WASHINGTON - "This time, the imbeciles have won." That was the assessment of French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy in his remembrance of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. And he wasn't just whistling "Freres Jacques.

As the deadly attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, show, sometimes armed and violent rebels who help to oust a dictatorship can later become destabilizing forces who kill with impunity.

More than 2 million U.S. college students this fall will be spending a good bit of their time reviewing what they were supposed to learn in high school or even earlier. They are taking "remedial" education courses.

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Mitt Romney planned to run for president as a successful businessman who would bring some hard-headed business common sense and smarts to the job of running the badly dysfunctional federal government.

WASHINGTON - Four years ago this week, Ted Kennedy changed history with the sheer force of his will.

BY CAL THOMAS Tribune Media Services When is a tax not a tax? When President Obama says it isn't, or when the Supreme Court says it is? Obamacare was sold on several fraudulent lines.

BY CAL THOMAS Tribune Media Services BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (this was written before the decision), the Obama administration has indicated it will move forward with those parts of the unpopular l...

Mitt Romney's running mate is going to rank very low on the list of what's on voters' minds in November.

WASHINGTON - All hail Grover Norquist! Bow down, Lindsey Graham. The Republican senator dared to say he might consider supporting a tax increase -- but then Norquist paid him a visit on Wednesday.