BOSTON My favorite moment so far in the health care debate was when Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl argued against mandating maternity benefits as part of a basic...

There is a lot of confusion and misinformation circulating about the cap-and-trade mechanism in the energy and climate legislation being debated before...

Plateau in Temperatures Adds Difficulty to Task Of Reaching a Solution—New York Times, Sept. 23 WASHINGTON In this headline on a New York Times story...

WASHINGTON What’s driving the great health debate of 2009 is not a popular clamor for universal insurance. “Many Americans are balking again...

In the coming months, as health insurance reform moves down on the front page, Congress will redirect its attention to reforming our nation’s financial...

In the coming months, as health insurance reform moves down on the front page, Congress will redirect its attention to reforming our nation’s financial...

CHARLOTTESVILLE Three major foreign policy decisions must be made by the Obama administration by the end of the year: (1) whether to increase U.S. troop...

This time of year Jews are asked to look back and do a “soul inventory”—to seek forgiveness from those we have wronged and to grant forgiveness...

Virginia’s ambitious partnership with Northrop Grumman to modernize, synchronize, and secure the state’s information technology network is...

Del. James Massie’s recent op/ed suggests that the Employee Free Choice Act will adversely affect Virginia’s prosperity. On the contrary, the...

ALEXANDRIA And that’s the price . . . per ticket?“ It was too late. I had already committed in mind, body, and wallet. On this day, I was divulging...

WASHINGTON No one was more delighted by the recent ACORN pimp ‘n’ prostitute, hidden-camera sting than Marcel Reid, the former ACORN board...

There’s a style of painting called pointillism where the artist uses small dots of paint on the canvas. From a distance, you see the intended image,...

WASHINGTON While in Pittsburgh, a sense of seemliness should prevent President Barack Obama from again exhorting the G-20, as he did April 2 in London,...

WASHINGTON For years, American presidents have faced a China conundrum: How to deal with a country that practices predatory trade without unleashing global...

WASHINGTON For 11 days in late August and early September in 1995, U.S. and NATO air power defended Bosnian Muslims, who were being attacked by Bosnian...

What does bowling have to do with climate change? A lot more than you might think. Bowling alleys use lots of lights, electricity, heating, and air conditioning...

In his “Big Two-Hearted River,“ Hemingway wrote of his autobiographical Nick Adams: He was there, in the good place. We went wheels-up for...

WASHINGTON You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn’t lie. He’s too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge. Herewith three examples within a single...

There’s a lot happening on the Sports pages of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. See this week’s From the Newsroom column on page C4 in the Sports...

BOSTON For me, the real Obama moment of this back-to-work season wasn’t the speech before Congress or Wall Street. It was in the Virginia schoolhouse...

WASHINGTON This is just the beginning,“ said Yosi Sergant to participants in an Aug. 10 conference call that seems to have been organized by the...

WASHINGTON This is just the beginning,“ said Yosi Sergant to participants in an Aug. 10 conference call that seems to have been organized by the...

WASHINGTON Not so long ago, Rep. Joe Wilson’s verbal assault on the president—“You lie!“—might have produced a much different...

WASHINGTON We cannot, it seems, have a candid national conversation on health care. President’s Obama speech the other night was a brilliant performance,...

GUEST COLUMNIST One morning about two years ago, my 17-year-old son again complained of a sprained neck muscle. I told him it was unlikely the doctor could...

Below is the reading list for freshman and sophomore students at St. John’s College. According to St. John’s, the list “had its beginnings...

There was a New Yorker cartoon last spring picturing a nearly empty galley ship with only two slaves still pulling their oars under the grim eye of the...

Comments on a summer-garden variety of issues in the news . . . In a Washington Post op/ed, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin opposed a cap-and-trade energy...

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Obama’s speech urging kids to...