Joe Biden

In Benghazi and eyond, fallen workers remembered

2013-05-24 20:04:23

Let's take a break from the raging discord that has dominated Washington lately by remembering federal employees who died abroad in service to their country. With so much attention focused on what the government has done wrong, we'll end the week with...

Boxing Obama in

2013-05-24 00:00:00

Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...

Could Biden benefit from scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's handling of Benghazi?

2013-05-13 07:52:00

If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the terrorist attack on...

New state law aims to help veterans land jobs

2013-04-17 16:16:00

First lady Michelle Obama came to Annapolis on Wednesday to praise a new Maryland law, saying it sets a national standard for removing barriers for veterans in transition to the civilian workforce. The legislation — unanimously approved by the...

O'Malley sees success in jail indictments, but critics take aim

2013-04-30 18:15:00

As critics of Martin O'Malley sensed a new political vulnerability, the governor insisted Tuesday that last week's indictment of inmates and correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center was "a positive achievement" in Maryland's fight...

Who says the Republicans are doomed?

2013-04-30 03:00:00

Since Mitt Romney lost to President Obama on Nov. 6, the conventional wisdom has been that the Republican Party is in trouble. The less conventional truth is that it is the Democrats whose chances may be more bleak. Yes, Republicans are currently...

Can Hagel reshape the Pentagon?

2013-04-08 08:33:02

Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska who survived a stormy confirmation hearing to become the new secretary of defense, had a coming-out party of sorts last week before the National Defense University, the government's graduate...

Can Jeb Bush save the GOP?

2013-03-11 10:07:00

Amid the wreckage of the Mitt Romney presidential debacle and the Republican scramble to find a new savior, now comes ... yet another Bush! The ruminations of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, son of one former president and younger brother of another, on...

South Carolina Democrats see O'Malley 'rising'

2013-03-23 18:48:00

— Gov. Martin O'Malley took the stage Saturday at a high school in this early presidential primary state, telling an auditorium of South Carolina Democrats that his principles worked in Maryland — and they'd work elsewhere. "We're investing...

The demise of moderate Republicanism

2013-03-15 00:00:00

Among the casualties of the 2012 presidential election, along with Mitt Romney, was the vanishing breed of moderate Republicans of which he once was a star, until his embarrassing lurch into conservatism. Mr. Romney first failed to win the GOP...

Can the GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?

2013-04-01 03:00:00

Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...

Obama settles for half measures on gun control

2013-03-18 09:35:00

For all the clamor from the White House and many in Congress to address the American scourge of gun violence, signs continue to point to a half-measure solution at best. President Barack Obama's State of the Union plea to the nation's lawmakers that the...

Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy after giving the keynote speech at a conference at Western Connecticut State University Thursday to discuss the federal response to gun violence prevention in the wake of Newtown.

2013-02-22 00:00:00

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will join Vice President Joe Biden for a conference in Danbury on legislative solutions to gun violence.

2013-02-21 00:00:00

Vice President Joe Biden arrives at WCSU for the gun violence forum.

2013-02-21 00:00:00