Politics

Aging baby boomers take wheel for rules of the road

The nation's baby boomers, now entering into their golden years in record numbers, are not giving up the car keys without a fight.

As the leading edge of the massive boomer generation turned 65 in 2011, a study suggests that America's roads will be facing a "silver tsunami" of older ...

Allies: Judge upset by Obama remarks not political

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge who called out President Barack Obama for saying it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to strike down a law like his administration's health care overhaul is a conservative voice on what may be the nation's most conservative appeals court....

Obama to Congress: Act now on bills to aid economy

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants Congress to act on bills he says will accelerate the economy. He says the country has responsibilities that are "bigger than an election."...

Solar Trust files for bankruptcy protection

BLYTHE, Calif. — The latest setback in a stalled 1,000-megawatt solar plant in the Southern California desert came nearly 10 months after Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar and Gov. Jerry Brown broke ground on what was then touted as the world's largest solar project and a keystone of the Obama ...

American Scene: University police chief retires amid hazing probes

TALLAHASSEE — The police chief at Florida A&M University is retiring less than a week after reports surfaced that Tallahassee authorities didn't receive timely information about an off-campus hazing incident from 2010.

The university announced Tuesday that Calvin Ross will retire May 1 after 11 years with the university and ...

Students with empty holsters protest gun bans on campus

On the same day that a gunman killed seven students at a small California Christian university, hundreds of college students across the nation went to class wearing empty holsters on their hips.

The message was part of Students for Concealed Carry's weeklong Empty Holster Protest, an event designed to encourage ...

Shooting suspect felt disrespected

OAKLAND, Calif. — One Goh's life was on the skids even before he became the suspect in the nation's biggest mass school shooting since Virginia Tech.

He was chased by creditors. He grieved the death of his brother. In January, he was expelled from Oikos University, a small Christian school ...

Student gets expelled over tweeted expletive

INDIANAPOLIS — Austin Carroll was fighting insomnia when he turned to Twitter for relief and casually dropped the F-word multiple times, apparently to demonstrate to his followers that the expletive would fit almost anywhere in a sentence.

But his middle-of-the-night profanity quickly cost the Indiana teen. A few days later, ...

Fisher and Rosenblum: How Huge Banks Threaten the Economy

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
Since the early 1970s, the share of assets controlled by the five largest banking institutions in the U.S. has tripled to 52% from 17%. This has to change.


Paul Ryan's Hunger Games

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
The President offers his vision for an uplifting second term.


New York Sun: Ex Parte Obama

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
An editorial reprinted from the New York Sun on April 2 notes that the president worries the Supreme Court might overturn a law passed by Congress. The Founders were quite comfortable with the idea.


No Kindle for Kirchner

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
In the age of the iPad, Argentina bans importing books.


Canada Beats America

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
And we don't mean in hockey. Try taxes, spending and energy.


Against Complacency

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
Many of our most secular citizens—and some French people—may enter the kingdom of heaven before tight-fisted Christians. Thomas Meaney reviews "When I Was a Child I Read Books" by Marilynne Robinson.


IMF chief wants 'more firepower' to fight crises

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The managing director of the International Monetary Fund made an impassioned plea Tuesday for American leadership in the global economy as she called for the international community to give her organization "more firepower" to bolster tottering economies....

Con Coughlin: Mohamed Merah and the New Breed of 'Nike Terrorists'

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
Rather than trying to carry out spectacular attacks on the scale of 9/11, the next generation of terrorists are encouraged to use any means at their disposal.


Jenkins: Can We Live With High-Speed Trading?

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
The alternative is to place politics above innovation.


Jim Krane: The End of the Saudi Oil Reserve Margin

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
Riyadh is less and less able to cushion supply shocks as it consumes more and more of its own oil.


Sherman and Primo: New Jersey Least Corrupt? Ha, Ha

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
The flawed methodology behind the recent 'State Integrity Investigation.'


Best of the Web Today: The Man Who Knew Too Little

Opinion Journal - Fri, 2025-05-16 06:40
President Obama's stunning ignorance of constitutional law.


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