Who is Deb Fischer — whose "stunning come-from-behind performance" got her the GOP Senate nomination in Nebraska?

Politico reports: Fischer, a rancher and little-known state lawmaker, maintained a positive, above-the-fray tone while Bruning and state Tre...

"Tony Scalia's Retirement Has Started Early."

Says Charles P. Pierce on the Esquire website. Calling a man of Italian ancestry "Tony" when that isn't his nickname? Isn...

Which party will take the Senate in 2012?

Control of the Senate is crucial, perhaps more important than the Presidency. The NYT has assembled the information about the different race...

Anticipating the big game.

The fans are fortifying themselves with brats and beer: The merchants are purveying special T-shirts: This one made us laugh a lot: And in t...

"This is a clash of two historically hemp producing states... Both Nebraska and Wisconsin had thriving hemp industries."

When Football Saturday meets the Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival.

Nebraska backtracks from its "safe haven" law that had parent abandoning not just babies, but older kids.

You'll have to drop off the kid in its first 3 days. The government is happy to accept your cute little adoptable babies, but you'r...

What does Mickey Kaus have against "This American Life"?

When I was driving home from Austin two Saturdays ago, I listened to a lot of talk radio. I especially enjoyed the hours when "This Ame...

"The proceedings seemed more like a medical school seminar than an appellate argument."

Linda Greenhouse describes yesterday's oral argument in the abortion case. What exactly was the procedure that the law, the Partial-Bir...

Argument tomorrow in the "partial-birth" abortion case.

David Savage details the case. Excerpt: The replacement of O'Connor with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., a conservative and a Catholic, ha...

Reaching Utah.

I drove what seemed like all day. But it was only half as much as yesterday. Big mushroom-shaped thunderstorms loomed in the expanse of des...

1000 miles.

I drove today, getting the boring part of the drive behind me. I'm really too fried to write a blog post, but what is this blogging ente...

Supreme Court invalidates Guantanamo military commissions.

SCOTUSblog reports: The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Congress did not take away the Court's authority to rule on the military co...

"Several dozen students and faculty turned their backs and lifted signs saying 'Our commencement is not your platform.'"

John McCain gives a commencement address at the New School. Some 1,200 students and faculty had signed petitions asking the university pres...

"Obviously, from a party point of view we want to get in and do things, but I'm talking about the ideal political thing."

Adam Nagourney notes that winning Congress might not do the Democrats much good. [S]ome Democrats worry that the worst-case scenario may be...

The Court will consider the "partial-birth" abortion law.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case about the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, which makes it a crime to kill when ...

The abortion case fizzles.

The abortion case fizzles as the Court avoids the "undue burden" question and reverses because the lower court "chose the mo...

Senate Democrates have "rebuffed, rebuked and rejected" civil rights and women's groups opposed to Roberts and Alito.

Says AP's David Espo: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, chairman of the Senate Democrats...

"He's a home wrecker. He's trying to rip a father away from a child, and rip a husband away from a wife."

So says a 22-year-old man who married the 14-year-old girl he impregnated. He's being prosecuted for statutory rape. (To marry, they cr...

The new abortion case.

The Supreme Court has just taken up a new abortion case : Justices will review a lower court ruling that struck down such a law in New Hamps...

The reverse gender gap iceberg.

In an update to that last photo essay , I wrote: An emailer writes, "What, no lovers?" And I answer, "Actually, we were talki...