Butler County Sheriff Dennis Rickard believes that the county salary board's decision to eliminate seven full-time deputy sheriff positions — two on July 1 and another f...
Once upon a time, long before the GOP plummeted to its current status as the Southern and Rural Older White Guy Party, it actually was home to a healthy subspecies known...
Congress certainly has more pressing business than calling the signals for college football on what makes a legit championship. But members who showed up for a House hea...
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...
