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.
The blocked legislation, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is based on scientific evidence that has shown that unborn babies at least at 20 weeks after fertilization can feel the pain associated with being destroyed during an abortion. The Senate voted 54-42 to advance the legislation, a count that fell short of the 60 votes needed.
The number of Latin American migrants crossing the southern border increased this August compared to last August, boosting the total migrant inflow to more than 240,000 since 2011.
According to the theologians at the New York Times, a “strong Catholic Faith” and “abortion rights” coexist without contradiction in the person of Nancy Pelosi.
Nearly half of Americans think the federal government “poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens,” according to a recent Gallup poll.
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina’s spokesperson Sarah I. Flores sent out an email blasting GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s advisor for claiming Fiorina outsourced her campaign work to India, calling that claim bizarre.
Over and over again during his four day visit to Cuba, Pope Francis drew attention away from the Castro Revolution of 1958 to the deeper Christian roots of the Cuban nation.
Congress has taken action that actually advances free markets and limits government intrusion.
The Washington Post’s sensitive editorial board writes it is “prejudicial” for a GOP candidate to judge the catastrophic record created by the 1,200-year-old Islamic ideology.
The GOP establishment is apparently so worried about Donald Trump that it’s working with Democrats and even Islamists to attack nice-guy Dr. Ben Carson.
Just minutes after Scott Walker’s short announcement that he was suspending his campaign to win the Republican Party nomination for the presidential candidacy, his supporters were hinting he might be back next year.
So, let’s talk about these new State Department documents we released during the Summit. As has been widely reported, we found almost a five-month gap in the emails Madam Hillary Clinton reluctantly returned to the State Department last year. But there’s more to the story.
Whatever his core political beliefs might be, and how they were shaped by his upbringing, Pope Francis has clearly been intent on making the Catholic Church more acceptable to the Left. He has a knack for making statements that set left-wing hearts aflutter, even though what he really said often turns out to be considerably less liberal than breathless news reports led readers to believe, particularly when his original statement was not made in English.
A brand new James O’Keefe video shows Hillary Clinton campaign workers retreating from questions that the campaign could have violated election laws in its voter-registration efforts.
“While unemployment rate for African-Americans has dropped by more than 7 percent since the height of the recession, it is still double the unemployment rate as the rest of the country,” Joe Biden says. “And over the last 30 years, African-Americans have faced even greater wage stagnation then the rest of the country.” Biden, who is contemplating a run for president in 2016 claims he and President Obama worked to save the economy from a giant recession, but that there was still a lot more to do.
There is no question that Volkswagen should be in trouble for intentionally rigging its diesel engines to skirt U.S. emissions requirements. But EPA’s own diesel exhaust wrongs put VW’s in the shade. The EPA has for years quietly conducted flagrantly illegal scientific experiments in which diesel exhaust was pumped into the lungs of sick people and senior citizens.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seems to want two things: to avoid a government shutdown and to relieve himself of pressure from pro-life conservatives who want Planned Parenthood defunded after revelations of its organ harvesting practices.
On September 21, an alleged bank robber in Warren, Michigan, pointed his gun at an elderly customer, who pulled his own gun and shot the suspect in both arms and one leg. The alleged robber then “staggered” out of the bank and collapsed.
Media darling and Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West told UK newspaper The Guardian that he is sure that Black Lives Matter will vote for Bernie Sanders, whom West referred to as “Brother” several times in the interview.
From the Duke lacrosse players to the phony fraternity gang rape at UVA, a large cross section of college professors and administrators seem intent on labeling their campuses havens for rape and other sexual crimes.
Videos of unionized and municipally-licensed taxi drivers harassing and intimidating Uber drivers and their customers in large Canadian cities are surfacing online.
It is difficult to convey the excitement I first felt when it was revealed that His Holiness Pope Francis was invited to Washington D.C. to address the world from the floor of the House of Representatives.
The so-called Summer of Trump has elevated a number of longstanding beefs into proper blood feuds: the Republican establishment against the conservative grassroots, for example, or the party’s nativist constituency against its globalist elites.
On September 21, a Greenwood, South Carolina, man was sentenced to 40 years in prison after a woman hired him to killed her husband. Adding to the tragedy, the man he killed turned out to be the wrong one.
The immigrant population in the U.S. hit a record high 42.4 million in July 2014, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Center for Immigration Studies.
In a telling admission on video, Ahmed Mohammed—the MacArthur High School freshman student in Texas who was arrested for bringing what school officials and police believed was a “hoax bomb” to school—implied that he knew that the clock he had built would look suspicious and threatening.
