In Retreat, Sears Set To Unload Stores
— The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 24
WASHINGTON — Retreat need not mean surrender. Still. . . .
In 1886, a shipment of $25 watches f...
Our opinion of Congress might not be quite as dire as some of those public opinion polls that show its approval rating at historic, single-digit lows. Still, it’s tough ...
There’s an old saying in Republican politics: Massachusetts produces only two exports — lobsters and liberals — and neither one travels well.
That’s what GOP strategists...
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has it right. “Sending the IRS on a politically motivated witch hunt,” he said Friday, “is simply unacceptable and could have a chilling impact...
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...
