WASHINGTON — The mountain labored, and brought forth a mouse. Last week the administration confronted the budget of the U.S. government in the "line-by-line" review long...
WASHINGTON — On the very day last week that Jack Kemp, the former quarterback, congressman and 1996 vice presidential candidate, succumbed to cancer, other Republicans w...
It's a tough time for Americans, and partisan political attacks are running high. Even logical and historically accurate positions are viewed as partisan.
Regardless of ...
Banks and the credit-card industry have no one to blame but themselves for the consumer-protection legislation working its way through Congress.
The Senate is expected q...
With GM flirting with bankruptcy (and Chrysler already there), it's fair to ask whether taxpayers will be expected to cover the costs of the pensions the companies promi...
KARACHI, Pakistan — The mayor of this country's largest city was driving me through its slums, and he was furious. He was looking at yet another illegally built religiou...
Whether or not Republicans regret that Sen. Arlen Specter quit the party, his departure underscored an undeniable problem for the GOP: It's shrinking.
In Pennsylvania, m...
It's clear enough what President Barack Obama hopes will happen now that Chrysler has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to midwife the company's rebirth as Fiat's robust N...
"Shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom."
— Adlai Stevenson
Imagine if cable news and talk radio wer...
"In the long run, we're all dead." — John Maynard Keynes
The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that a swine flu pandemic is likely imminent. "It's really all of...
