In politics 19 days can be an eternity. In 19 days before my fellow Iowans caucus in local churches, schools, fire houses, and even homes the Republican field will have two more debates, we’ll be exposed countless radio and TV ads, and who knows how many trees have been sacrificed to send us mailers that most of us don’t want.
During the January 10 airing of Face the Nation, Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie admitted running against “attempts to permit conceal-and-carry laws in New Jersey.” Host John Dickerson pointed out that Christie also supported an “assault weapons” ban in 2009.
While on the campaign trail, Rubio has commanded the attention of parents who have opposed the Common Core standards and the federal intrusion into local education that has come with the reform. In addition, he has honed in on the issue of rising college education costs coupled with massive student debt and yet often no jobs for college graduates to show for it.
On January 8–three days after President Obama announced his executive gun controls–a poll from Rasmussen Reports showed that a clear majority of voters oppose “Obama’s decision to go it alone with several gun control initiatives.”
During the January 10 airing of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio said the aim of Obama’s current gun control push is “to keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.”
President Barack Obama has invited Syrian refugee Refaai Hamo, 55, to sit in Michelle Obama’s box during the State of the Union address.
Florida senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio denounced the interview of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, calling it “grotesque.”
Police in New York City are seeking the identities of five men suspected of gang raping an 18-year-old girl who was walking through a city park with her father. A video of the five men has been released to aide
“President Obama has been hitting the Second Amendment,” and wants to hit it again with more gun-control, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said during the January 10 airing of Fox News Sunday.
Now that Bill Cosby, 78, has admitted drugging women, allegedly before he committed sexual assault. the White House allowed that it would consider a bill proposing stripping Bill Cosby of his Presidential Medal of Freedom, but still protested that the Administration would not want to set a precedent by “trying to undo medals.”
An illegal alien named Juan Manuel Razo Ramirez was indicted in Ohio on 16 counts for a string of crimes he is accused of in Lake County–including murder. The suspect, also know as Juan Razo, was arrested last July and
A New York Police officer was shot and wounded as he tried to break up a gang fight, city officials reported.
During the January 10 airing of Meet the Press, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said armed citizens remind bad guys that “bullets go both ways.”
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones has declared his public opposition to a new bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to prevent people on a government terror watch list from buying guns.
A new poll from FoxNews finds voters souring on President Obama’s tenure in office, as his presidency enters its final year. President Obama entered office in 2009 with some of the highest approval ratings recorded in modern politics. He prepares to leave office with every poll finding his approval rating underwater.
Police say that a husband and wife from Alabama overdosed on heroin in the Cincinnati hospital room of their daughter. The woman died, while the man was revived and then arrested.
Sean Penn interviewed fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as “El Chapo,” who was captured and returned to prison Friday, for Rolling Stone magazine. Guzmán was said to have been captured when he reached out to producers and actors about making a biopic of his life.
On January 8 the Associated Press fact checked President Obama’s claim about the ATF and background checks, as well as his claims about the ATF’s budget during the last seven years, and the AP found that Obama’s claims were wrong.
The Republican Party is facing a historic split over its fundamental principles and identity, as its once powerful establishment grapples with an eruption of class tensions, ethnic resentments and mistrust among working-class conservatives who are demanding a presidential nominee who represents their interests.
GOP presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said, “One of the barriers to getting out of poverty” is for states to properly treat drug addiction, rather than locking up addicts. Christie said of New Jersey law: If you’re a
The Obama Administration’s new Countering Violent Extremism Task Force is an effort to coerce Silicon Valley tech companies to cooperate in encryption back-door digital surveillance.
GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is pointing out the hypocrisy in imposing gun control laws to stop “just one shooter,” but not vetting tens of thousands of refugees coming into America from terrorist infiltrated countries.
Rose Hamid, an Islamic protester who made headlines when she was removed from a Donald Trump rally in South Carolina Friday night and attempted to position herself as a victim of ‘Islamophobia’ thereafter, has a history rife with extremist advocacy.
For years, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) has been dogged by a backburner controversy about whether he is eligible to serve as President since he was born in Calgary, Alberta Canada in 1970. But since Cruz’s mother was an American citizen, the place of his birth actually is irrelevant to his eligibility.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), A terror-tied Islamic advocacy group that fancies itself a civil rights organization, has called for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to apologize after a Muslim woman was kicked out of one of his rallies in South Carolina Friday night.
It’s been another tough week on the campaign trail for the Republican establishment as Chris Christie and Marco Rubio have begun attacking each other on the campaign trail. Both candidates are fighting to be the establishment choice in New Hampshire, while outsiders Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are leading the polls.
