Mitt Romney as a Young ...

Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast The other big story today is Jason Horowitz's WashPost piece on Mitt Romney's youthful "hijinx":A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school's collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room...

How Much Do You Owe Gov...

Steven Malanga, RCM Thanks to promises made over the years by the St. Paul school board, taxpayers in the Minnesota city owe teachers and other education workers some $409 million in retirement health benefits that the district hasn't funded. So the school system has taken advantage...

Guest Post: A Parent in...

Donna Stefano is project director at the Cooperative Housing Foundation—known simply as CHF International — which serves more than 20 million people each year around the world. CHF International’s headquarters are based in Silver Spring, Maryland, but staff members worldwide...

Presidential Chutzpah...

John Steele Gordon, Commentary Presidential chutzpah. Well, at least you can admire him for that perhaps. After all, someone who graduated from Harvard Law School, edited the Harvard Law Review, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School must be familiar with...

Complex Societies Need ...

John Stossel, FOX Business "If you have 10,000 regulations," Winston Churchill said, "you destroy all respect for law."He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That's what we have in America. We have 160,000...

To Boost U.S. Productiv...

Peter Orszag, Bloomberg Last week, Harvard Business School hosted a conference in New York to talk about how the U.S. could continue to support “high and rising living standards for Americans” in the face of global competition. It was a lively discussion, leading to...

GOP Field Not Exactly t...

Joseph Curl, Washington Times By Joseph Curl-The Washington Times Sunday, February 19, 2012 Login to VoteView resultsANALYSIS/OPINION:Mitt, Rick, Ron and Newt. Seriously?There are roughly 158,842,912 Americans 35 and older, making them eligible to run for president. Of the total,...

Roof of Anacostia High ...

The roof of the Anacostia Senior High School caught on fire around noon today, causing the school to be evacuated and provoking a large deployment of D.C. firefighters. [ more › ] More:  Roof of Anacostia High School Catches Fire; School...

No IVF Treatments, Fetu...

A law passed by the Virginia House of Delegates this week that would grant the same rights to a fertilized egg as to a person is provoking both silly and serious concerns over its unintended consequences. [ more › ] Read more: No IVF Treatments, Fetuses in Foster Care: The Unintended...

Mitt Romney Out of Cont...

Dana Milbank, Washington Post If this is Mitt Romney’s idea of a victory rally, one shudders to think what would have happened if he had lost the Iowa caucuses.The day after his impossibly thin eight-vote victory, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination flew...