Dennis Byrne

Word of Illinois' campaign to create a public taste for sauteed fillets and fried fish cakes made from bighead Asian carp has reached even the distant shores of Boothbay Harbor,...

This open letter is based on an interview I conducted with a contractor who's desperately trying to keep his head above water. He isn't named for obvious reasons. Dear President...

Washington, abetted by President Barack Obama's scheduled lecture to Congress on Thursday, is abuzz with schemes for government to light a fire under the economy. Forget it. Government can't do...

Today I am writing about religion. Specifically, about those who worship in the Church of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. More specifically, about those who, as a matter of faith,...

Spectacularly vast stores of natural gas — by some estimates a staggering 837 trillion cubic feet — trapped in shale formations thousands of feet below our nation's surface could endow...

Here's a way for taxpayers to save billions of dollars while improving education: Get rid of standardized tests. Get rid of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires the...

The fierce debate over raising the federal borrowing limit has had at least one happy result: The public's newly found awareness that Washington must borrow 40 cents for every dollar...

America's big banks, among others, that helped send us spiraling into the Great Recession are at it again. They're warning of even more dire consequences if we don't follow their...

If Americans had regarded frontier exploration in the early 1800s with the same indifference that they view the manned space program, there would have been no Louisiana Purchase and westward...

The recent legalization of same-sex marriage in New York proves that it's no longer an issue in the United States, right? Gay marriage will eventually, but certainly, become widely accepted...