A virtuoso performance -- that's the only way to describe Justice Antonin Scalia's majority
opinion in yesterday's DC v. Heller decision.

After all, here was a jurist whose entire career is supposedly based on scrupulous fidelity to the words of the Founding Fathers, and Scalia had to figure...

Torture is a powerful word. Take care when you bandy it about.

If as the New York Times reports, a 2005 Justice Department memo actually endorses "waterboarding" as an interrogation technique, then the memo deserves condemnation on that ground alone. But the other reported conclusions in the memo...

Even if Michael Vick gets the maximum sentence of five years in the Big House, many animal rights activists consider that a slap on the wrist for his role in torturing and killing dogs.

There's a solution: give Vick the OJ treatment.

As you'll remember, after OJ was acquitted...

I have no problem with Governor Schwarzenegger's controversial health care plan. But I do object to his language.

Health care doesn't come cheap, and Schwarzenegger's plan would be funded by a 4 percent payroll . . . what's the word? Tax. It's a 4 percent payroll tax. Except that...

Until a few days ago, terminally ill patients had a constitutional right to access potentially life saving drugs - even if those drugs have not yet been approved by the FDA.

On Tuesday (August 7), in the case of Abigail Alliance v. Eschenbach, the US Court of Appeals for...

Just when you think Congress can't sink any lower, they surprise you. This past Tuesday (July 31), the House passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which dangerously waters down the definition of employment discrimination.

This charming piece of legislation declares that an employer breaks the discrimination laws...