Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S. Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they...

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the national party is that its platform didn't appeal to them. I was not surprised to see that same sentiment captured in a...

SOUTH CAROLINA: Experts work to ID remains of Revolutionary War soldiers found in woods: "This is the ultimate cold case" The Battle of Camden is mentioned in history books and even films like "The Patriot," but the precise location of much of the fighting remained...

Jury nullification is a fancy term for what it's called when juries — or, in this case, grand juries — say no. It doesn't happen very often, which is why you may have never heard of it. The old line is that a good prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham...

"You know," the late William F. Buckley Jr. once mused, "I've spent my life separating the right from the kooks." The conservative commentator was famously pugilistic, an ideological brawler, in fact, unrelentingly caustic, if eruditely so, about what he regarded as...