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BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango, who was denied asylum in the United States but stayed illegally for years, died Tuesday at age 61. Onyango, whose immigration status was reported by The Associated Press days before Obama’s

ForAmerica chairman Brent Bozell is excoriating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for attending a tropical summit hosted by an organization working to marginalize the Tea Party movement. “Conservative leaders were stunned to learn that you will be headlining a conference

Many prominent GOP establishment figures with deep ties and loyalties to the Bush family trekked to College Station, Texas last weekend not only to celebrate the 25th anniversary of George H.W. Bush’s presidency but also to convince former Florida Governor

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who left Marquette University without graduating more than twenty years ago to work for the Red Cross, intends to get a college degree through an online program.  According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Walker “wants to finish

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, found another reason to shed tears on Tuesday, this time to acknowledge the generosity of the Taco Bell Foundation’s gift of $30 million to help adolescents successfully graduate from high school. The event on Capitol

A new report suggests that there is a massive wave of illegal immigration coming to American soon. For USA Today, Alan Gomez wrote this week that “there is growing consensus that changes in the economies of Latin America and the

With President Obama under fire for paying his women staff less than his male staff despite a drive for “paycheck equality,” White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri pushed back by noting the front row of the press corps in the

According to the latest Rasmussen poll published on April 8th, only 23% of likely American voters now rate Obamacare as a success and 62% believe Republicans will repeal the law. The latest polling results are a very bad omen for

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is demanding that 67-year old Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, father of 14, remove his family’s herd of cattle which has been grazing on an area of land for over a century. The prime mover

The first quarter of 2014 was a quarter of firsts for Chicago: it was the first time citizens with a concealed carry handgun permit (CCH) were able to carry handguns for self-defense and the first time since 1958 that the

The founders of OKCupid, a free online dating site, made a splash last week when they joinedthe campaign against Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich. But before they wereoutspoken critics of Eich, the same four individuals founded a sitewhich promoted a “Dis”

President Obama seems to be under the mistaken impression that he’s a one-man Congress who can simply ignore the law to comport with his political interests. JW filed a lawsuit on behalf of Kawa Orthodontics, owned by Florida orthodontist Dr.

This week, we found out that being the CEO of a major tech company has certain job requirements: decades of experience in the field, a brilliant contribution to the internet programming world, a stellar record of interpersonal relationships with people

Two House GOP moderates–Reps. David Joyce (R-OH) and Mike Simpson (R-ID)–made comments this week that are sure to infuriate the House GOP conference. In an interview published on YouTube as part of a series called “Solon Speaks” in Solon, Ohio,

Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Tuesday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was in the process of looking at the use of domestic drones.  Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, questioned Holder during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, asking

Relatives of residents at a Long Island nursing home have brought a lawsuit against the institution for paying male strippers to “defile” their relatives. They claim the residents are not in a proper state of mind to consent to performances

An elite Washington education policy group has conducted an anonymous survey of influential education insiders to provide strategic support to stakeholders in the current Common Core debate. Whiteboard Advisors state their April 2014 survey contains the views of unidentified education

With the April 15 deadline for gun registration under the SAFE Act fast approaching, estimates indicate over 90 percent of gun owners have yet to comply. Making matters worse for elected officials–and Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) in particular–is the fact

During a House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder became visibly upset when Rep. Louis Gohmert suggested that being in contempt of Congress didn’t appear to matter to the Attorney General. After Holder dismissed Gohmert’s requests for

Lois Lerner loves her Fifth Amendment rights. Of course, this is a bit ironic for someone whose office at the IRS repeatedly blocked the exercise of First Amendment rights by conservative groups.  In a stunning show of government overreach and

Ever the happy warrior of the left, Sen. Chuck Schumer is not giving up on his pipe dream: amnesty for illegal aliens in 2014. Appearing on MSNBC on Monday, Schumer said he thinks it still can happen this year thanks

On April 5 an 83-year-old Huntsville, Alabama, man retrieved a handgun and shot a home intruder in the chest. According to WAFF 48, the homeowner heard a knock at his back door “around 12:45 a.m.” and a man saying he

Suzy Welch, the power business journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review, thinks former Florida Governor Jeb Bush would be a loser if nominated for president.  The wife of former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is hardly a tea partier

It may have been a celebrity roast, but former co-host of “The View” Joy Behar took things pretty far at an event in Newark, New Jersey on April 1. “When I first heard that he [Chris Christie] was accused of

Ted Kennedy, Jr., son of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, has told sources that he is going to run for the Connecticut state Senate’s 12th district seat to replace Democrat Ed Meyer, who is retiring. The public announcement of Kennedy’s