As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.