By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY As winter closes in on its open-air encampments and public attention prepares to move on to the next big thing, the Occupy movement faces a dilemma: Conflict and confrontation, which have helped make it a national phenomen… more »

The John Locke Foundation / George Leef / June 21, 2011 As almost everyone now knows, federal law will ban production of incandescent light bulbs in a few years. (I forget just when it takes effect.) But as Edward Cline notes in this blog post, the… more »

Associated PressBy JAY ALABASTER and TODD PITMAN, TAGAJO, Japan – People across a devastated swath of Japan suffered for a third day Sunday without water, electricity and proper food, as the country grappled with the enormity of a massive earthquak… more »

Associated Press Adm. Robert Willard told Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper that he believed the Chinese anti-ship ballistic missile program had achieved "initial operational capability," meaning that a workable design had been settled on and was being… more »