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So let’s talk about Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand and the meaning of life.

Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman who chairs the House Budget Committee, was selected by Mitt Romney to fill out the Republican ticket Saturday. He’s an interesting choice, not least because he this record of being brutally honest about the financial challenges deficits and entitlement programs present to our nation, and about...

Mitt Romney just delivered the “severely conservative” ticket he’d been touting since the primaries, with a little help from his friends.

Romney's vice presidential choice, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, 42, is best known as the chairman of the House Budget Committee and the author of the “Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal.”

Dissecting whether Romney’s bizarre slip in introducing...

For anyone keeping tabs, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s public relation team on the Tappan Zee is selling a bridge – and from the looks of things, it's got a lot of leaders buying into the new span.

Since higher $14 tolls were mentioned as a likelihood by the administration a week ago, the bridge’s PR team has put out eight releases trumpeting a growing list of supporters of the plan. Wednesday was...

In a fairer world, Nikola Tesla would have so many monuments built to him and museums named in his honor that the preservation of Wardenclyffe, his former lab on Route 25A in Shoreham, New York wouldn’t be a big deal. Tesla’s the guy who invented or perfected practically everything you were taught someone else, someone much wealthier and more famous, invented or perfected.

Thomas Edison pioneered...

By retreating on a $14 toll on a new bridge, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo heard the public pretty loud and clear: That’s too much money. It comes about a week after his top deputy, Larry Schwartz, announced that a toll increase – in line with others in the region like the George Washington Bridge – was needed to pay for this expected $5.2 billion crossing.

“I believe the projected 2017 toll schedule...

Millions of prescriptions are taken every morning in this country and plenty are forgotten in the dash out the door. Now, the Food and Drug Administration has approved an ingestible sensor that will tell your doctor on you.

The biotech company Proteus Digital Health created a sand-particle sized silicon chip that can be placed into any pill, although it is currently only approved for placebos....

Heat records continue to tumble; last month was the hottest ever recorded in the continental United States. Indeed, the first seven months of 2012 were the warmest ever in this country. The latest findings are part of a larger trend. As NASA points out, "nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000." But it's not just the heat,...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday added another key endorsement to construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge: former Gov. George Pataki.

"I know first-hand the urgent need for a new and safer bridge to replace the deteriorating Tappan Zee,” Pataki, a Republican, said in a statement. “The current span is dangerous, congested and an impediment to economic growth in Westchester and Rockland...

Tyrants are right to fear artists. If you read Milan Kundera--try "The Joke"--you can see why he scared the living daylights out of the communists who ruled what was then Czechoslovakia. A regime that can't take a joke, or a little critical caterwauling from the odd band of rockers, has every reason to worry about its durability. Russian president Vladimir Putin, whose despotic instincts...