WASHINGTON — Social Security’s disability program is a political quagmire — and a metaphor for why federal spending and budget deficits are so difficult to control. The ...
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s recent losses to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota revealed a truism that Romney might want to study — but not too much!
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is refreshingly frank, sometimes stunningly so. He outdid himself on a trip to Europe last week, making headlines on two sensitive topi...
President Obama wants to use the tax code to promote manufacturing and deter U.S. corporations from shipping jobs overseas. It’s an appropriate goal; a strong manufactur...
After President Obama announced his latest effort to try to stem foreclosures last week, House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, said it was time for Washington to stop m...
WASHINGTON — Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats’ nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiorit...
Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago yesterday (Feb.7, 2012), and I wonder how he’d react if he were to see the current United States. He might be amazed to find that ...
”The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
— L.P. Hartley, English novelist
WASHINGTON — It must now be obvious that, economically speaking, we’r...
WASHINGTON — Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Easte...
The Jan. 20 death of 72-year-old rhythm-and-blues legend Etta James, just three days after the death of her mentor, bandleader Johnny Otis, is a sad reminder that the ea...
