When does the Constitution not allow religious speech or displays in the public square or at public events? This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case on prayer at legislative events, but the actual arguments presented to the justices
(AP) AP Exclusive: Border Patrol rejects curbs on forceBy ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated PressSAN DIEGOBorder Patrol agents may continue using deadly force against rock-throwers, the chief of the agency said, despite the recommendation of a government-commissioned review to end the practice. The
Five workers employed by the federal Bureau of Prisons are now suing for double pay during the government shutdown. On Monday, they said that the government should have paid them on time, and that because the government didn’t do so,
In 2012, the FCC contracted with the left-leaning Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism to study “entry barriers” to the media and see whether or not minority groups had enough access to the media. This year the FCC is launching
Fast food chains and other big restaurant lobbyists are turning their attention to efforts to try to grant amnesty to the 11 million illegal aliens in the country, Breitbart News has learned. In a public statement released post-government shutdown on
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday morning “I think there’s a hammerlock on the Congress by the gun owners and the gun people, and it doesn’t matter…”
Peter Schweizer’s book, Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes and Line Their Own Pockets, exposes abusive money schemes undermining the legitimacy of representative government. Beltway tactics such as the “tollbooth,” the “milker bill,” and “double milker bills” shamelessly extort campaign
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) plans to lead Senate Republicans in a push for a federal ban on abortions after the end of the 20th week of pregnancy. The measure is a companion to the House-passed Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
When the United States joins a treaty, does the Constitution allow Congress to pass laws to implement that treaty that would normally be unconstitutional? That’s what the Supreme Court will consider this week in Bond v. U.S. Carol Anne Bond
If you were planning on attempting to enroll on the ObamaCare website Saturday night you might want to go bowling instead. For the third time since its inception the website is going offline due to needed repairs, and will be
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius assured Congress at the House Ways and Means Committee hearing, last week, that the ObamaCare website was secure. HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters told the AP that consumers filling out their online applications “can trust that the
On Friday, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) defended Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, telling Obamacare critics at an event in Memphis to “get over it.” “Change is hard. Get over it,” Cohen said, according to National Journal. “Barack Obama
Left-wing activists and officials within President Barack Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), part of Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice (DOJ), attempted this week to reframe Operation Fast and Furious as a problem with America’s
(AP) DC on fast track to decriminalizing pot possessionBEN NUCKOLSAssociated PressWASHINGTONIt took nearly 15 years after voters approved medical marijuana for it to become available in the District of Columbia, but the next major change to pot laws in the
President Barack Obama on Saturday called for an end to “manufactured crises and self-inflicted wounds” as he urged Republicans and Democrats in Congress to approve a new federal budget. Obama, speaking in his weekly radio address, said that what most
As of 2003, consumers have had the right to change providers while keeping their wireless number. Since 2007, consumers have also had the right to “unlock” their wireless device. But the Librarian of Congress recently made a bureaucratic ruling eliminating
In response to Poll: 71% of Voters Believe Obama Knew Premiums Would Skyrocket For Some Americans: Only 71 percent? Man, that’s depressing. That means 29 percent are still gullible enough to think this is all a big surprise to the
While the Obama administration may have hoped that Jewish groups would agree not to lobby Congress for tougher sanctions on Iran, and has applied pressure to that effect, Christian pro-Israel groups have refused to play along with the White House’s
Appearing before Congress on Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services apologized for the “debacle” of the healthcare.gov launch, and promised to fix the ailing Obamacare website. Yet while the Obama administration scrambles to implement its secret “tech surge,” a
NOTE FROM SENIOR MANAGEMENT: A “stranger in a strange land”–Blue State sensibility with Red State sense of policy and politics. We are pleased to announce Joel Pollak’s weekly column, “Blue State Blues.” If you want to understand Barack Obama’s presidency, you
Outrage about HealthCare.gov and millions losing health plans should scare the wits out of liberals. With enough money, the morass can be fixed, but it lay bear the limits of tax and spend to buy voter allegiance. The liberal formula is quite
President Barack Obama’s administration has reportedly hired software engineers and other tech specialists from Google and Oracle to try to fix the Obamacare website, Bloomberg News reports. Both companies are active participants in the pro-amnesty lobby, helping lobby Congress for
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer’s new bombshell book, Exortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, will debut next week at #8 on the New York Times bestseller list.
The latest NBC/WSJ poll finds that more Americans would vote for a third party candidate for Congress than a Republican. 35% of voters prefer a Democrat, which has been steady for three years. Republicans, however, have experienced an 8-point swing
(AP) Food stamp cuts kick in as Congress debates moreBy MARY CLARE JALONICKAssociated PressWASHINGTONMore than 47 million Americans who receive food stamps will see their benefits go down starting Friday, just as Congress has begun negotiations on further cuts to
