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Hillary Clinton has worked her way back in the news by making racially-charged remarks to the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco. There is, she claimed, an ongoing “assault on voting rights.”  But the only “assault” going on

Parents and educators in New York were shocked last week when student test scores plummeted following the state’s adoption of the Common Core national standards. Even prior to the adoption of the new standards, however, test results were, to many,

Breitbart News is featuring an ongoing series highlighting the philosophical and policy outlooks of two great American leaders, Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) and Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). This conversation is less of a debate between the modern left and right, than one

Student test scores on New York state exams plummeted this year following the state’s adoption of the Common Core national standards. According to the New York Times, in New York City, 26 percent of students in third through eighth grade

Heritage Action, a conservative non-profit social welfare organization affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, announced last week it will be holding nine town halls throughout the month of August focused on efforts to defund Obamacare in the upcoming Continuing Resolution (CR).

On Fox News Sunday, Heritage Foundation President and former South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint said Al Qaeda “may be more of a threat to us than they were before before 9/11” because they perceive President Barack Obama to be a

While a new study shows four-in-five Americans will now face near-poverty and economic insecurity in their lifetime, President Barack Obama is pushing for a comprehensive immigration bill that the Congressional Budget Office determined would devastate the wages of working class

Carlos Gutierrez, who was former President George W. Bush’s Commerce Secretary and now a co-founder of a super PAC actively trying to get an immigration bill passed, recently said that bankrupt Detroit should be a “test case” for comprehensive immigration reform. 

Politico reported that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will issue a ruling next week that will allow the federal government to subsidize the insurance plans Congressmen and their aides will be forced to buy on government healthcare exchanges due

In Virginia’s first gubernatorial debate, Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Virginians, at a minimum, have a right to demand that candidates running for governor should have some record of commitment to the state before they decide to run. As documented

Georgia has now joined the states of Alabama, Utah, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania in withdrawing from the national Common Core tests. With this latest state withdrawal, the program appears to be in danger of unraveling. According to Politico, now that the new

Though most states in the country adopted “Common Core” education standards in 2010, many American parents still know little about them. At the same time that teachers’ unions have joined forces with the institutional left on many issues, and more

Later this month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is slated to visit New York to stump for an immigration bill as part of the bipartisan Becoming America tour. Among Cantor’s stops: Ellis Island, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and

House Republican Leadership will not be voting on the Senate’s immigration bill, opting instead to tackle the issue in five smaller legislative chunks. One of the five immigration bills (H.R. 1417) is the lower chamber’s border security legislation, which was introduced

President Obama’s campaign supporters received the video below from the White House on Thursday, one that claims that immigration reform will result in a 5.4% growth in GDP because “highly skilled” workers and “entrepreneurs” will add to the country’s economic

Though the mainstream media hardly covered the commemoration of Pickett’s Charge on the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg, which one historian said “forged” modern America, thousands of Americans battled inclement weather and unbearable traffic to pay homage at Gettysburg on Wednesday.

House Oversight Committee members Chairman Darrell Issa, (R-CA), James Lankford (R-OK), and Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking for further information about Obamacare implementation in regards to the recent “small business mandates.”  These

Conservatives have drawn a bull’s eye on the immigration bill passed by the US Senate, insisting the landmark measure will fail as is and vowing political retribution against Republicans who voted for it. The bipartisan immigration reform bill passed 68-32