The federal court ruling last week regarding the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository is a signpost on a road to nowhere. In effect, it says, “Stop. Decide where you are go...
WASHINGTON — Europe is at the abyss — again. Its turmoil is rattling global stock markets and stoking fear and bewilderment. The obvious question is, what’s the solution...
The latest mission of an American spacecraft to the International Space Station was one of those marvels of balletic NASA precision. Except it wasn’t a NASA spacecraft t...
Choosing a worthy president and commander in chief is not a casual task for voters.
Those laboring to compare and contrast President Obama and Mitt Romney on war and for...
It’s hard to dispute the Congressional Budget Office warning that eliminating the Bush tax cuts at year’s end and making the spending cuts in last year’s deficit package...
There’s little argument that the $800 billion-plus stimulus bill that was President Barack Obama’s first “accomplishment” soon became one of his biggest political liabil...
Just a few weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearings in March on the constitutionality of several parts of the Affordable Care Act — a.k.a. Obamacare — an overwhelm...
A tariff is always a double-edged weapon in international trade. Countries apply them to protect domestic producers but risk retaliation and penalize their own consumers...
There was grim news last week from the eminent diagnosticians at the Congressional Budget Office. Basically, we’re about to undergo the fiscal equivalent of a quadruple ...
The Institute of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and HBO just released a film, “Weight of the Nation,” warning us of the latest epidemic to sweep the country: ...