Emily Cary

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

The salesman pitching aluminum siding on the phone sounded strangely familiar, like a ripple echoing across storied waters. He was, in truth, the humorist, writer and radio personality Garrison Keillor best known for his monologues about a Brigadoon-like village that emerges from his mind when...

Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Obesity is a public health time bomb. But is curbing it primarily the responsibility of the government? The food police think so. Along the way, their extreme rhetoric demonizes industry and characterizes food marketers as little better than child molesters. Weighing in from the Left are...

Douglas MacKinnon

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

There are at the moment a number of exaggerated, even breathless comparisons between President Obama's Benghazi/IRS/Associated Press controversies and President Nixon's Watergate scandal in 1973. Part of that narrative is driven by the fact that the media like to associate controversies with...

Cal Thomas

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Given last week's revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it's worth recalling President Obama's Ohio State University commencement address. The president decried "voices" warning "that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner." It's no longer...

Timothy P. Carney

Updated: 9 hr ago

Remember when President Obama said passing Obamacare constituted “standing up to the special interests”? Well, that wasn’t really true. Now that states are considering implementing the bill, the industries are fiercely fighting to save the law. Michael Cannon of Cato tells the story in...

Updated: 10 hr ago

CHICAGO (AP) — Grains futures were mixed Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery fell 2.25 cents to $6.81 a bushel; July corn fell 5.25 cents to $6.475 a bushel; July oats were flat at $3.755 a bushel; while July soybeans rose 7.5 cents to $14.56 a bushel. Beef prices...

Updated: 12 hr ago

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Chesapeake Energy has named Anadarko Petroleum executive Robert Douglas Lawler as its new CEO. The appointment of the 46-year-old Lawler comes after a tough year during which Chesapeake's board ousted its founder and the company worked to shore up its finances. The new...

Updated: 13 hr ago

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion; to remain separately run.

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say car bomb in Shiite area of Baghdad kills at least 13 civilians.

Updated: 16 hr ago

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