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Published April 19, 2012
It is the most powerful federal agency you’ve never heard of -- and lawmakers from both parties on Thursday vowed to keep abreast of its astonishing growth and rein it in, if necessary.
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Published April 05, 2012
A recent study of residential units in America’s most populous 100 metropolitan areas by Trulia, a real estate website, found buying to be less expensive than renting in 98 of the areas -- with Honolulu and San Francisco the exceptions.
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Published March 21, 2012
They are the better halves, the innocents, the non-combatants involuntarily thrust into the arena of political combat -- and their styles, once they find themselves there, can be as different as the policy prescriptions offered by their spouses.
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Published March 16, 2012
The impasse reached a new level of tension late in the week, after the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday that the Obama administration intends to withhold $35 million in federal funding from the Texas Women’s Health Program.
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Published March 14, 2012
Federal data marshaled in the report “Red Tape Rising” by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, convey a stark picture of regulatory growth during the Obama administration’s first three years
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Published March 12, 2012
Scenes of carnage and upheaval have been playing out for so many decades in the Middle East – car bombings, terrorist attacks, wars, intifadas, and the slightly more optimistic images associated with the Arab Spring – that they are by now well familiar.
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Published February 28, 2012
In sworn testimony, Attorney General Eric Holder defended the Obama administration’s controversial contraception mandate, and vowed that the federal government’s legion of lawyers will follow suit.
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Published February 27, 2012
A gathering of United Nations diplomats overseas has some in the U.S. worried about a potential takeover of the Internet by foreign powers – with others claiming such fears are wildly overhyped
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Published February 16, 2012
Democratic lawmakers exchanged testy words with their Republican counterparts at a House hearing Thursday on President Obama's recent mandate on contraception, with one Democrat even calling into question the good faith of the broad array of clergymen who served on the witness panel.
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Published February 15, 2012
In her first appearance before lawmakers since her department inflamed the Catholic Church with a new rule mandating the provision of female contraception, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius defended the rule as legally sound.
