The mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), deliberately wants the city compete to become the nation’s largest sanctuary city. Baltimore’s unemployment rate is at 10 percent. For blacks in Baltimore, the unemployment rate is over 20 percent. People are fleeing
This weekend, the Ending Spending Action Fund, the Super PAC formed in 2010 by Brian Baker and Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade, will place a six-figure targeted radio buy in Texas on behalf of Cruz, boosting his media
The Hill reports that on Thursday, Senior House and Senate leaders expressed optimism about reaching an agreement on a continuing resolution (CR) that would prevent the government from being shut down before the November elections. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
According to a Rasmussen Reports survey, Americans do not have confidence in the economy, and their continued pessimism puts Obama’s reelection in serious jeopardy. The survey found that consumer confidence fell to the lowest level it has ever been this
The Justice Department’s inspector general found rampant nepotism in Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department. According to The Hill, the inspector general found “at least seven instances of federal employees engaging in illegal attempts to hire family members at the
Michelle Obama will hold an exercise event for her “Let’s Move” campaign, which conservatives have criticized for perpetuating nanny-state politics on Friday at the London Olympics . But the “Let’s Move” campaign is now being criticized from the left as
President Barack Obama may not know that AK-47 assault rifles are not used by the U.S. military but he seems to have realized that the country values the Second Amendment. Calling for more gun control measures will hurt Obama’s reelection
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will campaign in Texas at a get-out-the-vote rally for Ted Cruz on Friday along with other prominent Tea Party leaders like Jim DeMint. Palin will lead a cadre of conservatives, including Texas and National Tea Party
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the libertarian crusader against the Federal Reserve who will retire from Congress at the end of this term, got the House to pass his “Audit the Fed” bill on Wednesday. The Federal Reserve Transparency Act passed
Amtrak wants $7 billion to transform Washington D.C.’s Union Station and double the number of trains at its second-busiest station in the country. Amtrak loses money every year despite having a virtual monopoly on train travel in the US. There’s
On Wednesday, Senate Democrats voted against an extension of the Bush tax cuts. The Republican proposal failed by a 45-54 vote. Instead, Democrats ended up passing a tax increase on incomes above $250,000. The vote passed 51-48, mostly along party
Judicial Watch on Wednesday filed a motion in reaction to the Justice Department asking a U.S. District Court judge to give the government until August 24 to turn over recently-discovered CIA documents concerning the Obama administration’s collaboration with producers of
Democrats in Congress have openly threatened to take the country off the fiscal cliff by raising taxes across the board, allowing all of the Bush tax cuts to expire unless Republicans consent to tax increases. But House Republicans are calling Democrats’
On Monday, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said at the World Affairs Council that the White House appears to be responsible for leaking classified national security information to reporters. Republicans have also alleged senior White
Frank VanderSloot, an Idaho businessman, donated $1 million to a pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC, and he promptly found himself on a list on an Obama campaign website in which he was described as a wealthy individual with a “less-than-reputable” record.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Democrats’ chief political strategist in the Senate, said on Tuesday Democrats are not planning on introducing gun control measures in the Senate despite pressure to do so by
As the list of failed green energy projects continues to get longer, the Obama administration announced on Tuesday that the Interior Department will open more public lands in six Western states for solar energy projects. According to The Hill, 285,000
When Sally Ride, the first woman to fly in space, died on Monday at the age of 61, President Barack Obama called her a “national hero and powerful role model” who “inspired generations of young girls to reach for the
CBS Chicago reports that the shootings and violence have become so endemic in Chicago that none other than the Nation of Islam has now stepped in to try and bring a halt to the violence. Calling themselves the “Fruit
In revelations that should scare anyone who wants more government involvement in health care, an investigation by Sacramento, California’s CBS affiliate (CBS13) found that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs “has accidentally killed off hundreds of veterans, cutting off benefits
Combine affluent, elite liberals in one of the nation’s most exclusive zip codes with the seediness associated with urban politics and community organizing and one would have a perfect sample of President Barack Obama’s coalition. And that is what will
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Monday said the White House appears to be responsible for leaking classified national security information. ”I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) immediately politicized the tragic Aurora theater shootings, and, on Monday, the Congresswoman continued the tactic. This time, she used the Aurora shootings to denounce the National Rifle Association (NRA). “The National Rifle Association is so powerful
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama, “The Newsroom,” has been resoundingly criticized not only by conservatives for peddling false memes about the Tea Party and against American exceptionalism, but also by liberal publications like The New Yorker, which called the show “insufferable.”
Not even 24 hours after President Barack Obama spoke to the nation after meeting with the victims of the tragedy in Aurora (Mitt Romney said what Obama did was “the right thing to do”), Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod,
