Sharron Angle now says that Harry Reid’s agenda isn’t just too liberal. It also violates the 1st Commandment against idolatry.

Are moves to get people to ride bikes a stealth campaign for a UN takeover? So says Colorado governor’s candidate Dan Maes.

The RNC has apparently just voted to do an internal investigation into the source of the near constant leaks from within Michael Steele’s Republican party HQ.

You may have heard that Missouri primary voters passed a proposition last night that purports to ban the federal health care reform mandate within Missouri. Only they’re not allowed to do that since federal law trumps state law. In effect, the law in question is just another approach to the court challenges a slew of Republican Attorneys General have already brought against Health Care Reform in recent months.

But are these challenges for real? Is there a real chance that the Supreme Court could step in and invalidate Health Care Reform? According to the last century or so of constitutional jurisprudence, the challenges simply don’t hold up. Health Care Reform is well within the Congress’s power to enact and federal law trumps state law. However … however, there are a few cases over the last twenty years or so which suggest some avenues by which the Courts might possibly take issue with Reform, via the Commerce Clause or the 10th amendment. I think most constitutional scholars and court-watchers would say not likely, but not impossible either. And given how far-right the current Supreme Court is, you never know. Here’s our look at the legal arguments and possibilities behind the challenges.

Sen. Grassley (R-IA) says he supports hearings into revising the 14th amendment to end birthright citizenship.

Pols of all stripes, the innocent and the guilty, set up legal defense funds to defend themselves against various charges of wrongdoing. But Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) has taken the perhaps unprecedented step of setting his legal defense fund as a 527 independent expenditure campaign committee.

Ensign has been embroiled in a shag and payoff scandal for more than a year.

Our Evan McMorris-Santoro was just over at the National Press Club for the Tea Party Express / We’re No Racists / Black conservatives event. And something interesting happened. (How could it not?) Headliner Alan Keyes got up and went after Republicans calling for revision of the 14th Amendment and an end to birth-right citizenship.

Perhaps it says something about where we are that I think it’s news that a black man might be skeptical about repealing the 14th Amendment. And, as you’d expect, Keyes argument — particularly his whack at Lindsey Graham — was rooted in a bunch of references to the Creator and Natural Law. But he’s definitely not on board on this one. And he spoke pretty powerfully — if perforce eccentrically — about not playing games with something as important as the 14th Amendment. See the video.

Speaker Pelosi calling Congress back into session for key jobs bill vote.

A federal judge in California has declared the state’s Proposition 8, outlawing same-sex marriage, unconstitutional.

We’re still making our way through the decision, but the overall tone isn’t a compromising or equivocal one. Here’s a sampling:

Because slaves were considered property of others at the time, they lacked the legal capacity to consent and were thus unable to marry.  After emancipation, former slaves viewed their ability to marry as one of the most important new rights they had gained.