Big Government

For the last four years, Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com and the American Freedom Defense Initiative have held events at CPAC featuring guests she invites to discuss the influence of Islamism on America. But this year, the American Conservative Union (ACU)

By ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned.

(AP) WASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama has signed an order authorizing the government to begin cutting $85 billion from federal accounts, officially enacting across-the-board reductions that he opposed but failed to avert. Obama acted Friday, the deadline for the president and Congress to

People from all over New York flocked to the state capitol on Feb. 28 to protest Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s sweeping gun control measure.  It was a cold day, the wind was blowing, and snow was on the ground, but it was

This afternoon, the State Department released a draft environmental assessment of the proposed Keystone Pipeline. The assessment concluded that blocking the pipeline would have little impact on stemming climate change nor curtailing the development of Canada’s oil-sand fields. In other

GOP primary winner Paul McKinley is wasting no time hitting the pavement to spread his message across the Illinois 2nd Congressional District. Thursday night, he announced that he will begin a walking tour through the district to meet voters and

On Friday, State Rep. Ernest Hewett (D) of Connecticut made a rather odd remark to a 17-year-old witness talking about overcoming her shyness while talking about the Connecticut Science Center. The girl stated, “I am usually a very shy person,

When Field & Stream magazine asked Vice President Joe Biden about the pluses and minuses of using a shotgun for self-defense vs. an AR-15, Biden said one of the pluses is that you can “just fire the shotgun through the

President Barack Obama issued a one-page memorandum on January 25, five days after the inauguration. The memo told the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish new mandates that would allow federal agencies to

The windows of a gun store in Merrimack, NH are emblazoned with a poster with President Obama’s image on it and text which reads, “Firearms Salesman of the Year.” Under the text, images of an AK-47 and another “assault rifle”

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., with a looming term in prison of 46 to 57 years awaiting him for using $750,000 in campaign funds for celebrity memorabilia, furs, a cruise, stuffed elk heads and a Rolex watch, is writing a

Billionaire New York City Mayor Bloomberg says that, unlike American households, the federal government’s debt does not matter because “people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money.” It’s not like your household. In your household, people

The Deputy Speaker of the Connecticut State House was stripped of his title this week after he made an allegedly lewd remark during an exchange with a 17 year-old intern from the Connecticut Science Center. An audiotape of the incident,

(AP) Boehner after Obama meeting: No new taxesWASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner says higher taxes won’t be part of any deal to solve the country’s budget mess. Boehner emerged from a White House meeting with President Barack Obama and said there

(AP) US construction spending down 2.1 percentBy MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WriterWASHINGTONSpending on U.S. construction projects fell in January by the largest amount in 18 months as home construction stalled and spending on government projects fell to the lowest level in

The campus newspaper Harvard Crimson, in an attempt to deny reality, published a piece informing conservatives that they are not welcome at Harvard. The Crimson wrote, “If you think Harvard is a revolutionary communist hotbed, don’t apply. If you think

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is putting Guntersville, AL on notice, telling officials to drop the plan to disarm to citizens in the event of a natural disaster or other emergencies or face a lawsuit. Guntersville Mayor Leigh Dollar has

In his first interview since being defeated in the 2012 presidential election, Mitt Romney said he feels like he has gotten off a roller coaster ride in the months after the campaign.  “We were on a roller coaster, exciting and

Fred DeLuca, who founded the wildly successful Subway sandwich chain in 1965, told CNBC on Wednesday what every small businessman in America knows. Government regulations have become so great they have throttled the ability of entrepreneurs to create new businesses:

The Commerce Department reported Friday that personal income contracted a sharp 3.6% in January. In three of the last four months, personal income had showed modest gains. Economists had expected a more modest drop in income of 2.5%. This, and

American Conservative Union chair Al Cardenas revealed this morning on WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will be the keynote speaker at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference this month. Sen. Cruz has lately become the prime

How much time did Barack Obama spend in a “meeting” with GOP lawmakers on Thursday to look for an alternative to sequestration? Seven minutes. That’s how serious Obama is about any compromise. He’s not even interested in whether sequestration does