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Antonin Scalia would surely be bemused and maybe even amused by a lot of the nice things being said about him now sometimes by unexpected people. He long ago got used to people saying a lot of nasty things and worse few of them were original.

Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday at age 79, was the most influential Supreme Court justice of the past 30 years. Not because he had the votes. He was influential because he had a clear, consistent, persuasive idea of how to interpret the Constitution: It means what it says; it means what those who enacted it meant to enact.

The Democrats have got the Republican dilemma nailed and the rattle and buzz over Debbie Wasserman Schultz tea cups is happy talk that the Grand Old Party looks stuck with a candidate the party doesnt want.

A few days before the Iowa caucuses, Ted Cruz called Marco Rubio a “Republican Obama.” It was intended to be an insult. Rubio should take it as a compliment.

Like Barack Obama eight years ago, Rubio is a young and handsome first-term U.S. senator, an eloquent speaker with a compelling personal story who is a candidate for the presidency of the United States.