Dan Thomasson

Americans are mostly an optimistic lot, but as they enter the New Year they have reason to see the glass half empty rather than half full when it comes to the management of their government.

What a mess! You wanted to continue in the job badly enough to spend most of the last year doing little but campaigning for it, Mr. President. Have you never heard of being careful for what you wish? So now ...

With all the polls reporting continued slippage in Mitt Romney's campaign, especially in battleground states like Ohio, the only strategy, it seems clear, is to hammer Barack Obama on his failure to keep a promise to cut the national debt ...

The latest job figures make it increasingly easy to see a change in the White House in November based on an economy that can't seem to pull itself out of the doldrums and a president who insists he's not to ...

The horror began in midafternoon with a hurried call for help. The 74-year-old woman had fallen and feared she was badly hurt. Her daughter arrived within minutes and found her on the floor, unable to get up. They called 911. ...

That of course raises questions about how far a democratic government can go to protect the health of its citizens without encroaching on the freedom we cherish even to do foolish things. The U.S. Supreme Court says we have an ...

It probably isn't a great idea to pass legislation that a majority of the people oppose, particularly if a substantial number of them regard its provisions as an unwanted burden. Just the thought of the government telling them what's good ...

WASHINGTON — Following the political adage that anything that happens on a president's watch, good or bad, belongs to him, Barack Obama has to treat rising gas prices as his responsibility

The other day, a good friend came up with an interesting scenario for the Republican presidential nomination

The current flap over mandating birth control services to employees of institutions owned or run by the Catholic Church is yet another example of mistakes brought on by political tone deafness in the White House and by President Barack Obama's ...

Looking for a stocking stuffer? You might think about an AK-47 or a Glock or an even more exotic expression of your civil rights.

The Solyndra case that has stuck U.S. taxpayers with a half-billion dollars of bad debt isn't going away soon, nor should it

No excuse for hungry kids

S&P is way off base.

It's difficult to ignore the Casey Anthony verdict unless you live in a bubble. And it would be an even more arduous task to find someone who hadn't formed an opinion about her and what the jury said she didn't ...