Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), who is not running for re-election, says his views on gay marriage have “evolved sufficiently” to support the idea, leaving just two Democratic senators opposed to gay marriage. A third, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, is in the awkward position of being “undecided.”

We’ve almost reached a point at which it’s not news when Harry Reid threatens in frustration to revisit filibuster reform.

But his latest and most full-throated warning emphasizes an important and poorly understood fact about nature of the “nuclear option.” Read More

A new poll shows that most Americans believe current gun laws are much stricter than they actually are.