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Guest AuthorFebruary 17, 2016

The passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 3, has created an opportunity for both the executive and legislative branches to work together. If they can’t, American politics will face a crisis of enormous magnitude. That is how serious the situation has become. Whether liberal or conservative, most agree that Scalia was a […]

Martin DyckmanFebruary 17, 2016

Mitch McConnell couldn’t even wait until Justice Antonin Scalia‘s corpse was cold before exploiting his death for partisan politics. The oleaginous majority leader means to keep the seat empty, no matter the likelihood of that paralyzing the sharply divided Supreme Court for a year, on the chance that voters might elect a Republican president to […]

Martin DyckmanFebruary 16, 2016

Mitch McConnell couldn’t even wait until Justice Antonin Scalia’s corpse was cold before exploiting his death for partisan politics. The oleaginous majority leader means to keep the seat empty, no matter the likelihood of that paralyzing the sharply divided Supreme Court for a year, on the chance that voters might elect a Republican president to […]

Darryl PaulsonFebruary 16, 2016

The passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 3, has created an opportunity for both the executive and legislative branches to work together. If they can’t, American politics will face a crisis of enormous magnitude. That is how serious the situation has become. Whether liberal or conservative, most agree that Scalia was a […]

Phil AmmannFebruary 16, 2016

The Florida Senate Health Policy Committee today will decide Dr. John Armstrong’s fate as a group of bipartisan senators confront Florida’s surgeon general with tough questions that include his absent leadership on HIV/AIDS. Florida leads the nation with the highest rate of new HIV infections. Like that of President Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy of refusing […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 15, 2016

There are some things that are quintessentially American. A bowl of poutine, while listening to Leonard Cohen or Glass Tiger, or while watching Hockey Night in Canada. What’s that you say? Those things are Canadian? Yes. And so, apparently, are key images in the new “Morning Again in America” ad from Marco Rubio. Shots throughout the […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 15, 2016

It’s Presidents Day again, a day when the schools and banks are closed, the local, state and federal bureaucracies leave us alone, and everyone else is busy working to pay for it all. The holiday goes back as far as 1879 and was originally intended to honor George Washington. This was later amended to include […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 14, 2016

It’s Presidents’ Day again, a day when the schools and banks are closed, the local, state and federal bureaucracies leave us alone, and everyone else is busy working to pay for it all. The holiday goes back as far as 1879 and was originally intended to honor George Washington. This was later amended to include […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 14, 2016

Marco Rubio was on Fox News Sunday, with Rubio in the A Block. He then went on to do ABC’s This Week and CBS’ Face the Nation. Rubio talked the post-Scalia era, Donald Trump, and the pattern of deceit from Ted Cruz on the Sunday shows, as well as addressing his strategy in light of 3rd and […]

Associated PressFebruary 13, 2016

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia kept your attention, whether you liked him or not. He was a big personality who rather enjoyed the spotlight, and he did not often shy from controversy. Scalia deeply influenced a generation of conservative legal thinkers and was a lightning rod for criticism from the left almost from the moment […]

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Darryl Paulson: The Antonin Scalia battle: The stakes have seldom been as high

Martin Dyckman: Refusing to approve Obama nominee could hurt the Party of No in November

Martin Dyckman: Refusing to approve Obama nominee could hurt the Party of No in November

Darryl Paulson: The Antonin Scalia battle: The stakes have seldom been as high

Michael Emanuel Rajner: Senate must reject Dr. John Armstrong, demand leadership on HIV/AIDS

Buzzfeed: Marco Rubio’s “Morning Again in America” ad uses Canadian stock footage

Tim Bryce: Presidents Day — Could they be elected today?

Tim Bryce: Presidents' Day – Could they be elected today?

Marco Rubio makes the Sunday show rounds

Justice Antonin Scalia kept your attention, whether you liked him or not