One of the most intense partisan conflicts in Washington, D.C., during the Bush presidency has been the struggle over Senate confirmation of
June 2005 -- In the medical-marijuana case Gonzales v. Raich, the Supreme Court ruled (on June 6, 2005) six to three that federal laws
June 2005 issue -- Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s announcement of her retirement from the Supreme Court took by surprise most Court-watchers
I concur in the conclusion of the Scholars Commission: the allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children by his slave....
"The twentieth-century statesman whom the Thomas Jefferson of January 1793 would have admired most is Pol Pot," head of the totalitarian....
When forced to assume [self-government], we were novices in its science. Its principles and forms had entered little into our....