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Allow me to pause for just a moment. I know this is a high school football column, but it’s hard not to reflect on yesterday, as it marked the 13th an...

WASHINGTON — Among many talents exhibited by Chuck Todd in the days since he replaced David Gregory as host of “Meet the Press” is his ability to turn...

WASHINGTON — Since Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republicans’ 1964 presidential nomination, said “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” De...

Ray Rice, Terry Pegula —good thing there’s things to talk about this week. The Pegulas purchase of the Bills for a cool $1.4 billion is all but done, ...

Back in the mid-80s when he played in our racquetball league, did any of us ever think that Terry Pegula would become the most powerful and influentia...

WASHINGTON — As America pivots back to the Middle East — in belated recognition that America’s enemies never pivoted from their intention to establish...

WASHINGTON — Reader, she married him. The day after he was indicted on a charge of aggravated assault for knocking her unconscious. I would say allege...

SAN DIEGO — I’ve spent the last few days looking around and wondering: “When did the American worker get so whiny?” A lot of people seem to resent hav...

Just about everyone has an opinion of what President Obama should do about the ISIS threat in Iraq. Many of the suggestions have come from the archite...

WASHINGTON — Speaking on Aug. 29 — at a fundraiser, of course — Barack Obama applied to a platitude the varnish of smartphone sociology, producing thi...

WASHINGTON — Suppose we could design the next phase of the economic recovery. What would it look like? Here’s one pleasing vision. Business investment...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania officials crossed their fingers and hoped for no major problems in the 2006 election as voters in all 67 counties cast ...

SAN DIEGO — This summer’s unrest in Ferguson, Mo., was a reminder that the country’s dominant racial narrative has been about blacks and whites. As wi...

Customers can be so demanding. First they criticized fast-food joints over nutritional content. Now they’re getting picky about tax and labor practice...

I look at the college football season as a double-elimination slo-pitch softball tournament without the fat guys and the beer. On second thought there...

WASHINGTON — Sometimes the artifice of writing — metaphors, historical comparisons, the just-so quote — fails. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa deman...

WASHINGTON — It was all going well until John Kerry tried to kill off George Shultz. The secretary of state was welcoming five of his predecessors to ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama is not worried. And that is unnerving. British Prime Minister David Cameron presented to Parliament on Monday the alarmin...

WASHINGTON — The Islamic State is a nasty problem that can be remedied if its neighbors, assisted by the United States, decide to do so. Vladimir Puti...

The NFL season is once again upon us. Rejoice! Once again, I am taking over a column, much like high school football and once again, I hope to provide...