Mitt Isn't Ready to Call It Quits  —  “Hey, Ann, can you come here a sec?”  Mitt Romney called out, sinking into the cushions of a walnut-colored easy chair, his legs outstretched on a matching ottoman.  Romney's blue work shirt was tucked into faded jeans; sockless ankles peeked out from his New Balance sneakers.

White House intruder was tackled by off-duty Secret Service agent  —  The man who jumped over the White House fence and sprinted through the main floor of the mansion could have gotten even farther had it not been for an off-duty Secret Service agent who was coincidentally in the house and leaving for the night.

7 Charts That Prove Obamacare Is Working  —  One year after healthcare.gov crashed, things are looking up for the president's signature achievement  —  Obamacare is not popular.  In the latest tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 47 percent of respondents said they have an unfavorable opinion …

Referees flag Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah for celebration penalty after slide and prayer in endzone  —  Husain Abdullah is a devout Muslim.  He's also a safety for the Chiefs, and he made a promise to himself if he ever did find himself in the end zone.  —  “If I get a pick …

Many Missteps in Assessment of ISIS Threat  —  WASHINGTON — By late last year, classified American intelligence reports painted an increasingly ominous picture of a growing threat from Sunni extremists in Syria, according to senior intelligence and military officials.

CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US  —  The United States has its first confirmed case of the Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, marking the first domestic appearance of the deadly virus that has ravaged swaths of continental Africa.

FCC sacks NFL blackout rule  —  The FCC dumped the sports blackout rule Tuesday, dealing a blow to the NFL at a time of growing scrutiny for the league in Washington.  —  In a unanimous 5- vote, the commission eliminated the decades-old regulation, which prevents cable and satellite TV …

This Is What's the Matter With Kansas  —  Sam Brownback tried to create a conservative utopia.  He created a conservative hell instead.  —  The midterm elections of 2010 were good for Republicans nearly everywhere, but amid the national Tea Party insurgency, it was easy to overlook the revolution that was brewing in Kansas.

My Gun Range is a Muslim Free Zone  —  The Gun Cave Indoor Shooting Range is now a a MUSLIM FREE ZONE.  —  To understand why I arrived at this decision, you must first take in to consideration the nature of my business.  —  This is not a coffee and donut shop.  This is a live fire indoor shooting range.

Why it might be time to sell that Rand Paul stock  —  Sen. Rand Paul's best window for winning the 2016 Republican presidential nomination increasingly looks like it has passed.  —  A lot can happen over the next 18 months, but the renewed focus on foreign policy — and more specifically …

How Americans' Lives Have Turned Into All Work And No Play, In 3 Charts  —  American workers are putting in more and more hours each week, as the supposedly 40-hour workweek has stretched to 47 hours.  At the same time, they're getting very little paid time off of work to recharge.

The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil  —  Paglia is the author of Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars.  —  Young women today do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature  —  The disappearance of University …

Incumbent governors fear wipeout  —  Recognizing that many voters don't personally sense that their economic situation has meaningfully improved, Snyder slightly tweaked his messaging two weeks ago from calling Michigan “the comeback state” to saying that it is on “the road to recovery.”

Lawyer Suing To Save A GOP Senate Seat Bungles His Case, Leaves His Client At Home  —  Thomas Haney, a lawyer suing the Kansas Democratic Party in a suit that could save Sen. Pat Roberts' (R-KS) uphill bid for reelection, showed up to court on Monday missing a crucial element of his case — his client.

For ISIS, Slaughter Is an End in Itself  —  LONDON — In a famous passage from “Survival in Auschwitz,” Primo Levi relates an incident upon arrival in the Nazi death camp that captures the intersection of the human with the inhuman.  He and other Italian prisoners have been held in a shed as they await their fate.

A Political Attack on Shareholder Value  —  Rating corporate speech may achieve the opposite of its supposed aim.  —  By  —  Last week the Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School released the annual “CPA-Zicklin Index …

Government Debt Management at the Zero Lower Bound  —  Abstract  —  This paper re-examines government debt management policy in light of the U.S. experience with extraordinary fiscal and monetary policies since 2008.  —  We first document that the Treasury's decision to lengthen …

Obama Betrays the Kurds  —  In his speech to the United Nations last week, President Obama pledged to the world that the United States would use its might to stop the horrific depredations of the terrorist movement variously known as the Islamic State, ISIS, or, as he calls it, ISIL.