If a nuclear war broke out on January 15, 2017, should President Obama just wait until the next president is inaugurated and let him make the policy decisions that would effect the very nature of the Republic for decades to come?

Of course not, and yet there is a strong movement calling for President Obama to wait until the next president to fill the SCOTUS vacancy left by Justice Scalia's departure.

All Americans should mourn the loss of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Whether one agreed with him or not (and I was usually one of the “nots”), he was a true giant: a brilliant jurist and a man of integrity who applied the law as he understood it and, in the process, changed the Supreme Court forever. And he died as he lived: with a great flair for drama and an irresistible urge to make things complicated.

Today, February 2, 2016, a United States Supreme Court justice appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 died at the age of 79, Antonin Scalia. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, issued a statement that confirmed the recent news where he praised him for his work in the Supreme Court.

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Democratic National Committee chair and Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz explained the motive behind the Democratic Party’s appointment of unpledged delegates, also called “superdelegates,” who are former party leaders and elected officials who are allowed to ignore the outcome of primary elections’ popular vote totals and instead vote for the presidential candidate of their personal choice at the party’s nominating convention.

Thanks to the millennials, Bernie Sanders has just beaten Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and continues to surprise both Democrats and Republicans across the nation. Many people struggle to understand how a 74-year-old white male has managed to lock in the votes of the young adult population.

I'll admit it, I'm bored with the Democratic debates. So bored, in fact, that I've been waiting until they are over to read the transcripts, something that can be done in one-tenth the time and without looking at the candidates.

The Federal Elections Commission released the latest data on who’s donating to presidential candidates, and with that data, new information on which candidates are taking money from Wall Street. Ted Cruz is leading other candidates in large donations from individual Wall Street investors, which was also true when Crowdpac investigated donors in September. After Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton has the largest donation from an individual Wall Street backer.

I am not a “numbers guy,” but from baseball to politics, numbers fascinate me.

Following the Iowa Caucuses, I wrote about the fact that the national media had OD'd on a state unworthy of their time, attention, and money.

The percentage of registered Republicans who voted for the GOP's 11 candidates was 17.6, while only 15.8 percent of registered Democrats voted for Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders.

I've taken an incredible ration of bad commentary over my half-dozen or so articles on the oil glut's impact on the economy.

But one constant remains, the economy as a whole is still not benefiting from the lower oil prices -- the stock market continues its slide, the Fed chair issues new warnings, and some speculators are even predicting $10 per barrel of oil.

Why has this glut continued for so long? Four reasons are keeping it alive and well -- and have placed oil producing nations in a position where they can't collude on production amounts to prop up prices.

The "money bomb," a term that took on new meaning during Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign when he raised over $4.2 million in 24 hours (Paul's biggest money bomb ended up being $6 million), is a short, online-driven political fundraising push that centers around a specific event or date. It has become a crucial component of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign arsenal.