The results of the 2014 midterms should teach us some lessons about how to handle and evaluate polling.
The Republican wave extended even to Governor’s races that, in any other year, they should have lost.
New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.
Yahoo has given a click-bait headline to a Reuters report, “Obama makes rare campaign trail appearance, people leave early.”
The Roberts court has been very good on First Amendment issues, but it needs to address the First Amendment issue right outside its front windows.
The security lapses at the Secret Service just continue to mount.
After success in Scotland, it may be time to consider allowing at least some teenagers to vote.
After 200 years, Francis Scott Key’s most famous work may have outlived its usefulness..
The Army brass is worried about its diversity in critical mid-level posts.
The firing actually hurts Janay Rice much more than it does Ray.
In a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, a Federal Judge has struck down D.C.’s law barring people from carrying handguns in public.
Hobby Lobby Is an important decision, but it’s one that the Supreme Court handed down a week earlier that will have the widest impact.
House Republicans go to war against marijuana in the District of Columbia
Should the police be able to track you without a warrant? One Federal Appeals Court says no.
Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.
A victory for Federalism and sanity in the War On Drugs.
Is support for marriage equality now an issue that can benefit Democrats at the polls?
Allen West seems to think that God might want him to run for President. Unfortunately for Mr. West, so does Ben Carson.
The Mason-Dixon Line says it starts in Maryland, but that no longer seems to be the case.
Contrary to popular belief, eyewitness testimony is often quite unreliable.
Market Watch presents this infographic of “the most and least expensive states to live in the U.S.
Yesterday the Supreme Court greatly expanded the circumstances under which police can rely on anonymous tips.
Wisconsin recently became the third state to criminalize revenge porn. Why is it still legal in the other 47?
Despite the fact that she asserted her right against self-incrimination, a House Committee has voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify.
The Democratic field for 2016 is frozen in place waiting for the presumptive frontrunner to make a decision.
Another Circuit Court finds that the Second Amendment protects a right to carry a weapon in public.
The string of victories for same-sex marriage continues as a Federal Judge rules that the Commonwealth of Kentucky must recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages.
Another victory for marriage equality. This time from the state that gave us the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on interracial marriage.
Republican leaders continue to say stupid things. They may still retake the Senate in November.
After eight years in a coma, Ariel Sharon has passed away.
.Many have tried to justify N.S.A. data mining on the theory that it could have prevented 9/11. Is that true?
The year that will soon ended will go down in history as the year that the same-sex marriage debate changed forever.
Another Federal District Court ruling on the Constitutionality of the NSA’s data mining program, this time more favorable to the NSA.
A limited ruling out of Ohio with wide ranging implications.
No person has been elected Senator in a second state after serving as Senator in another, but Scott Brown seems set to give it a try.