A Tea Party group in Missouri, reacting to the NAACP's plan to take up a resolution branding the conservative movement as "racist," has drafted a resolution of its own condemning the civil rights group for reducing itself to a "bigoted" and "partisan attack dog organization."

Democracies seem to be closely related to high GDPs.... with one huge exception: China.

Attorney General Eric Holder, just days after filing a federal lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law, on Sunday floated the possibility of filing another suit on racial profiling grounds.

Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday introduced what Chicago officials say is the strictest handgun ordinance in the United States. The measure, which draws from ordinances around the country, would ban gun shops in Chicago and prohibit gun owners from stepping outside their homes, even onto their porches or garages, with a handgun.

TPMDC asked three of the top Republicans on the Judiciary Committee which of Thurgood Marshall's opinions best exemplified his activism. And while two of the three were careful to praise Marshall the man, none of them could name a single case.

California law permits a gun owner to carry an unloaded weapon openly. The latest Supreme Court ruling suggests that the law will stay in place. A number of advocates of the law have taken to meeting and organizing themselves, to let other gun owners know of their rights.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) believes that a "political rebellion" akin to the American revolution of 1776 is brewing, that the Social Security retirement age should be raised to 70, and that the Wall Street reform bill currently moving through Congress is comparable to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon."

The Church of Scientology in Australia has compared itself to The Salvation Army, while defending its benefit to the community in a Senate inquiry.

In another dramatic victory for firearm owners, the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional Chicago's 28-year-old strict ban on handgun ownership, a potentially far-reaching case over the ability of state and local governments to enforce limits on weapons.

A senior Israeli diplomat has warned that the Jewish state's relationship with the United States has suffered a "tectonic rift".