What does he really stand for and is he fully equipped to bear the slings and arrows of his enemies on a national and global scale? Yes, he fought Big Labor and has managed his state well. But grass-roots activists in his state have long been warning me of his ideological gymnastics on core issues: immigration and education. He has been on the same side as the progressive Left and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Right: pro-amnesty, pro-massive legal immigration expansionist, and pro-Common Core. He’s been left, right, center, and all over the map.

“The D.C. consultant class and Capitol Hill GOP operators are adept at swooping in to ‘rescue’ the campaigns of neophytes and molding them into Beltway barnacle tools,” Malkin said. “They did it with Spencer Abraham and Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan. Face it: Many of the D.C. messaging ‘experts’ and ‘communicators’ DO have their own policy agenda and it is naive or stupid to believe they have no sway or influence on ambitious, outside the Beltway seekers of higher public office with no fixed principles.”

It’s very significant and it actually underscores the importance of Iowa because the way that these knuckleheads [candidates] make a decision who is going to be a part of their campaign to become arguably one of the most powerful people in the world are the kinds of low quality and high quality decision that they make about who they hire and it’s very indicative of the kind of skills or lack thereof they will use in assembling a cabinet as president of the United States. Anyone that minimizes the importance of making these kinds of decisions and who they align themselves with, and who they’re going to sit down and take council from—and in this case, she was going to be a ‘spokesperson’ for the campaign—is really something everyone should be paying attention to. If I were to sum it up in one word, I would say this was “amateurish.” He’s giving off a Tim Pawlenty vibe right now.

William Sullivan, 56, shuffled forward a foot at a time, feeling around for soft spots as he tried to avoid the slick areas that would take him down. He made it, that time. His 84-year-old neighbor was not so lucky; he fell last month going to the corner bodega for coffee, and he still has back pain.

In the city, where walking is a way of life, keeping sidewalks clear in the winter is not merely a neighborly courtesy, it is also required under the law.

The Sanitation Department has issued more than 10,000 tickets this winter and more than 42,000 tickets since 2010, according to a New York Times analysis of city data. In total, those tickets carried fines of nearly $8.5 million (excluding a small percentage of tickets that were successfully challenged), of which just $2.6 million has been paid so far.

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he United States military does not currently have the ability to fight two major wars simultaneously, according to a new report, a significant reduction from the capacity enjoyed by defense officials for decades. 

That strategy enables the U.S. military to defeat one adversary in a conflict while preventing another aggressor—seeking to take advantage of the United States’ preoccupation with the first conflict—from defeating it in a separate theater. 

Washington lawyer Michael A. Carvin will be back at the Supreme Court on Wednesday for the second great battle over the Affordable Care Act

since the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in 2012 to uphold the constitutionality of the measure, devastating those who wanted the justices to strike down the nearly 1,000-page law in its entirety.

“The thing’s working. And there’s in our view not a plausible legal basis for striking it down,” he said. “But, you know, we’ll have to wait and see what the Supreme Court decides.”

Before his election to Alabama’s highest court, Parker had been an aide-de-camp to Chief Justice Roy Moore, whose installation of a granite Ten Commandments monument in the state judiciary building had touched off what became for Alabama both a considerable embarrassment and a genuine constitutional crisis.

A DVD of the session shows him gripping the lectern, dressed in a gray suit and blue tie, as he railed against the perceived sins of jurists at every level. “It’s the judges who have legalized abortion and homosexuality … They are shaking the very foundation of our society.”

Parker has been the most creative in his relentless campaign to undermine legal abortion.

Our citizens want to live in peace, but each year many thousands of them become the victims of violence.

Identifying violence as a public health issue is a relatively new idea.

To be sure, those agents of public safety and justice have served us well. But when we ask them to concentrate more on the prevention of violence and to provide additional services for victims, we may begin to burden the criminal justice system beyond reason.