Nebraska's CB plans are innovative and could be a model for other states to follow as they try and bring their budgets and pensions under control. Yet there are other, more transparent and taxpayer-friendly ways Nebraska could construct the pension system.

The history of Democratic competitiveness instatewide races gives Democrats hope in this Republican stronghold.

Republicans in many states are pursuing two avenues to tilt elections their way—changing the electoral college rules in the middle of the game and using laws and regulations to block likely Democratic voters from exercising their legitimate franchise. Both ploys demand new thinking to enhance our elections, not constrain them in partisan ways.

This book is a major study of the Spanish civil war as an issue in the domestic and foreign policies of the Spanish-speaking nations of the Western hemisphere.

The health care legislation going through Congress is not the most unpopular bill with such important ramifications to ever be passed by such a narrow majority; nor does passage of the bill mean that the health care issue will be settled once and for all.

Obama’s decision to block the building of the Keystone pipeline on the grounds that the Congress — in a bipartisan vote — didn’t give the bureaucrats enough time to study the issue is akin to Leslie Groves accepting that he couldn’t have his silver because he failed to ask for it in troy ounces.

The humanity of unborn babies will define the country's continuing abortion debate for the next several years.

At the recent GOP debate in Iowa, Gingrich defended his pro-life record, declaring, “I believe that life begins at conception” and stating that embryos at fertility clinics “should be considered life because by definition they’ve been conceived. I am against any kind of experimentation on embryos. And I think my position on life has been very clear and very consistent.” No, it hasn't.