David Corn of Mother Jones has assembled a number of clips from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over the years criticizing former President Ronald Reagan for the budgets he signed into law. In some cases, Paul declared Reagan worse on budgetary
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) believes the country’s illegal immigrants should be given work visas and be allowed to remain in the United States. The potential 2016 presidential contender spoke at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago on
Eric Cantor has never been closer to wielding the speaker’s gavel, but he may want to keep an eye over his right shoulder. As speculation heats up about whether Speaker John Boehner will return in 2015, Cantor is in the
In light of a report that found that America’s middle class is no longer the world’s richest, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has been a relentless champion for the American worker in the immigration debate, blasted President Barack Obama and
Judicial Watch announced a major find recently in its independent investigation of the Obama IRS scandal, in which the IRS improperly targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny when applying for tax-exempt status. Perhaps more than any other government official, former
It’s never to early to play the race card in an election year for former House Speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi. Today Pelosi took to Twitter to do that very thing using a Pew Research Center survey to make her point.
“Imperial Presidency” perfectly describes what the Obama administration has become as it increasingly violates the limits on its power defined by the U.S. Constitution. Criticisms of how President Obama is overstepping his authority are now being heard from all sides
In his New York Times bestseller Throw Them All Out, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer revealed how former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) entered Congress with modest means and emerged a millionaire by brokering
Former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert, now a K Street lobbyist, is gathering with several Chicago Republicans for a public event aimed at yet again building support in Washington for amnesty, Roll Call reports. Hastert, now a lobbyist for
During an April 20th appearance on ABC’s This Week, former justice John Paul Stevens said each of his proposals to change the Constitution – including his proposal to change the Second Amendment – “is a moderate proposal.” On April 11th Breitbart News reported that
Democrats have a one percent chance of winning a majority in the House of Representatives, according to one Washington Post forecasting model. John Sides, an Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, put together an election forecasting model
The Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments Tuesday in the case of Susan B. Anthony List v. Steve Driehaus. SBA List is petitioning the high court to allow its First Amendment challenge to Ohio’s “false statement”
U.S. Attorney General Holder was clearly inferring racism especially given the room at the National Action Network which included one of America’s top race baiters, Al Sharpton. Democrats are pushing a racism narrative in a cynical, divisive election year political
American citizens born in Jerusalem have the legal right to have “Israel,” listed on their passports as their place of birth, according to a law Congress enacted in 2002. The Obama administration–and the Bush administration before it–refused to implement that provision,
Scandal happens. Larry Craig, Anthony Weiner, Trey Radel, Vance McAllister–and on and on and on. We know what happens to them, but what happens to the 20-30-something staffers who wake up one morning, suddenly out of a job? When the
Montana state Senator Matt Rosendale (R-Glendale) is running for U.S. Congress and is currently airing a commercial in which he shoots down a government drone and pledges to “get Washington out of our lives.” The commercial opens with a drone
Democrat Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) told the Boston Herald last week Obamacare will cost Democrats dearly in the upcoming midterm elections. “We will lose seats in the House,” said Lynch. “And I think we may lose the Senate. I think
Our immigration system is broken. Few would disagree. The political debate over immigration reform over the past decade has centered on legalization (also called amnesty) versus border security, and both sides are dug in. Liberals believe they cannot achieve their
A prominent black member of Congress and a longtime civil rights leader accused the Clinton White House of racially profiling him when he tried to meet Vice President Al Gore in 1993. As documents the Clinton Library released on Friday
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the only thing that could stop America from becoming the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas and using its energy profits to pay down the debt is the federal government getting in the
The White House quietly announced that President Obama signed Senator Ted Cruz’s anti-terrorist ambassador bill into law. The bill was written to prevent the admission into the United States, any representative to the United Nations who has engaged in espionage
The Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a rule that would, if implemented, guarantee that even more Americans who like their health insurance plans cannot keep them. Fixed indemnity plans, which pay insured customers a set amount towards
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is “hellbent” on passing amnesty legislation, and other GOP leaders are signaling to donors and lobbyists that they also want to pass legislation this Congress, even though attempting to do so would depress the GOP
Writing at the American Thinker, Raymond Ibrahim examines the phenomenon of the radicalization of Muslims in the Western world. A new Danish statistical study finds that “Muslims [are] 218 percent more criminal in second generation than first.” While some of these crimes
Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI) says her constituents are “frustrated and embarrassed” by Hawaii’s failed Obamacare exchange, which cost taxpayers $204 million and signed up only 8,000 people. On Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced it will launch an investigation
