If an investment yields stagnant or negative returns despite increased funding, the rational thing to do is back off. This logic rarely applies in government, but we're in a unique moment. The U.S. Department of Education — which has long exemplified the sunk-cost fallacy with past ...

Last week, the Trump administration flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, as reported by the New York Times. On occasion, guidance against a term’s usage came aside directions to eliminate the concept itself. Hundreds of federal government websites are already showing the shift. It is ...

Confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has been held up in the Senate. Word now is that hearings will be held next week. What's holding things up? Pressure from Democrats, of course. If anyone is qualified to be America's ambassador to ...

Republicans in Congress are ceding their constitutional power to the president, so says the "politerati." Yes, but there's the rub: 10 Senate Democrats joined Republicans, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. He changed his mind the day before. The Senate 10 sacrificed the minority's sole ...

Since it's been over 70 years since Sen. Joseph McCarthy used his power as chairman of a Senate investigative committee to bully and crush citizens at his whim, the closest younger Americans can come to visualizing the truly thuggish abuse of power to destroy dissenters may come, of all places, ...

SAXONBURG, Pennsylvania — Small businesses have been the backbone of the United States since its founding. The Hotel Saxonburg, which has also been known as the Vogeley House, the Belvedere House, the Laube House and the Central Hotel, opened in 1835 and has lasted most of our nation's ...