The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has severed its ties with Planned Parenthood. As a result, hundreds of thousands of dollars — nearly $700,000 last year alone — no longer will fund breast cancer screenings and other breast-related services for low-income and uninsured women at 19 Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country. Poof! Gone. Komen made the decision in December,... Read more.

Last week, my local twittersphere momentarily erupted with allegations that Denver's public school superintendent, Tom Boasberg, is sending his kids to a private school that eschews high-stakes testing. Boasberg, an icon of the national movement pushing high-stakes testing and undermining traditional public education, eventually defended himself by insisting that his kids attended that special school... Read more.

Politically astute Republicans, including many social conservatives, see Mitt Romney as the strongest candidate to beat President Obama in November. The former Massachusetts governor may not be their kind of Republican, but any Republican would be better than Obama, in their opinion. The view that Romney would be Obama's most formidable foe is accurate — but only as of Monday, when former Utah... Read more.

By now, you probably have seen the shocking video of 7-year-old Brittney Baxter fighting off a would-be kidnapper in the toy aisle of the Bremen, Ga., Wal-Mart. What you may not realize is that this is a scene you will be seeing forever — replayed on the news and then reimagined on "Law & Order" (though the show will change the name of the store, or maybe the guy will be kidnapping... Read more.

Elections are for suckers. Let's just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos now that voting has the same significance for us as it had for those Iraqis who got conned into thinking they were participating in some grand democratic experiment. Our own elections — the ones our government has modeled for the world — are a hoax. What other word should we use to describe this year's... Read more.

You never want to let them see how much it hurts. You get hit by a pitch, you don't rub the spot. You get rocked by a punch, you try to throw a counter-punch. You lose three races in one night as a political candidate, and, well, you don't do what Mitt Romney did. Romney is known as an even-keel kind of guy. Doesn't get too high; doesn't get too low. But Tuesday he lost three states to Rick Santorum,... Read more.