Edmund Burke

If researchers are to be believed, kids lose up to an entire grade level each year to "summer brain drain," wherein recently acquired knowledge oozes out of their minds and melts onto the pavement while they participate in such pointless activities as...

Why aren't more people furious about the Libor scandal? That's a question mostly being asked on the political left these days, and they're right to ask it. Here are the basics: Barclays is the second-largest bank in Britain and one of the largest in the...

-------------------- When I Was a Child I Read Books Essays Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 232 pp., $24 -------------------- Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-winning novelist, is a confounding writer in today's political alignment. Her...

Why aren't more people furious about the LIBOR scandal? That's a question mostly being asked on the political left these days, and they're right to ask it. Here are the basics: Barclays is the second-largest bank in Britain and one of the largest in the...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburglikes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare." Why, she asked toward the end of three days of hearings, shouldn't the court...

"... abridging  the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances." The remaining clause of the amendment is necessary due again to the lessons learned in...

'EXAMPLE IS THE school of mankind," proclaimed Edmund Burke, the founder of modern conservatism, "and they will learn at no other." Burke was disparaging the folly of the French revolutionaries who believed that man could break the iron chains of history...

SO WHICH will be harder to spot this season — Mark Foley campaign signs or movie ads for "Idiocracy"? If Foley had been as stealthy about messaging teenage pages as 20th Century Fox has been in releasing this dystopian social satire, Foley might...

VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney recently attacked my 1972 presidential platform and contended that today's Democratic Party has reverted to the views I advocated in 1972. In a sense, this is a compliment, both to me and the Democratic Party. Cheney intended no...

Saturday, September 10, 2011 GOLF Only two golfers managed to break par in the first round of the 5th annual Coors Light Amateur Championship at Black Rock Golf Course on Saturday. Covering a waterlogged layout of 6,500 yards, defending champion Ken...

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky calls himself a “constitutional conservative,” yet in the opening pages of his book, “The Tea Party Goes to Washington,” he advocates “revolution.” One cannot be both a revolutionary and a...

It was another Saturday and another title for the Williamsport boys cross country team at Smithsburg’s 22nd annual Don Stoner Invitational. The Wildcats captured five of the top 10 places to convincingly win with 25 points. New Oxford finished...