On Tuesday in Milton, Texas, 41 year old Jesus Flores-Cruz was shot and killed after he threw large rocks at a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The agent claims his life was being threatened. Flores-Cruz, a Mexican citizen who investigators claim
In a speech marking the five-year anniversary of his $831 billion economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that his plan, passed one month into his presidency, succeeded and that his critics were proven wrong and “have had
Both U.S. Senators from Texas, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, grilled U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Wednesday over federal abuses in scrutiny of Tea Party organizations across the U.S. Sen. Cruz focused on the IRS, and Sen. Cornyn focused on
TEXAS — The Dallas Morning News ran a headline titled: ” Despite Tea Party Grumbling, John Cornyn in Good Shape In GOP Primary.” The headline was accurate, as Senator John Cornyn is indeed doing well in the primary and will
In tonight’s State of the Union Address, President Obama will no doubt make an eloquent case for his second-term agenda. There’s just one problem: The President’s credibility has been shattered. Indeed, on issue after issue, we see a massive gap between rhetoric
Dwayne Stovall, a Tea Party candidate challenging Senator John Cornyn for his seat in the United States Senate, has brought the controversial aspects of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into the primary race. Stovall is not alone in challenging Senator Cornyn
Like Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), the GOP primary challenger to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), has exempted his staff from Obamacare. In late October, the Washington Times reported that Stockman “said his staff unanimously
On Monday, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate, and will challenge incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the GOP primary. However, newly uncovered information about his financial background and disclosures may cloud his candidacy for the
During his Google Hangout Senator John Cornyn “I think the current administration the has taken lying to a new level. To me, that’s the one thing that I find most aggravating about what’s happening in Washington these days. Particularly about
Two illegal aliens have been indicted for allegedly assaulting a federal officer from the U.S. Border Patrol and causing bodily injury. One of the suspects is a Mexican national and the other an Ecuadoran national. The Mexican national is also
The U.S. Border Patrol has come under an unprecedented level of attack as of late from predominantly left-of-center open-borders advocates. U.S. Senator John Cornyn wasted no time in speaking up for the men and women serving as Border Patrol agents.
Whatever one thinks of Obamacare, it is now clear that the law was sold under false pretenses. When Congress was debating health-care reform back in 2009 and 2010, President Obama and his Democratic allies repeatedly promised the American people
On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said felons could be Obamacare navigators that help Americans attempt to enroll in Obamacare and obtain sensitive personal information about enrollees. During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told Breitbart News on Monday that the Obama administration’s decision to block publication Operation Fast and Furious whistleblower John Dodson’s book is troubling. In response to the attempt to block the book’s publication
On CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) says President Obama “has been AWOL” on negotiating a deal with GOP leaders.
Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R -TX) was verbally beaten up by his own constituents on his FaceBook page for voting for cloture and allowing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – NV) to throw out an amendment that would strip
Monday evening, GOP Minority Leader announced that he would oppose a proposed filibuster from Sens. Cruz and Lee to block the House Continuing Resolution from reaching the Senate floor. McConnell’s opposition was echoed by John Cornyn, number 2 in GOP
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Sept. 4 (UPI) — Officials said Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan was shaved after his move to death row and Texas legislators proposed a new compensation bill for shooting victims. Hasan, who was convicted in the 2009
Republican lawmakers are running away from town halls in August. In a New York Times piece about the frustrations of one citizen activist in Texas, some prominent Republicans who have not held an August town hall are listed. They include: Rep.
Rep. John Carter (R-TX), who is working with four Democrats and two other Republicans to draft a “comprehensive immigration reform” bill in the House, said he believed it was impossible to fully secure the border. According to The Hill, Carter
In a press release issued Friday, U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Republican Whip John Cornyn (R-TX), disturbed by the Obama administration’s courting of the heads of the six major professional sports organization to sell Obamacare to the
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said on Wednesday that the immigration bill is “chockfull of de facto earmarks, pork-barrel spending and special interest sweetners” designed to buy support. One such provision involves language slipped into the bill by Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and
Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) ripped Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s rush to bring the new version of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill across the finish line without transparency in a Senate floor speech on Monday. “On
While working with his fellow “Gang of Eight” member Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to attempt to defeat a border security amendment offered by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed America’s borders could never be secured. “No border
