Last summer my brother and I drove from Estes Park over the Rocky Mountains to Grand Lake. The highway follows ridges, rising ever higher until it reaches over 12,000 feet. The views are awe-inspiring. Long’s…

Texas Gov. Rick Perry came under thundering criticism Thursday for his spectacular stumble in Wednesday night’s debate among Republican candidates.Gearing up for a significant statement of policy, Perry said  he would eliminate three agencies of…

Voters in Maine, Mississippi, Arizona and Ohio told their state governments to back off in elections Tuesday.Ohio Gov. John Kasich had asked voters to let a law remain in place restricting public workers’ rights to…

Fagan, one of the villains in that wonderful musical, “Oliver,” facing discovery and punishment, decides to flee in a song titled, “Reviewing the Situation.”His counterparts in today’s world are the politicians who created the pension…

When the debt ceiling was raised at the end of July, the bill also created a bipartisan committee charged with coming up with a blueprint to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion by Nov. 23…

Kansas economists predicted last week that the state’s tax income will grow at a 5 percent rate between now and the end of the budget year, June 30, and continue to grow throughout the next…

Slowly, slowly, ever so slowly, President Raul Castro is reforming bits and pieces of Cuba’s dysfunctional economy. Thursday he took a larger than usual step. As of Nov. 10, he announced, Cubans will be allowed…

A careful study of 280 companies in the Fortune 500 list of the largest corporations in the U.S. showed that while all were profitable, 30 of them paid no corporate tax and the average of…

Guess where the latest opposition to the crackdown on illegal immigration is coming from. The Wall Street Journal, that’s where.Saturday’s edition featured a quarter-page editorial titled, “The Other Jobs Crisis.” Not the 9.1 national unemployment…

Today’s fun comes from the pollsters.Ronald Reagan beat out Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the president Americans would like to bring back from the grave to lead America out of the mess we’re in, according to…