line is quite another.The cookie sale is the Girl Scouts’ largest fundraiser, bringing in close to a billion dollars annually. This year, some girls will come equipped with credit-card scanners...

Mr. Obama claims, in fact, that the issue of fairness is the ';defining issue of our time.'; The president gives us a stark, if fallacious, choice:';No challenge is more urgent. No...

Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy (SecureFreedom.org), a columnist for The Washington Times and host of Secure Freedom Radio, heard in Washington weeknights at 9...

Obama administration - everything from government officials taking simple bribes, to covering up wrongdoing, to using taxpayer money to pay off political supporters, to using government prosecutors...

Imagine a job where you earn an above-average salary, enjoy plenty of paid leave, have enviable health benefits and get to retire at age 56 with a generous pension. Sound good?For far too many...

Mr. Obama ’s worldview when it comes to veterans. Liberals in general tend to think people join the military only as a last resort. They feel military service is better left to the uneducated,...

Washington hasn’t seriously uttered the words ';balanced budget'; in years. Lawmakers now focus on trimming the budget deficit, which has soared to $1.3 trillion under...

Mr. Gingrich admittedly have a lot in common, but when two notoriously self-promoting politicians like these start blowing their own horns to the same tune, it’s worth taking a closer look -...

Here's one thing both might agree on: More candidates should follow Ronald Reagan and have Madison Avenue -- not the Beltway -- create their campaign...

Russia and China stopped the international effort dead in its tracks, at least for the time being. This was a dismayingly reactionary decision by the two powers, lamented not just by predictable...

Although the president still hasn't presented details of his latest plan, judging by his speech last week it's going to be more of the same. He means well, but his new plan will do nothing to help...

Supporters of public transit fanned out across Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle today to seek support from riders for increased state aid. About two dozen teams hoped to distribute at least 8,000...

Sarris Candies' landmark retail store in Canonsburg will remain closed for about a month after last week's fire, but candy orders and deliveries to outside sellers continue uninterrupted. ...

The Women's Board of Pittsburgh was reeling in support for Angels Place during "Angling for Angels" Friday at the Fox Chapel Golf Club. The luncheon for 250 guests featured an...

Doing away with tenure for public school teachers, combined with low pay and increased surveillance of performance, would add to the exodus of the best teachers from the profession. And those...

When my local United Way obtained a dot-com domain, I advised it to use the more appropriate dot-org suffix instead but to keep the dot-com to prevent someone from using it to scam people. With the...

The irony is that few worldviews better describe the general liberal orientation to public policy and the culture war. The left often complains about the culture war as if it's a war they don't want...

DeWayne Wickham USATODAY columnist The unemployment rate in January dropped to 8.3%, the fifth consecutive month that it has declined and the lowest it has been in three years. Last month, 243,000...

In the mid-1990s, there was a mini-wave of "granny dumping." Elderly people, abandoned by families, showed up at hospitals and Salvation Army facilities, often with a note to the effect:...

article about the suicides of nine LGBT teens in the Anoka-Hennepin School District and the school "neutrality" policy that served them poorly. The stretch is the story’s attempt to...

February 6, 2012 The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation reversed its controversial decision to stop providing funding to Planned Parenthood. Rodger Jones, an editorial writer for...

If everything in life is predestined, where is the scope to use our intelligence? Whoever told you that everything is destined? Nothing is destined. It is just that unconsciously you have made...

Las Vegas . As a child, i could not figure out the fuss about the word 'poverty' and 'inflation' was a word i naively related only to balloons. I wondered aloud why the government...

Bollywood largely evoke yawns. Let's face it - cinema is overwhelmingly a medium based on youth and novelty. It's all about that first magical discovery of love, those delightful surprises...

USA Today has come to the defense of the US Catholic Church with an editorial criticizing the Obama administration's mandate for contraceptive coverage in health-care programs. While expressing...

(The New Republic) In the current presidential election campaign, many, if not most, Americans are expecting that Mitt Romney's quest for the White House will be buffeted by questions about his...

Jurors have found Democratic state Rep. Bill DeWeese, the onetime House speaker from Waynesburg, guilty on five of six felony counts in a case in which he was accused of directing his legislative...

Downtown-based Education Management Corp. has filed a muscularly written defense of the recruiter compensation practices for which it has been sued by the federal government and several states, in an...

Fire crews are on the scene of a North Versailles restaurant fire this afternoon that has been burning for over an hour. North Versailles Police said a fire at the Winchester Room, a steakhouse at...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's incomplete pronouncement on reconfiguring state House and Senate districts is a victory for many legislative incumbents, but it is a loss for citizens and for...

The Arab Spring continues to flower in Egypt, presenting some serious problems, but also pushing the country toward a democratic stability in government that can move it forward. Progress occurred...

Millions of years before humans were around to notice, something big collided with Mars. The impact kicked millions of tons of the planet's surface into space, where much of it still circles the...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attends the church of St Peter and St Paul at West Newton, eastern England, Sunday Feb. 5, 2012. The queen braved the cold and snow to attend church Sunday on the...

If we thought together, what would we want for a world civilization? Right now it seems we are being driven into a world civilization pell mell by the vast engine of late-capitalist successes. This...

, "Fitzgerald somehow manages to grasp the vanished time." It was true. Even the first sentence of her book surprised me -- not with the number of details, but with their selection,...

Madonna performs during the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show. Madonna is just about the only thing I remember about the Super Bowl last night, and interestingly, it made me think about the fact that...

Ken Rudin collection A true swing state: Nevada voted GOP for president six times in a row between 1968 and 1988. But Clinton won it twice and Obama carried it last time. Romney took 50 percent...

February 6, 2012 The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation is facing a fight to keep controversy from undermining its fundraising efforts. After announcing that it would withdraw funding from...

Plan B is available over the counter for people 17 and older. Access to emergency contraception has swirled at the center of a recent flurry of debate over insurance coverage. It's a pill...

Ideas from the Treasury have long been out of fashion with the political class. Since the days of Rogernomics, Ruth Richardson and Bill Birch, Labour and National-led governments have been keen to...

On today's edition of "Smart Women, Stupid Choices": Katherine Heigl! She left a halfway decent medical soap opera for a string of increasingly mediocre, decreasingly romantic...

NEW YORK - Anyone channel surfing Sunday in search of one of the endless pregame shows dedicated to the Super Bowl might have stumbled on a weird item billed by Fox TV as the "Greatest live Premier...

People march to take part in a anti-Putin rally in central Moscow, on Feb. 4, 2012, to urge Putin to quit power ahead of March 4 polls in which Putin is planning to reclaim his old Kremlin job. Tens...

: An increase in 245,000 payroll jobs was about 100,000 above expectations (at 150,000). But exactly a year ago, the experts were calling for a January 2011 increase of about 140,000 jobs and the...

The Nation. Last week's job numbers were a welcome surprise: 243,000 people were added to payrolls in the past month, which is far more than the 140,000 analysts were predicting. Encouragingly,...

The O'Jays perform at the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear on the National Mall on Oct. 30, 2010 in Washington, DC. Although the O'Jays are not a "wonk rock" band, D.C. has its...

The appointment was today announced by Tony Howard, CEO of Independent News & Media South Africa, who said Sefara's appointment was part of significant editorial changes in the group which...

Contributed by : Phyllis Chesler We are reprinting one of our very special features:October 15, 2007 The Chesler Chroniclesby Phyllis CheslerINTERVIEWS WITH EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. CAROL GOULD:...

Contributed by : Carol Gould (First published February 20, 2011)LondonWhen I was a very little girl my mother used to say to my sister and me that...