CNS News: Actor, environmental activist and pilot Harrison Ford, who owns seven airplanes, told his environmental critics that he will “start walking everywhere when they start walking everywhere.” Ford spoke on Capitol Hill on Tuesday about general aviation at an
WSJ: Sunday night’s deal, hammered out by Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) and Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D., Ark.) reflects the populist, anti-bank sentiments simmering on Capitol Hill. A Senate Democratic official said the two have “worked
One of the dirty little secrets of Capitol Hill is that most politicians – even the ones the horserace-focused media depicts as irredeemably ideologically divided – actually have no coherent driving ideology. The secret is revealed only occasionally. If powerful
Tax day is often marked by many political events objecting to our nation’s tax policies. This year will be no different, as tea party groups and advocates for tax reform will be out in full force across the country. Americans
Are you going to Washington, DC to partake in the Tax Day Tea Party Rally this Thursday? If you are and you will be arriving on Wednesday, Big Government has a party for you! Wednesday night starting at 6:00 pm,
Talk about shoddy journalism… Now— They’re putting phantom white men into the Congressional Black Caucus parade through the tea party protesters! This hit piece by AP’s national race-relations reporter, Jesse Washington, is a disgrace. “Wrong video of health protest spurs
Andrew Breitbart at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. On racism: Why is it that the left is allowed to throw around the dangerous accusation of racism, without any evidence, as a means to malign half the country? Yet, if I
The American Thinker did an outstanding job describing the events on March 20th, when democratic members of Congress in Washington DC were reportedly taunted by tea party activists with racial and sexual slurs. It appears from the timeline of the
Politico: When Pelosi said “We’re doing this for the American people,” a protestor yelled “you’re doing this TO the American people!”
I was actually at the Tea Party march against the health care bill in Washington, D.C. yesterday. I don’t attend political events on the Jewish Sabbath, so I simply decided to go and observe, lending a quiet voice of protest.
Those of you eager to listen to this week’s Coffee & Markets will have to wait til Sunday (we want to see how things turn out on Capitol Hill), so here’s a brief podcast from TNL Editor Benjamin Domenech with
President Obama and congressional Democrats are claiming that a giant new entitlement program will reduce red ink. It’s tempting to laugh and dismiss such a preposterous claim. After all, these are the same people who told us that squandering $787
CNN: If everything goes according to plan, Democrats could have a health care reform bill on President Obama’s desk by the end of the week. But that’s a big “if.” Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey is rallying Tea Party
From the Associated Press: A bipartisan jobs bill cleared a GOP filibuster on Monday with critical momentum provided by the Senate’s newest Republican, Scott Brown of Massachusetts. The 62-30 tally to advance the measure to a final vote on Wednesday
Attempting to enact his big-government health care scheme, President Obama and his supporters frequently claimed that a “majority” of doctors supported his health-care plans. When the American Medical Association – which had opposed HillaryCare – signed onto Obama’s plan last
The Citizens United decision is a powerful rebuke to the forces that believe our Constitution is less a solid foundation of our democracy then a political pretzel to be bent and twisted into any form the politicians choose. Sadly, far
Fifth in a series. Find parts one, two, three and four here. And don’t miss this important update. There’s an old saying in New England, something one utters when another person grabs your chair or bar stool and plops himself
I guess his question as to why she could say, during her debate with Scott Brown, that the “Taliban are gone” in Afghanistan after Taliban blew up eight CIA officers in Afghanistan was too tough for her. From the Weekly
Writing for Forbes, Bruce Bartlett puts forth an interesting hypothesis that healthcare legislation could have been made better (hopefully he meant to write “less destructive”) if the GOP had been willing to compromise with Democrats: Democrats desperately wanted a bipartisan
It has been a long slog for health care in the U.S. Senate. But a final vote is near, and so is Christmas. If Clement Clark Moore was still writing poems, maybe he would have seen things on Capitol Hill
Fox News: President Obama made a rare Sunday appearance on Capitol Hill to meet with Democrats behind closed doors and talk about health care reform. Arizona Republican Senator John McCain used the private meeting to recall then Senator Obama’s public
At the request of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Obama made a trip to the Capitol to appeal to rank-and-file Democrats to work for compromise and do it quickly.
AP: In the first Capitol Hill airing of the issue, House Republicans Wednesday read excerpts from at least eight of the e-mails, saying they showed the world needs to re-examine experts’ claims that the science on warming is settled. One
The Democrats’ disconnect with kitchen table issues and the reality faced by families, workers, and small businesses is growing more evident by the minute. The reckless agenda being pushed by Speaker Pelosi, President Obama, and many Democrats on Capitol Hill
