Hillary Clinton won the final Super Tuesday of the 2016 primary season, thus officially sending us into what promises to be among the most contentious General Election battles in recent memory.
Bernie Sanders is continuing to let his supporters believe he has a chance to win the Democratic nomination. He is either delusional, or he is lying to his supporters.
Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.
The economy is booming. Except where it’s not.
A look at the history behind the ideology driving the standoff in Oregon.
The Supreme Court is now considering a case that deals with the problem of overly broad civil asset forfeiture laws and a Defendant’s right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment.
Ben Carson’s campaign now admits that he fabricated a key portion of his biography.
Forget about Congress, the real story going forward is likely to be Republican dominance of state legislatures nationwide.
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide, making California the fifth state to legalize the practice and possibly giving real political momentum to the Right To Die movement.
California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.
A new poll shows that nearly seven in ten Americans believe that people who are terminally ill should be allowed to end their lives with the help of a doctor.
Rand Paul held the Senate floor for nearly twelve hours yesterday to talk about the PATRIOT Act, but it’s unclear if he accomplished anything.
The largely conservative state of Nebraska seems to be on the verge of repealing its law authorizing capital punishment.
Tomorrow promises to be an historic day at the Supreme Court, but it’s been a long legal, political, and social battle.
By refusing to stay the legalization of same-sex marriage in Alabama, the Supreme Court has sent the strongest signal yet that it is ready to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
With no real opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has no reason to rush getting into the race.
Texas has joined with 16 other states in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the President’s executive action on immigration. At first glance, it doesn’t appear to have much legal merit.
Another round of election losses is leading Democrats to contemplate the direction they should take going forward.
Same-sex marriage advanced in Kansas and South Carolina yesterday, and will soon be law in Montana, but the Supreme Court is what matters now,
An unsurprising ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that only seems to bring closer the day when same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide.
2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.
Once again, reporters and pundits are arguing that Chris Christie’s “New Jersey style” won’t play well on the stump. I’m not so sure they’re right.
Things are looking good for the GOP to take over the Senate, but there are still several right races that could tip the balance one way or the other.
All of the major sports leagues are trying to stop New Jersey’s efforts to legalize sports gambling. They should not be allowed to succeed.
There’s at least a 50-50 chance we won’t know who controls the Senate until weeks after Election Day.
The Supreme Court’s expansion of same-sex marriage seems to be sitting well with the American public.
In the space of one week, we’ve gone from 19 states that recognize same-sex marriage to 29. Soon, it will be 35.
A 29 year old woman will end her life in less than a month. That should be her choice.
Two more states are added to the list, with another three likely not far behind.
The death of the Tea Party is greatly exaggerated.
Two weeks after it seemed to be tightening, there are signs the battle for control of the Senate may be moving in the GOP’s direction.
Republicans still have an advantage, but Democrats seem to be holding their own in the battle for Senate control.
One analyst thinks that the predictions of a Republican Senate in 2014 are wildly optimistic.
The GOP has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014, but it will be by a narrow margin.
My latest for RealClearDefense: “Senator Walsh’s Unrepresentative Black Mark on Professional Military Education”
Once again the GOP finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion.
A big step forward for the challenge to state-based bans on same-sex marriage.
Brian Schweitzer has a reputation for saying things that most politicians wouldn’t, but that may be just what he needs to get attention if he runs in 2016.
