Madison Square Garden was stiflingly hot on the night of Aug. 12, 1980. The long Democratic presidential primary campaign had ended bitterly, with President Jimmy Carter beating back a surprisingly inept challenge by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The only…

Sen. Charles Grassley addresses a rally on health reform in Iowa.

On Tuesday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, called  President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., “intellectually dishonest” in their discussion of health reform. He said they’re using the flap about…

Doctors practice new hip replacement techniques on a cadaver.

As chairman of the House Republican Health Care Solutions Group, Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield, knows a thing or two about health care. But some of what he knows just isn’t true.
“I’m 59,”…

Barack Obama serves lunch to a patient during a visit to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in June.

A few days before the historic election that swept him into the presidency, Barack Obama was asked to name his top priorities for 2009. They were,…

My Wednesday column contrasted the solicitous treatment the government gives to retired senior officers moonlighting as on-air military analysts with the years of continuing struggle faced by active-duty troops and veterans to get decent care for mental problems, including post-traumatic…