WASHINGTON -- Don't take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try.

The two big cases being ...

WASHINGTON -- Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn't make it right.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke with fiery eloquence about the cost of gun ...

WASHINGTON -- At first glance, last week's Conservative Political Action Conference looked like a hot mess. On closer inspection, it looked even worse.

Difficult though it might be, however, progressives should resist the urge to gloat. CPAC may ...

WASHINGTON -- They are impolite questions, but they must be asked: What did Jorge Mario Bergoglio know, and when did he know it, about Argentina's brutal "Dirty War" against suspected leftists in which thousands were tortured and killed? More ...

WASHINGTON -- If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.

You will recall that The Ryan ...

WASHINGTON -- Rand Paul was right. There, I said it.

The Republican senator from Kentucky, whom I've ridiculed as an archconservative kook -- because that's basically what he is -- was right to call attention to the growing use of drone aircraft ...