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WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama looks in the mirror these days, he must see a terrifying visage staring back at him: that of George W. Bush. In a cruel...

WASHINGTON — It must be obvious by now that we are experiencing something greater than the routine frustrations of the business cycle and the normal p...

WASHINGTON — Before the tryptophan in the turkey induces somnolence, give thanks for living in such an entertaining country. This year, for example, w...

WASHINGTON — By now, most Americans probably have formed an opinion about what comedian Bill Cosby did or didn’t do sexually to or with at least 16 wo...

It’s the time of year when Americans are asked to pause and remember those things in life for which we are thankful. Our troops and our veterans, our ...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — It’s St. Bonaventure basketball’s elephant in the room. What’s wrong with Youssou Ndoye? The Bonnies 7-foot senior center, a m...

WASHINGTON — The grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of teenager Michael Brown was the wor...

WASHINGTON — Here’s a paradox worth pondering: Could President Obama’s executive actions on immigration actually make it easier to enact comprehensive...

For the first time since high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as nonconventional fracking, was developed, more Americans oppose...

SAN DIEGO — The politically correct should spend less time telling people what to think, and more time forcing themselves to think. Case in point: Imm...

WASHINGTON — Seen through the prism of subsequent national experience, Nelson Rockefeller resembles a swollen post-war automobile — a land yacht with ...

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren was doing Tuesday what Elizabeth Warren usually does: sticking up for the little guy. The populist Democratic senator fr...

WASHINGTON — Every Democrat should be nervous about President Obama’s plan for unilateral action on immigration reform. Not because of the impact on a...

WASHINGTON — There are any number of marvelous things one might do as president, if Congress were not such a checked and balanced mess. But future pre...

MILWAUKEE — It is as remarkable as it is repulsive, the ingenuity with which the Obama administration uses the regulatory state’s intricacies to advan...

WASHINGTON — News that Pope Francis will visit the U.S. next year for the triennial World Meeting of Families brings elation to Catholics, excitement ...

To the citizens of Buffalo, I hope you can dig out in time for the Bills game Sunday. In all seriousness, all the best to our friends up north, who ar...

A friend of mine asked an interesting question the other day. His query went: “Do you think Doug Marrone will go down with Nathaniel Hackett the way W...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has ended its roughly $3.7 trillion program of bond buying, leaving in its wake a host of hard questions. Did it stre...

WASHINGTON — Reginald Latson’s path to solitary confinement began four years ago as he waited for the public library to open in Stafford County, Va. L...