Kudos to Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell for appearing before a somewhat “slimmed down” House of Delegates Democratic Caucus at its annual retreat...

PHOENIX In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic...

Nowadays, when shopping in Wal-Mart, Toys “R” Us, or any other discount stores, one cannot avoid seeing the “Made in China” marks....

ARLINGTON When President Obama announced $3.4 billion in new federal grants to upgrade the nation’s power grid last month, he did so amid many references...

Bob McDonnell faces a daunting workload as Virginia’s 71st governor. The budget crisis and transportation are headliners, but Virginia faces other...

It’s now official. After more than a year of hard-fought campaigning, Bob McDonnell is Virginia’s governor-elect. As a candidate, McDonnell...

WASHINGTON There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called “health care reform.“ Everyone knows that the United States faces massive...

What a surprise—that someone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” (the “God is great” jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room...

The other day the White House boasted it has created 650,000 jobs by spending $150 billion in “stimulus” money. That comes out to $230,000...

The 2003 Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) initiative and 2005 partnership contract with Northrop Grumman were primarily based on two assumptions:...

Most Virginians would agree that efficiently moving goods and people is paramount to establishing and maintaining a vibrant economy. The wheels of commerce...

The Leave It to Beaver Child Care center occupies a modest building on German School Road in working-class Richmond. It’s a short walk south of a...

BOSTON It was one of those small shocks that come unexpectedly in the wake of a death. Just days after the country had buried Ted Kennedy, Cardinal Sean...

WASHINGTON One of the many television commercials exhorting viewers to buy gold says solemnly that it is an asset whose value “has never dropped...

Virginia Republicans recaptured the political middle last week, assisted by Bob McDonnell’s strong centrist campaign and adherence to a positive...

WOODBRIDGE Imagine you’re an assistant football coach who finds himself taking leadership of a team in the middle of an uninspiring season. If your...

E.J. Dionne, The Washington Post: Here’s a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates...

WASHINGTON When Nouriel Roubini talks, the world listens. Roubini is, of course, the once-obscure New York University economist whose dire warnings about...

WASHINGTON The so-called newsroom brawl between an editor and a writer at The Washington Post recently has been a fine distraction for the health-care-weary....

BOSTON It’s been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. “This is a doctor,“...

Quotations on Afghanistan and nationalizing the practice of medicine . . . Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan:...

WASHINGTON In recent weeks, we’ve seen broad stock market gains push the Dow to near 10,000 for the first time in more than a year. And while there...

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....

SOCIAL TRENDS BOSTON Not long ago a group of writers decided to publish a book of essays we called: Feminism Made Me Happy. It was an in-your-face title,...

WASHINGTON Bob McDonnell’s decisive victory is even more impressive if one stops to acknowledge that it came in the face of incredibly daunting opposition,...

Amy Sullivan, Time Magazine: Does Focus on the Family fund abortions? It does if you hold the organization to the same standard it uses to insist that...

WASHINGTON Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. “Niki, I’m dying. Don’t have much to leave you. Just three envelopes....

WASHINGTON Regardless of age, the economic crisis has had an impact on all of our lives. It has touched every family in some way, and its effects continue...