I have a modest proposal for the Department of Terrorist, er Transitional Assistance (DTA). Turn your telephone tip line over to the Herald. It has become painfully obvious over the past 18 months that the DTA and Gov. Deval Patrick have zero interes ...

As the federal government struggles with sequestration - and governments at all levels also face the need to economize - isn't it time to start awarding government contracts to the lowest bidder, rather than on the basis of skin color, national origi ...

Two years ago, an editorial in The Washington Times demanded an investigation of the billions of dollars in payouts to blacks who asserted that they were wrongly denied subsidized farm loans. Congress conducted no investigation, and the Obama adminis ...

The numbers are staggering. Out of 120,000 live births in New York City in 2010, more than 54,000 babies were born out of wedlock. The human toll behind the numbers is devastating. Children raised without two parents face much higher odds in every fa ...

One thing nearly everybody agrees upon is that the "sequester" is a silly sideshow to the real challenge facing America: unsustainable spending on entitlements. Ironies abound. Democrats, with large support from young people, tend to believe that we ...

First things first: The Obama administration did not tell the truth when it claimed the automatic budget cuts known as "sequestration" came from somewhere else. The president even baldly claimed not to be responsible for it in a debate last year. The ...

By now, we've all seen and heard the parade of public officials predicting doom and gloom if the $85 billion budget "sequester" kicks in on March 1. Both sides of the aisle apparently want us to forget that this is a problem of Washington's own makin ...

[caption id="attachment_13421" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]While millions of Americans have made peace with Google posting online pictures of their front doors, and having video cameras pointed at them in every coffee shop, ...

Prepare for the end of food safety as we have known it. For a breakdown in public order. For little children languishing in ignorance. If only Edward Gibbon were here to chronicle the devastation. On March 1, the fabric of our civilization begins to ...

For the first time since Election Day, President Obama is on the defensive. That's because on March 1, automatic spending cuts ("sequestration") go into effect - $1.2 trillion over 10 years, half from domestic programs, half from defense. The idea ha ...