William Tucker

NYACK, N.Y. — I’ve got a suggestion for the health of America. Let’s move Wall Street out of New York. Or at least let’s get it outside the jurisdiction of the New York Attorney General. Last week’s 360-point drop in…

“The New Age of Energy” trumpets the cover story in U.S. News and World Report this week. Illustrating the revolution is a photo of what looks like a carpenter’s level stuck in the ground after just arriving from outer space….

Wonderful news for conservatives! The Supreme Court last week instituted a school voucher system. Anyone who wants to go to private school can have it paid for by the state. Moreover — surprise of surprises — it was the liberal…

An era ended Monday night when Joe Torre’s Yankees went down to a hungry young Cleveland Indians club, making it the seventh year in a row the Yankees failed to win the World Series. Frankly, I’m not disappointed. The Torre…

Conservatives have resisted the notion that Iraq is “another Vietnam,” but in fact, as President Bush did two weeks ago, we should embrace the history of Vietnam as an example of how — and how not — to conduct a…

If you’re tracking the nuclear power revival in America, last Tuesday, September 25, was a milestone. For the first time since 1973, a new application for building a reactor was placed before the federal government. The applicant was NRG Energy,…

Last week New York City’s Con Edison brought to a conclusion one of the most bitterly fought technological debates of all time when it announced it would disconnect the last five customers in New York City receiving direct current electricity….

Republicans and Democrats are currently at loggerheads in the Senate over a bill to require the nation’s utilities to draw a fixed percentage of their electricity from so-called “renewable energy.” The Democratic bill, sponsored by Democratic Energy Committee Chairman Dave…

Americans don’t have much of a colonial experience. Otherwise we would recognize the war in Iraq for what it is — a colonial occupation. Whatever dreams we may have had of winning a War on Terror in Baghdad or turning…

The night we went out on a midnight raid of houses in Bayji, I made a big mistake. I forgot my camera. I had been catching a little sleep on one of the dozens of cots in the Bayji police…