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“We love you.” The words warmed the chill during the first of two days of Supreme Court oral arguments on the future of marriage law in the United States. The...

As the debate over immigration reform reaches a climax, a troubling idea seems to be gaining traction. It is that annual limits on new visas should be severely restricted, and...

In the tortured justification for his vote to sustain Obamacare last summer, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts pointed to Congress’ authority to levy taxes — an argument not even...

There are big blues blowing in from Chicago, bringing with them low- quality public education too dangerous to become accustomed to, gun violence and hip-hop derived from gangster posturing that...

You can’t win the fight if you don’t put on the gloves. A punch-drunk, old heavyweight boxer knows that’s a truism, but not the churches of America. The Supreme Court...

Peter Drucker, the analyst who founded modern management science, died in 2005 at age 95. When he died, business leaders worldwide hailed this Austrian-born American for his enormous contribution to...

The calendar says Monday is April first, but lately it seems that foolishness occurs year ’round. As one who devoted much of his life to the family business of pranking...

The phone rings in a big warehouse in Oriskiny Falls, N.Y. “Is this Political Whines, Incorporated? “ “Yep. Harry Schmidlap speaking. Welcome to the biggest collection of vintage whines anywhere...

It is time to exercise the “nuclear option” in the United States Senate. The term is classic Washington hyperbole. The bomb-blast bombast is used to portray a threat to do...

It is a sign of how far supporters of gay marriage have advanced that the term “opposite-sex marriage” — an infelicitous phrase that once would have been a confounding tautology...

Ah, springtime has arrived in Washington, D.C. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is under way. The cherry trees, 3,700 of them given to America by the Japanese in 1912, are...

The pope, petting a seeing-eye dog? It happened at Pope Francis’ media conference the Saturday morning after his election. As a blind man approached the stage, even the most hardened...

There’s a lot of hand-wringing about American students lagging their foreign counterparts in math skills. That should not be a big surprise, since many of our political leaders aren’t very...

Tomas Young was in the fifth day of his first deployment to Iraq when he was struck by a sniper’s bullet in Baghdad’s Sadr City. The single bullet paralyzed him...

Recently, Republican Governors Rick Perry of Texas and Terry Branstad of Iowa appealed to those wanting to flee liberal California. “Move your business to our state,” they implore. “We’ll welcome...