America is nearing a decisive moment.  Unless Congress acts to change current law, automatic sequestration cuts will slash future spending on national defense across-the-board by over $500 billion beginning early next year.

The joint statement released by the Defending Defense Coalition details the devastating impact that the upcoming automatic sequestration would have on the U.S. military and the consequent need for the House of Representatives to pass the reconciliation bill in order to defend national security strategy.

What I find most fascinating about the debate over corporate personhood is the fact that the people who defend corporate personhood don't anthropomorphize big business nearly as much as those who oppose it.

The world is becoming increasingly scary at the very time that the military will be facing 20% reductions. With each passing day, the world closes in; with each passing day, our ability to manage that world degrades.

"We're not going to lose in New Hampshire." So says Mitt Romney's state coordinator Jason McBride. Whether that confidence is well founded may determine the fate of the candidate who has been the on-and-off front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Even though President Barack Obama will certainly nominate a liberal to the Supreme Court, he could still nominate a jurist who believes in judicial restraint, unlike Justice John Paul Stevens.

President Obama's focus on Supreme Court nominees that have empathy for the little guy amounts to nothing more than state-sanctioned prejudice, violating the ideal of impartial justice.

Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 regulates the ability of mutual funds to use their own assets to pay for the distribution of their shares. The rule is controversial, on the one hand, because 12b-1 fees, as they are called, can be seen as a benefit to...