Senate Republicans will face a fork in the road this week when Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., forces a vote on a measure paving the way for expanded state sales tax collection for online purchases. The route Durbin would have them…

A couple things of note from the world of golf this past week: Tiger Woods won his eighth tournament at Torrey Pines, and The Phil Mickelson Apology Tour is still, apparently, in full swing. Before playing some unexceptional rounds at…

In the spring of 2006 I had an opportunity to travel to Sweden, the land of my mother’s birth and home to her side of the family. It had been at least ten years since I had seen any of…