BY DANNY M. ADKISON Right after announcing the planned retirement of Justice David Souter, President Obama was quoted as saying, "I will seek someone who...

BY FROMA HARROP By the time you read this, the Senate may have passed a bill to put a leash on the nastiest credit-card company tactics. Lenders warn that changing the rules would make it harder for people to get credit. And a good thing that would be. Rest assured, we’ll all adjust. The House […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now claiming that intelligence officials misled her about the use of waterboarding when she was briefed in 2002. Previously, it was reported that she, as the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee at the time, had been told about waterboarding as an interrogation technique and had raised […]

BY KAREN WEBB I want a level playing field. If pay for the little guy's lawyers have to be limited then why shouldn't the pay...

BY JOE CONASON Uplifting as it was to see insurance executives, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital officials and doctors gather at the White House on May 11, pledging cooperation toward health care reform, nothing they said or did was inconsistent with precisely the opposite objective. According to the famed pollster who is helping Republicans in Congress to […]