As House and Senate Republicans gather in Baltimore for their annual retreat this week, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says Democrats will force votes on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposals.
On October 3–two days after a gunman killed 10 at the gun free facilities on the Umpqua Community College campus–the New York Daily News called for the U.S. State Department to designate the National Rifle Association (NRA) a “terrorist organization.”
A “white” man named Shaun King will soon be writing for the New York Daily News, presumably to share a black man’s perspective on current affairs. King, who insists he is a black man even though his birth certificate, a police report, and his own relatives said he is actually white, is considered to be a leading figure in the anti-law enforcement Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump launched a blunt and biting critique of the Obama administration’s military weakness to an overflow crowd of more than 4,000 here in Tennessee on Saturday. “We don’t have victories any more. We don’t win any more… Bring back Patton!”
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump maintains his lead in the early Republican primary states of New Hampshire and Iowa, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls conducted after the second GOP primary debate and Gov. Scott Walker’s withdrawal.
Congress plans to rush through a bill that would release criminals from prison under the rubric of criminal justice reform. According to media, the bill is designed to rectify supposed racial imbalances in the criminal justice system, not to release more innocents or to ensure the safety of the public.
Obama’s comments appear to be a reference to the Common Core standards – though he does not call the reform by name, likely because the unpopular initiative is now often described as “toxic” and “poisonous.” The president nevertheless adopts the usual pro-Common Core position that the nationalized standards are higher or more rigorous than other standards – although there is no independent research that validates that claim.
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton keeps her lead over fellow candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Iowa, but Sanders continues to lead Clinton in New Hampshire, according to new polls by NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Marist.
It is no accident that Dr. Ben Carson is enjoying one of his biggest lifts in the polls as the media are was savaging him for views that offended them. It is a formula that has upended the GOP nomination fight.
In a sweeping address to students on Saturday, Ambassador John Bolton called on Secretary of State John Kerry to resign from his cabinet post as Secretary of State.
House Oversight and Government Reform committee chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), in his official announcement made on Sunday that he’s running for Speaker of the House, implicitly dinged House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for being unable to communicate effectively.
During an October 5 appearance on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump responded to President Obama’s calls for more gun control by stressing that politicians who push gun control to solve problems do not not fully understand the problems they are trying to solve.
In order to acquire the skills to earn a fair day’s pay, employees first have to start their career at an entry-level wage. Here, they learn basic skills like time management, a sense of urgency, and customer service that allow them to quickly climb the career ladder so that they can earn a career wage. Economists find that learning these soft skills allows two-thirds of entry-level wage employees to get a raise within their first one to eleven months on the job.
Police have arrested four teenagers in Tuolumne, California in connection with a plot to shoot students at Summerville High School. The four allegedly had a list of intended victims and had stockpiled weapons, USA Today reports.
The Pope said that Christian marriage is a cure for much of the solitude experienced by men and women in our own day. Our world, he said is characterized by loneliness and paradoxes. Today we enjoy “many sophisticated means of entertainment, but a deep and growing interior emptiness; many pleasures, but few loves; many liberties, but little freedom.” People need the family, even if they don’t realize it, Francis said.
So it’s funny that Alexandra Pelosi, a film maker who has made nine films, mainly for HBO, has made a 45-minute filmlette, San Francisco 2.0. It’s an attack on Silicon Valley, the sharing economy, Internet entrepreneurs, Uber, Lyft, AirBNB and the new jobs with high salaries they generate, which have drawn thousands of high income childless young people to the Bay Area, who have driven up rents and real estate prices, but don’t really need or use government welfare.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hails from Bakersfield in the Central Valley. But local Republicans are divided about his prospects as Speaker of the House, as McCarthy emerges as the likely candidate to replace John Boehner, who announced his resignation last month, effective Oct. 31.
Breitbart News got a firsthand account of UCC shooting from 17-year-old Sarah Cobb on Friday, who had only been an Umpqua Community College student for four days.
According to pagan community website Wildhunt.org, UCC shooting victim Kim Saltmarsh Dietz was “a local Pagan woman.”
During a Saturday campaign stop in Franklin, Tennessee, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump spoke about the heinous attack at Umpqua Community College (UCC) and said lives could have been saved if the faculty had been armed.
DeRay McKesson, one of the top organizers for the Black Lives Matter movement, is seeking a meeting with presidential aspirant Marco Rubio. The request for a meeting follows comments in which Rubio seemed to lend his personal support to the group’s anti-cop rhetoric.
FRANKLIN, Tennessee — GOP frontrunner Donald Trump offered a ringing defense of gun rights and the Second Amendment to an enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd of 3,000 Tennesseans on Saturday. An overflowing audience of an additional 1,000 stood outside The Factory in Franklin, Tennessee in the drizzling rain as they listened to the rally on speakers.
Stanley Kurtz believes the battle over AP U.S. History is even worse for America than that over the Common Core standards.
WASHINGTON—Seventy national conservative leaders have issued a “Memo to the Movement” on the Supreme Court, calling on conservatives to focus Republican presidential candidates on what sort of justices they would appoint. These leaders have one simple demand: “No more surprises.”
Pot tourism hit Oregon Thursday as an influx of people flowed in from states like California for opening day of recreational use marijuana in Oregon.
During an October 3 appearance on CNN, Republican strategist Lisa Boothe’s mic appeared to have been cut while she was in the midst of explaining why gun control is not the answer to situations like the shooting at Umpqua Community
