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The generational changes that helped widen public acceptance of same-sex marriage are affecting Republicans, too. So is the deepening consensus that the debate on same-sex marriage is essentially over.

Democrats aren't allowing a Senate debate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, but it's the Republicans who are likely to get blamed, if the result is a shutdown.

Some Republicans want Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to change the rules of the Senate, so their  DHS funding bill can pass, averting a government shutdown. But McConnell can’t go nuclear the filibuster alone. 

Ultimately, the Supreme Court has emphasized that the federal government has broad discretion in the area of immigration that preempts the powers of the states.

What Brian Williams recounted in his Iraq story was based on actual events, but his misleading coverage of Katrina actually had an impact on how we viewed that tragic event in American history.

House Speaker John Boehner won Internet fame – or infamy, depending on your perspective – for appearing to silently 'throw shade' against President Obama during last month’s State of the Union address.

But don't expect the termination of the filibuster to solve polarization. With no right to filibuster, minority parties will be more isolated; and the Senate, more partisan. 

There is no difference between what Chief Justice Roy Moore is advocating and what Gov. George Wallace did in 1963 when stood in a doorway to block integration at the University of Alabama. The federal courts, then as now, will prevail.

Democrats need to proceed carefully here because a full-on boycott of Netanyahu’s speech risks alienating an important constituency group in the Democratic Party.

Congress is ineffective by design and has been rendered much more so by the imposition of a parliamentary style of lockstep partisan voting upon a system that’s supposed to force cross-cutting compromise.

If you ask anybody in Congress, in either party, how much interaction the president and his team has had with them or their legislative staff, and they will tell you none.

Next question: Why didn’t Mitt run? At this point, I don’t know. I suspect no one else except Mitt himself does either. But that’s not going to stop many pundits from saying, 'I told you so.'

Amid all the punditry about candidates who are absolutely certain to lose, just remember the similar comments about nearly everyone who has gone on to win.

Update: He's out!

It’s hard to see how Prime Minister Netanyahu is helping the long-term interests of his country by becoming involved so openly in a partisan political dispute in Washington.

Democrats are eager to downplay the idea that the 2016 primary race will basically end up being a coronation for Hillary Clinton, but that’s exactly what it’s shaping up to be. And as long as it is, she can afford to wait.

'I'm focused on' is one of those maxims that’s difficult for anyone beyond a politician’s inner circle to disprove. And it helps demonstrate said politician’s devotion to his or her current duties. Ask Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Gov. Mike Pence is about to launch an agency to send out administration press releases and craft 'features' for private news media. It might help a presidential run, but it's not so clear how this is a proper function of government.

The Army is denying that a final determination has been made in Bergdahl's case, but NBC is sticking with its story. After five years in Taliban captivity, there seems to be little reason to punish Bergdahl more severely.