The Republican party has devolved into a group of the lowest form of reality show contestants. Compare it to "Survivor," where the people who act the worst (e.g. Russell Hantz, Colton Cumbie) get the most attention and airtime because the show needs a villain to...

In his speech this morning defending the federal government's right to, in the interest of thwarting terrorism, secretly examine the phone records of any and all Americans, President Obama insisted "nobody is listening to your telephone calls," adding: The modest...

If you listened to the loudest politicians and media outlets, you might believe that Americans want all their taxes to be lower and for government to stop spending so much money. But that's not the reality. When you explain to voters that more funds are needed for...

There was a ceremony at the US Department of Labor yesterday marking the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act, a landmark law that requires employers to allow workers to take unpaid leave for medical and family reasons, with a guarantee that their job...

Of all the smart things said in our nation's history, few are more true than FDR's most famous quote: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. There are entire industries devoted to exploiting fear in this country. If you can be convinced that something or...

Here's a statistic you may have missed in yesterday's monthly employment report from the Department Of Labor: the jobless rate dropped for people with a bachelor's degree to 3.7% in January from 3.9% in December (two years ago, the number was above 5%). Along with...

The political punditry, which prefers speculation over reporting, is already tossing around guesses about whether Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden will be the Democratic candidate for President in 2016. This nonsense went into overdrive Sunday night when President Obama...

Dear Kim Jong-Un, Before you go telling the world you're planning to attack the United States (your "archenemy") with nuclear missiles, how about launching something that actually leaves your own peninsula first? We won't really be worried until you can make anything...