Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room,” former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the director and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center, said President Barack Obama needs to “say more and do more” to address the treat of ISIS. Harman, the CEO of
President Obama insists that he still plans to make an executive decision on immigration reform, but his timeline for action grows increasingly convoluted. Obama and his team spent most of the summer previewing his executive action on immigration reform, vowing
On Tuesday, the Louisiana Republican Party filed a complaint with the Select Committee on Ethics of the U.S. Senate over Senator Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) use of taxpayer funds to pay for charter flights taken to campaign events. It is against
Throughout his political career, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was closely tied to Wall Street bankers. Cantor helped the financial industry in Congress, and Wall Street executives returned the favor by flocking to his many fundraisers for Republican candidates.
President Obama delivered a fiery speech at Laborfest 2014 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin voicing support for unions and organized labor. He also voiced his support for “immigration rights,” lumping it together with civil rights, gay rights, and voting rights. During his
Control of the US Senate largely hinges on the outcome of election in 12 states. In half of these contests, the Democrat candidate is the scion of rich political legacies. In their own way, these contests will test the proposition
BEIJING (AP) — China’s legislature on Sunday ruled out allowing open nominations in the inaugural election for Hong Kong’s leader, saying they would create a “chaotic society.” Democracy activists in the Asian financial hub responded by saying that a long-threatened
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Pro-democracy activists vowed on Sunday to bring Hong Kong’s financial hub to a standstill after China’s parliament rejected their demands for the right to freely choose the former British colony’s next leader in 2017. The Standing
In his Labor Day weekend weekly address, President Barack Obama uses the occasion to make another plea for a high minimum wage. Transcript as follows: Hi, everybody. Whether you’re firing up the grill, fired up for some college football, or
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit reinstated a case brought against Planned Parenthood of the Heartland in Iowa by one of its former employees who alleges the abortion giant defrauded and abused taxpayer funds. Susan Thayer, a
Two protesters were arrested at a pro-family conference on Saturday in Melbourne, Australia. ABC News reported 50 demonstrators attended the event, despite critics’ previous promise that thousands of protesters would block the entrances. The event is a regional conference of
Barack Obama’s Democrats are walking a tightrope 10 weeks before US congressional elections: do they solicit the unpopular president’s support or shun him as they try to maintain their Senate majority? The president’s party is in a pickle with an
Transcript as follows: President Obama’s outrageously unconstitutional behavior just keeps accumulating. The latest example is a rumored intention to use his “pen and phone” to circumvent bipartisan congressional opposition to his radical “climate change” agenda. Reportedly, the President will assert
If President Obama moves forward with executive amnesty it would send the country into a “constitutional crisis” that would require Republicans have all possible tools at their disposal to confront it, according to Iowa Republican Steve King. “Anything that unconstitutionally
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest argued Friday that the Obama administration has made great strides to confront the crisis of unaccompanied minors illegally entering the United States. “For now,” Earnest told reporters when asked if the crisis of unaccompanied
AUSTIN, Texas — At a panel discussion organized by the Texas Public Policy Foundation at the Texas Capitol Wednesday, National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) Vice President Shawn Moran shared his thoughts about the current challenges facing border patrol agents —
As the demand for copper increases, an growing number of copper crooks are taking to California’s streets by disguising themselves as legitimate construction workers, wearing safety vests and driving white trucks to gain access to homes, vacant properties, and industrial
In an interview with Money and Markets podcaster Charles Goyette posted a week ago, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discussed some of the undisclosed information by the U.S. government surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In that discussion, Paul
Answering a last-minute question after making remarks on the ongoing crises abroad, President Obama reiterated his commitment to moving forward unilaterally to make America’s immigration system “work better.” “It continues to be my belief that if I can’t see congressional
Before leaving for New York for a series of fundraisers, President Obama held a press conference at the White House to discuss his lack of strategy on Syria. Obama told reporters that his strategy was still developing, and that he
IRS data on internal migration showing how many people have moved to and from which states generally shows people leaving high-taxed states and states with high unemployment to states doing better in those categories. Now Obama’s IRS is seeking to
Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar blasted the Department of Homeland Security Thursday for its lack of responsiveness to his multiple inquiries about the Department’s transfer of illegal immigrants throughout the interior of the United States. Describing the Department’s stonewalling to
This article originally appeared in The Des Moines Register. Republicans in Congress got burned in opinion polls after the 2013 government shutdown. Some, however, including Iowa’s U.S. Rep. Steve King, are already getting out the matches for another round. Congress
On Wednesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly criticized Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) on two grounds — for his tack toward Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto as a U.S. Marine sergeant is being held in Mexico and for his policies
Former President Jimmy Carter is the featured keynote speaker at this weekend’s Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention at Detroit’s Cobo Hall. The Justice Department recently implicated ISNA, which claims to be America’s largest Muslim organization, as the lead conduit
