Column: Kermit Gosnell Wasn’t Typical in Any Way

Kermit Gosnell, the notorious Philadelphia late-term abortionist, has been convicted. A jury found him guilty of murder for killing three babies after failed abortions, and of involuntary manslaughter for causing a woman’s death. Now comes the smear campaign. “Gosnell is not alone,” says Troy Newman, president of Operation …

Column: Scandals Expose the Real Obama, and Journalists Are Shocked

Dogged by scandal, and with his press secretary presumably now curled up in the fetal position and breathing into a brown paper bag, it’s obvious President Barack Obama is in need. Our president must find his happy place again, away from irritating controversies. Like Benghazi, where four Americans …

Editorial: Morsi’s Betrayal

Ahmed Maher, one of the leaders of Egypt’s 2011 revolution, supported Islamist Mohamed Morsi in last year’s presidential election because he believed Morsi’s victory over a military-backed candidate would be more likely to consolidate democracy in their country. But during a visit to Washington last week, Maher told …

Column: IRS Scandal Holds More Promise for Republicans Than Benghazi

Republicans in Congress are so hungry for scalps, they just can’t leave well enough alone. The scandal engulfing the Internal Revenue Service is a story that’s playing to their benefit. Monday, after having the weekend to think about it, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida puffed himself up and …

Willem Lange: More Than Black Flies Await Me in the Yard This Time of Year

East Montpelier During the first two weeks of May, as regularly as clockwork, three important things happen in our lives here in the bushes of central Vermont: The first black fly appears in front of my eyes in the back yard (average date, May 6); the American tamaracks …

Column: The IRS Scandal Hiding in Plain Sight

Washington Sputtering adjectives — outrageous, appalling, intolerable — can scarcely do justice to the fiasco involving the Internal Revenue Service’s reported targeting of conservative groups. But the current scandal obscures — and, ironically, threatens to prevent action on — another, equally corrosive failure on the part of the …

Column: Don’t Mandate Labels for Foods With Gene-Altered Ingredients

Should the government require companies to label food that contains genetically modified organisms? Last November, California voters rejected a ballot initiative that would require such labeling, but bills that would do so were recently introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate. Invoking “the right to know,” a …

• Letter: Importance of Food Labeling

Column: Military Can Curb Sexual Assault Right Now

The news that sexual harassment and assault in the military are more common than ever — not just that the number of reported incidents has climbed in the past two years but also that an estimated 26,000 personnel experienced unacceptable sexually aggressive and threatening behavior from their military …

Column: More Evidence Government Can’t Be Trusted

He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ... cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner. — Article 2, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment, adopted …