Politics

A Constitutional Awakening

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
A bad day for unlimited government at the High Court.


Mr. Perez Works the Phones

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
A top Justice official interferes with a Supreme Court case.


American Scene: NYPD officer convicted of assaulting teacher

NEW YORK — An off-duty police officer was convicted Tuesday of grabbing a schoolteacher off a street and sexually assaulting her, and jurors have been told to keep deliberating on some unresolved counts, including rape.

The jurors found Michael Pena guilty of criminal sex act and some counts of predatory ...

No new coal plants under draft EPA rules

The Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday proposed greenhouse-gas regulations that effectively would prohibit the construction of new coal-fired power plants.

The rules, released in draft form and expected to be finalized later this year, would require new coal facilities to use expensive carbon-capture technology, which is still being developed and is ...

The Open-Mic Second Term

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
Parsing President Obama's private chat with Dmitry Medvedev.


Why candidates' gaffe-a-thon is good for us

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
Dean Obeidallah says they may backpedal and explain them away, but candidates' blunders reveal much about a candidate as a potenial president
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Highlights from day 2 of high court arguments

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
Highlights from day 2 of the Supreme Court justices debating the individual mandate in health reform.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Jenkins: Insurers and the Supremes

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
The industry's role comes with risks—namely congressional underfunding—but stop calling it insurance.


Rubin and Weber: The Ex-Im Bank Keeps Americans in Business

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
A government agency that increases U.S. jobs and earns money for the Treasury deserves bipartisan support.


Lawrence Goodman: Demand for U.S. Debt Is Not Limitless

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
In 2011, the Fed purchased a stunning 61% of Treasury issuance. That can't last.


Roger Kimball: Hilton Kramer and the 'Correction of Taste'

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
The late critic knew his job was to tell the truth, however unfashionable.


Arizona legislators again say yes to free tickets

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
PHOENIX (AP) -- It's been a year since the Fiesta Bowl scandal embarrassed legislators, but at least some Arizona lawmakers still like their perks....

Arizona legislators again say yes to free tickets

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
PHOENIX (AP) -- It's been a year since the Fiesta Bowl scandal embarrassed legislators, but at least some Arizona lawmakers still like their perks....

Fight over transportation bills threatens highway projects

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
With just four days left before the federal money runs out for highway construction projects across the country, House Republicans abruptly postponed a vote on a two-month extension Tuesday, throwing into question how a standoff between Senate Democrats and House Republicans over the transportation bill will get resolved.
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Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito asks whether, under the logic of ObamaCare, the government could compel Americans to buy burial services.


Brooks, Feulner and Kristol: Ryan's Budget Protects Defense

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
Within a plan to reduce outlays by $6.2 trillion over the next decade, Paul Ryan has found a way to replace $214 billion of the $487 billion in military spending cuts in Obama's budget.


Justices signal deep trouble for health care law

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails....

Justices signal deep trouble for health care law

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails....

Gingrich: Unlikely to accept Romney Cabinet post

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:04
DOVER, Del. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he probably wouldn't accept a job in Mitt Romney's Cabinet, if Romney is elected in November and such an offer is extended....

Photos will be required for SAT, ACT tests

MINEOLA, N.Y. — The millions of students who take the SAT or ACT each year will have to submit photos of themselves when they sign up for the college entrance exams, under a host of new security measures announced Tuesday in the aftermath of a major cheating scandal on Long ...

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