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WASHINGTON — In the context of talking about limits on free speech, it’s common to say that your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins....

A year ago, for the fifth straight year, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. raised wages for its full-time hourly employees. They’re now paid $14 an hour. The ho...

WASHINGTON — When it comes to tackling complicated legal issues, one would be hard-pressed to conjure a less likely partnership than Harvard law profe...

WASHINGTON — History is like a teacher, except armed with truncheons and guns. So what are its recent lessons? In the early 1990s, Ukraine briefly pos...

Will America ever find a healthy equilibrium on the issue of race? For nearly the first two centuries of our country’s existence, the treatment of rac...

WASHINGTON — Critics of Rep. Paul Ryan’s remarks about cultural factors in the persistence of poverty are simultaneously shrill and boring. Their pred...

Alas, poor Paul Ryan. I take the House Budget chairman at his word that he did not intend to offend African Americans with his statements about how th...

WASHINGTON — Of all the signs of Democratic midterm trouble, it is fitting that Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius — who has alr...

WASHINGTON — Rand Paul is the most intriguing — and for Democrats, perhaps the most frightening — figure in today’s Republican Party. The Kentucky sen...

WASHINGTON — This week’s meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama holds great promise in a time of turmoil, though not necessarily in the ways...

The decade was the 1960s and at a home in a Twin Tiers’ community lived an older woman and her son, who had Down syndrome. A sad, yet common aspect of...

Sometimes a clever catchphrase can work too well. Backlash against the name of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s “Ban Bossy” campaign threatens to overwh...

WASHINGTON — Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair is a cad, a bully and a boor. Once a rising star in the Army and former deputy commander of U.S. forces in so...

Our dog Mandy got loose on Friday night, March 7, around 9 p.m., and ran into the woods behind Colonial Heights where we live. We would first like to ...

I was just thinking what the day means. It is supposed to be a celebration of the combination of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington’s birthdays. Wh...

Americans will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the guise of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program without eve...

“Boys from another school pulled out the severed head of a classmate while fishing in a pond. His whole family had died. Had they eaten him first? Or ...

WASHINGTON — As Winston Churchill might have said, the battle for Crimea is over. The battle for the idea of Europe is about to begin. Russia — as one...

WASHINGTON — “Once an agent, always an agent.” This was the terse response of Nina Khrushcheva on New Year’s Eve 1999 when her mother commented favora...

WASHINGTON — Watching Dianne Feinstein tear into the Central Intelligence Agency on the Senate floor the other day brought to mind a 1970s-era televis...