“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or pra...
On Wall Street, as elsewhere, he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
The latest proof of this adage comes to us from a firm called Knight Capital, which managed to...
Four days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Balbir Singh Sodhi, an Indian Sikh, was gunned down in front of his gas station in Mesa, Ariz., by a man who’d vowed to a...
Colombia’s cocaine production fell by nearly 25 percent in 2011 from the previous year, and was down by more than 70 percent since 2001, according to the White House. A ...
While politicians and journalists might sometimes be friendly, journalists need some distance to fairly call balls and strikes. In some cases, though, friendships predat...
Politicians on both sides of the partisan divide want to simplify the federal tax code by pruning the thicket of loopholes, exemptions and credits. In fact, President Ob...
WASHINGTON — I worry about the future — not mine but that of my three children, all in their 20s. It is an axiom of American folklore that every generation should live b...
Imagine an industry that receives 86 percent of its revenues from the federal government — $32 billion in a single year — but more often than not fails to turn out a suc...
Pennsylvania’s new voter ID requirement, which was signed into law in March, has evoked a number of responses — pro and con — in the Butler Eagle’s letters to the editor...
The problem of big money in political campaigns isn’t just that there’s too much but that too much of it, with great potential for skewing election results, is being hid...
