LINCOLN, Nebraska–Contrary to some reports, the tension between Nebraska GOP Senate nominee Ben Sasse and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell does not seem to be over. McConnell and Sasse feuded in the fall, with McConnell upset about Sasse’s involvement with the
With decisive primary victories by U.S. Senate candidate Ben Sasse in Nebraska and U.S. House candidate Alex Mooney in West Virginia, the establishment’s dream of electing more status quo-supporting candidates has been stopped after just one week. Sasse and Mooney,
Alex Mooney, the Tea Party-backed candidate in the crowded Republican primary in West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, easily won his party’s nomination in Tuesday’s election. With 85 percent of the precincts reporting, Mooney leads with 35 percent of the vote. Pharmacist
If you plan to attend Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, better get oriented for your orientation; you may be privileged. But don’t worry; there’s always room for spiritual growth. The school is adding a class titled “Checking Your Privilege 101”
LINCOLN, Nebraska–Midland University President Ben Sasse won convincingly against former State Treasurer Shane Osborn and businessman Sid Dinsdale in the Republican Senate primary here, likely sending a vaunted young conservative voice to the Senate in 2015. Sasse, who received the
Many today speak of a deficit of trust between Americans and the federal government. And with good reason. Washington has not only done nothing to deserve trust, but has seemingly done everything possible to destroy it. The simple reality is
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Gay and lesbian couples in Idaho could start getting married as soon as Friday after a judge ruled the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. U.S. District Magistrate Judge Candy Dale wrote in her decision
President Barack Obama has a serious challenge next week with judicial nominees. Despite changing Senate rules to end filibusters and to confirm nominees with 51 votes, two of Obama’s picks to the federal courts are in jeopardy, with a possible
The 2002 New Jersey law mandating only smart guns be sold in the state once a “viable” smart gun is on the market has an exemption for law enforcement, leading one to assume smart guns are not smart enough for
Two of the most prominent CEOs that have been lobbying Congress for immigration reform and amnesty legislation indicated on Monday this Congress’s final act could be passing sweeping amnesty legislation in the lame-duck session. At a panel on the economy
On May 13, 2013, Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was found guilty on three first-degree murder charges in the deaths of babies born alive during abortion procedures, then killed with scissors in a filthy clinic that became known as the “house
WASHINGTON–One of the leading Republicans pushing for amnesty in the Senate said leaked documents revealing the Obama administration has released thousand of immigrants with serious rap sheets from detention has set back efforts to pass a major immigration bill. “This
President Barack Obama believes there may only be three months left to get sweeping amnesty legislation done. At a Tuesday meeting at the Eisenhower Office Building with law enforcement leaders, White House officials, and Jeh Johnson, the Department of Homeland
Opponents of President Barack Obama’s controversial Obamacare program warned that the health law would fail to reduce insurance costs and could result in double-digit premium jumps. Now it’s official: 2015 filings in the states of Washington and Virginia show large
After blasting, haranguing, and lambasting Republican candidates like Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin for rhetoric that he deemed counterproductive, Karl Rove did not take his own advice last week when he implied that Hillary Clinton may have brain damage. According
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to defend taxpayer-funded travels of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and his executive assistant Kay Webber on Tuesday. “You’ll have to address those questions to Sen. Cochran,” McConnell replied when asked if he thought Cochran
New filings from Virginia insurance companies reveal that Obamacare will result in premium spikes of up to 16.6% for some customers. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Anthem HealthKeepers Inc plan’s 110,000 Virginia customers can expect an average 8.5%
On May 12th, Vance County, N.C., homeowner Jonathan Haith used an AR-15 to shoot an armed invader who kicked in the door of his house. According to Raleigh’s ABC 11, Haith was in bed when he heard someone knocking around
Bill Clinton’s former press secretary, Mike McCurry, said Hillary Clinton may not run for president because she may not want to go through the grind of another campaign that will force her to court and glad-hand locals in the early
The Internal Revenue Service issued up to $15.6 billion in tax credits to people who weren’t eligible for them, about a quarter of the total credits they issued of that type, according to a new inspectors general report. According to
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — A truck rammed a Baltimore-area television station, leaving a gaping hole in the front of the building, and police said Tuesday afternoon that an armed person might be inside. WMAR-TV News Director Kelly Groft told The
In recent years pro-life advocates have been remarkably successful at instituting new laws regulating abortion clinics; more laws like these have passed in the past two years than in the previous decade combined. As a result, abortion clinics are closing
The most unique element of Timothy Geithner’s new 580 page book Stress Test is that he seems to have actually written it. As former President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank from 2003 to 2009 and then U.S. Treasury
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Time magazine’s senior political analyst Mark Halperin asserted that Republicans would take back the Senate. Halperin was asked by MSNBC’s Willie Geist whether Republicans would take the Senate in the 2014 elections. The political panel examined
On August 13th, Norway’s Major General Kristin Lund will become the first woman to command a UN peacekeeping force. According to BBC News, Lund told the Associated Press that she was “looking forward to the challenges of her new job.”
“My Child Is Not Common” are the words on the attention-getting signs carried by a group of white and African-American mothers protesting the adoption of the aggressively promoted Common Core standards. Common Core is scheduled to take over the testing
The strategy has been obvious for a number of years, but rarely has it been so blatantly espoused as in an article by Bill McKibben in Politico Magazine where he attacks the development of a Liquified Natural Gas export terminal
On May 9 New Jersey state senator Loretta Weinberg (D-37) told MSNBC that she and fellow lawmakers would “reverse” a 2002 law limiting gun sales to smart guns “only if the National Rifle Association (NRA) vows not to try to
Karl Rove reportedly suggested last Thursday that former Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may have brain damage. According to The New York Post, Rove told conference attendees in Los Angeles, “Thirty days in the hospital? And when
CENTERVILLE, Iowa, May 12 (UPI) —An Iowa police officer was struck by a massive oak tree during a routine traffic stop in Centerville last week. Officer Jeremy Veach’s dash cam captured the strange accident on video after he pulled over
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) suggested to National Public Radio (NPR) he would like to bring earmarks back to Congress. “I think earmarks have gotten a bad name,” Cochran told the national radio outlet for a piece it published on the
Economic inequality has emerged as the central political challenge of the 21st Century. Left wing academics and politicians are quick with quack remedies–higher taxes on the wealthy that will only send more investment abroad and smother growth. For most Americans,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is making the best argument of all for a joint select committee to investigate the Benghazi scandal, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says: He admits he has no clue what President Barack Obama
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri abandoned its legal challenge Friday to a Kansas law that strips two of its clinics of hundreds of thousands of federal taxpayer dollars. Kansas lawmakers had passed a bill in 2011 that required tax
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor faced a raucous crowd Saturday, including loud boos and heckles from Tea Party activists presumably supporting his long-shot primary opponent, professor Dave Brat. Cantor’s speech occured while the votes were being counted in Tea Party-backed
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested that Democrats could not handle the truth on Benghazi, quoting Jack Nicholson from the movie A Few Good Men during a floor debate with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ). Cruz requested a Senate vote to join
Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith reacted harshly to a new report detailing the crimes committed by 36,007 criminal immigrants that Immigration and Customs Enforcement released last year. “This would be considered the worst prison break in American history, except it
