You don't need to read the 46-page Missouri Supreme Court decision to determine that this Guatemalan mother's due process & maternal rights were infringed upon: it's common sense!

When judges here sentence convicted criminals, a new and unusual variable is available for them to consider: what a given punishment will cost the State of Missouri.

"I admit to feeling something close to rage watching this video of a SWAT team breaking into this family's home, shooting their dogs in front of their seven-year-old boy, and then arresting the father and charging the parents with child endangerment all over the possession of a …

It may be time to update the old American maxim that all politics is local. In the case of Linda Fischer, a Democrat representative in the state legislature in Missouri, it is a bit more than that. It is domestic – as in dispute, abuse and dysfunction.