Alabama has hired former Miami Hurricanes assistant Jeff Stoutland to replace retiring offensive line coach Joe Pendry.
Our Founders - being federalists, after all - believed in the rights of states and localities to make their own decisions. Today, many Americans trust folks at the local level to know much better than our federal overlords what works for their communities. This makes common sense. And without question, it's what our Founders contemplated when they conceived and drafted the Constitution.
Consumer prices rose last month as the cost of gas increased by the largest amount since June 2009. But outside of energy costs, there was little sign of widespread inflation.
Next week, the House will vote to repeal and replace Obamacare with reforms that will keep control of health care decisions in the hands of patients and their doctors. As a physician, I've seen firsthand the problems insurance companies have created for patients. I've seen firsthand how government programs have made beneficiaries worse consumers of health care. I've seen how the cost of health care has exploded and made insurance unaffordable. I want to fix these problems. But Obamacare will not fix these problems - it is bad medicine for our nation.
The NFL is big business these days, but the new Congress isn't exactly playing tight defense in the face of a looming and perhaps economically damaging work stoppage.
More people applied for unemployment benefits last week after retailers shed temporary holiday employees.
Three employees at the University Medical Center in Arizona have been fired for accessing the confidential medical records of victims in the shooting rampage.
As unions move to organize charter-school employees, former D.C. Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee rolled out a taut school-reform agenda that pushes charter expansion and public-private vouchers, and she said the untold number of charter teachers she has encountered are not "interested in joining a union."
A budget that attempts to use taxpayer money wisely would address priority needs and include reducing the government work force, have federal and state worker pensions and benefits consistent with the private sector, stop inappropriate earmarks in Congress, seek means to support businesses to hire new workers and minimize expenses for services and benefits for illegal immigrants.
