As Congress rushed to finish business Thursday, both houses unanimously passed a law designed to modify the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012. Rather than solve a national security problem created in the act, however, yesterday’s action merely
William Owens, Sr., a black pastor and veteran of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, spoke at the National Press Club on Tuesday to announce that a group he founded, the Coalition of African-American Pastors, is leading the charge
Elizabeth Warren, who has called herself the “intellectual godmother” of Occupy Wall Street and claimed “there is nobody who got rich on his own,” made another grandiose assertion on Sunday. In an interview with the National Journal, she stated: Every
During the London Olympics opening ceremony on television this past Friday, local stations across Massachusetts ran a new ad from Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. Warren, the Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Scott Brown, calls on America to allocate government spending
Global warming skeptic and meteorologist Anthony Watts, whose wattsupwiththat.com website has been called the “world’s most viewed climate website,” released a scientific discussion paper yesterday that crushes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s [NOAA’s] “global warming” data claims. The study, co-authored with
Attacks by Democratic Mayors Thomas Menino of Boston and Rahm Emanuel of Chicago on Chick-fil-A have backfired in their own hometowns. In both cities, as Newsbusters reports, the leading paper has taken its mayor to the free speech woodshed. In Boston,
The job of President of the United States is one that every occupant until Barack Obama has taken seriously. Every President prior to Barack Obama understood that the job entailed things like holding press conferences, meeting with members of Congress to
In a sign that the Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren has become the most important non-Presidential contest in the country, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined the fray yesterday by endorsing Scott Brown over
This Monday, July 30, 2012 will mark the 47th anniversary of the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid. On that day in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson journeyed to Independence, Missouri to sign the enabling legislation in the presence of former President Harry
A majority of American employers consider the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) “a step in the wrong direction,” according to a new report released yesterday by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. The report, titled “2012 Deloitte Survey of U.S. Employers: Opinions About the
Last month, Nevada Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-NV) voted against H.R. 2578, the Conservation and Economic Growth Act, which includes provisions that would allow the City of Yerington, Nevada, to purchase 11,500 acres of federal land at fair market value. The
During the month of June, the Obama campaign ran a $12 million deficit. The President’s campaign committee, Obama for America, spent $58.1 million, but it raised only $45.9 million. In contrast, Mitt Romney’s campaign committee, Romney for President, had a
With the Summer Olympic Games set to open in London next week, several unions have announced plans to strike or engage in “industrial actions.” The Daily Mail is reporting that a union representing London area train drivers announced its members are
Amonix, the California based company that received $5.9 million of federal stimulus money to open a solar energy manufacturing plant in Nevada in 2010, announced yesterday it was closing its Nevada plant after barely a year in operation. It was
Yesterday, U.S. Federal District Court Judge Warren Urbom dismissed a case brought by Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning arguing that the Health and Human Services mandate requiring religious employers to provide abortion-related services violated their First Amendment right of religious
I don’t think Mitt Romney’s choice to be his Vice-President will make a significant difference in the outcome of the Presidential election. As I’ve argued since April, this November we’re going to see a conservative landslide. Mitt Romney will be
When Democratic Congressman Shelley Berkley spoke to a crowd of supporters at the Painters Union hall in Henderson, Nevada on Friday, she shrugged aside the serious charges of ethical misconduct being investigated by her colleagues in the House of Representatives.
President Obama’s “War on Coal” has made it so difficult for electricity producers to use that the percentage of our nation’s electricity coming from coal has plunged from 44% last year to 36% this year. This forced reduction in a
When the House of Representatives launched a formal ethics investigation into the activities of Democratic Congressman Shelley Berkley on Monday, it confirmed what most political observers already knew. Shelley Berkley practices crony capitalism, Nevada style. On October 23, 2008, officials
Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown’s campaign announced yesterday that it raised $5 million in the three months of April, May, and June. This very large amount was $3.6 million less than the $8.6 million the Elizabeth Warren campaign raised during the
Two conservative members of Congress, Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Diane Black (R-TN), introduced the Religious Freedom Tax Repeal Act of 2012, H.R. 6097, on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The bill, which has 55 additional co-sponsors,
In a June 29 interview with NECN’s Jim Braude on the BroadSide television program, Elizabeth Warren (shown above in this 1950s photograph sitting next to her mother) claimed that her mother’s Native American heritage continued to divide her father’s family
Yesterday, the Elizabeth Warren campaign reported that it had raised $8.67 million in the months of April, May, and June. In a press release issued several days in advance of the filing of their required quarterly report with the Federal
Ken Aden, the Democratic candidate challenging Republican incumbent Steven Womack in the 3rd Congressional District of Arkansas, withdraw from the race yesterday when it was revealed that he had lied about serving in the Army’s elite Green Berets. Though Aden
A reader at Professor William Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection blog has offered convincing evidence that Elizabeth Warren’s husband, Bruce Mann, also contributed a plagiarized recipe to the infamous Pow Wow Chow cookbook. Subtitled A Collection of Recipes from Families of the
