Issues

What's next for Gingrich backer?

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
For months now, his name has gone hand-in-hand with that of Newt Gingrich.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Have We Got a Review for You

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
People in business are clueless about selling, and snobbish too. They view it as a grubby activity, though it is vital to revenue. L. Gordon Crovitz reviews "The Art of the Sale."


John Lehman: The Seas Are Great But the Navy Is Small

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
The Obama administration says it wants 300 ships, but it is reducing the number now while promising to build more far into the future, most after a second Obama term.


Gas boom may stop at coast of Maryland

Cove Point in Southern Maryland has become the latest flash point in the fight between the fossil fuels industry and its longtime foes in the environmental movement.

Citing a unique Carter-era agreement, the Sierra Club says it will veto plans by energy giant Dominion to build the first natural gas ...

Strassel: The President Has a List

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
Barack Obama attempts to intimidate contributors to Mitt Romney's campaign.


William Tucker: Tales for the Superhero Generation

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is the start of a new genre.


Elizabeth Scalia: The Vatican's Corrective to Liberal Catholics

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
A three-year inquiry ends with a sharp but measured assessment of unorthodox religious practice in the U.S.


Michigan board blocks Nov. vote on takeover law

LANSING, Mich. — A state board Thursday deadlocked on a proposal to put Michigan's contentious emergency financial manager law on November's ballot for possible repeal, dealing a major blow to a petition drive sparked in part by the state's deal to fix Detroit's troubled city finances.

The Michigan Board of ...

ACLU sues Border Patrol over its traffic stops

SEATTLE — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Border Patrol seeking to bar agents from making traffic stops, saying people are being pulled over and questioned "without reasonable suspicion."

The lawsuit stems from tensions between immigrants and the expanded presence of Border Patrol agents ...

Eric Rosengren: Money-Market Funds Still Need Reform

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
More than 60 prime funds held securities in Dexia in 2011, the same year the troubled French bank needed government support.


Paul Light: Perp Walks and the Broken Bureaucracy

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
Between 1961 and 2009, the number of executive layers—or ranks by title—at an average cabinet-level agency jumped from seven to 18.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
Joel Kotkin, Mark Schill and Ryan Streeter on the economic revival of the Midwest.


Navarro: How Romney can win over Latinos

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
Ana Navarro says the GOP candidate can't reverse his immigration positions but can change his tone, focus on economy
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'Crucify Them'

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
An EPA bureaucrat lets the mask slip.


Senate renews Violence Against Women Act

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
The U.S. Senate voted to renew a law designed to combat domestic abuse Thursday after Republicans stepped back from what was becoming a politically risky fight over some of the expansions they oppose to the Violence Against Women Act.
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Magic Johnson

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
The flap over Fannie Mae's maestro and the Goldman board.


Lawyers in Solyndra case rack up billings

One month after the chief restructuring officer for failed solar panel maker Solyndra reported no wrongdoing by the company, documents show federal investigators have remained busy in recent months scouring the company's financial documents, internal emails and computers.

The activity surrounding the criminal probe into Solyndra was revealed in bankruptcy ...

American Scene: Fla. troopers erred before fatal interstate crash

FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE — A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant who ordered the reopening of a fog- and smoke-shrouded interstate highway shortly before a series of crashes killed 11 people was unaware of the agency's procedures and had no formal training in opening and reopening roads, a state report said Thursday.

The ...

Lesbian ousted as Scout den mother

BRIDGEPORT, OHIO — The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian at least not until the Boy Scouts of America disqualified her over the organization's ban on gays.

Now, parents who were aware of Jennifer Tyrell's sexual orientation well before ...

Noonan: A Bush League President

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2025-04-21 23:02
Republicans are aggravated by Obama. They should cheer up. So is everyone else.


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