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Grassley to Holder: Prove claim about Bush-era gun probe

The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee challenged Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Thursday to "produce any evidence" proving his claim that a prior attorney general knew about a gunrunning investigation during the Bush administration or apologize "if no such evidence is available."

Sen. Chuck Grassley of ...

Obama signs beam of One World Trade Center

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
With the under-construction One World Trade Center fast approaching its final height, President Barack Obama visited the New York tower Thursday to get an update on its growth and help prepare one of the finishing touches.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Accuser says Sandusky called himself the 'tickle monster'

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Three more accusers took the stand at Jerry Sandusky's sex-abuse trial Thursday, one of whom said the former Penn State assistant football coach called himself the "tickle monster" before embracing him in a shower and another who said he was forced into sex acts during more than ...

Phony Bush Nostalgia

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
Beware liberals bestowing praise 20 years later.


Egypt's June Surprise

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
A Cairo court keeps the generals in charge.


Strassel: Arizona and the Entitlement Baby

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
Associated PressAssociated PressAssociated PressAssociated PressAssociated PressAssociated PressStrassel: Arizona and the Entitlement Baby

In The Wall Street Journal, Potomac Watch columnist Kimberley Strassel writes that Democrats are going to demagogue entitlement reform, so the GOP might as well embrace it.

Arizona and the Entitlement Baby

POTOMAC WATCH: Democrats are going to demagogue entitlement reform, so the GOP might as well embrace it.

Arizona and the Entitlement Baby

POTOMAC WATCH By Kimberley A. Strassel Democrats are going to demagogue entitlement reform, so the GOP might as well embrace it.

Strassel: Arizona and the Entitlement Baby

Democrats are going to demagogue entitlement reform, so the GOP might as well embrace it.


Economides, Ioannides, Petrakis, Pissarides and Stengos: What's at Stake in the Greek Vote

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
If a Greek exit from the euro zone looks close to certain after Sunday's election, we will see a full-fledged bank run.


David Skeel: Clerical Privilege and the Law

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
Should criminal confessions offered in religious settings be excluded from trial?


Harvey Golub: A Simple Tax Code Is a Fair Tax Code

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
The top 1% pays more in federal income taxes than the bottom 90%. But the system is biased toward the powerful in other ways.


Walter Borneman: When the U.S. Declared War on Britain

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
The political fallout from the War of 1812 helps explain why Congress has never again so vigorously exercised the power over war entrenched in the legislative branch.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
Rich Karlgaard on Lance Armstrong, secular Jesus.


Juan Ramón Rallo: A 'Bail-In' Could Save Spain's Banks

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
Let's convert debt to equity, so investors bear the cost of their own mistakes.


Yosemite's falling-boulder risks

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. | Falling boulders are the single biggest force shaping Yosemite Valley, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the national park system. Now swaths of some popular haunts are closing for good after geologists confirmed that unsuspecting tourists and employees are being lodged in harm's ...

Obama, Romney offer competing visions

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
President Obama and Mitt Romney lay out differing views of the economy as they court support among Ohio voters.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

An Infamous Crime Revisited

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
Bruno Hauptmann was the only person arrested (and convicted) in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, but investigators were certain that he didn't act alone. In "Cemetery John," Robert Zorn says he knows who the mastermind was. Edward Kosner reviews.


Court OKs release of 'perversion files' compiled by Scouts

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday approved the release of 20,000 pages of so-called perversion files compiled by the Boy Scouts of America on suspected child molesters within the organization for more than 20 years, giving the public its first chance to review the records.

The files, ...

Best of the Web Today: Obama and the Time Machine

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 23:23
It's still 2012. Is it 2012 already?


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