The capstone to the Great Dissent was the explanation of why the entire 2,700-page Affordable Care Act (ACA) must be struck down along with the unconstitutional Individual Mandate and the unconstitutional Medicaid Expansion. When part of a law is found
A document obtained from the Obama administration through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that President Barack Obama’s uncle, Omar Onyango, received a deportation stay from the Obama administration. The document, published by Judicial Watch today, suggests the
The headline in Saturday’s New York Times said it all: “New York Fed Knew of False Barclay’s Reports on Rates.” The article quotes a Barclay’s employee telling a New York Federal Reserve official in April 2008 that “we know we’re
Why on Earth is our government sending billions upon billions of dollars overseas to bail out European banks? That question is at the center of a new Judicial Watch investigation as we continue our effort to force the Obama administration
News that Democrats have threatened to allow “nearly $600 billion worth of tax hikes and spending cuts”–otherwise known as “Taxmageddon” in January may prove to be Barack Obama’s undoing in the Fall. Recent news suggests this is not a popular
A new report from Rep. Darrell Issa’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform entitled “How Countrywide Used its VIP Program to Influence Washington Policymakers” confirms what Judicial Watch has been arguing for several years – that former Senator Chris
People on all sides are demanding more transparency from presumptive GOP presidential candidate Governor Mitt Romney concerning his tax records. Today on Fox & Friends he took that criticism and aimed it towards President Barack Obama’s lack of transparency on
In 1996, Republicans forced through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) bill, also known as welfare reform. It incentivized states to create welfare-to-work programs, trying to transition Americans from government dependency to financial solvency. But states quickly acted to
While the political world watches conservative change agent Ted Cruz and establishment moderate David Dewhurst slug it out in the July 31st U.S. Senate run-off election in Texas, there is another run-off right around the corner where similar dynamics are
Amid the battles various portions of the U.S. military are involved in around the world, there is one in DC raging now between Capital Hill and the Pentagon over the length and methodology of intelligence and analystic reports. This
Republican Mitt Romney has angrily blasted what he called “false” attacks on his time at Bain Capital, but did not cede to demands to release more tax returns that have dogged his White House bid. On Friday, President Barack Obama
(AP) Obama presses Congress again to pass his tax planWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is prodding Congress to “skip the unnecessary drama” and pass his proposal to extend Bush-era tax cuts to families earning less than $250,000 a year but not for
When Democratic Congressman Shelley Berkley spoke to a crowd of supporters at the Painters Union hall in Henderson, Nevada on Friday, she shrugged aside the serious charges of ethical misconduct being investigated by her colleagues in the House of Representatives.
We are told that one of the most “popular” features of the president’s signature “ObamaTax” health insurance law is one that prevents health insurance companies from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. We are told that the ObamaTax will
Now that Congress has passed and the President has signed the highway bill, Buzzfeed is concerned about the loss of as many as 10,000 jobs in the U.S. overseas shipping sector. Former The Hill employee John Stanton seems to have
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), as a former boxer, should know that Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) is on the ropes. The House Oversight Committee voted unanimously to launch a formal investigation into the myriad of ways Berkley has
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told CBS News Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes the Supreme Court health care ruling gave Congress “a super power that we should not have.”
Public officials and pundits are still digesting the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision in NFIB v. Sebelius. Yet to be discussed are the extraordinary implications for the size and role of government in a second Obama term in light of President
Newly-elected Louisiana Tea Party Congressman Jeff Landry showed he was of a different breed when he held up a sign that said “drilling=jobs” during President Barack Obama’s 2011 jobs speech to a joint session of Congress. The gesture angered liberals
When the House of Representatives launched a formal ethics investigation into the activities of Democratic Congressman Shelley Berkley on Monday, it confirmed what most political observers already knew. Shelley Berkley practices crony capitalism, Nevada style. On October 23, 2008, officials
President Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. According to an analysis by The Heritage Foundation the official policy directive “guts the federal work requirements that
Nevada Democrat Rep. Shelley Berkley is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for using her position in Congress to directly favor legislation that would benefit her — and her husband — financially. Berkley is running to unseat Nevada’s Republican
It could be one of the biggest political intelligence coups of the 2012 battle to control Congress. Media Trackers, a conservative investigative watchdog group, discovered nearly three-dozen Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee opposition research notebooks – extensive secretive manuals outlining anything
We can all be thankful that one thing the Supreme Court got right in the Obamacare decision was striking down at least part of the Affordable Care Act’s massive expansion of Medicaid that would reduce the states to a subservient
In mid-June, as Congress refused to pass the DREAM act, Obama went around Congress and announced quasi-amnesty for over 800,000 young illegals in America. When the Supreme Court upheld the portion of Arizona’s immigration law that required police officers to check the
