The old maxim that politics is the art of the possible is on full display a week removed from the 2014 midterm election. Both parties are feeling out the political landscape to see what they can advance...

Well, it’s finally here, Election Day 2014. The saddest, most meaningless election in years is almost, thankfully, over. The narrative is murky and confusing. Some have called it the “Seinfeld”...

I have to admit, I laughed when I saw the news Monday that state Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard had been indicted on 23 class B felony counts. Most of those charges revolved around questions of how...

“We live in the most narrow present, without a past or a future, in the midst of a flat calm.” That statement sounds like it could have been spoken by a number of figures in today’s culture. With...

If the Constitution contained a works cited page, it would refer to the writings of a core group of political philosophers upon which the writings the Founding Fathers based their entire system of beliefs....

Depending on who you ask, being the President of the United States of America is either the most or least coveted job in the entire world. The responsibilities the job entails are innumerable and the pressures...

Since joining Congress in 2011, Florida Rep. Allen West has been a relentless, outspoken, notoriously loud – often-lauded – mouthpiece for the radical base of today’s Republican Party. West regularly...

As the nation watched and waited, years of research, debate and speculation came to a head last month when the Supreme Court finally issued a ruling on National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB)...

Two weeks ago Obama used his power of executive mandate to pass into law a series of reforms covering the subject of immigration. These reforms grant de facto amnesty to immigrants who meet a number of...

Hope for true societal growth, economic prosperity and cultural progress seem to be goals long forgotten in Alabama, thwarted on a seemingly constant basis by hyper-partisan leaders with a levee on the...