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It's hard to get excited about the Winter Olympics. Watching elite athletes do elite sports is not on the same level of human drama that plays out at the Summer...

New York City, ever the leader in healthy living, is about to ban the sale of super-sized sodas and other sweetened drinks by its restaurants, movie theaters, and street carts...

Dirty political campaigns are as old as the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams are said to have thrown the first mud at each other in the presidential election...

Here's the thing about privileged characters like Mitt Romney: they've never really been vetted, indeed rarely challenged. Say you're a senior at a posh prep school in Michigan, for example,...

A while back, I drove past a sun-tanning salon sharing a property line with a cemetery. The salon posted a sign that, in my opinion, was positioned too close to...

Dear Columnist: I am 8 years old. Some of my friends say if you hear it on a talk show, or from a big political pundit on TV, it must...

The thing people want most in life is to be independent. Often when a person becomes injured or reaches a certain age, the loss of independence becomes a difficult thing...

I'm torn about it if you want to know the truth. I speak of the death of cursive handwriting, which I read about recently in the Atlantic Wire. As it...

This week, President Obama continued his push to reform our tax code in a way that reduces our deficit and shares fairly the burden of our economic recovery. Unsurprisingly, Mitt...

Condi! The mid-July rumor that Mitt Romney might pick former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as his running mate was a fun Matt Drudge scoop for those in the country...

Here's a simple idea that both parties should agree on: disclosure. Anybody who contributes money to influence an election -- corporations, unions, advocacy groups, individuals -- should be required to...

Freedom is under attack! In the largest city of our giant country -- the liberty to drink over 16 ounces of sugar syrup is in the crosshairs of the "gubmint."...

A recent Newsweek cover story asks: "Is The Web Driving Us Mad?" According to the article, there is now a growing body of evidence that our fascination with the Internet,...

There you go again, Mr. Obama -- again and again and again, engaging in class warfare. Trying to make voters think Mitt Romney cares more about the offshore bank accounts...

In one of those strange coincidences that make life read like a cheap novel, Jerry Sandusky and Monsignor William Lynn were convicted at almost the same moment by two Pennsylvania...