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...]
Over the course of his contract with the Miami Heat, NBA star LeBron James stands to keep an extra $6 million to $8 million that would have been paid to the State of Ohio’s tax man, according... [more...]
Last week, liberty-minded citizens from across the country gathered in Las Vegas, "the world’s most libertarian city," for the ninth annual FreedomFest conference, described as the ... [more...]
Buried deep within the weighty tome that is the financial reform bill is a pesky provision that will make it far more difficult for the public to monitor Federal Reserve actions. A Senate vote is p... [more...]
If you want to tell whether major universities place a higher value on academics or athletics, follow the money. From 2005 to 2008, spending on athletic programs jumped 38 percent at the big colleg... [more...]
President Barack Obama and other world leaders attending the global economic summit in Toronto expressed tremendous admiration for the Canadian banking system, which weathered the international fin... [more...]
Among the oppressions enumerated in the Declaration of Independence was the garrisoning of troops in private homes — essentially making Americans pay for the room and board of others who give... [more...]
A young woman recently ran out of cigarettes, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. It was suggested that if she must smoke, she could walk a couple of blocks to the nearest gas station and buy a p... [more...]
When the history of health care reform is written, it may be an insurance company that gets credit for finally closing the deal. Last February, as health reform efforts seemed terminally stalle... [more...]
Presidents have been battling with their generals for as long as America has been fighting wars. So there’s nothing particularly unique about President Barack Obama’s ouster Wednesday o... [more...]
The Obama administration has leaked, albeit clumsily, the Justice Department’s plans to file a legal challenge to Arizona Senate Bill 1070, which would require local police to check the immig... [more...]
The hottest ticket at museums around the country during the 1990s was a traveling exhibition of artifacts recovered -- some critics at the time said "looted" -- from the sunken ocean line... [more...]
The White House was more successful forcing a private company -- British Petroleum -- to set up a $20 billion fund to pay for damage from the oil spill than it has been in actually mitigating the d... [more...]
If it’s true, as the Pentagon reported, that Afghanistan is sitting atop $1 trillion worth of mineral deposits, it proves once and for all that God has a sense of humor. All these centuri... [more...]
It has long been a staple in the abstinence-only crowd that teaching contraceptive use to teenagers results in more teen sex. The National Survey of Family Growth seems to poke holes in that as... [more...]
Before he was stabbed to death in a bar fight in 1976 at age 35, Ernie Miranda eked out a living autographing the cards that police officers carry so they can read people their legal rights when th... [more...]
