Since 65 percent of the members in the California Assembly are Democratic, it’s easy to make the assumption that Democrats single-handedly run the show in Sacramento.

State registration favors the Democratic Party with 44 percent of voters registered with the party. And while Democratic lawmakers no longer hold a two-thirds supermajority in the Legislature, they still hold a strong majority in Sacramento.

Take a closer look, however, and it becomes apparent that there is a major shift occurring in California.

"They are trying to take the Bible out of our schools!"

While this might sound like a headline from any number of modern media outlets, this was a rallying cry of a series of riots that took place in Philadelphia in the summer of 1844.

A Just Solution, I propose an epistemological paradigm in which knowledge can take three forms: extra-rational knowledge, consensual knowledge, or observational knowledge. What is most significant is the degree to which each form of knowledge must be accepted ‘whether one likes it or not’— getting at universality.

2014 elections was dismal at best, and a recent Harvard poll revealed that only 35 percent of 18-29 year olds believe that running for elected office is an honorable thing to do.

released a budget of $889 million to fund the group's activities ahead of the 2016 presidential race.

an article suggesting that Vice President Joe Biden may have intentionally sabotaged independent Greg Orman's campaign in the Kansas U.S. Senate race by saying there was no doubt in his mind that Orman would caucus with Democrats.

League of Women Voters (LWV) has filed an amicus brief (friend of the court) in the U.S. Supreme Court case Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission.

Two Republican legislators are hoping to institute more transparency in the enactment of regulations, but are likely to run into resistance from the White House if the effort advances that far.

In Saudi Arabia this week, doctors advised that the next phase of the punishment of liberal blogger Raif Badawi be postponed until he has healed from the first. Badawi has been sentenced to ten years in prison, and 1,000 lashes, for openly advocating secularism on his blog “Free Saudi Liberals.” Badawi has received only 50 of those lashes so far, and it has already put his life in danger.