Abortion opponents have rallied on the National Mall and marched to the U.S. Supreme Court to mark the 38th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
Last week, President Obama wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal head- lined "Striking the Right Balance on Regulations," in which he announced that he had issued an executive order to review all government regulations on a cost-benefit ratio basis. In itself, this is a good idea, although the president makes it explicit that the cost-benefit analysis must take account of intangible "benefits" such as "equity, human dignity, fairness and distributive impacts." Plenty of leeway there for career regulators and liberal political appointees to justify almost any oppressive regulation they may stumble over.
An Illinois court on Monday ordered Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel — President Obama's former chief of staff — off the ballot over a residency dispute, a decision he says he will appeal to the state Supreme Court.
In celebrating the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, President Obama stated his support for the decision by declaring that government shouldn't intercede in private family matters. Really?
President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night is expected to highlight the United States' serious infrastructure problem and his proposals for addressing it. Lately, he's been pointing to our worrisome lag behind Chinese innovation and infrastructure as America's new "Sputnik moment," citing in particular China's 10,000 miles of high-speed rail by 2020 to the United States' 400.
What's the state of the union before the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night? Pretty prickly.
Human Rights Watch singled out U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for especially harsh criticism Monday as it took world leaders to task for what it called their failure to be tougher on human rights offenders.
In 1892, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about the paradigmatic British soldier, Tommy Atkins, and his paradigmatic treatment at the hands of an indolent democratic society that takes him for granted - until he is needed.
President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night is expected to highlight the United States' serious infrastructure problem and his proposals for addressing it. Lately, he's been pointing to our worrisome lag behind Chinese innovation and infrastructure as America's new "Sputnik moment," citing in particular China's 10,000 miles of high-speed rail by 2020 to the United States' 400.
