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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence thought he was doing something politically smart when he signed Indiana's religious freedom law. He wasn't. 

Rubio faces candidates who are already better known and likely to be better funded. His support for immigration reform could hurt him in early primary states like Iowa and South Carolina. He has little room for error. 

Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is likely to take over as the Senate's top Democrat when Sen. Harry Reid retires in 2016, has his own particular brand of rhetoric.

A group of Hillary-philes has told the media not to use certain words when describing Clinton, including 'disingenuous.' But that's a handy word for a Beltway set that shies away from calling people 'liars.'

Ted Cruz is a first-term Senator with no executive experience, kind of like Barack Obama was in 2008. That inexperience has hurt Obama. It would likely hurt Cruz, too.

Sen. Ted Cruz if the first major candidate to announce he's running for president in 2016. Yet the media is already exhaustively covering the election as a horse race.

Gov. Jerry Brown has brought morality into the debate over immigration reform and climate change. Jerry Falwell did something similar in the 1980s. The results weren't good.

The teeth of a congressional budget resolution is not in its policy. It's in the processes it establishes for legislation for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Despite a furor over her use of private e-mail for official business, poll show Clinton with massive leads in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and in hypothetical general election matchups. 

While more states are considering exempting military pensions from state income taxes, that only applies to veterans who are drawing pensions. Moreover, the exemption applied to military pensions is generally also offered to other pensions.

Oregon on Monday became the first state to automatically register voters. The move 'puts the burden of registration on the state instead of voters,' says Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat.

But the term 'wag the dog' isn't limited to an Israeli prime minister facing a tough election. It's also been invoked, recently, to describe Iowa's 2016 biofuel politics and Vladimir Putin's surprise disappearance. 

It's early in the race. Yet candidates loaded with negatives, such with Chris Christie, are already viewed as no longer viable. Others are scrambling to just get into the conversation. 

Not only are members of Congress permitted to engage foreign entities as much as they please, but they’re absolutely entitled to 'undermine' foreign policy strategies with which they disagree.

As a public institution, the University of Oklahoma is bound by the Constitution as much as any other entity run by the state, and that means that it can’t punish people solely based on the content of their speech.

Because New York had two successful mayors in a row, the city hasn’t had to make the painful choices that face Chicago. Unfortunately for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, he has had to make those tough choices. 

Clinton's response to questions on her use of a private e-mail account for official State Department business doesn't answer concerns about hacking or whether she used this account to communicate with representatives of foreign nations.

In politics, 'breathtaking'  isn't necessarily a good thing. It's often deployed to connote wrongheaded actions on an epic scale, especially when invoked by Republicans.

The Clintons have been remarkably good at riding out scandals, real and otherwise, and turning them into 'old news.' But Hillary Clinton lacks something that her husband does not: likability. 

The schools of education not only have a poor academic reputation but emphasize rote memorization and conformity to the orthodoxy. That’s not a recipe for attracting our brightest minds.