Statistics, they say, is the art of torturing numbers until they confess. If so, they must have a rack built somewhere in the White House.
Consider how the administratio...
WASHINGTON — Sallie James was born in Australia on July 4, 1976, which suggests that Providence planned what happened 30 years later: She moved to Washington. She studie...
Soaring gasoline prices have dragged down President Barack Obama’s poll ratings, and now his energy secretary says he no longer wants prices to reach the even-higher Eur...
PHOENIX — Sal DiCiccio says he’s sorry. It is, he says, no excuse that the complex labor contracts that he, as a member of the city council, voted to ratify for city emp...
The Pentagon is under orders from Congress to cut about $1 trillion in spending, yet its proposal for two new rounds of base closings got a cold reception on Capitol Hil...
There wasn’t much doubt about the value of colonoscopies, the rather invasive screening tests for colorectal cancer. Now there should be none.
These screenings, unpleasa...
There’s a seeming paradox in the way Americans view the health care law that President Barack Obama and the Democrats passed two years ago this month.
Most people tell p...
The West must no longer tolerate the wanton slaughter occurring in Syria under dictator Bashar Assad. His consistent targeting of noncombatants and Arab Spring protester...
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has taken considerable heat during the Republican primaries for the health care legislation that passed while he was in office.
Sad...
More than plenty of opinion has been expressed about the revolting comments made last week by the talk-radio blowhard best described by Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s “...
