It long has been our theory that the Monica Lewinsky scandal resulted in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton because everyone could understand it. It was patently ...
WASHINGTON — It’s no secret that the states are in as much budget trouble as the federal government. Doubters should read a new report from a group headed by former Fede...
WASHINGTON -- When it comes to over-the-top politics, the Obama campaign has set a new standard with recent attempts to paint Mitt Romney as a felon.
This clever and utt...
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann often plunges recklessly into controversy, but her latest sally is most damaging: an attack on the reputations of an individual and five feder...
The big packages of channels offered by satellite-TV services DirecTV and Dish Network are a bit less big these days. DirecTV has dropped MTV, Comedy Central and 15 othe...
It didn’t take long for the more hard-hearted of the small-government crowd to respond to the news that the feds spent about $75.7 billion on their food stamp initiative...
Deciding what to teach children based on how old they are makes no more sense than basing their lessons on how much they weigh, or how tall they are.
The folly of relyin...
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that corporations and unions could make independent political expenditures in the infamous Citizens United case, it also made c...
Next time the more bombastic in Washington rail against government waste, let them include every cent lost to Wednesday’s dog and pony show in the House of Representativ...
The dog days of July were once a slow time in our presidential campaigns, a time when candidates could take vacations and voters could take a break. The party convention...
