When Transportation Security Administration agents spotted three small knives in a passenger’s carry-on bag at Honolulu International Airport in January, they sent him back to check them. On his second trip through the scanners, they found the knives again — not-so-cleverly concealed inside a thermos. Nice try.

Dennis Rodman, the controversial former NBA star with Oklahoma ties, has never been easy to like, but it never really mattered to him anyway. He has now added to his list of outrageous antics.

Mother Nature made the point the Obama administration chose to ignore two years ago as it was processing an application by Shell Oil to proceed with oil and gas development in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

To hear President Barack Obama tell it, we should begin feeling something like the apocalypse.

The stock market, in normal times a reliable proxy for an economy’s health, reached record levels last week. And why not? Corporate profits are higher than ever. The housing market is springing back. Auto sales are on pace for the best year since 2007.

You don’t have to cut corners to lower health care costs.

What if Maine could build a power plant that produced electricity at quarter of the rate home customers now pay?

It used to be a simple division of labor. Schools taught the basics and employers trained their workers. Like many aspects of our economy, however, things aren’t so simple anymore.

Japanese government has cited the eating of whales as justification for killing them, just months before the International Court of Justice in The Hague hears Australia’s challenge to Tokyo’s “scientific” whaling program.

The people’s right to know is an essential ingredient in a democracy. If people don’t know what their government is up to, they cannot make informed judgments in the voting booth.