Indiana Governor Mike Pence is supposed to be a champion of limited government. So why is he starting up a state run news agency?

The head of Blackberry thinks he can save his company by getting the government to force others to make content for Blackberry phones

For some reason, Republicans want to change filibuster rules even though it’s unclear that they’ll still hold the Senate after 2016.

Advantage: Hillary.

A big change in an important nation in the most volatile part of the world.

The House was set to vote on a ban on abortion after 20 weeks that never would have become law today but they pulled the bill. Conservatives are annoyed, but it was smart politics in the long run.

Not surprisingly, the Federal investigation of the Michael Brown shooting is ending much like the state investigation did.

A new Patriots cheating scandal, or much ado about nothing?

The State Of The Union Address was more of the same, and the same will be true of Washington going forward.

There’s really no point in watching tonight’s speech.

The Tea Party may be the most vocal wing of the GOP but most Republicans seems to favor candidates that aren’t quite so right wing.

The Republican National Committee is trying to bring some sanity to the Presidential debate process, but there’s no guarantee it can succeed.

The two decade long argument over same-sex marriage appears headed for its final legal showdown.

Even with a House and Senate majority, the GOP is unlikely to get what it wants in its current immigration battle with the President.

A former Democratic state legislator in Virginia was re-elected last night despite the fact that he’s in jail.

Elizabeth Warren said once again that she’s not running for President, now or in the future. That’s not going to stop the efforts to draft her, though.

The price of oil is continuing to fall, but it won’t last forever.

Some are criticizing the President for not going to Paris for yesterday’s rally.

President Obama’s decision on Keystone XL is apparently to delay things long enough so he doesn’t have to decide at all.

West Virginia’s Joe Manchin is reportedly mulling leaving the Senate to run once again for a job where he’d have the ability to actually accomplish something.

He’s tan. He’s rested. And, apparently, he’s ready. Mitt Romney seems very interested in 2016 all of a sudden.

The men responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre are dead, but the problems for France, and the rest of Europe, may just be at the beginning.

New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.

December’s jobs growth numbers were very good, but the numbers below the headlines show that there’s still work to be done.

The terror attack in Paris seems likely to undercut GOP efforts to use the DHS budget to attack the President’s immigration policies.

Just one day into the new Congress, the first confrontation is already set.

Some will say two years isn’t long enough, but under the circumstances it seems appropriate.

In the end, the Tea Party challenge to John Boehner was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Over the weekend, Mike Huckabee took another step that suggests that he is indeed planning on running for President in 2016.

Several Tea Party backed Members of Congress claim to be challenging John Boehner in tomorrow’s vote for Speaker. They are, of course, delusional.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

An entirely unsurprising decision from Federal Prosecutors in Washington, D.C.

A man best known, perhaps, for what he didn’t do, has passed away

A Federal Judge has dismissed the first lawsuit filed against President Obama’s immigration “executive action.”

The news cycle in 2014 seemed to be dominated by a series of real and phony “crises” that grabbed our attention for short periods of time.

A break from politics (for one day at least)

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.