Romney 2016 is for real  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL 2016 ELECTIONS MITT ROMNEY  —  Is Mitt Romney, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination and lost in 2008, ran again and won the nomination but lost the general election in 2012, really thinking about running yet again for president in 2016?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Levels With Us on Why She's Not Retiring  —  No, she doesn't think she's immortal.  She knows that Obama couldn't get a liberal on the Court.  So she's toughing it out for now.  —  There's a phrase judges use in an opinion that any lawyer instantly recognizes as a sure sign …

Obama's Iraq Is Not Bush's Iraq  —  The war against ISIS may fail.  But morally, it's the opposite of Bush's war, and if it succeeds, it will do so for precisely that reason.  —  Last week, a Politico reporter phoned me to ascertain my thoughts on the new war.

ESPN Statement on Bill Simmons  —  “Every employee must be accountable to ESPN and those engaged in our editorial operations must also operate within ESPN's journalistic standards.  We have worked hard to ensure that our recent NFL coverage has met that criteria.

Iraq looms large again for Hillary Clinton as she weighs another White House bid  —  When Hillary Rodham Clinton sat down on a Manhattan stage with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, the planned topic for discussion was babies' brains and how to improve infant development around the globe.

Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, alarming First Amendment advocates  —  The U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country's wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting …

VIDEO RELEASED: SC trooper charged with felony in shooting at traffic stop over seat belt violation  —  COLUMBIA, SC — An S.C. trooper who stopped a man for a seat belt violation outside Columbia and then shot him - apparently without provocation - was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault …

How DC's conservative elite view liberals  —  What do conservatives think of liberals today?  —  Here's the view from the Heritage Foundation: Liberalism creates self-indulgent, licentious hedonists willing to cede every other kind of freedom to an increasingly authoritarian government.

Liberia: Dead Ebola Patients Resurrect?  —  Two Ebola patients, who died of the virus in separate communities in Nimba County have reportedly resurrected in the county.  The victims, both females, believed to be in their 60s and 40s respectively, died of the Ebola virus recently …

Federal Court Lifts Injunction In Walker Investigation  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a lower court's ruling halting an investigation into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and more than two dozen conservative groups for alleged illegal campaign activity.

Family Says Louisiana Deputy Shot 14-year-old ‘Four Or Five Times In The Back’  —  Louisiana State Police were investigating on Wednesday after a Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's deputy fatally shot a 14-year-old boy.  —  Louisiana State Police were investigating on Wednesday …

Ukraine to shut Russia border, seek EU membership  —  Dmitry Zaks  —  Kiev (AFP) - President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday ordered a temporary closure of Ukraine's porous border with Russia and voiced plans to apply for EU membership in 2020 as part of his ex-Soviet country's Westward shift.

Obama's condemnation of Ferguson, Missouri, during UN talk was a mistake  —  President Obama spoke Wednesday to the United Nations General Assembly in his annual foreign policy address to the world body.  Speaking after the Brazilian president but before Uganda's leader …

Occupational Hazards of Working on Wall Street  —  A few times in the past several decades it has sounded as if big Wall Street banks were losing their hold on the graduates of the world's most selective universities: the early 1990s, the dot-com boom and the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis (Teach for America!).

Obama Praises Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa on Killing of U.S. Soldiers  —  President Barack Obama favorably quoted and praised on Wednesday in his speech before the United Nations a controversial Muslim cleric whose organization has reportedly endorsed the terror group Hamas and supported …

Breaking: 6th Circuit Upholds Federal Court Order Extending Ohio Early Voting: Analysis  —  You can read the unanimous 46 page opinion at this link.  This result is as expected after the same 6th Circuit panel refused an earlier stay request from Ohio.  Here are my thoughts on this opinion.

Treasury Designates Twelve Foreign Terrorist Fighter Facilitators  —  Action Undermines Efforts by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Al Nusrah Front, Al-Qaida and its Affiliates, and Jemaah Islamiya to Move Money and Fighters to Syria and Elsewhere  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department …

HUNDREDS OF JEFFCO STUDENTS WALK OUT IN LARGEST SCHOOL BOARD PROTEST  —  Jefferson County high school students protested for the third straight day after students from Chatfield High School and Dakota Ridge High School left classes in protest of school board decisions and proposals, September 24, 2014.