Hannah Arendt wrote of the banality of evil. Good God almighty, mass murder threatens to become routine. The initial dispatches from Fort Hood were as...

No one seems to have followed our advice. Although we warned that the temptation is to read too much into elections rather than too little, national experts...

The other day a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about where the Constitution grants Congress the power to require Americans to buy health insurance....

My first six months in the Richmond area have certainly borne out what I had heard about Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital as a wonderful, caring place...

If the American people know more today than they ever wanted to know about financial markets, corporate compensation practices, the mortgage and automobile...

Recent reports that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will suffer default rates of more than 20 percent on the 2007 and 2008 loans it guaranteed...

The news article, “Virginia Tribes Closer to U.S. Recognition,“ claims Congress is getting ready to recognize six Indian tribes in Virginia...

Sometimes we don’t know our own strengths and we speak as though no one is listening—and so we are careless with our expressions of fact versus...

Congratulations to President Obama for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. The president has the opportunity to show himself as a peacemaker to the eyes of...

Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans...

WASHINGTON Actress Cate Blanchett, who has played Queen Elizabeth I, is performing here, portraying someone less than regal—flurried, anxious Blanche...

Six years ago San Franciso, a black hole of liberalism—infinitely dense—became the first major U.S. city to adopt the precautionary principle....

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Bob McDonnell’s comfortable win in the race for governor of Virginia—not because it necessarily...

You would think that the Obama Justice Department, having badly embarrassed itself in a Philadelphia voter-intimidation case, would take pains not to smear...

The World Chess Federation today announced that Barack Obama had become the world chess champion, nudging aside former undisputed champion Viswanathan...