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President Obama’s re-election was a triumph of Big Data, technological innovation, and precision targeting over the usual gravity of an incumbent president with a record of economic failure. This was...

Ninety-one percent of Americans are suffering in the post-election period without a daily polling fix, according to projections based upon my computer analysis of a nonexistent Gallup poll. Other key...

My spirits were temporarily lifted when, last week, the Washington, D.C.-based Daily Caller website reported “more than 675,000 digital signatures appeared on 69 separate secession petitions covering all 50 states,...

“The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation,” award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy summed up this week. It is that simple. This latest Israeli military assault on the...

Just as Black Friday kicks off the holiday shopping season for brick-and-mortar retailers and Cyber Monday launches the online shopping season, we now have #GivingTuesday (the day after Cyber Monday)...

When you picture classified documents, don’t visions of spy lists, nuclear ignition formulas, cross-sections of bomber wings, or diagrams of missile trajectories come to mind? Well, those documents seldom reach...

If Abraham Lincoln released his October 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation today, it would be panned by all sides. In the statement that is considered the beginning of the unbroken annual tradition...

With Mitt Romney’s defeat and the loss of Republican seats in both House and Senate, the balance of power in the GOP has shifted. Republican governors — the one group...

“Good morning, class,” says the sixth-grade teacher. “Today, we have a special guest from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving. Mr. Bob Johnson is going to tell us how money is...

At least all this lunacy over the David Petraeus affair does serve one purpose: It reminds us once again about the foolishness of idealizing our national leaders. They are merely...

The single biggest mistake Mitt Romney made during the election was to swing to the right on immigration. As one Republican strategist put it, his inane suggestion that Latinos “self-deport”...

By Lucinda Jesson, Mona Dohman and Ed Ehlinger Substance abuse and addiction inflict a devastating human and financial toll on Minnesota. At the Departments of Health, Public Safety and Human...

Debt! Deficit! Fiscal cliff! How to make sense of it all? For two years now, there’s been increasing talk and more than a little fear-mongering about the runaway growth of...

During last month’s campaigning there was almost no mention of climate change and the security, economic and environmental implications that come with our warming planet. With the election over, it’s...

Our billionaires suddenly appear bumbling after their Election Day losses. We’ll never know exactly how much America’s rich pumped into the 2012 campaigns. Hundreds of millions in “dark money” –...