We’ve all heard that one type of energy or another is the “Bridge to the Future.” We’ve heard variously that it’s wind power, or solar power, or natural gas, or biofuels, or enhanced extraction methods, like hydraulic fracturing, or nuclear energy – and we’ve also heard that to get to …

Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors was called before Senate and House Committees last week to explain why a faulty ignition switch, responsible for at least 13 crash deaths, was not recalled for several years in vehicles manufactured by GM. Barra, who served as Executive Vice President for Global Product …

President Obama’s hemorrhaging foreign policy is creating an increasingly embarrassing mess at the United Nations. A four-week session of the U.N.’s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council, ended in Geneva on March 28, 2014, with a series of humiliating defeats for the president’s calling card of indiscriminate engagement. …

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen sent stocks diving last week by saying the Federal Reserve could begin raising interest rates as early as next spring — most traders and forecasters have predicted a later date. Since the financial crisis began, the Fed has purchased U.S. Treasuries and mortgage backed securities …

With less than a year left in her fourth and final term in Congress, it’s a little early for an exit interview, but not too early to get the views of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on issues dear to a “founding mother” of the Tea Party movement and on how …

Loved and despised – as great men so often are – Ariel Sharon was a polite bulldozer, a warrior-peacemaker, an avuncular tyrant, a bundle of contradictions. “The Lion of Israel.” The “Butcher of Beirut.” He defied stereotypes. Whether Israelis admired or reviled him, Sharon, Israel’s 11th prime minister and greatest …

Tolerance. Most Americans would agree it’s a core principle of our democracy: the right of all people to express feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from our own. Think about it, especially when you read or hear about our core institutions — schools, government, public services… even our military …

As Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe pull neck and neck in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, GOP voters face an imperative to turn out in full force. The latest Quinnipac poll indicates that the race is now within six points. As the contest comes down to the wire, President Obama hopes to …

I owned other cars during the years but these ten stand out in my mind for various reasons. Especially as my company, J.D. Power and Associates, got more established I tried to never own a car that would be obvious or expected. I wanted to show people that the cars …

One need only compare the sense of dispatch at Federal Express with time endured to send a package via the U.S. Postal Service to recognize the federal government doesn’t do things quite as well as the private sector. It doesn’t even function as well as state bureaucracies. Now ObamaCare, which …