With the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks just three days after President Barack Obama’s big jobs speech to Congress, you’d think it would inspi...
When Pat Buchanan kicked off the 1992 GOP convention with his “angry-man speech” about the decline of American culture, I was in the press section, thinking, “that’s jus...
At a time when most state budgets are facing massive deficits, it doesn’t make sense to ignore any potential new revenue. And when it comes to sales taxes on Internet sa...
The two most visible figures in the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama, are busy playing 2012 politics. So busy that they’re overloo...
If you get your hip replaced in the United States, the orthopedic surgeon who performs the procedure will earn, on average, about $4,000 from your private insurance comp...
WASHINGTON — It must take some getting used to. Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense, knows the Pentagon is under 24-hour cyber siege. There constantly are thousands o...
WASHINGTON — As often as not, I devote a column to the Census Bureau’s annual report on “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage.” It’s a statistical benchmark tha...
The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that almost one in six Americans was living below the federal poverty line in 2010, the highest percentage since 1993 and the largest ...
NEW YORK — The European crisis is no longer a European crisis. It has morphed into something that could easily engulf the global economy. Because of its size, because it...
WASHINGTON — The Great Social Security Debate, Proposition 1:
Of course it’s a Ponzi scheme.
In a Ponzi scheme, the people who invest early get their money out with...
