Who says bipartisanship is dead? In the giving spirit of the season, as the TV commercials remind us, House Republicans handed their Democratic rivals a priceless treasu...
While Democrats and Republicans squabble in Congress, they deserve bipartisan credit for one stunning achievement: the defeat of the United States in Iraq.
The willful b...
Most people following the financial crisis were troubled by the revolving door between Washington, D.C. and Wall Street. In recent years, through both Republican and Dem...
With the final headlong withdrawal this month of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to end the war. But was the nearly nine-year mission...
“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...
