Steve Jobs was having lunch with Rupert Murdock, the media mogul. “Rupert,” Jobs is supposed to have said, “you’ve got it wrong. The new axis is not conservative versus liberal. It’s constructive versus destructive. And…

Former Sen. Alan Simpson told a Landon Lecture audience Wednesday that they should challenge any politician who tells them the deficit can be reduced without touching the Big Four: Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and the…

Creative destruction is the process in which economic development sprouts from the destruction of some prior economic order: It’s painful for those being destroyed, but beneficial for the new order. It’s the story of innovation…

When Gov. Rick Perry was told that his radical tax plan would be a huge windfall for the rich, he said, “I don’t care about that.”How voters will react remains to be seen.Gov. Perry proposed…

More good news from the Middle East. Millions of Tunisians cast votes Sunday for a new legislative assembly that will write a constitution; a constitution that Tunisians expect to give them a government responsive to…

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta worries that the 12-member deficit reduction committee won’t be able to write a formula to cut government spending that can pass Congress and win the president’s signature. If it does not,…

For the better part of two hours Sunday the audience of more than 600 was in awe of the physical antics of the Boom Town performers at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.Hands were held to…

All U.S. combat troops will be home for Christmas, President Obama promised again last Friday. When negotiations with the al-Malaki government to keep a few thousand U.S. troops there to train Iraqi forces failed, the…

When the zany day wound up in Zanesville, Ohio, Tuesday night, all but one of Terry Thompson’s exotic animals was dead or back in captivity. Mr. Thompson was dead, too.The 62-year-old ex-con killed himself after…

Moammar Gadhafi’s death on Thursday cheats those who wanted first to try him, then execute him publicly, of a prolonged revenge. That’s surely for the best. The time and energy are much better spent on…