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WASHINGTON — Channel-surfing the nightly cable news, one is reminded that certitude is the enemy of sanity. On both Fox News and MSNBC, conversation h...

WASHINGTON — Jeb Bush was mere seconds into his speech Wednesday informing the world that he’s his “own man,” and not his brother or his dad, when he ...

WASHINGTON — For the six years of the Obama presidency, or perhaps the last 35 years since Ronald Reagan’s election, American politics has been domina...

WASHINGTON — In terms of his fitness for the presidency, the fact that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker fell short of graduating from college is interestin...

WASHINGTON — There’s a very 2001 feel to President Obama’s request for authorization to use military force and the nauseating sense that we’ll be at w...

WASHINGTON — Americans, a litigious people, believe that rules for coping with messy reality can be written in tidy legal language. This belief will b...

WASHINGTON — One thing that is certain about Monday’s ruling by a federal judge in Texas blocking implementation of President Obama’s executive action...

WASHINGTON — The rapidity of progress by the gay rights movement — from Stonewall to likely Supreme Court vindication of gay marriage in a historical ...

Conservatives in Congress have once again proven they are un-American and unpatriotic. This time, it’s because of their fierce approval for the constr...

WASHINGTON — One of the legacies of the 2008-09 financial crisis is a world awash in debt — and this explains much of the confusion and acrimony of to...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania court records have a readership any writer would envy, with 59 million state court dockets accessed online last year al...

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s tone of mild exasperation when tutoring the public often makes his pronouncements grating even when they are sensible. As ...

WASHINGTON — It may be the triumph of hope over headlines to imagine that a Congress currently incapable of funding the Department of Homeland Securit...

WASHINGTON — John McCain toiled for 28 years in the Senate before he finally won the chairman’s gavel of the Armed Services Committee last month. Now ...

WASHINGTON — Although he is always preternaturally placid, Mike Pence today exemplifies a Republican conundrum. Sitting recently 24 blocks from Capito...

It’s official. Philadelphia has been selected to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention scheduled to begin July 25th, 2016. The competition was ...

WASHINGTON — As soon as the news broke Tuesday evening, anyone near a TV, radio or computer heard that three Muslim students were murdered near the Un...

It was just a few minutes before the opening of the Kiwanis Kaper’s “Reel Footage” show Friday night when a little boy named Aiden Davis walked backst...

Indecision may not be the best quality in a columnist, but in the case of NBC News anchor Brian Williams, that’s what I find in myself: I doubt that t...

WASHINGTON — Days after the video appeared of a Jordanian pilot horribly burned to death by an Islamic State death squad, President Obama told the Nat...