Recent data from the U.S. Drought Monitor reveal the United States is in one of the worst droughts since the 1980s. The drought is projected to cost the U.S. economy up to $50 billion. U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist and
On April 2, the NRA will unveil a report reiterating their calls for placing armed guards in schools to prevent a repeat of the kind of crime that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary. The report will be framed around the
President Barack Obama does not have to run for re-election anymore, but his permanent campaign continues, as Obama will attend fundraisers in San Francisco and Silicon Valley this week to help Democrats take back Congress in 2014. According to the
On Friday, President Barack Obama asked for $21 billion in more infrastructure funding in Miami in front of Chinese cranes. But in official photos the White House released of the event, all of the Chinese logos are covered by American
Arizona Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva said Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s remarks indicating that an immigration reform deal has not yet been met are “obviously a little of concern” to him. “He’s been in this process from the beginning,” Grijalva
For the first four years of his Presidency, President Obama took no action on reforming our immigration system. In the lead-up to the November elections, he, again, promised to make immigration reform a priority. Since his reelection, however, he has
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has dissented from his fellow “Gang of Eight” members on the issue of how quickly to pass the group’s comprehensive immigration reform legislation, joining many of his Republican colleagues in demanding an less hasty, and
“I think it is a DOMA problem. The question is whether or not the federal government, under our federalism scheme, has the authority to regulate marriage.” With those words, Justice Anthony Kennedy signaled that unless someone changed his mind during
On Friday, President Obama claimed his administration, known for its rampant green energy boondoggles like Solyndra, had the ability to avoid pork barrel projects when asking Congress to approve $21 billion for infrastructure funding. He made his remarks in Miami,
Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott slammed President Barack Obama, and said the federal government needed to “step up to the plate” when it came to funding for ports in Florida. Scott made his remarks before Obama visited Florida on Friday to ask
It has been 70 days since Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) introduced House Resolution 36 on January 18, 2013. If passed, this important resolution would create “a select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the United States consulate
In response to Cults and Factions, American Style: Further to the discussion Ace and Jerome were having about factionalism, here’s the latest fundraising missive from Obama operative Jim Messina, chair of the immortal campaign fundraising octopus currently known as “Organizing
Even as the Senate prepares to vote on gun control measures next month, President Obama has been using executive orders to broaden the background check system, increase research on gun violence, and “create a million-dollar ad campaign aimed at safe
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, suddenly an expert on the Constitution, said on Wednesday that she and Barack Obama are “honoring the Constitution” in their attacks on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Pelosi pontificated: And given a choice I
Barack Obama, ever eager to go over the heads of Congress and appeal to constituencies that have supported him, took his immigration reform pitch to the Latino community on Wednesday. He spoke on both Telemundo and Univision in an attempt
Speaking on March 27, Vice President Joe Biden said the current push for “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazine bans are “just the beginning.” Biden’s comments came during a conference call put together by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal
(AP) SAfrica: Mandela in hospital with lung infectionBy CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAAssociated PressJOHANNESBURG Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa said Thursday. Mandela, 94,
The National Science Foundation has given a grant that could wind up totaling almost a million dollars to a University of Iowa study researching which is better for New Zealand mud snails: reproducing sexually or asexually. The grant, awarded in
As sheriffs across the nation signal opposition to enforcing additional federal gun regulations, the Utah Sheriffs’ Association sent a letter to President Obama assuring him that its members similarly will not comply. The letters insists that the rights of Utah
President Obama’s Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said two things in Court Wednesday that may swing Justice Anthony Kennedy one way or the other on whether to uphold or strike down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). DOMA
The Supreme Court’s justices spent a full hour in today’s DOMA case, U.S. v. Windsor, debating whether the case should be in court at all. In each DOMA lawsuit–including Windsor–the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) has a responsibility to defend
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) responded with vitriol to the demand by GOP members of his committee for an open and transparent immigration reform process. Every Senate Republican on the Judiciary Committee, except for Sens. Lindsey Graham of South
President Obama’s policy of support for the Arab Spring demonstrations that brought down the governments of Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Libya in 2011 was supposed to usher in a new era of democratic reform in the Middle East. Instead, it
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, which owns the Foxwoods Resort Casino in southeastern Connecticut, is among federally recognized tribes that, although considered “sovereign nations,” are seeking increased revenues through grants from the U.S. government. According to the Associated Press, the
The Supreme Court will hear two historic cases this week on marriage: Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor. And they could fundamentally transform American society. This would be an easy case with clear adherence to two constitutional principles.
