of Senate legislation as those of tea party favorites Rand Pa...
