Reagan Resolve'; concisely outlines his major principles and actions so today’s policymakers can take a page from it.Let’s begin with a contrast. When...

Ronald Reagan , who would have turned 101 on Feb. 6, no doubt would have been amused by the number and ideological diversity of people claiming some part of the Reagan...

Amazon pulled out, leaving the state poorer for its greed. Even a big state like California wasn’t able to get away with this. ';The rich'; might...

Ronald Reagan to have been one of the great presidents of the 20th century - indeed, one of the greatest of all time. Even professors are coming around. Though they’re not as enthusiastic as...

Canada is a middle power. The U.S. dollar is a major currency, whereas the Canadian dollar is a decent-sized currency. The American financial markets have long had a direct impact on the global...

White House .Romneycare is the blueprint for Obamacare and shares its top-down, government-run fundamentals. At its core is the individual mandate that criminalizes anyone who refuses to purchase...

White House enjoys a good news day.';The recovery is speeding up,'; President Obama declared. However, the broader measures tell a different story. The employment-to-population ratio, the...

Keystone XL pipeline is all the proof you need to know that his modus operandi is to sidle up to environmental green-energy crackpots instead of creating thousands of American jobs and honestly...

C. David Corbin and Matthew T. Parks teach politics at the King’s College. They are the co-authors of ';Keeping Our Republic: Principles for a Political Reformation'; (Wipf &...

The Arab Spring was the biggest story in the Middle East in 2011. Unfortunately, it's still difficult to report on its aftermath in many of the nations most impacted by the pan-Arabic protest...

Traveling through my beloved former hometown of Minneapolis recently, I was appalled to pick up the Star Tribune and find an Opinion Exchange section cover article about missing conservatives in...

The problem with Mitt Romney's latest boneheaded statement -- "I'm not concerned about the very poor" -- isn't the ammunition it gives political opponents eager to yank the...

I was disappointed in many aspects of Jack Schneider's Feb. 1 commentary ("No magic solution for schools"), which described Teach For America as aspiring to eliminate the achievement...

Rose Healthy steps One of our favorite News-Review quotes this week comes from Roseburg’s Janice Baker. ';You...

. "But it's entirely unrealistic to believe that you just tell your kids, and a light goes off in their head - 'Oh, yeah, dad, you're right; I get it.' In your dreams. ...

Over the Australia Day long weekend in 2012, the Refugee Rights Action Network took a bus and 40 people to the Leonora Detention Centre. This event will give feedback on our experiences and...

A Socialist Alliance and Resistance meeting taking up questions including: What attitude should the 99% take to the media? How can democratic control over the media coexist with a "free...

Western Sydney-based rapper Sesk. Photo: Mat Ward. You can see that western Sydney Aboriginal rapper Sesk has turned his life around when he holds his head up high. Not only does it give him an air...

What we said: "The Susan G. Komen foundation has made a highly regrettable - and transparently political - decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. ... Komen should reverse its...

49ers will go forward with their plan for a new stadium in Santa Clara. Barring a major setback - such as construction delays, or a legal ruling against changes from the deal Santa Clara voters...

"UCSF scientists take bitter view of sugar in food" (Feb. 2): War on sugar is not a solution to America's health problems. Sugar comes in many different forms (honey, fruit juice,...

1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food 2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough 3. Morford: Please do not eat this 4. North Bay girl died of 'date rape' drug...

It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands for...

France can't seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15. Over the...

its economy is reeling . The administration was right to warn Iran against any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz. We hope it is also looking to privately persuade Iran of the need for a...

Cartoonist and artist Lalo Alcaraz is the creator of the first nationally-syndicated, politically-themed Latino daily comic strip, "La...

Cal State Northridge , to write:"The question should not be whether students are learning but rather what they are learning."Any dedicated student who has struggled and passed calculus,...

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich delivers his concession speech after losing the hotly-contested state of Florida to rival Mitt...

P resident Barack Obama, obsessed with raising taxes on "millionaires and billionaires," ignores the facts of history. He told ABC’s Diane Sawyer last week that our country now has...

T he turmoil that continues to roil the Middle East could eventually determine whether Turkey falls to extreme Islamist rule. The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been described...

Pitt fans can get ready for a basketball rivalry with Maryland and a renewal of the old Big East football rivalry with Virginia Tech. Those are two of the highlights of the future scheduling formats...

Federal marshals this afternoon captured a Wilmerding man accused of hitting his wife in the head with a gun and pointing it at his 11-year-old stepdaughter. Jonathan Deanes, 32, was arrested about...

WASHINGTON -- The Air Force today announced plans to close the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon within the next two years, moving two of its seven C-130 transport planes to other bases and retiring the...

(Left) Chris and Jim Jackson of Wayzata cheer on walkers in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day walk for the cure of breast cancer on Friday at the Parade Ice Garden. Chris Jackson is a 3 year survivor. The...

WASHINGTON — Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman's right to contraception or...

mental peace and energy. In order to be able to overcome guilt, one first needs to understand why we feel guilty. Once the understanding comes, it becomes easier to tackle this problem. We feel...

Donald Bradman batting in the team nets without any protective equipment when he was 70, carting bowlers a third his age all over the place. Genius of that calibre is imperishable. And, in...

Sachin Tendulkar is not Imran Khan. The latter's assertion that Sachin should have retired after the high of India winning the 2011 World Cup is gratuitous advice. As Khan himself concedes, for...

SECC would actually be a departure from the earlier BPL methodology. Specifically, it promised to stop setting state-wise caps on the BPL list based on official poverty estimates. This sounds good,...

Tamil Nadu took, are an indication of the abysmal state of our education system. Here are the results from these two states. In reading competence, of the 74 regions worldwide participating...

In his State of the Union address Jan. 24, President Obama proposed "the Buffett Rule," named after Warren Buffet (photographed), in which taxpayers making more than $1 million a year would...

Egypt 's deadliest night of football different from similar stadium disasters at Hillsborough or Heysel is the widespread belief that the violence was planned. There is circumstantial evidence...

, whose 40th anniversary passed in December, attracted similar distaste. Pauline Kael savaged the film's "fascist medievalism," and described it as a "single-minded attack against...

The US Supreme Court will put the middle issue to rest. The answers to the first and last can come from me. After all, I headed Heritage's health work for 30 years. And make no mistake: Heritage and...

The family of a woman who went missing more than a month ago is offering $1,000 for information on her whereabouts. County police Lt. Jeffrey Korczyk said Joann Angel, 51, of Etna, was last seen in...

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today announced 10 appointments to city boards and authorities, including the parking authority, Stadium Authority and Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority. Among...

HARRISBURG -- The state Supreme Court issued a lengthy opinion this afternoon regarding the state's legislative redistricting plan they rejected last week, offering its first details on that...

right in 2008 and, as they gather for precinct caucuses on Tuesday night, we expect they will get it right again. As was the case four years ago, we believe former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is...

But there are countries where opposing parties actually work together. As shown in the below video, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott are such good pals that...

Few could argue with this week's decision to strip the UK banker Fred Goodwin of his knighthood. Four years after the Queen had dubbed him 'Sir', his stewardship of the Royal Bank of Scotland had...