This week America observed Valentine’s Day. A day that is about honoring the person we admire most in the romantic tradition of courtly love. But if you’re a young woman using ‘Lulu,’ chances are that the guy you’ve trashed online didn’t rush over with chocolates and roses. Seventeen years ago, …

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is in Tampa today, Monday, January 13, for an ObamaCare outreach event, and she owes Floridians an answer. Why should taxpayers have to bail out health insurance companies in the increasingly likely event that ObamaCare leaves them with financial losses? The answer should …

“Almost Orwellian” — that’s the description a federal judge gave earlier this week to the massive spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on virtually all 380 million cellphones in the United States. In the first meaningful and jurisdictionally grounded judicial review of the NSA cellphone spying program, U.S. District …

It’s now been officially one month since President Obama launched his health insurance exchange and broken website. Over the past few weeks, it’s become clear that the problems with the health care law go well beyond a failed website. The technical problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Nearly …

I was almost expecting it when the KMarts and Walmarts of the world announced their stores would be open this year on Thanksgiving night. Sigh. It seemed to reflect that good ol’ American over-the-top holiday consumerism which seems to creep up on us closer and closer to Labor Day every …

For years I’ve admired Charles Krauthammer. In the old days, when I jumped out of bed to get my copy of the Washington Post, I would immediately skip ahead to his column (now I get to read it as soon as it posts on Thursday nights). I would run home …

Income inequality has been growing since the 1970s, but President Obama’s economic policies are making it worse and much faster than Presidents Bush or Clinton. Globalization is driving the sinking fortunes of many ordinary Americans. Prior to World War II, the U.S. economy was largely isolated. It traded with the …

Less than three days after President Obama announced an “independent review” of the nation’s surveillance technologies, the White House has appointed James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, to run the panel. Let that sink in. In an announcement posted online Monday afternoon, Clapper’s office said he would run the …

How much will the eBay auction of an historical, original Schindler’s list go for? What is it really worth? And where does that document belong? There is no word in Hebrew for history. For us Jews it has never been about documents or statistics, rather the commandment — Zachor — …

Gracia Martore, president and CEO of Gannett, probably doesn’t care too much about The Journal News in suburban New York. Since assuming the position of Gannett CEO in late 2011, Martore went to work reorganizing the then struggling Gannett, launching a campaign to re-brand the age-old company with an aggressive …