BY FROMA HARROP The age of “residential adolescence” is upon us, apparently. Nearly 45% of adults ages 20 to 24 now live at home with their parents. That’s 1.7 million more than in 2005. Nicholas Retsinas, a real estate expert at Harvard Business School, blames the trend in part on tough times. Jobs are hard […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER America’s long, long war in Afghanistan has drained more than 1,500 precious lives and a trillion dollars from our country. But, finally, this enormous outlay paid off this year with the capture and killing of that al-Qaida demon, Osama bin Laden, who attacked America and was the reason our military went into […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Republican office holders and candidates have taken at least one too many oaths. National office holders have an oath to protect...

BY FROMA HARROP “Centralizers,” a conservative wrote disapprovingly in Reason magazine, “say that the responsibility for making tough decisions about how to keep health care costs under control ought to be made by enlightened, well-intentioned policy elites.” I don’t know. These “elites” beat the heck out of corporate interests trying to sell me treatments I […]

BY SHARON MARTIN About a month ago, Newt Gingrich told the truth. Now, there may have been some other issues nipping at the heels...