“Ask Osama bin Laden ... whether I engage in appeasement.”
— Barack Obama, Dec. 8, 2011
WASHINGTON — Fair enough. Barack Obama didn’t appease Osama bin Laden. He kil...
As 2011 draws to a close, how fitting that Congress is fighting over money — again. Late Wednesday, a push to extend a payroll-tax break and unemployment benefits stood ...
WASHINGTON — In 1927, seven years before the board game was created, Washington state decided to play monopoly. It gave a private interest the exclusive right to operate...
I keep asking myself why our country is so divided. Why our dialogue on the critical problems that threaten us is so shrill, so brittle and so unproductive. Why we take ...
Can you safely talk on a cellphone — or for that matter, check your email or scroll through Google Maps — while driving? Well, of course you can. But those other folks w...
Start voting.
That’s my wish for the Congress when it comes to solutions regarding our nearly $15 trillion debt.
Three major bipartisan efforts in Washington offered lon...
Before Congress adjourns for the holidays, it is expected to pass an extension of payroll tax cuts enacted in 2009 and extend unemployment benefits.
“Expected” might be ...
A Los Angeles firm has quietly assembled a Trojan horse electric car designed to carry the Chinese military-industrial complex deep into America’s auto market. Detroit s...
Observers of the current showdown in Washington, D.C., realize that Republicans and Democrats in Congress both want to extend the payroll-tax cut another year.
Democrats...
Conservatives were quick to accuse President Obama of embracing class warfare in his speech last week in Osawatomie, Kan. And liberal Democrats were thrilled to see a hi...
