There may or may not be something to the "crony capitalism" charges against Rick Perry. But conservatives should pause before taking the word of a secretive, left-wing, Soros-funded organization that has spent the last 15 years attacking conservative politicians who work to rein in trial lawyers and institute pro-business reforms.

In a federal republic, in which none of the GOP candidates on the stage at the Tea Party/CNN debate are currently members of the Senate, and the only two members of the House are backbenchers who often cast lonely votes in dissent, where the candidates come from and what they have had to or have chosen to do makes a significant difference, and becomes a target for opponents.

Herman Cain still has significant liabilities as a candidate and could make a disqualifying mistake any time. But he's beginning to look like a contender.

Steady advances in technology are decoupling fossil-fuel energy and air pollution.

With all the fall-out over Dick Cheney accidentally peppering his friend with birdshot, few will probably ever hear that hunting with guns is not a particularly dangerous sport.

While Congress has failed to enact meaningful tort reform in the last four years, individual states have passed a surprising number of reforms. Even states containing the so-called "hellhole jurisdictions" like Texas, Mississippi, and Ohio are moving to curb the tort explosion. What has happened exactly? What are these states...

As a Pew survey confirmed this month, public opinion on abortion has barely budged over the pastthirty years.