In his latest attempt to emasculate the Constitution, President Obama made the unprecedented move last week of nominating three reliable, Washington-centric liberals to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, commonly known as the D.C. Circuit.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the Senate Minority Whip, introduced an amendment on Wednesday intended to improve the lagging border security aspects of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. The amendment would still allow illegal immigrants to be legalized, but would
UPDATE: At the start of Wednesday’s hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski announced she has agreed to Vice-Chair Sen. Richard Shelby’s request to have a full hearing on revelations about NSA surveillance and its PRISM data-mining
The claim being made in public right now is that the NSA used section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect metadata on phone calls. However there is some evidence that the NSA is actually recording the content of phone
Actor Robert Redford, the same man who made a film lionizing domestic terrorists earlier this year, has weighed in as an environmental activist, bloviating that he hopes President Barack Obama has the “courage” to unilaterally force coal-powered power plants to
On Tuesday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) suggested two prominent Obama administration national security officials lied to Congress about their knowledge of the National Security Agency’s phone and Internet spying programs. Wyden, who is on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Director
In a speech on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul outlined his views on immigration reform. Acknowledging the need for some legalization process for the 12 million illegal immigrants already here, Paul stressed that border security had to come first. Under Paul’s
As Memorial Day passed and the 4th of July approaches, we are reminded of our nation’s greatest leaders. Presidents Washington, Eisenhower, and Truman all had one thing in common – they were veterans. Their legacies were not defined by any
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) made a false statement on the Senate floor Tuesday in an effort to push the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, Breitbart News has learned. In what appears to have been a push by Menendez to claim
In an advertisement released Monday night, Bill Daley, former Chief of Staff to President Obama and brother of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, announced an exploratory committee to run for governor of Illinois. Daley has never held public office, but
(AP) LOS ANGELES–Michael Douglas’ son is speaking out from behind bars, calling for treatment rather than jail time for non-violent drug offenders. Cameron Douglas says in an essay published Tuesday by the Huffington Post that United States laws impose tougher
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee before he was elected to the U.S. Senate, shifted into Spanish during a Senate floor speech to announce his support for the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. Kaine
A former senior investigator with the State Department’s criminal investigative unit has turned whistleblower and alleged to both the media and Congress that senior staff within State Department covered up investigations into appalling behavior committed by members of Hillary Clinton’s
This morning, Speaker of the House John Boehner called NSA whistleblower/leaker a “traitor” and described his actions as a “giant violation of the law.” On Good Morning America, Boehner explained, “The president outlined last week that these are important national security
During Sunday’s Al Punto program on the Spanish-language Univision network, Senator Marco Rubio told interviewers that under the proposed Senate bill, legalization occurs first and is not contingent upon border security. First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure
Chris Cillizza, the author of the Washington Post’s “The Fix” political blog of record for those seeking conventional D.C. thought, thinks the Washington Nationals had the worst week in Washington last week even even after there were more revelations about the
In today’s White House Press briefing, Fox News’ Ed Henry asked Jay Carney about Obama’s statement, last week, that every member of Congress was briefed on the NSA surveillance program. Several members of Congress have come out since then to
Thanks in part to the much-criticized sequestration cuts effected by Congress and President Obama this year, the federal workforce dropped to its lowest point in five years in May. With the month’s cut of 14,000 federal jobs, the federal payroll
In a contentious press conference on Monday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was battered over reports surrounding the National Security Agency’s monitoring of phone records and the so-called PRISM program, which monitors internet activity from millions of Americans. Carney
At least 436 Department of Health and Human Services employees–and possibly more at the White House Office of Management and Budget–received advance notice of an $8 billion Medicare decision that sent private health insurers’ stocks soaring. The Department of Justice
During his testimony before the Senate on March 12, our Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, answered with an affirmative “No, sir,” when he was asked directly by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), “Does the NSA collect any type of data
The 2014 mid-term election has already heated up, as U.S. Navy veteran and Conservative blogger Jorge Bonilla has officially announced that he is a Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress in Florida. Bonilla, who is one of the contributing writers
Democrat Rep. Ed Markey, who entered Congress during the Nixon Administration, has voted to increase his own salary at least six different times. Markey is a candidate in the special election to fill former Sen. John Kerry’s Senate seat. A
