Mitt Romney may be glad he didn’t pick Marco Rubio as his running mate, after the Miami Herald accuses Rubio’s friend of running an illegal shadow campaign in his quest for reelection.

GOP leadership has widely criticized Missouri Rep. Todd Akin’s comments on rape and abortion. That doesn’t change the fact that Akin has co-sponsored similarly misguided legislation with VP hopeful Paul Ryan. 

On the first day of President Barack Obama’s program to extend some measure of legal protection to undocumented youth, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed an executive order that denies them any benefits in her state.

In Florida, Rep. Paul Ryan's negatives may actually lose Mitt Romney votes.

Bryan Fischer thinks that kids growing up in same sex households — no matter how loving or supportive — are in imminent peril. But Achy Obejas argues that it's Fischer's own stupidity that's the real danger to American families. 

One of the greatest singers of Mexican traditional music, Vargas was a rough and tumble Costa Rican street performer who grew up to be a butchy, pistol-wearing, cigar-smoking, tequila-downing, woman-loving icon for generations of Mexicans. How did a country as macho as Mexico fall in love with such a creature?

When Ted Cruz, the U.S. senate GOP nominee, wins in November — and it will be more than noteworthy if he doesn't — the world’s greatest deliberative body will have three Latino senators, and two of them will be Republican. How did that happen?