NSF altogether, although he has no idea where American scientists would get their funding if he did so. In past years, the charge was led by Rep. John Dingell (D.-MI), who has served in the House since 1955, the longest serving member of the current...

1971, NASA held a workshop led by Barney Oliver, the research chief of Hewlett-Packard, that concluded the best way to find extraterrestrials was with a $10 billion array of giant radio telescopes. The price tag — as well as the subject — set off alarm...

Reporters and editors must be able to consult information in the public domain if the concept of a free press is to have any meaning. This isn’t something new. “We simply cannot in good conscience send troops abroad to lead the struggle for freedom —...

Senator William Proxmire (D-WI) proposed and passed the Fair Credit Reporting Act forty years ago, he almost certainly believed that the law would fix the problems he cited in introducing it. It hasn’t. The bulk of the difficulties he saw in credit...

Harper is director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute and author of the book Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood. Share with your friends: More than 40 years ago, Sen. William Proxmire (D-WI) guided the...

As reported Wednesday in The Morning Call, Toomey, who is from the Lehigh Valley, is a key figure in an effort to curtail "earmarks," the spending packages Congress allots to the pet projects of individual members, usually in their home districts. ...