Politics

Trouble in threes: Scandals hamper Obama's message

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It isn't Mitt Romney who's giving Barack Obama fits as the president pivots to re-election mode. It's those federal bureaucrats carousing in Las Vegas, the Secret Service consorting with Colombian prostitutes and U.S. soldiers posing with bloody enemy corpses....

Trouble in threes: Scandals hamper Obama's message

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It isn't Mitt Romney who's giving Barack Obama fits as the president pivots to re-election mode. It's those federal bureaucrats carousing in Las Vegas, the Secret Service consorting with Colombian prostitutes and U.S. soldiers posing with bloody enemy corpses....

White House defends Secret Service chief anew

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House expressed renewed confidence Thursday in the director of the Secret Service in the midst of a sordid prostitution scandal that has threatened to become a serious political distraction in an election year. A key lawmaker who oversees the Secret Service predicted more firings there soon....

Doolittle Raid survivors prove an inspiration

DAYTON, Ohio — Doolittle's Tokyo Raid left a legacy of bravery that, even 70 years later, continues to inspire.

Four of the five surviving Raiders, reunited this week at the National Museum of the United States Air Force for the 70th anniversary celebration of the famous April 18, 1942, mission, ...

If Zimmerman is released, safety, location are issues

ORLANDO, Fla. — After spending a week in a jail cell by himself, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin stands a good chance of being granted bail Friday, despite the severity of the charge.

Whether George Zimmerman is allowed to leave the ...

Economic inequality tops racial issues among millennials

"Millennials" - those Americans 18 to 24 who have come of age during the years of the Great Recession - are more worried about economic inequality than about the racial issues that consumed previous generations, according to major new survey.

The study, released Thursday by the Public Religion Research Institute ...

White House defends Secret Service chief anew

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House expressed renewed confidence Thursday in the director of the Secret Service in the midst of a sordid prostitution scandal that has threatened to become a serious political distraction in an election year. A key lawmaker who oversees the Secret Service predicted more firings there soon....

Secret Service closes case on Ted Nugent's remarks

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After meeting with rocker Ted Nugent on Thursday, the Secret Service says its probe into what he had to say about President Barack Obama is over....

Secret Service closes case on Ted Nugent's remarks

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After meeting with rocker Ted Nugent on Thursday, the Secret Service says its probe into what he had to say about President Barack Obama is over....

Secret Service closes case on Ted Nugent's remarks

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After meeting with rocker Ted Nugent on Thursday, the Secret Service says its probe into what he had to say about President Barack Obama is over....

Wendy Long: Financial Regulation Is Hurting New York

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
The state deserves a senator committed to preserving its leadership in world markets.


Strassel: The Democratic War on One Woman

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
Politics trumps civility for Senators Boxer, Lautenberg and Reid.


Gregory Wolfe: Art in a Fallen World

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
What drove the massive popularity of the late artist Thomas Kinkade?


16 plead not guilty in Amish hair attacks

CLEVELAND — Sixteen men and women pleaded not guilty Thursday in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio.

The 10 men and six women and their attorneys overflowed defense tables and the jury box as they entered the pleas before U.S. District Court Judge Dan Polster in response ...

American Scene: Federal warrant issued for 1980s 'mountain man'

MONTANA

BILLINGS — The U.S. attorney's office in Montana has filed federal drug and weapons charges against one of the notorious "mountain men," a father-and-son duo convicted of kidnapping a world-class athlete in 1984, killing a would-be rescuer and eluding authorities for months.

An indictment unsealed Wednesday says Dan Nichols ...

Alan Blinder: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Insurance

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
Rights are nice, but someone has to pay the bills. Elected officials, not the Supreme Court, should decide who.


Theodore Dalrymple: The Ugly Brutishness of Modern Britain

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
A demotic egalitariansim, allied with multiculturalism, has rendered civility passé.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
Walter Russell Mead on how the college admissions process shows young Americans that they're surrounded by hypocritical weasels.


Mark Spitznagel: How the Fed Favors The 1%

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
The Fed doesn't expand the money supply by dropping cash from helicopters. It does so through capital transfers to the largest banks.


The EPA's Fracking Miracle

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-09 18:16
Behold, the agency shows restraint on shale gas regulation.


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