BY FROSTY TROY In a recent opinion piece in U.S. News & World Report, reporter Richard Whitmire recounts a pleasant exchange with a college-educated employee...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH “What I have no interest in doing is running GM,” President Barack Obama said on Monday, as he assumed ownership of the beacon of free enterprise. “The era of big government is over,” then-President Bill Clinton famously declared, and even if no one believed it, virtually everyone thought it a very politic […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Obama spaketh, and it was good: “We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains,” he proclaimed. And, yea, in the mountains and down through all the valleys of the ancient land of Appalachia, hearts were filled with joy, for here was a […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Don’t tell anyone: This is the season when lawyers left and right cross our fingers behind our backs and solemnly swear that judges don’t make law. Conservatives insist they adhere to original intent. Liberals insist they do no more than apply the commands of a living Constitution. Everyone recognizes that life experience […]

BY FROMA HARROP The most notable downsizing of the American home has been in its price. The luxury end usually escapes the worst of housing downturns, but not this time. For those seeking a reprieve from teardown mania, this is not a bad development. I refer to the trend whereby bungalows, Cape Cods and other […]