It may be fetching to some voters, but the theme of "change" so embraced by so many candidates in this year’s presidential contest is vacuous, an idea with absolutely no content in and of itself. We need change, we are nevertheless told: change, change, change, as if any kind of change would be ipso facto wonderful. Read More

During a secret briefing two years ago on waterboarding and other interrogation techniques employed by the U.S. government, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood on her chair and waved her fists in the air, screaming at the Read More

As a new study underlines, we need to reform our immigration laws and crackdown on those who are breaking them, but first we need to get past the trash talk. It’s endless, a torrent of cries that anyone who thinks America ought to heed the plain interests of its citizenry is a racist, nativist, thuggish throwback to those who opposed the coming in the 19th century and later of the Irish, Germans and Italians. Read More

Yucca Mountain in Nevada, it has been written, is "the most studied real estate on the planet." Scientists have been at it for three decades, and it’s reported that most have concluded it is a safe, appropriate place to store nuclear waste.Sen. Barack Obama would rather travel the more dangerous, more expensive, wholly irrational route of letting the waste stay in states where it was generated. Read More