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A father and daughter play with recent online purchases from Amazon.com.

Taxing internet sales isn’t about ‘fairness,’ it’s about spending

Government |  In 1998 when President Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of internet access and internet-only…

Old enough to fight and vote but not to smoke

Old enough to fight and vote but not to smoke

Government |  New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is proposing to raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes in the city to 21. Perhaps it is her way of saying…

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Moral markets

Q&A |  Americans are about to relearn the lesson, says Steve Forbes, that it is big government and not capitalism that causes economic instability

Moderate warriors?
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Moderate warriors?

Science |  Obama’s Cabinet picks on energy and environment have had nice things to say about natural gas

Plan B One-Step

DOJ appeals lifting age limits for ‘morning after’ pill

Abortion |  The U.S. Justice Department is appealing a judge’s decision to remove all age restrictions on the so-called “morning-after” pill, signaling the Obama…

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Let’s fix the immigration bill

Immigration |  There’s the story of a woman with five kids who was asked if she had to do it all over again would she have five children? “Yes,” she said, “just not…

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‘Morning-after’ pill goes OTC to 15-year-olds

Abortion |  The Food and Drug Administration announced today that the so-called “morning-after” pill will now be available over-the-counter without a prescription to…

A new short form application for the Affordable Health Care Act released by the Obama administration today.

How Obamacare will hurt you

Healthcare |  The Wall Street Journal this morning has an explanation of how Obamacare will negatively affect great numbers of Americans. Summary: “In total, it…

A surveillance photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev inside the gas station where the suspects stopped.

Three things we didn’t know about last Friday’s search for the Boston bombers

Media |  When The New York Times floods a zone with reporters and concentrates on ascertaining facts, it can do a good job. Here’s what seven Times reporters working the…

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan

Wanted: Reporting help from HUD-hit readers

Housing |  With millions of homeowners under water in 2011, and housing markets a mess in other ways as well, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development…

The remains for a black backpack that contained one of the Boston Marathon bombs.

The enemy within our borders

Terrorism |  The last time there was a terrorist attack on America, we got the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration. Each entity…

A participant in a Margaret Thatcher

Thatcher haters celebrate her death

Politics |  BELFAST, Northern Ireland—The death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has prompted reactions from Britain’s far left that takes bad taste…

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