Political Debates

Political fans might have their eyes on Florida, where voting occurs Tuesday in the Republican presidential primary. But right here at home, it's time to pay attention to some of the most important...

Shields taxpayers and future generations from costly Washington enlargement, irresponsibility LAKE JACKSON, Texas -- 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will pause from his active South Carolina campaign schedule to return to Washington...

Just months after the New Orleans City Council celebrated a fourth consecutive year of lower electric bills for the city's energy customers, it's in the middle of a debate over bills of its...

WASHINGTON -- Federal News Service LLC announced today the launch of its ELECTION 2012 service providing timely, accurate, verbatim transcripts covering every major presidential candidate as well as searchable TV and online monitoring....

Laurie F. Markoe, president and CEO of Contract Land Staff, LLC, a land management and right-of-way consulting firm, was elected chairwoman of The INGAA Foundation Inc. at the Foundation's annual meeting in San...

The Contradictions of George Kennan By Christopher Layne John Lewis Gaddis, George F Kennan: An American Life (New York: Penguin, 2011), 800 pp., $39.95. George F. Kennan - diplomat, foreign-policy analyst, historian, social...

HEADNOTE Texas and New Mexico share a general location on the map - both being in the Southwest. But conditions in their commercial real estate markets could not be further apart. This article...

Thirty years old in 2012, Board of Education v. Rowley^ remains the Supreme Court's sole pronouncement on the meaning of the duty to provide appropriate education for children with disabilities. This duty is...

When the president of Catholic Answers posted an e-letter on the nonprofit's website eight years ago questioning whether Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), a Catholic, should receive communion at Mass because of his support...

Benjamin Franklin said, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Taxes are a guarantee, but the exact parameters of our obligations are shifting. As Congress debates tax policy, it's very...

Wr hen Operation Odyssey Dawn commenced in the skies over Libya on March 19, 2011, it represented a major turnaround in U.S. policy. Only nine months earlier, U.S. ambassador Gene Cretz had characterized...

Good fortune can be elusive when it crosses regional boundaries. Texas and New Mexico are a Southwestern case in point when it comes to their commercial real estate markets. Texas commercial lending markets...

FINDING AFRICA(S) IN FINLAND ARS 11 Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Helsinki, Finland April 15-November 27, 2011 "ARS 11" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, was the eighth in a series...

As the end of 2011 approached, the Obama administration appeared positioned to have presided over three definitive foreign-policy outcomes in the broader Middle East for which it could claim substantial credit. The death...

HEADNOTE CEPI has recently launched its "Unfold the Future" a 2050 Roadmap to a low-carbon bio-economy P PI recently sat down to talk with Teresa Presas - probably the most well known person...

Since 2008, economic bad news has been the order of the day. As we dose the folios of 2011 and enter 2012, along with the euro drama and the U.S. budget deficit debates,...

Byline: Steve Terrell With former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson expected to announce Wednesday his bid for the Libertarian Party nomination for president, some wonder whether that could make Johnson a real contender...

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Dec. 22 extolled what he called President Barack Obama's resolve and risk-taking, remarks likely to help the American chief executive's 2012 re-election bid after the Pentagon beefed...

By Ha'aretz (Analysis) Some two months ago, the Prime Minister's Office received a request to arrange a conference call with some Jewish and Christian leaders. The proposal was to sponsor an event of...