Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is locked in a runoff election that may end her political career, and revelations that she improperly used taxpayer dollars to fund 43 private jet flights to 136 political fundraisers and campaign functions won’t help her
It is possible that President Obama’s amnesty plan, being announced Thursday, will shield up to four million illegals from U.S. immigration laws. Reports also say that an additional one million will be afforded other levels of protections by the President’s
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama should move quickly on his executive amnesty because it is the fair thing to do for families that fear deportation. “First of all understand the fairness of it all. This will be a relief
The lower house of the Spanish parliament, the Congress of Deputies, passed a resolution Tuesday to recognize a Palestinian state. The vote came in the wake of a gruesome Palestinian terror attack Tuesday morning that targeted Jews praying at a
The Keystone XL pipeline bill failed on a vote count of 59-41 and failed to achieve a filibuster-proof U.S. Senate passage. With 40% of the pipeline already built and North American energy costs some of the lowest in the world, President Obama
The White House’s chief of staff will reportedly meet with Senate Democrats on Thursday, fueling speculation that President Barack Obama may make an announcement on his executive amnesty this week before Congress leaves for its Thanksgiving recess. According to a
1. 2011 Univision town hall: “There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply, through executive order, ignore those congressional
On Tuesday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) compared President Barack Obama’s forthcoming executive amnesty to the desegregation of the U.S. military. Gutierrez, who has been one of the most vocal pro-amnesty advocates, said on the House floor that President Harry Truman
The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee pitched GOP colleagues on a plan to rescind funding for targeted programs in the next Congress to respond to President Obama’s planned executive amnesty, throwing a new idea into a ring already full
The political repercussions for supporting President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty could be so massive they could put Democratic U.S. Senate seats in bright blue states in play for Republicans in 2016—an open secret that Democrats on Capitol Hill seem
If President Obama takes unilateral action on immigration reform, it could have major consequences for the State of Texas. A new wave of illegal immigrants are likely on the horizon if the president makes such a move — and Texans may be stuck
In a 2011 town hall with Univision, President Barack Obama said “it was not the case” that he could suspend deportations unilaterally and argued that he could not extend temporary protected status to illegal immigrants looking for economic opportunity. When
While basically a First Amendment absolutist, there may be an argument for making Vox.com – the seemingly brainless brain child of Leftist Ezra Klein – illegal as an act of education, if not compassion, as the crew at Vox doesn’t
Republican Arkansas Sen.-elect Tom Cotton said Congress should prohibit the federal government from issuing work permits, Social Security numbers, and federal IDs to illegal immigrants who may be soon granted executive amnesty. On Fox News Sunday, Cotton said Congress used
President Obama says he intends to act quickly to offer executive amnesty to illegal immigrants, and aides say that move could come as soon as this week. This need for haste may be due to his party growing weaker with
With President Obama expected to move forward unilaterally on immigration as early as this week, the conservative Heritage Action is warning Congress against passing any long-term spending measures that fail to deal with the threat. “Unless Congress preempts or blocks
Unsure how far they can go in supporting Barack Obama in his expected grant of blanket amnesty to illegal immigrants residing in the United States, the two leading liberal newspapers in the nation are hedging their bets, noting that Obama
For centuries, our nation’s press has become accustomed to exercising its own news and editorial judgments largely free from government interference. It’s all part of the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press. But now, all of that could
WASHINGTON (AP) — Making a rare Capitol Hill appearance, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday encouraged the GOP’s newest members of Congress to embrace compromise and common ground as they shift to a governing role following their party’s midterm
On Monday morning, Pope Francis personally confirmed that he will visit the United States in September 2015 to attend the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. This will be the Pope’s first visit to the U.S. The Pope made the
At the G-20 summit press conference in Brisbane Australia, Sunday, President Obama took some tough questions from the media. While Obama’s “Gruber who?” moment got the most play, there was another striking moment at the press conference when a reporter
Under a Republican-controlled Congress there will be changes in Washington, DC—with energy policy front and center. The past six years have seen taxpayer dollars poured into green-energy projects that have embarrassed the administration and promoted teppan-style renewables that chop-up and
Liberal George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley believes that President Barack Obama’s forthcoming executive amnesty will be an “unprecedented” and “dangerous” overreach that will threaten America’s constitutional system of governance. “This would be unprecedented and I think it would
Illegal aliens who get President Barack Obama’s likely forthcoming executive amnesty will have immediate access to welfare and other public benefits, according to a new report from the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) exclusively provided to Breitbart News ahead of
Supposedly, Obama is re-focusing his Climate Change efforts back toward the states after playing it up on the international stage. However, if one reads between the lines, it’s not hard to see that what this is actually about for many
