Bay area residents may soon lose their prestigious Hetch Hetchy tap water with a recently filed lawsuit addressing severe water restrictions. The restrictions have been put on rural Californians and farmers, but have left elite Bay area residents like Nancy
A report published Thursday by the Government Accountability Office found that the Department of Defense violated the law twice when it transferred 5 prisoners from Gitmo without providing notice to Members of Congress. The five prisoners were part of a
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, the Times of Israel reports. Netanyahu reportedly said to Issa: The radical Islamic terrorism now threatens
With their proposals defeated in Congress for now, pro-amnesty activists have dropped off the radar while President Obama considers a major executive action that Republicans have warned could precipitate a constitutional crisis. August recess town halls have also been relatively
Note from Senior Management: Washington’s premier journal for savvy political insiders today called for Congress to issue President Obama a new authorization for use of combat troops in Iraq to engage The Islamic State. We reprint here. When a centrist Democrat, a
West Virginia Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller is one of the wealthiest U.S. senators, having a reported estimated worth north of $100 million. Nonetheless, he makes taxpayers pay for his private charter flights to West Virginia. According to a Washington
On August 20, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the Department of Justice to “produce non-privileged documents” related to Fast and Furious and provide “a detailed list of privileged documents” which have been withheld from Congress. The non-privileged documents
Illinois Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski explained his “present” vote on the recent bill that would have ended President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at a recent town hall meeting. “I don’t want to take away deferred status from
New Age spiritual adviser and author Marianne Williamson turned a lot of heads when she moved to an upscale luxury apartment on the Westside of Los Angeles and announced to her hundreds of thousands of loyal Twitter and Facebook followers
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other top Democrats are increasingly frustrated with how disengaged President Obama is, according an article in the New York Times. The story, by reporters Carl Hulse, Jeremy Peters, and Michael Shear, is the second
After relating a highly amusing incident in which a crestfallen Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was brusquely told by President Obama to deal with Republican leader Mitch McConnell on his own (just try to imagine the expression on the Crypt
Pope Francis hinted during an interview that he might visit Washington, D.C. next year during his trip to the United States. The pontiff acknowledged his previously reported plans to attend the international World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in 2015
To the horror of many in Congress, President Obama has reportedly ordered lifted the 31-year ban preventing Libyan nationals from attending flight schools and studying nuclear science in the United States. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s recent directive reports, “The
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — The U.S. has expanded its air campaign in Iraq with attacks aimed at helping Iraqi forces regain control of the strategic Mosul dam. The White House said President Barack Obama notified Congress Sunday that the widened
As Congress remains in a protracted recess for another three weeks and the political news recedes from the headlines, it didn’t take long for the nonpolitical event surrounding the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, to become political. After all, everything in
Caught using congressional office funds to pay for expensive charter flights to political fundraisers, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) says her office has been reimbursed for the cost of one flight, which she has paid for with campaign funds. Landrieu also
Top Senate Democrats realize that they may lose the Senate if President Barack Obama enacts massive illegal amnesty, but pro-amnesty advocates do not care; they want amnesty now. On Friday, the Fair Immigration Reform Coalition urged Senate Democrats to turn
The Chicago Tribune has warned President Barack Obama that enacting massive executive amnesty would be a “stunt” that could do more harm than good. “The real question isn’t whether he can, but whether he should,” said a Friday Tribune editorial.
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Garry Cobb spent more than a decade as a pro football player tackling opponents on the field. Now, the former Philadelphia Eagles linebacker-turned-radio-personality is taking on one of New Jersey’s most powerful political families in
Sen. Kay Hagan’s (D-NC) position on immigration seems to correlate with how close she is to facing voters at the ballot box. “I oppose amnesty,” Hagan said during a June 21, 2008 debate against then-incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC): We
Country music star Willie Nelson has weighed in on the crisis of unaccompanied minors entering the United States illegally through the southern border. “I’ve been watching, and the only thing we can do is take care of those kids, whatever
Fresh off his primary win and now facing off against Democrat Al Franken, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike McFadden is calling for both Barack Obama and Congress to return to Washington to deal with the ongoing immigration crisis, as well
A year after insisting that Congress must pass comprehensive amnesty legislation, Cisco announced Wednesday that it would lay off another 6,000 workers, about 8% of its workforce. According to BizJournals, Cisco has previously announced that “it would lay off 4,000
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to bring the Senate back from recess immediately and allow an up-or-down vote on the two House-passed border crisis bills. “We have a true crisis at our southern
Since July 22, when a federal appeals court panel dealt a potentially major blow to Obamacare by ruling that participants in health exchanges run by the federal government in 34 states are not eligible for billions of dollars in tax
