MTA Chairman Jay Walder last week said he was losing sleep over his options for plugging a $750 million budget hole. Planned service cuts, he said, are "tearing my heart out." But if Walder wants...
Mayor Bloomberg issued a stern warning to state lawmakers last month: Gov. Paterson's budget cuts would meet stiff resistance in the Big Apple. "Let me tell you," Hizzoner huffed, "the cuts the...
Let me be clear (as President Obama loves to say): After a year in office, there isn't much for this White House to brag about foreign policy-wise, in spite of rhetorical flourishes and grandiose...
If you were troubled by President Obama's "Wow Bow" in Japan, you won't be any happier with the "kowtow" during his just-concluded trip to the People's Republic of China. In the latest chapter of...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou came to Washington yesterday to ask President Obama to help save his nation from speculators. In other words, he wants America to help him shoot the messenger....
New York may be on the road to reining in its longtime abuse of emi nent domain. Could our politicians actually abandon their long-held belief that it's their responsibility to replace people and...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants a "unified" in quiry into the Army's in ability to recognize warning signs of the sort broadcast for months by its homicidal Islamist psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal...
GEN. David H. Petraeus yes terday strode purpose fully into a Capitol Hill hearing room to the rattlesnake buzz of still-camera shutters and the muffled disapprobation of the ladies in pink T-shirts...
SEN. Joseph Lieberman's criticism of the Obama health-care initiative may prove to be a pivotal turning point. Others have focused exclusively on the Obama plan's impact on health care. The...
AS Bill Clinton crisscrosses America defending his wife's candidacy, he's fuel ing speculation about who'd be in charge should Hillary be elected. Sen. Clinton - the incredible shrinking candidate -...
Threats, bombs and at least 36 dead didn't stop Iraqis from voting on Sunday. But the harder part -- forming a new, more inclusive national government -- lies ahead. Formal results won't come...
A good first step in waging war is to figure out why your enemy is fighting. For over eight years, we've refused to do that in Afghanistan. In the recent Marine offensive against the Taliban in...
Oh, the irony. After claiming that she would preside over the "most ethical Congress in history," Nancy Pelosi is instead presiding over the same kind of shenanigans that cost Republicans their...
A little over a year into his first term, President Obama finally lived up to his election-year promise to hold health-care negotiations on C-SPAN. Better late than never, I suppose....
For almost 20 years, the United Nations nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did its best not to notice the slow but steady building of a military nuclear capability in the...
With the International Atomic Energy Agency for the first time ever bluntly accusing the Islamic Republic of pursuing a military nuclear program, it's just as well that the Obama administration is...
It is said, more frequently than precisely, that the rea sons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does. Actually, the court's reasons are what it does....
Memo to that Massachu setts school where children in physical- education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you -- you are about 85 percent of all parents -- who are...
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