The Republican presidential candidates debate tonight in North Charleston, South Carolina less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will participate in the undercard debate, which starts
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nullified a 30-year ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
China has surpassed Mexico as the country sending the most immigrants to California, according to The Sacramento Bee.
Speaking out, they knew, could make them the public face of a very private issue.
“With Senator Lindsey Graham’s announcement, Republicans lost our most qualified, thoughtful, fearless and honest presidential candidate, not to mention the candidate with the best (and it seemed sometimes the only) sense of humor,” McCain said in a statement after Graham’s announcement, lamenting that the “bifurcated debate structure” kept the South Carolina senator from reaching a wider audience.
Authorities identified Portland woman Lakeisha Holloway as the suspect in the late-night vehicular rampage on the Las Vegas strip that killed one woman and injured dozens.
In the past three years the Obama administration has made spreading the gospel of homosexuals around the world a major foreign policy goal with a special emphasis on Africa, which remains the most recalcitrant continent when it comes to the gay agenda.
On December 20 President Obama politicized the heroic sacrifice of Zaevion Dobson by suggesting Dobson’s decision to use his own body to shield three girls from gunfire ought to be an impetus for Congress to pass more gun control for law-abiding citizens.
Trump said nice things about Putin, after Putin said nice things about Trump, and all the people who thought it was ridiculous to portray Russia as America’s geopolitical adversary during Obama’s re-election campaign are beside themselves. Several of Trump’s Republican rivals thought his comments about Putin went far beyond diplomatic efforts to constructively build a positive relationship with the Russian strongman, especially since Trump not only failed to mention Putin’s repressive ways, but actively disputed the allegations against him.
Republican Dr. Greg Brannon will challenge GOP incumbent Senator Richard Burr. Brannon ran for the Senate in 2004 and while he lost in the primary to Thom Tillis, he did enjoy broad Tea Party-aligned support.
Weeks after gang members in Chicago lured 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee into an alley and slaughtered him, a community near Knoxville Tennessee is mourning Zeavion Dobson, who jumped in front of a barrage of bullets, saving three of his friends in the process.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says no one in Congress read the $1 trillion spending bill that passed last week.
A Texas mom received a visit by Child Protective Services (CPS) for hosting a “chickenpox party.” Amanda Witt believes that it is healthier for a child to catch chickenpox early than to be vaccinated for it. The mother from Plano, Texas, moderates a private Facebook page for 300 plus parents who hold the same belief. She said, “When one child has chickenpox, we promote playdates throughout,” she told the local CBS affiliate.
Inez Feltscher, the Director of the Education and Workforce Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), talks about school choice and the omnibus bill.
The decades-old legislation that prevented American producers from exporting oil is officially overturned despite previous presidential threats to veto a bill to lift the oil export ban. That’s good policy. However, to get the support of “reluctant Democrats,” The Economist
A Texas middle school-aged boy was arrested on Friday, Dec. 11 for allegedly threatening to blow up his suburban Dallas public school in Arlington. The incident is now bubbling up with conflicting stories, a comparison to “Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed, and no mention of school zero tolerance policies behind these situations.
Gallup reports that after dropping to 48 percent in 2014 — from 54 percent and 58 percent between 2010 and 2013 — this year Americans 56 percent of Americans said they would rate the honesty and ethics of police as either “high” or “very high.”
Two high schools in Nashua, New Hampshire have been closed after a terroristic threat and the FBI is investigating.
The Houston Police Department is preparing for the new year and Texas’ new open carry law by publishing information designed to help eliminate confusion on the law.
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is suspending his presidential campaign, after failing to gain any traction or gain any support–even in his home state of South Carolina, the first primary in the south.
Anti-illegal immigration leader and congressional candidate Maria Espinoza is going after Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), saying “he no longer represents Conservative Texas values.”
In preparation for Christmas, Pope Francis underscored Christ’s option to be born into a poor, humble family, adding that people cannot buy their way into Heaven, but must do things God’s way, which is the way of simplicity.
The establishment got their “electable” man nominated in 2008 and 2012, and both McCain and Romney got clobbered. Meanwhile, Washington Republicans have still not managed to figure out the historic, back-to-back midterm victories of 2010 and 2014 – wins that elevated them to heights of power and majorities not seen in many decades.
Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig says that the Democratic Party presidential primary is ignoring the issues of crony capitalism and campaign finance reform. “It is really astonishing…that we have not yet had a question that addresses the crony capitalism problem” in the Democratic debates, Lessig said Monday morning.
Donald Trump’s political success continues to gnaw at President Obama as he wraps up his presidency and prepares to hand the keys to the White House to his successor. In an interview with National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep, the President took another shot at explaining why Trump continues to rise in the polls, despite his inflammatory rhetoric.
Phyllis Schlafly predicts Trump will win because grassroots voters are outraged over such “betrayals” as the omnibus spending bill, in which Republicans used their historic midterm election victory – under the leadership of a Speaker who made his bones as the math-wizard archenemy of irresponsible government spending – to deliver a trillion-dollar bag of Christmas goodies to Democrats, funding almost the entirety of the Obama agenda without a fight.
