One question for all congressional candidates this year ought to be how they propose to hog-tie the petty tyrants from safe districts that have taken over Congress and run it as their own personal ... [more...]
One has to admire the sheer bravado of Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) as he contrives to shape American cultural and political dialog. His latest gambit, the DISCLOSE Act is designed to make political... [more...]
If you took the half-billion eggs recalled recently because they may be tainted with potentially deadly salmonella bacteria and laid them all end-to-end, federal authorities still wouldn’t ha... [more...]
Four months after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and just weeks after the broken well was (more or less) choked off, Gulf Coast residents had begun to talk about the crisis in past tense. O... [more...]
The last time a State Constitutional Convention was considered, state legislative leaders steam-rolled the idea with outrageous self-serving fear mongering. Obviously changes need to be made, and o... [more...]
From time to time, and all too often, people who come to serve on boards believe they are doing their job by being combative instead of cooperative. Cooperative doesn’t mean compliant; it mea... [more...]
Social Security is in need of change. This is nothing new. The nation has known for decades that its retirement program is in jeopardy, but finding a lasting solution has proven elusive. As the pro... [more...]
Dustin Johnson ran afoul of PGA rules when he grounded his club in the trampled spot of sand that was, after the fact, declared to be one of more than a thousand ill-defined bunkers at the Whistlin... [more...]
Americans would easily support President Barack Obama’s call to show, "not mere tolerance but respect to those who are different from us . . ." but freedom of religion is not an unl... [more...]
Since the days a hundred years ago of Lincoln Steffens’ photographs of sweatshop urban factories and Sinclair Lewis’ exposés of working conditions in Chicago meat-processing plants... [more...]
Immigration activists are starting to rethink their trust of the Obama administration. They have good reason: This administration has been more active in pursuing and deporting illegal residents th... [more...]
Where is the oil? That sounds like a stupid question considering how many millions of gallons of crude have gushed from the fractured Deepwater Horizon well into the Gulf of Mexico over the las... [more...]
An ancient Roman proverb asks, "Who watches the watchman?" We might update that to: "Who spies on the spies?" That is, who makes sure they’re doing the right thing and not... [more...]
It’s nothing short of civil war, according to Al Kreiger. The Yuma, Ariz. mayor told a forum on immigration that the issue of immigration enforcement authority has torn this country in tw... [more...]
Back when Julius Caesar had reason to avoid the steps of the senate, his fellow Romans believed that Sirius, the dog star, was the source of the oppressive heat that struck in mid- to late summer. ... [more...]
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric put a question to correspondent Lara Logan about the release of some 90,000 secret documents on the war in Afghanistan. Couric cited "the number of Afghan ... [more...]
Before the last presidential election, Washington Post writer Ezra Klein created the JournoList, an email list of selected liberal and progressive journalists. Members discussed strategies to help ... [more...]
When the sun doesn’t shine, and the wind doesn’t blow, solar and wind energy producers don’t produce, making them highly unreliable. When government subsidies come to their inevit... [more...]
"Branding" experts are people who cash big checks for telling companies and institutions how to set themselves apart in an identifiable way. It seems like easy work. Consider the news... [more...]
President Barack Obama asked business leaders exactly what it is about his policies that has them so fretful. He asked for specifics, and that’s what he got. If he bothers to read the concern... [more...]
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