Rep. Michele Bachmann has faced an onslaught of opposition since requesting that U.S. intelligence and security agencies investigate possible ties between Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood. This onslaught not withstanding, information that has become public since Bachmann’s request has
Despite the fact that at least 127 House Republicans have signed a letter that calls upon Speaker John Boehner and House GOP leadership to cease any further funding of President Obama’s health care law, Speaker Boehner seems poised to continue appropriating
Republicans will not allow Operation Fast & Furious to fade away, despite Democrat and media efforts to sweep the DOJ’s gun-running scandal under the rug. During a July 19 hearing Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz asked Department of Homeland Security Janet
I spent most of my time at Harvard College (1995-1999) in a decidedly radical frame of mind. I took classes with Cornel West, organized demonstrations, and engaged in polemics with Tom Cotton, one of the campus’s few conservatives (now leading
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the libertarian crusader against the Federal Reserve who will retire from Congress at the end of this term, got the House to pass his “Audit the Fed” bill on Wednesday. The Federal Reserve Transparency Act passed
Who would you trust more when it comes to the Federal Reserve Board: Ron Paul or Chuck Schumer? If you answered Schumer, who wants the Fed to pour more money into the economy and inflate the money supply in time
Nancy Pelosi, who supports across-the-board abortion, has now decided her uterus makes her more of an expert on the morality of having children than the Pope. Pelosi, who is Catholic, said so last week at a National Journal conference when
A new jobs training oversight report by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) found that a federally-funded Oklahoma Job Corps program spent around $76,000 per person to help youth secure minimum wage jobs. The report, released Tuesday, comes 18 months after a Government Accountability
Just how subservient to Barack Obama is the Fed? We’ll soon find out. The Fed is considering pumping more money into the economy and inflating the currency by the end of September, just in time to artificially stimulate growth and
Democrats in Congress have openly threatened to take the country off the fiscal cliff by raising taxes across the board, allowing all of the Bush tax cuts to expire unless Republicans consent to tax increases. But House Republicans are calling Democrats’
(AP) Fear prompts gun sales, panic after Colo. massacreBy MIKE BAKER and KRISTEN WYATTAssociated PressDENVERFirearms sales are surging in the wake of the Colorado movie massacre as buyers express fears about both personal safety and lawmakers who are using the
During the 2010 debate about gays in the military, LGBT activists kept insisting they only wanted lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender personnel to serve quietly in the military − no special treatment. On the list of promises that Congress should
Today, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would essentially force on-line retailers to collect and remit sales taxes on consumers’ purchases. Due to a series of Supreme Court decisions, on-line
It has been noted that Salon.com has been treading an increasingly anti-Israeli path and its recent announcement of a partnership with the controversial news site Mondoweiss.net seems another step down that road. On July 16, Mondoweiss announced on its website
You’re watching a cable news show one night and see some of the GOP freshmen House members, part of the 2010 “shellacking” President Obama experienced, telling the audience that the nation needs smaller government, free markets, less spending, and greater
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) immediately politicized the tragic Aurora theater shootings, and, on Monday, the Congresswoman continued the tactic. This time, she used the Aurora shootings to denounce the National Rifle Association (NRA). “The National Rifle Association is so powerful
The Republican establishment has long kept Michele Bachmann at arm’s length and the exploitation of her simple inquiry into foreign policy matters (along with Louie Gohmert, Tom Rooney, Trent Franks, and Lynn Westmorland) is just another example. What’s worse: they seem eager
Israelis and friends of the Jewish State alike are accustomed to the never-ending scorn the United Nations heaps on the Middle East’s only free democracy, never mind its desire for peace with all of its Arab neighbors. It may seem
Thank goodness we have celebrities like Bette Midler to point out the ills of modern society. Midler, via her Twitter account, filled us in earlier today about why things are going to heck in a hand basket of late. And
The State Department official is accused of being connected to a vast foreign conspiracy, hostile to America. The official denies it, as the Establishment rallies around the accused official. Indeed, Establishmentarians not only dismiss any possibility of the official’s guilt
The Hill released a poll today which goes a long way to explain the challenge Barack Obama faces on his bid for reelection. The poll of likely voters found that 64% believe the current economic downturn is more severe than
The first thing I did after winning the Republican nomination for New Jersey’s Ninth Congressional District was invite my Democratic opponent, Congressman Bill Pascrell, to Shabbat dinner at our home, so we could meet as people rather than opponents. I
In what many see as a parasitic relationship, NPR is using tax dollars to hire the big lobbying firm of Navigators Global charging them with the duty of keeping the spigot of federal funds open in the face of the
There has been a lot of class-warfare talk from Barack Obama and his cohorts in the media (and Bane, in The Dark Knight Rises) that either intimates or baldly states that the rich are getting richer, the poor poorer, and
Under last year’s agreement on the debt-ceiling, the Obama administration has to impose $109 billion in cuts to 2013 spending, and the House, on Wednesday, approved a bill that would give the administration 30 days to provide details on how
