In IRS scandal, echoes of Watergate

George F. Will 

Agency employees’ misdeeds show once again that skepticism of government power is warranted.

This administration aggressively hawked the fiction that the Benghazi attack was just an excessively boisterous movie review. Now we are told that a few wayward souls in Cincinnati, with nary a trace of political purpose, targeted for harassment political groups with “tea party” and “patriot” in their titles. 

Three Mistakes Women Make In Marriage

Care for your guy after the wedding!

Heritage scholar resigns over past criticism of 'low-IQ' Hispanics

A Heritage Foundation scholar has resigned after a firestorm erupted over his 2009 dissertation alleging Hispanics do not have “IQ parity with whites” and that Hispanic immigrants to the United States will have “low-IQ children and grandchildren.” 

Jason Richwine’s Harvard University dissertation, written before his employment at Heritage, asserted that an influx of "low-IQ" immigrants coming to the country would result in “a lack of socioeconomic assimilation among low-IQ immigrant groups, more underclass behavior, less social trust, and an increase in the proportion of unskilled workers in the American labor market."

In 1986, an amnesty law gave legal status and a path to citizenship to unauthorized residents. Today's mass legalization would occur in a much different economic and demographic climate.

Still, the reams of post-1986 studies offer an indication of what might happen if millions of immigrants receive legal status. And there is broad agreement on one thing: The flow of illegal immigration must somehow be stanched, so there is never a need for an amnesty again. In that respect, 1986 was an utter failure.

Prom Night: 5 Things to Tell Your Children

Though both my own children are now in university, I remember the anxiety I felt as they each prepared for their high school proms. Here's five things I told my my children before they left for the evening. None are very easy to say, but all need to be said.

Air Force One goes on sale for $50,000

An aircraft believed to have served as Air Force One has gone up for auction in Phoenix, Arizona.

The DC-9 also boasts full inventory of parts, conveniently located in North Carolina. Bidding will open on May 15, and will close May 30. 

'Steve Jobs and I grew up together'

'Barack Obama's top ten insults against Britain'

From chucking Churchill's bust to snubbing Thatcher's funeral: Nile Gardiner's latest insult catalogue.

1. Siding with Argentina over the Falkland Islands

This has remained the top insult for four years running. For sheer offensiveness it’s hard to beat the Obama administration’s brazen support for Argentina’s call for negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, despite the fact that 255 British servicemen laid down their lives to restore British rule over the Islands after they were brutally invaded in 1982. In a March 2010 press conference in Buenos Aires with President Cristina Kirchner, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave Argentina a propaganda coup by emphatically backing the position of the Péronist regime.

Laptop U

by Nathan Heller

Finding political courage on guns

Building Economic Bridges to Tijuana

By JENNIFER MEDINA

In San Diego, the border is no longer seen as a threat, but as a potential economic engine for the region, an astounding shift as the immigration debate heats up.

"We need to make the border the center, not the end,” said Mayor Bob Filner of San Diego.

“We are an economic force now in a way that we were not a decade or two ago,” said Carlos Bustamante, Mayor of Tijuana, Mexico.

 When he opened San Diego’s Tijuana office this year, Mr. Filner spoke in grand terms about the future of cross-border relations. “Dos ciudades, pero una region — we are two cities, but one region,” he said, using the phrase popular among those who want more collaboration in the area. San Diego would put in a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, he said, but only to host jointly with Tijuana.

Air Force strips 17 of ICBM launch authority, e-mail cites ‘rot’ in ranks

An unprecedented 17 officers have been stripped of their authority to control and launch nuclear missiles.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel demanded more information Wednesday after the Air Force removed 17 launch officers from duty at a nuclear missile base in North Dakota over what a commander called “rot” in the force. The Air Force struggled to explain, acknowledging concern about an “attitude problem” but telling Congress the weapons were secure.

Why Only Humans Weep: The Science Behind Our Tears

By Mark van Vugt, Ph.D.

We all cry, but what are the biological and evolutionary functions behind the tears that we shed? Why are humans the only animal capable of producing tears when experiencing joy or sorrow? Here are some clues based on the latest scientific findings.

Charles Ramsey: ‘I just played my . . . position’

Marc Fisher

The humble Cleveland dishwasher who rescued three women from captivity enjoys his newfound fame during a visit to Washington.

Ramsey was cool with well-wishers on the street, comfortable bantering with executives on the presidential yacht, charming and funny on Newman’s show, yet clearly anxious about getting back to dishwashing Monday. “I work for a living, man, and I will until I’m terminated,” he said. “I was suspended from work, so I gotta show. I live up to my obligation.”

History is where the battles of public life are now being fought

Tristram Hunt

From curriculum rows to Niall Ferguson's remarks on Keynes, our past is the fuel for debate about the future