Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Same-Sex Marriage Cases
The two decade long argument over same-sex marriage appears headed for its final legal showdown.
The two decade long argument over same-sex marriage appears headed for its final legal showdown.
New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.
The terror attack in Paris seems likely to undercut GOP efforts to use the DHS budget to attack the President’s immigration policies.
Shortly after the new year, we could know whether or not the Supreme Court will issue a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage by the end of June.
NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead while sitting in their patrol car In Brooklyn. And those suggesting that anyone other than the killer has “blood on their hands” are being absurd.
Not surprisingly, the F.C.C. has rejected a petition to ban the word “Redskins” from the airwaves.
The fate of Cuba policy in Congress is far from certain, but what is certain is that following through on President Obama’s historic and necessary changes will face resistance.
The Supreme Court says that police who have a “reasonable” misunderstanding of the law can still pull you over.
You’ve got your playoff College Football fans, as imperfect as it was inevitably going to be.
A crushing but expected defeat for a veteran Democrat.
Michael Brown’s stepfather made incendiary comments in the wake of the Grand Jury announcement, but they do not amount to a crime.
It’s an old story. Republican leadership wants to avoid a government shutdown, but the hard core conservatives want a fight, this time over the President’s immigration action. We have a week to see how it unfolds.
Once again, some people are upset because retailers are opening on Thanksgiving Day, but that’s only because people are coming out to shop.
Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?
Fresh off his third statewide win in four years, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker appears to be getting ready to run for President.
Based on the available evidence, there’s very little evidence that Voter ID laws had a significant impact on the midterm elections.
An adviser close to Hillary Clinton is talking about expanding the Electoral College map in 2016, but even without such an expansion the GOP faces an uphill battle.
Another round of election losses is leading Democrats to contemplate the direction they should take going forward.
The process that seems likely to lead to a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has begun.
Republicans don’t really have many options if the President pulls the trigger on immigration reform via executive action.
Much like the disease itself, Ebola panic seems to have disappeared as the midterm elections become ever more distant in the rear view mirror.
After the 2010 elections, several newly Republican state legislatures flirted with the idea of changing the way their state allocates Electoral Votes. The outcome of last weeks elections raises the possibility that this could happen again.
President Obama’s threat to take action on immigration if Congress doesn’t act by the end of the year ignores political reality,
Scott Walker argues that Governors tend to make the best Presidents. He’s largely correct, but he’s not the only Republican who fits that bill.
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.
The Republican wave extended even to Governor’s races that, in any other year, they should have lost.
The GOP added to its majority in the House, giving it the biggest majority it has had since Truman was President.
2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.
A Federal Judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Tea Party groups over the IRS targeting scandal.
Early voting is a still new idea in the United States, but one that has quickly spread to a majority of states. But, is it a good idea?
As usual, politicians and pundits are helping to create a climate of fear and concern about Ebola that is not justified by the facts.
America’s “Patient Zero” doesn’t appear to have spread Ebola very far, but continued vigilance is called for. And, we need to focus on the part of the world where there really is an Ebola Crisis.
Another pre-election stay ruling from the Supreme Court.