President Obama has finally endorsed building a better security wall. It won’t be on the southern border, where one is badly needed. Instead, the administration wants new and improved barriers to keep the people as far away from “the people’s house” as possible.
Obamacare requires every visit to a doctor, every diagnosis, every X-ray and every prescription to be recorded and kept electronically. It’s sensitive stuff, and government bureaucrats have no idea how to keep it safe.
One man’s trash may well be another man’s treasure, as the saying goes, but residents of the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington know the difference. They ordered the garbage hauled away.
The Scots thought twice about independence, and did the right thing. They preserved the United Kingdom as we know it and saved themselves and the world from a lot of grief that would have inevitably spilled into unexpected places.
Once upon a time, lobbyists were told they would have no place in the Obama administration. Transparency would put an end to business as usual in Washington. Alas, there’s no happy ending to this fairy tale. Lobbyists call the shots in this administration.
The Tuesday weather forecast for Manhattan calls for sunny skies with temperatures in the 70s. World leaders gathered to hear President Obama complain about climate extremes and urge them to abandon the pursuit of prosperity to do something about the weather.
New Jersey is bleeding jobs. The Tax Foundation says the state has the second-highest tax burden in the nation, which makes it, economically speaking, a terrible place to live. It's an even worse place to die.
But peer pressure, bullying and ambition for good grades aren't the sort of minefield California's schools apparently fear most. They're getting ready for the real thing, deploying mine-resistant vehicles, or MRAPs, against the day an invading army lays a booby trap on the playground.
The federal government has a long, rich history of throwing money at projects resembling holes in the ground. This time, the National Park Service might have met its match in the Grand Canyon.
Armies, which by definition are organized to kill people and break things, aren't ordinarily used to build and preserve. But these are not ordinary times.
Ronald Reagan's famous question that sank Jimmy Carter in 1980 — "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" — could be reprised to measure the performance of Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Matthew Miller, of Bakersfield, Calif., wanted to sample socialist paradise and imagined he would find it in North Korea. When he landed in Pyongyang he tore up his tourist visa and declared he was seeking asylum. This was not a good idea.
The federal government already owns most of the land in Utah, and Mr. Obama has his eye on a prime parcel of 1.4 million acres near the Canyonlands National Park. With a wave of his autopen, he can banish development, declaring the Greater Canyonlands a "national monument."
The campaign slogan for Carol Schwartz's quixotic quest to be mayor of the District of Columbia could well be "The fifth time's the charm."
Traffic to major online destinations such as Netflix and Reddit slowed to a crawl last week in a symbolic protest known as "Internet Slowdown Day."
Millions of Americans entrust their financial information to private accountants, lest they fill out the dreaded 1040 tax form on their own. When things go wrong, and they're overcharged, they sometimes lodge a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service.
America's largest environmental groups earn millions from crude oil. The Nature Conservancy, for example, owns an oil well in Texas and has $23 million invested in energy stocks.
The First Amendment is so clear, so simple, and so direct that only a politician could misunderstand it.
