There was a phrase that popped to mind Monday as President Barack Obama outlined his ambitious health-care reform plans. He told a room full of doctors at the American M...
WASHINGTON — Politicians have extraordinary shoulder joints that enable them to pat themselves on the back, and last week the president, a master of that calisthenic, pe...
WASHINGTON — Fifteen years ago, when Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle was running interference for the Clintons' effort at health care reform, his goal in life was to enlist ...
This is early in the driving season, and with gasoline prices lower than a year ago, Americans are hitting the highways again. The recession seems to have bottomed out a...
Butler's Main Street, with relatively few empty storefronts, vintage lamp posts and colorful flower baskets, looks better than Main Streets in many other towns. But the ...
In a recent letter to The Kansas City Star, a writer couldn't understand why auto workers were blamed for the car companies' problems.
Workers don't design cars, he wrot...
I wish Sarah Palin would just go away.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, I wrote about the unfair personal treatment to which the political press corps subjected Pa...
Congressional Democrats have seen the future of American health care. It looks a lot like Massachusetts, and a little like John McCain, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
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Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon . . . ," grab your wallet.
For years, Democrats, enthralled by the cargo cult of t...
WASHINGTON — The goal of the Obama White House is to come up with a health care plan that can attract bipartisan support. The president has told visitors that he would r...
