Rapper Lil Wayne said via Twitter Tuesday he meant no disrespect when he stomped on an American flag during a recent music-video shoot in New Orleans. "I didn't step on the flag on purpose!" Wayne tweeted. "It's a scene in a video where the flag drop ...

It doesn't matter whether the Republican-led House passes good, workable immigration legislation. The bill would have to go to a House-Senate conference committee, where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would almost certainly trash border enforcemen ...

GOP Golden Boy Chris Christie is going to run in 2016, and he might not even do so as a Republican. Seriously. So, will he challenge the highly beatable Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination? Maybe. But all signs point to the whalelike ...

The Santa Fe City Council is scheduled to weigh a proposal next week that would impose strict regulations on the number of bullets in gun magazines allowed in the city limits. Councilors Patti Bushee and Ron Trujillo and Mayor David Coss are backing ...

Our constitutional republic is under attack. It has been wounded by the rise of the national surveillance state. This is the real meaning of the explosive leaks from former intelligence employee Edward Snowden.The 29-year-old computer analyst is on t ...

Sometimes the only antidote for poison is more poison. The body politic just can't take it anymore and throws up everything. The result would suit the Democrats just fine. The Democrats pushing immigration reform want the issue, not the reform, and t ...

Though the Christmas season is half a year away, season's greetings were fresh on the lips of state legislators this week. Gov. Rick Perry signed into law Thursday a bipartisan bill that eliminates legal issues surrounding the verbal use of "Merry Ch ...

How would you feel as an ordinary passenger upon learning that top officers on the Titanic were thinking about grabbing the first lifeboat? Before many of the passengers even saw the iceberg? It's apparently happening, except that the Titanic, in thi ...

You might think a US Attorney General who has so much to investigate in his own backyard - e.g., the IRS targeting of conservatives, or Justice's own targeting of reporters as criminals - would be too busy or self-conscious to go after an enterprise ...

Please. Let's stop focusing on the overpaid, tormented young man who last week revealed the National Security Administration's Power Point Plan for Total Electronic World Domination. Let's focus instead on what our nation's wiretapping agency has act ...