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What does the meeting between President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain mean in terms of restoring confidence in our country when a new administration takes office in January? The president-elect and ...

WASHINGTON -- "Nothing," said a General Motors spokesman last week, "has changed relative to the GM board's support for the GM management team during this historically difficult economic period for the U.S. ...

Let me start by applauding President-elect Barack Obama and the entire United States on the landslide electoral victory in the election.

The nation's 21 Republican governors are in defense mode. They know they're the best and the brightest, but fear the rest of the world doesn't understand that.

The deeper one digs into the returns from this last election, the more portentous the results seem.

Have you ever seen a transformation this fast? In barely two months, the Barracuda became the Scapegoat.

New presidents make mistakes. For Bill Clinton, the errors were almost immediate.

So it seems there's this new couple coming to town . Now they are scouting schools for their children and people are wondering whether they're going to go public or private.

Re "Now, let's turn to impeachment" : Aren't you jumping the gun a little with your praise for Barack Obama? He hasn't done anything yet! Oh wait, he made a bunch of promises during his campaign! Gee, no ...

Fresh ire aimed at former Harvard University President Larry Summers prompts the question: Shouldn't there be a statute of limitations on dumb things expressed in public? Please say yes.

George F. Will is a columnist for the Washington Post. WASHINGTON -- Conservatism's current intellectual chaos reverberated in the Republican ticket's end-of-campaign crescendo of surreal warnings that big ...

I hope citizens will step up and help us save the upper Bidwell Park disc golf courses.

Making it up as we go ... Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:28 AM EST THE $700 BILLION bailout was rushed through Congress as a way of pumping liquidity into the financial system by letting the Treasury buy up ...

Not so long ago, corporate giants with names like PanAm, ITT and Montgomery Ward roamed the earth.

It was either a sign of the genius of the American republic or a paean to political amnesia.

For years I've been dining out on the story of the 1988 vice presidential debate, where Lloyd Bentsen literally cleaned Dan Quayle 's clock - "You're no Jack Kennedy " - resulting in a huge increase in his own ...

Democratic politicians like to see themselves as champions of public education. But when it comes to picking schools for their own children to attend, their support disappears.

Dear Dr. Donohue: What are the symptoms of colon cancer? B.P. Dear B.P.: The colon is about 5 feet long.

Monday's meeting between President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain provides hope that the new administration will work in a bipartisan fashion.

Herea s the thing about Thanksgiving: you dona t want to spend it alone. Whether ita s with family - the best of all worlds for most of us - or with friends, the worst that can happen when the day comes to ...