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The big-picture reasoning behind President Barack Obama's 2013 budget is solid: This economic recovery is too fragile, and too many are teetering on the edge of falling out of the middle class, for immediate government austerity. The president is c ...
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Given the continued carnage in Syria, and given Russian and Chinese obstruction of a plan to have Syrian President Bashar Assad step aside, the Arab League, Western nations and the United Nations secretary-general are scrambling to identify other mea ...
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Once again, Catholic bishops -- and conservative Republicans -- are trying to make a "religious liberty" issue out of the provision of nondiscriminatory health-insurance coverage to women by falsely equating contraception with abortion. In a policy ...
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By LANE FILLER Newsday Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago (Feb.7, 2012) and I wonder how he'd react if he were to see the current United States. He might be amazed to find that the issues he dealt with in works like "David Copperfield," " ...
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By NICOLAS LORIS The Heritage Foundation President Obama has been on a kick to promote natural gas production. Unfortunately, he seems to think the key to doing this is more government involvement. "It was public research dollars, over the ...
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By DANIEL AKST Newsday The Republican presidential race proves that Karl Marx was right: When history repeats itself, it occurs first as tragedy and then as farce. Fortunately, both can be instructive. For the tragedy, you have to go back t ...
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By CARL LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News Sometimes, it seems, President Barack Obama and his Republican challengers operate in alternative universes. They look at the state of the nation and the world and see widely different conditions, one ...
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By DOYLE McManus Los Angeles Times The State of the Union address is a political exercise in the best of times. But when a president is running for re-election and Congress is dominated by his most bitter opponents, there's even less pretense ...
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By MELISSA BERT The Baltimore Sun As the 100th anniversary the RMS Titanic disaster approaches, the Costa Concordia grounding is a stark reminder that going to sea remains dangerous. A modern cruise ship sailing a routine route capsized in a ...
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Amos Alonzo Stagg, Glenn "Pop" Warner, Knute Rockne, Paul "Bear" Bryant, and now Joe Paterno. The legendary Penn State coach, who died Sunday after battling lung cancer, has joined a pantheon of departed gridiron generals who pushed college football ...
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When he died recently at age 80, Cheetah the chimp received respectful obituaries across the globe. This seemed only fitting for a star in the 1930s Tarzan films with Johnny Weismuller and Maureen O'Sullivan. Cheetah was the world's most famous non-h ...
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By KEVIN HORRIGAN St. Louis Post-Dispatch Please excuse me if you've already read about this -- I'm always the last guy to know -- but apparently some people are unhappy with the calendar. In other calendar news, the world apparently is going ...
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By JAMES CAMPBELL The Baltimore Sun The nation's public schools have been battered by a continuing stream of bad news in the last few years, challenging what at one time was considered one of the world's leading education systems. In 2010, th ...
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Count us among the realists when it comes to interpreting the news that the unemployment rate declined and the nation added 212,000 new private-sector jobs last month. Good news, yes, but it's hardly enough to declare a long-term trend. For starter ...
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By BRAD SCHILLER Los Angeles Times Every four years, Iowa and New Hampshire are the first states to cast votes to select the nominees for president. But does that really mean they're bellwethers of national political sentiment? In the last fi ...
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By MICHAEL SMERCONISH The Philadelphia Inquirer Go redeem your gift cards. That's my takeaway after a chat with Brian Riley, a senior research director in the retail banking and cards practice at TowerGroup. He studies the retail industry a ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer Don't be fooled by the swagger in Mitt Romney's walk at the conclusion of Iowa's caucuses to choose a Republican presidential nominee. His eight-vote victory over Rick Santorum may have winnowed the field, but it hardly clea ...
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The Associated Press Saturday, Jan. 7, is the seventh day of 2012. Sunday, Jan. 8, is the eighth day, leaving 358 days in the year. Saturday's Highlight: On Jan. 7, 1942, the Japanese siege of Bataan began during World War II. (The fall of ...
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By MIKE McMANUS The Baltimore Sun Only 51 percent of American adults are currently married -- a record low -- down from 72 percent in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census data. There are three major factors behind thes ...
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By DANIEL AKST Newsday As the new year approaches, so too does a vast armada of New Year's resolutions, their eager sails full of wind on the bright horizon. Sadly, most of these proud vessels will sink before the month of January has ended, ...
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By DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times A year ago, soon after the Tunisian uprising, I demonstrated my powers of prediction in a column about the democracy movement in the Arab world. The revolution in Tunisia, I wrote, "arose from local circumst ...
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By FRED McKISSACK McClatchy-Tribune News Service Welcome to the front-runner fish bowl, Ron Paul. In this bowl, all eyes are on a candidate, and past words, thoughts and deeds are fed back from an unceasing media machine that parses every ut ...
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By Carl P. Leubsdorf The Dallas Morning News The pressure is on. Four years ago, I picked Barack Obama to win 353 electoral votes and, twice, I correctly tabbed George W. Bush as a winner, including a 2000 forecast he'd beat Al Gore by four e ...
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You'd think it wouldn't be easy to lose $1.2 billion. But there was former Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine, in the hot seat before a congressional committee, delivering one of the most astonishing statements of a tumultuous year: "I simply do not know wh ...
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By LES GAPAY Los Angeles Times My church recently compiled a cookbook of favorite recipes from parishioners. I submitted my "recipes" for canned stew and chunky soup, mainstays of the dinners I ate at campgrounds while I was homeless for 6 1/ ...
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