Now that someone with mental illness has shot one of Washington’s own, maybe Congress will start to pay attention to its abysmal failure to provide care for the most seriously mentally-ill Americans. We’ll see. Lawmakers took a brief lunge in that direction after mentally-ill John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan in …

Few baseball fans ever look at the back of their tickets to read the warning there –cast in legal terms—that the ticket holder is assuming the risks of injury or worse involved in attending the game. The tragic death recently of a young father who fell out of the stands …

You don’t have to steal money to be a corrupt politician. Rather, you can take tribute from the constituencies over which you watch, you can distort your record and you can use your position to illicitly help out your friends. In his Congressional career, not-so-straight shooter Barney Frank has scored …

As the House prepares to launch on Thursday a rare, public ethics inquiry into alleged misdeeds by New York Rep. Charlie Rangel, it is clear that Rangel remains defiant. He is fighting the House Ethics Committee tooth and nail, claiming that he wants to “make certain, before this election, people …

Today, a federal court rightly struck down as unconstitutional Obamacare’s individual mandate. But this decision is only half right. It also shows that if Congress won’t repeal this law entirely, then tinkering with it might doom our chances in court of having this whole monstrosity thrown out. Judge Henry Hudson …

As seen on Fox News Channel on December 25. I woke up in the middle of the night not feeling well and as I looked out into the snow packed street of Manhattan from my bedroom window; I decided that it was not only going to be the worst Christmas …

Today, voters in 11 states head to the polls for primaries. But the race to watch is in Nevada. Who will win the Republican nomination to oppose Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R-N.V.) in November? In recent weeks, proven conservative Sharron Angle, endorsed by the Nevada Tea Party, the Club …

With Donald Trump and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver now urging developers to move the Ground Zero mosque, the New Majority movement continues to pick up broad support. From Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin to Howard Dean and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, top Republicans and Democrats are united in a …

“I am not a…” Go ahead. Fill in the blank. More and more Americans are doing it. Christine O’Donnell, the underdog-Tea-Partying-Republican candidate for Delaware’s Senate seat, may have propelled herself into an instant political icon by proclaiming that she is not a witch (adding with self-evident overkill that she lacks …

“It was a year ago today that 12 soldiers and one civilian died in a shooting rampage [allegedly] carried out by U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan on the Ft Hood military base in Texas.” I was reading through media coverage over the past couple days on the anniversary …