The administration’s terrible health care reform bill is now law. But the debate over how and whether the federal government should be involved in providing health care services is not over. It is not too late for America to correct its course and stop the march toward a government-run single-payer health care system.

Time and again, we've seen challenges to gun laws struck down because the plaintiffs were ruled to have lacked "standing," because they had not been charged with breaking the law in question--yet. To challenge a law, one must risk prosecution under it, if the challenge fails. Pretty slick way of bullying people out of challenging laws, eh?

California Republicans optimistic about their prospects in November could find themselves with a bit of a problem after the votes are counted in Tuesday's primaries a statewide ticket with the so-called Birther Queen as one of their candidates.

Will Bunch's take on the generation of people born between 1954 and 1965("Generation Jones"). Why careerism overtook idealism with this group, and if there is any chance for that idealism to come back before it's too late.

Who are the real victims of marijuana laws in America?

The lines appear to be blurring as the debate rages on.

In Alaska's Denali National Park, a hiker shot and killed a grizzly bear he claims was charging his companion. While the self-defense claim remains to be investigated, it is certainly plausible, and certain details lend the claim credence. If true, one or perhaps two human lives have almost certainly been saved by the rule change.

A CA man was arrested last week, for an allegedly threatening phone message to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's office. The man, Christopher Fox, was apparently incensed by some rather threatening remarks Daley made to a reporter. Fox also denies making any threats. Is Daley getting away with making threats for which "regular people" go to jail for?

The "open carry" movement is growing at a time when the federal courts have been looking more favorably on the rights of gun owners than on the authority of governments to restrict gun ownership. There are three federal lawsuits pending in Connecticut that challenge the way the state enforces gun laws...

You hear it often these days: "America is turning into a socialist country." Gasp! But in the marketplace of ideas, I'm not buying the notion that we're all about to become socialists. To judge just how "socialist" America is, consider some data supplied by Thomas F. Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.