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Littwin: If tolerance is the issue in the Masterpiece case, how...

A man and a woman walk into a bakery and ask the baker to make them a wedding cake. The baker asks the couple if...

Wiretap: All but lost amid the ugliness is the very American...

All but lost in the controversy over Donald Trump and John Kelly and Frederica Wilson and who got what part of the story right...

Buck and Norton vie for voter trust in first face off

COLORADO SPRINGS-- GOP U.S. Senate candidates Ken Buck and Jane Norton went head to head Tuesday night here after weeks of heated and sometimes ugly primary campaigning. The event drew roughly 400 conservative and tea party activists. The crowd hooted and hollered throughout the debate, cheering on the anti-Washington anti-government sentiments expressed by the candidates on stage.

Kagan hearing Marshall bashers can’t name one ‘activist’ ruling

TPM reports Tuesday that the three top Judiciary Committee Republicans who have been attacking Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as an activist judge...

Lunchtime links: Colorado anti-Obamacare initiative struggling

Independence Institute President Jon Caldara's "anti-Obamacare " initiative, which aims to exempt Coloradans from the paying into the plan, is limping along, with only...

Obama nominee Kagan has embraced expanded executive authority

Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be President Obama’s second Supreme Court nominee. The emerging conventional wisdom is that Kagan, a rare nominee for the high court who hasn’t been a judge, is a very smart blank slate. On at least one category of issues that Kagan will face — the intersection of national security and law during a time of war — that conventional wisdom looks correct. But there’s a proxy for that set of issues, however inexact, that offers a few clues in advance of her confirmation hearings: Kagan’s deference to executive power.