Credit: Chicago Tribune Former Democratic congressman Mel Reynolds from Illinois' second district is making another go at winning a seat in the US House of Representatives. He is looking to replace Democrat Jesse Jackson Jr, who resigned on November 21, 2012. Reynolds will run for the same seat he occupied from January 3, 1993, to October 1, 1995. This time, however, he is running after being convicted of statutory rape of a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and receiving a commutation by former ...

Credit: Chicago Tribune Former Democratic congressman Mel Reynolds from Illinois' second district is making another go at winning a seat in the US House of Representatives. He is looking to replace Democrat Jesse Jackson Jr, who resigned on November 21, 2012. Reynolds will run for the same seat he occupied from January 3, 1993, to October 1, 1995. This time, however, he is running after being convicted of statutory rape of a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and receiving a commutation by former ...

Credit: policymic.com With the recent legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, some people may believe that the US is moving closer to legalizing the drug on a national level. However, the most recent polls on the subject suggest that Americans are split on the prospect. The most recent nationwide poll on marijuana legalization was taken by CBS News from November 16-19. According to the results, 47 percent of Americans are against legalizing marijuana for recreational use while 47...

Credit: dukechronicle.com The 2012 general election was bitter for the GOP because so much hope was put into defeating President Obama, yet he won re-election anyway. While there has been a good deal of post-election finger-pointing and second-guessing--a popular theme among conservatives has been that Mitt Romney did not fire back as aggressively in defining the president as the president defined Romney--there is a bright spot for the party. The GOP picked up the gubernatorial seat in North C...

Photo: Mario Tama Many Americans associate UN Ambassador Susan Rice with the potential misinformation that she provided about the Benghazi terror attacks on five Sunday talk shows. However, before her recent thrust into national controversy, Rice was a long-serving bureaucrat in the Clinton administration during the 1990s, making her integral to Democrat policies and objectives. Rumored to be a potential candidate as the next Secretary of State, Rice has outraged prominent Republicans like Sena...