Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, better known for the big, colorful hats she wears, is taking an anti-sequester position, but only after she voted for it in 2011. Wilson denounced the budget cuts, aka sequester, at the Opa-Locka airport in Miami-Dade
Peter Schweizer: The challenge is, is if you look at throughout the period of the last, say, 40 years, since the 1960s it [food stamp participation levels] has pretty much remained constant … So the point is you have this
On April 4, President Obama said that while he’s very optimistic about the chances of getting legislation through Congress addressing immigration reform, he has lost confidence in passing any significant gun control measures. After talking to donors in San Francisco about possible immigration
The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus
On Friday, in just the latest indication that the White House remains frustrated at the Constitutional system of checks and balances, press secretary Jay Carney explained that President Obama would produce his budget next week – but that if he
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and three of his fellow conservative committee colleagues are demanding the Republican members of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” take their immigration reform negotiations out of the shadows so
Politicians regularly employ “science” or “research” to promote their policy agendas. A “study” that finds a result consistent with a politician’s bias is a time-honored way to push legislation. The tactic can even make strange-bedfellows. Last month conservative GOP Rep.
There is no way around it. The March jobs report is dismal. Economists had expected the economy to add around 200k jobs last month. The Labor Department reported this morning, however, that the economy added only 88k jobs. Democrat operatives
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/4 include multiple stories of high profile hackings, a future hacking planned against Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day, pop-star Rihanna was SWATted, a huge NYC gang bust thanks to criminals
Attorney General Eric Holder may work through all four years of President Barack Obama’s second term because he is hesitant to miss the “opportunity” that remains as long as Obama wields power. Appearing on radio’s the Tom Joyner Morning Show
On Wednesday, April 3, President Obama announced he would be returning 5% of his paycheck to the federal treasury in a show of shared sacrifice with federal workers facing furloughs because of the sequester. The news came as he once
Funny – a lot of us do, too. In a a radio interview, today, Attorney General Eric Holder refused to answer a question about when he might leave the administration. Instead, the top lawman professed his allegiance to President Barack
After cutting 5% from his annual salary in solidarity with federal workers, President Obama spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars this week to fly out to California to fundraise for the 2014 election cycle. While in California, he suggested
On Thursday, SC Democrat Ben Frasier, a former congressional candidate, endorsed Mark Sanford in his campaign for Congress against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert-Busch. Fraiser lost the Democrat primary race to Colbert-Busch in March. Frasier said she is too liberal for the
Members of Congress and their press secretaries are usually the only individuals in a congressional office to be mindful that their Twitter feed is being carefully watched. That is about to change. Staffers on Capitol Hill were reminded on Wednesday
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is not backing down from his demand for an open and transparent immigration reform process after Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy refused to accommodate his request. Last Saturday, Rubio wrote to Leahy asking for what
President Barack Obama’s White House appears to be meddling in the writing of specific legislation with regard to immigration reform, a sign that the so-called bipartisan “Gang of Eight” is not developing ideas on its own. “The president will continue
Subsidized Stafford student loan interest rates will double on July 1st for loans taken out by new students entering college. President Barack Obama used the issue to rally younger voters during the last election as he advocated keeping the rates lower,
House Speaker John Boehner is seriously considering breaking promises he made to his caucus in securing his re-election as speaker in order to ram through an immigration reform package, Politico reports. “The GOP is also mulling skipping the committee process
Today the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a global gun control treaty called the Arms Trade Treaty. Now the fight begins here at home. There are several things gun owners need to know to protect their constitutional rights.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) is sponsoring legislation to force gun owners to buy liability insurance or face a $10,000 fine. Called the Firearm Risk Protection Act, the legislation is part of Democrats’ attempts to recoup the cost of gun violence
The Hill buries its own lede in a Tuesday piece titled “Sequester axe falls in Washington — but not on lawmaker salaries.” Here is the opener: One small group is curiously immune from the sequester and the related furloughs that
(AP) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked Congress to spend $100 million next year on a new project to map the human brain in hopes of eventually finding cures for disorders like Alzheimer’s, epilepsy and traumatic injuries. Obama said
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is overrun by leftist activists from ACORN and the ACLU who are shaping policies ranging from illegal immigration to discrimination laws to voter integrity. We have a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) spending hundreds of
Imagine this scenario: voters in the State of California, after a furious special interest propaganda campaign, elect to flout federal law and render it legal in the state for printers to manufacture their own counterfeit currency. Maybe they were convinced
