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President Barack Obama is campaigning against a Republican Congress he is trying to blame for his policy failures. However, his campaign’s co-chair may have revealed Obama and Democrats’ true intentions by making a so-called “Kinsley gaffe” in which someone mistakenly

Holder has until Thursday to release the documents that he’s hiding relating to Operation Fast and Furious, or the House will vote on the recommendation that he be held in contempt of Congress. Holder is caught between the proverbial rock and hard

Holder has until Thursday to release the documents that he’s withholding relating to Operation Fast and Furious, or the House will vote on the recommendation that he be held in contempt of Congress. Holder is caught between the proverbial rock and hard

After the 2012 election, conservatives in Congress will likely again be on the ascendency. And if Mitt Romney wins the presidency, conservatives will not have a veto threat hanging over their heads. But as a new generation of conservatives and

Some Republican leaders have made the mistake of saying that President Obama’s invocation of executive privilege over Attorney General Eric Holder is an admission that the White House has been involved in Operation Fast and Furious. The reality is that

Congresswoman Sandy Adams (R) FL-24 released a statement this evening in response to today’s swatting of blogger Aaron Walker: With the increase in these dangerous incidents, it is clear that our citizens and law enforcement officers are at risk. I

Major provisions of Arizona’s S.B. 1070 were held unenforceable by the Supreme Court because they conflict with federal law, though the Court unanimously upheld its most controversial provision. So the biggest immigration case in U.S. history was a mixed result,

Though the 2-to-1 margin is higher than I expected, there was little doubt President Obama’s decision to invoke executive privilege to prevent the release of documents that might shed some light in the Fast and Furious scandal was a bad

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), who leads the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), has refused to condemn the antisemitism of Democrat congressional candidate Charles Barron. Moreover, Cleaver and the CBC are staying neutral in the New York congressional primary tomorrow between Barron and

Reckoning day is quickly approaching for the debacle known as Fast and Furious – not soon enough for the family of CBP Agent Brian Terry and many other victims of the doomed federal gun sting operation – but it will come. People

In the ongoing merger between the Obama campaign and the Obama administration, the White House just sent out an e-mail to its supporters championing a new website that will tell you if you qualify for refinancing under President Obama’s new

Liz Fowler, a presidential adviser who helped develop Obamacareduring her time on Capitol Hill, spoke at a high profile conference ofdoctors in April. Other speakers included HHS Secretary KathleenSebelius, former CMS Director Donald Berwick, and Jon Carson, Director ofWhite House

Darrell Issa, the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Sunday that next week there will be a floor vote holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, and, quite surprisingly, it will be a bipartisan effort. “I

In a speech Sunday night before Denver Democrats, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) challenged the Tea Party to a smackdown:  “We cannot allow the opportunities that America stands for to beeroded by those who simply want to bring this president down,”

You can’t call Fox News Commentator and Senior Political Analyst Britt Hume a shill for the Republican Party, especially after slapping the Republicans for having a brand name that is in “terrible shape” on the June 24 episode of Fox

The G20, comprised of the leaders of the twenty most powerful economies in the world, met in Los Cabos, Mexico last week for a scheduled meeting to discuss global financial issues.  This meeting was particularly important due to the debt

Nothing galvanized and united conservatives more than President Barack Obama’s overreach on Obamacare. During the 2012 Republican presidential primary, Obamacare was an albatross around Mitt Romney’s neck and may still be, because many of Obamacare’s provisions — such as the

When President Barack Obama announced his administration would not deport illegal immigrants under 30 years of age who came to the country as children, he “bigfooted” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who had been working behind the scenes in Congress on

Almost immediately after the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress, Democrats and mainstream media personalities flooded the airwaves with accusations of racism, election-year politics, and GOP attempts to get rid of Holder

Last month Senator Marco Rubio introduced the RAISE Actin Congress. The RAISE Act has a very simple goal: “To amend theNational Labor Relations Act to permit employers to pay higher wages totheir employees.” You might think that this would be