For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are willing to face him down.

I recently had occasion to give some serious thought to the many different elements included in the description of national defense.

When a Maine newspaper recently requested personal information, including names and addresses, of every concealed-weapon permit holder in Maine, the outrage was immediate and strong.

Wrong target! Legislators, who are peering through their scopes at law-abiding citizens who have permits to carry concealed weapons instead of aiming their legislative weaponry at criminals, are doing nothing to reduce violence in our state.

No, not the unmanned kind that kill strangers from a safe distance, but the sort who sit in meeting rooms and repeat slogans until they absorb the proper way of thinking. The killers, figuratively speaking, are the diversity trainers who numb the human mind with slogans and rote instruction on emotional correctness.

The president suggested he would hold off introducing his own immigration bill as long as bipartisan Senate negotiations were proceeding apace — until his own immigration bill mysteriously leaked precisely as bipartisan Senate negotiations were proceeding apace.

“It is not a white flag of surrender,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said.