The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism has Undermined the Middle Class is one of the most important books written about American politics in the past fifty years. The author, Fred Siegel, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for
Conservative activists caught political operatives working for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by surprise on his own front porch on Monday evening, storming their way to victory against the GOP establishment in Virginia at a local party meeting. Around 5:45
A taxpayer-supported conference that trains teachers of public schools and universities how to “dismantle” the “white privilege” and “white supremacy” in American schools being held in Wisconsin refused to allow a reporter to attend its sessions, claiming that the conference
In another sign that Democrats are worried that the 2014 midterm elections may resemble the 2010 midterms in which the Tea Party movement gave the GOP historic gains, Vice President Joe Biden sent out a fundraising email Sunday imploring Democrats
Taking aim at Texas’ oil and gas production, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intent to place the lesser prairie chicken on the list of “threatened species” in May. The threatened species list is one step below the
On March 29th Breitbart News sat down with KnifeRights.org founder Doug Ritter. We discussed the growing efforts to stop and/or repeal knife control and ways in which knife control and gun control intersect. We asked Ritter, “So how do laws banning or
Ronald Reagan famously once said: “We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money.” With Democrats looking like they may lose
The Hill reports that House Republicans have introduced legislation to block the Obama Administration’s move to hand Internet oversight over to an as-yet non-existent international entity: “America shouldn’t surrender its leadership on the world stage to a ‘multistakeholder model’ that’s
With gun control defeated in 2013 and unlikely to make any headway with the 2014 elections forcing Democrats to tack to the center, many citizens are lining up to push back laws restricting knife ownership. The battle is being led by
Senator Marco Rubio took to the Senate floor Thursday to bring the anti-socialist cause in Venezuela to the fore of the nation yet again, detailing the atrocities of the Nicolás Maduro regime and announcing that he is crafting a bill
In remarks to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) vowed to fight for amnesty as long as he is a breathing United States Senator. “I will never ever, while I’m alive and breathing as U.S.
The Obama Administration screamed during the government shutdown last October that cutting federal spending would tank the economy and lead to higher unemployment, but the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that despite a huge 4.6% quarterly cut in federal spending over
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) pandered Thursday that getting comprehensive immigration reform passed is more important than winning seats in Congress in 2014. GOP members think that Pelosi is cynically using the failure of any passage of comprehensive immigration
Alec Baldwin is back in the news despite his vow earlier this year to retreat from public life. The combustible actor is executive producing a new documentary on veteran liberal politician Barney Frank, the first openly gay member of Congress.
Connecticut’s Democrat-led legislature voted Wednesday to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 by 2017, as called for by President Obama who wants to do the same at the federal level. As reported by CT News Junkie, the state Senate
Rep. Richard Hannah (R-NY) is just asking for a primary challenge. In September, he was one of only two Republicans who voted against a bill to delay the implementation of Obamacare for a year. In March of 2012, speaking at
A group of conservative House Republicans put a Medicare “doc fix” bill in mortal peril with their objections – but then acquiesced to a plan from GOP leadership to pass it without a vote. The vote was repeatedly delayed this
On Tuesday, Reid announced he would reimburse his campaign, Friends of Harry Reid, the $17,000 they gave his granddaughter for “holiday gifts,” but the Federal Election Commission is not satisfied. A spokeswoman for the FEC acknowledged that Reid’s plan to reimburse
The political fallout from the disastrous ObamaCare rollout has Obama and Democrats scrambling to dust-off their 2006 playbook and make a minimum wage hike central to their election efforts this Fall. While Democrats now express great moral urgency, remember that
On Wednesday, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum said he was “very open” to another presidential run. When asked whether the door was still open to a 2016 run on “Iowa Press,” which is a show on Iowa Public Television, Santorum
Cable and satellite TV distributors (Pay-TV) have secretly declared war on local TV stations who broadcast television programming for free over the air (Free-TV). Pay-TV has chosen a free market flag as its standard and marched into battles over the
An Obamacare navigator tells the Chicago Tribune that the much-feared Obamacare penalty is not something most people should worry about. The Tribune says Community Counseling Centers of Chicago navigator Tim van Alstyne said, “he tells people that between the state’s
After House Democrats filed a discharge petition on Wednesday to try to force a vote on comprehensive amnesty legislation, President Barack Obama praised the bill as one that would “make sure everyone plays by the same rules,” even though it
When House Republicans penned their Pledge to America in 2010, they convinced American voters they would advance a conservative agenda if they regained control of the House that year. Four years later, what promises have they actually delivered? ObamaCare is
Forced by the Federal Election Commission to explain where $17,000 from his campaign went, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid acknowledged giving the money to his granddaughter for “holiday gifts” in late 2013, and finally reimbursed the money to his campaign.
