A federal program originally designed to provide rural residents with phone service in case of emergencies is now one of the fastest growing welfare programs. Costing just around $140 million a few years ago, federal spending on the subsidy has
The federal government was scheduled to begin allowing airline passengers to bring small knives, bats, golf clubs, and other sports equipment on planes this week, but the Transportion Security Administration announced on Monday that it would delay the policy change
By JOAN LOWYAssociated PressWASHINGTONAirline passengers will have to leave their knives at home after all. And their bats and golf clubs. A policy change scheduled to go into effect this week that would have allowed passengers to carry small knives,
On Monday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the Senate should not proceed with the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration bill until lawmakers more fully understand the failures of the country’s current immigration system and how it may have let in
In designing a federal grant program, one can opt for very general eligibility criteria, to provide certain flexibility, but strictly limit the funding to ensure the grant is narrowly applied. One could, alternatively, detail very specific eligibility criteria, with less
(AP) Big scramble seen in open Senate seat in GeorgiaBy BILL BARROWAssociated PressATLANTAA rare open U.S. Senate seat in Georgia promises a scrambled 2014 campaign that already has some Republicans quietly nervous about retaining it. Democrat Barack Obama lost the
Breitbart News has learned that the Saudi National questioned after the Boston Marathon Bombing had his deportation order records altered, rescinding his deportation order. The alteration occurred the night before Secretary Napolitano vehemently denied the existence of any deportation order
According to reports, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, MA. The Islamic Society of Boston’s website states the mosque’s sister organization is the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. They are both subordinate to the
(AP) – It was a powerful moment on the White House lawn when thousands of guests, the loved ones of slain crime victims among them, crowded in as President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping crime bill that was six years
Monday while the media was busy covering the terrorist bombing in Boston Obama quietly was striping anti-corruption provisions from the STOCK Act. After a CBS “60 Minutes” report the original STOCK Act was signed by Obama last year in a
(AP) Poll: Public pessimism on economy is increasingBy TOM RAUM and JENNIFER AGIESTAAssociated PressWASHINGTONFor the third year in a row, the nation’s economic recovery has hit a springtime soft spot. Reflecting that weakness, only 1 in 4 Americans now expects
In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama urged members of Congress to pass the STOCK (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge) Act, a bill to ban insider trading for members of Congress and their staffs and to
Law enforcement officials from around the country coalesced on Thursday against the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, arguing that it did not solve of the nation’s immigration law problems and railing on the senators involved for not including law
Actress Charlize Theron visited D.C. this week to push the U.S. government to “push forward” to a solution on AIDS. The South African stunner said the fact that one in 10 people in her country live with HIV is “unacceptable,”
In response to They Get It When It’s the First Amendment: Your contrast between the way liberals view majority rule with respect to the First vs. Second Amendment makes me think about the way Obama has been trying to work
One of the most offensive parts of President Barack Obama’s tantrum at the White House after losing the gun control fight today was also one of the most comical. Venting his righteous anger at his opponents, Obama repeatedly scolded them
Celebrities lined up behind President Barack Obama’s attempt to pass stricter gun control legislation in the wake of the Newtown school shooting, using everything from PSA-style videos to nasty musical shorts to curry the public’s favor. Now, despite a new
In response to Grassley-Cruz Unveil Alternative Gun Bill: At the press conference Wednesday morning, Senators Grassley, Cruz, Graham and Coats introduced their alternative gun legislation to prevent gun violence and protect the Second Amendment. Via The Hill: “Rather than restricting the
President Barack Obama’s drug czar toed a strict line on marijuana Wednesday, saying federal laws will prevail regardless of state-level efforts to legalize pot. Gil Kerlikowske said enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 — which ranks marijuana as
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) warned he sees “a huge train wreck coming down” with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, known to its critics as Obamacare. The candid comments came during a Wednesday hearing with Obama’s Health and Human Services
Former Beatle Paul McCartney is the latest celebrity lending his voice to the current gun control chorus. The former Beatle recorded a voice message that’s part of a text-to-call operation Wednesday for Bennett’s Voices Against Violence campaign. McCartney and others
The 844-page immigration reform bill the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” dropped in the dead of night contains a lucrative handout that would give taxpayer-funded free cell phones to some people who live or work near the U.S. border with Mexico.
Obamacare set a nasty precedent in Washington: radical and unpopular legislation is developed behind closed doors and then passed quickly, without time for sufficient public scrutiny. Tragically, this is exactly what is happening on Capitol Hill as the so-called “bi-partisan
The head of the House Democratic Caucus, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), said on Tuesday that the sequester’s $85 billion slowdown in the rate of federal spending growth is hurting Boston’s ability to respond to Monday’s terrorist attack, which claimed at
The latest poll from Gallup, taken April 4-7, shows that while President Obama and his allies in Congress may think that American minds are focused, laserlike, on gun control and immigration, the truth is precisely the opposite: in listing their
