Politics

Romney running mate search enters audition phase

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions....

Romney running mate search enters audition phase

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions....

Romney running mate search enters audition phase

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions....

Obama: Romney claims 'a cowpie of distortions'

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- President Barack Obama is doubling down on criticism of rival Mitt Romney's background as a venture capitalist. The president says there might be value in such experience "but not in the White House."...

Stop-smoking efforts don't see money

States have collected billions of dollars from tobacco companies but spent only 3 percent of it to combat smoking - a less-than-robust response to the high costs of health care associated with smoking, a federal report released Thursday says.

Of the $243.8 billion in tobacco money received from 1998 to ...

Ohio teenager to be tried as adult in school slayings

CHARDON, Ohio — A 17-year-old will be tried as an adult in the school shooting deaths of three students, a juvenile court judge ruled Thursday after hearing a sheriff's deputy describe how the teen wore a T-shirt with the word "Killer" and admitted shooting people.

T.J. Lane admitted firing at ...

Facebook Fluctuates

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
The IPO looks to be a blunder, not a crime.


Our Man in Pakistan

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
Why didn't the U.S. help get Shakil Afridi out of trouble?


Deus ex Eurobonds

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
Europeans are taking Alexander Hamilton's name in vain.


Perkins wont 'be silent' on gay marriage

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council tells CNN's Brooke Baldwin he wont "be silent" on gay marriage issue.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Vulture Capitalism? Try Obama's Version

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
A profit-driven economy is preferable to one run by political favoritism.


Stephen Prothero: Memorial Day and the American Bible

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
Americans disagree, but we share a collection of core texts that 'we the people' regard as authoritative.


Hillman and Lobel: The Art of the Ask for Afghanistan

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
We need more help with the financial burden. Here's how to get it.


Michael W. McConnell: The Liberal Legal Meltdown Over ObamaCare

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
If supporters of mandatory insurance were as confident of its merits as they claim to be, they would offer legal arguments, not moral accusations.


Tom Manion: Why They Serve---'If Not Me, Then Who?'

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
After more than a decade of war, remarkable men and women are still stepping forward.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
James Pethokoukis imagines what politics would look like if Steve Jobs were the Republican presidential nominee.


Idaho town seeks to lure gun and ammo makers

POTLATCH, IDAHO — This small community in the forested, western foothills of the Rocky Mountains was created as a company town to house workers for the nation's largest white pine sawmill, and its tidy homes and straight, tree-lined streets are a testament to its planners.

But the town has slumbered ...

American Scene: Maine fire on nuclear sub at shipyard hurts 7

MAINE

KITTERY — Officials are venting smoke and noxious fumes from a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard so they can get inside to assess what a fire did to it.

Firefighters from the shipyard and coastal departments in Maine and New Hampshire spent Wednesday night and early Thursday fighting ...

At the End of the Night

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 15:31
"People Who Eat Darkness" tells the true story of a young Englishwoman gruesomely murdered in Japan 11 years ago. Melanie Kirkpatrick reviews.


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