What is the state of the GOP at the dawn of the Obama era? The GOP has not quite ebbed to New Deal or post-1964 Democratic landslide levels, but it has certainly reached its lowest point since the comeback congressional cycle of 1966. Obama's 53 percent national popular vote share is the highest for a Democrat since 1964.

Despite enforcement on both sides of the Southwest border, the Mexican marijuana trade is more robust than ever, law enforcement officials say.

More tax avoidance and Democratic Party standards. As this WSJ editorial says, if Daschle were a Reagan or Bush appointee he'd already be dead meat.

Now that Bush is gone, perhaps we can honestly face the damage we have wrought and the responsibilities we must accept from it. We are now able to estimate the number of Iraqis who have died in the war instigated by the Bush administration. Looking at the empirical evidence of Bush's war legacy will put his claims of victory in perspective.

"A WOMAN has been sacked and told to get out of her company house just weeks after saving the life of one of her bosses."

When Kevin Raley started helping to organize poker tournaments, he never thought he'd face charges of illegal gambling. Under CO law, illegal gambling is "contingent...upon lot, chance,...but does not include bona fide contests of skill." The national Poker Players Alliance helped Raley prove to the court that poker is a game of skill, not chance.

"We hope that by the end of the week we will have some initial results for you," said Qassim al-Abodi, the chief electoral officer for the Independent High Electoral Commission of Iraq (IHEC). "In two to three weeks, we will have the final, ratified results, we hope.

Abraham Lincoln turns 200 this month. Here is where we find the Lincoln who endures: in the words he left us, defining the country we've inherited. Here is the Lincoln who can be endlessly renewed and who, 200 years after his birth, retains the power to renew us....

Acting on a mistaken drug trafficking suspicion, a SWAT team broke down the door of the town mayor and his wife, shot beloved pets and shattered a happy home. Was it an extreme reaction, or business as usual in America's war on drugs?