
On October 26, the International Association of Chiefs of Police met in Chicago for their annual conference where they dropped their push for longer prison sentences and refocused their attention on passing more gun control.
by AWR Hawkins26 Oct 2015, 8:11 PM PST0

Gallup’s latest poll finds the much-demonized National Rifle Association with far higher approval ratings than two of its most prominent assailants: President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The NRA had a 58 percent approval rating, far higher than Obama’s 45 percent or Clinton’s 41 percent.
by John Hayward23 Oct 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

After a few weeks of hand-wringing over the horrors of “politicized” Benghazi hearings, based entirely on the foolish words of Rep. Kevin McCarthy – who had nothing to do with those hearings – and a disgruntled ex-staffer of dubious portfolio, the media is suddenly very happy with Democrats politicizing the hell out of those hearings.
by John Hayward22 Oct 2015, 7:26 AM PST0

The Democratic National Committee has formally invited the anti-police Black Lives Matter to host a presidential town hall. It’s the latest move by the Democrats to kowtow to a movement whose hero Assata Shakur is currently on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list.
by Lee Stranahan21 Oct 2015, 7:07 PM PST0

For the first time in almost three years, President Obama has risen above 50 percent in his approval rating by striking 51 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. The latest rating is a hike from Obama’s lowest rating
by Warner Todd Huston19 Oct 2015, 7:33 PM PST0

Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Sessions and Congressman Dave Brat issued a challenge to Republican presidential hopefuls in a joint op-ed titled, “Curb immigration or quit.”
by Julia Hahn19 Oct 2015, 5:46 PM PST0

The latest Gallup poll shows strong support for more restrictions on guns sales among Democrats and non-gun owners, and increasing support among Independent voters.
by AWR Hawkins19 Oct 2015, 7:58 AM PST0

Republican New York Rep. Richard Hanna’s congressional opponent in his home state said that Hanna is criticizing the House Benghazi Committee in an effort to gain Democratic support when he runs for re-election or to earn a Hillary Clinton administration post if he doesn’t run for re-election.
by Patrick Howley15 Oct 2015, 7:54 PM PST0

Because Democrats are so rarely asked to qualify their support for abortion, they don’t have good answers to even the most obvious questions.
by John Sexton15 Oct 2015, 5:43 PM PST0

Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz declared the Democratic presidential debate “an audition for who would wear the jackboot most vigorously” in a statement broadcast on Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Cruz said, “Last night
by Ian Hanchett14 Oct 2015, 4:58 PM PST0

When his Democratic opponents were ranting about how the United States should not have gone to Iraq, recycling talking points from the first few years of the last decade, Jim Webb, the former U.S. Senator from Virginia, articulated a vision for the future of America’s role in the world.
by Jordan Schachtel14 Oct 2015, 7:07 AM PST0

The climate models used by alarmist scientists to predict global warming are getting worse, not better; carbon dioxide does far more good than harm; and President Obama has backed the “wrong side” in the war on “climate change.” So says one of
by James Delingpole13 Oct 2015, 5:26 AM PST0

A Pew Research Center poll finds Pope Francis’ recent visit to the United States has generated positive views about the Catholic Church, particularly among Democrats and liberals.
by Dr. Susan Berry11 Oct 2015, 5:27 AM PST0

Over the weekend, Democratic nominee for President Bernie Sanders rejected the idea of a U.S.-secured no-fly zone in Syria, opposing the proposal laid out by fellow contender Hillary Clinton when it comes to Mid East policy.
by Jordan Schachtel5 Oct 2015, 6:41 PM PST0

The top politicians of the Massachusetts Democratic party, most of whom are female, are adamantly refusing to denounce a Teamsters local union long tied to organized crime, even after five of its members were charged in a federal indictment last week with running their own personal War Against Women.
by Howie Carr5 Oct 2015, 9:49 AM PST0

Vice President Joe Biden has had the Democrats on the edge of their seats over his decision whether or not to run for president, and now, insiders close to the Veep are saying he may decide in the next week.
by Warner Todd Huston5 Oct 2015, 6:19 AM PST0

The continuing resolution keeps the government open at current funding levels through December 11, providing lawmakers more time to negotiate a final budget deal. Additionally, over the protestations of many conservative Republicans, the legislation funds Planned Parenthood. It averts a shutdown as the new fiscal year begins Thursday.
by Caroline May30 Sep 2015, 2:32 PM PST0

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has left the Democratic Party and joined the GOP, saying that the Democratic party abandoned her.
by William Bigelow28 Sep 2015, 6:40 AM PST0

When news of GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner’s resignation filtered into the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal used the occasion to call for GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell to follow the Speaker into retirement.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Sep 2015, 10:13 PM PST0

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats protected President Obama from having to veto a bill that would have made it illegal to murder an unborn child after the 20th week of fetal development.
by Ben Shapiro22 Sep 2015, 5:38 PM PST0

Republican politicians have spent so long living in an environment controlled by the leftist media that they believe every narrative will be turned to their disadvantage. This is why Republican leadership buys into the idiotic notion that if Republicans fund the entire federal government except Planned Parenthood, and Obama then refuses to sign the budget, they will be blamed for the shutdown. That is not fully true.
by Ben Shapiro21 Sep 2015, 12:07 PM PST0

Some Democrats in the California Assembly are bucking the leftist tide of their party by voting down or stopping bills cherished by those wishing to spend more and more money.
by William Bigelow13 Sep 2015, 3:06 PM PST0

On September 11, The Huffington Post reflected on how southern Democrats used gun control—and their resulting superior firepower—as a de facto means of suppressing post-Civil War blacks, thereby maintaining a society where “average citizens” lived in the shadow of their “betters,” in clear violation of the 14th Amendment.
by AWR Hawkins12 Sep 2015, 7:43 AM PST0

The Black Lives Matter movement is “the lie of the summer,” says an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Jason Riley of the Manhattan Institute.
by Lee Stranahan9 Sep 2015, 6:57 PM PST0

In a stunning show of chutzpah, a group of some 93 Democrats signed a letter to Pope Francis outlining the talking points they would like him to touch upon in his address to the U.S. Congress on September 24.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.8 Sep 2015, 7:37 AM PST0