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Fan(s)™ of my Platinum Coin series surely knew where I stood on the latest challenge to Obamacare, King v. Burwell , which challenged wheth...

UPDATE: DSK acquitted. ORIGINAL POST (3/6/2012): Dominque Strauss-Kahn has been charged with "aggravated pimping" in France...

A few days ago, I wrote a post about how the Nebraska Legislature banned the death penalty despite the fact that Nebraska's governor op...

Yesterday, Judge Richard G. Kopf expressed his puzzlement that President Obama has not formally nominated anyone to fill the judicial vacan...

Back in 2012, we ran a series of posts about Republicans candidates who were running for the GOP presidential nomination that had no shot a...

Yesterday, I wrote about how the Nebraska Legislature overrode a veto of a bill banning the death penalty . I assumed that the veto overrid...

Before yesterday, the last six states to ban the death penalty were New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Illinois, Connecticut and Maryland. On...

So says the headline to this New York Times article.  The headline suggests that the prior to today the Supreme Court was not divided. Som...

Slate has an article today entitled " New Hampshire Legislators Kill Fourth Graders' Bill, Dreams In Front of Them ."  The sto...

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma was shut down this week after a video of members of the fraternity chanting ra...