
On May 18, Administration officials announced President Obama will ban the federal provision of some types of military-style equipment to local police departments. His across-the-board peace-making slash isn’t taking account of the cartel war faced by local police departments on the southwest border every day.
by Sylvia Longmire20 May 2015, 6:20 AM PST0

Sen. Marco Rubio’s interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday was supposedly a disaster for the GOP presidential candidate.
by John Hayward19 May 2015, 9:07 PM PST0

Snoop Dogg is ready for Hillary.
by Daniel Nussbaum19 May 2015, 4:18 PM PST0

In a speech in South Korea, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Internet needs heavier regulations to “be able to flourish and work properly.”
by Warner Todd Huston18 May 2015, 8:13 PM PST0

On Monday, President Obama debuted (again) on Twitter, starting a new account with a banner photo featuring the POTUS, First Lady Michelle, the couple’s two lovely daughters, and… Al Sharpton. Cropped out of the photo were Laura and George W. Bush.
by Warner Todd Huston18 May 2015, 7:23 PM PST0

Jay-Z and Beyoncé quietly donated tens of thousands of dollars to pay bail for protesters arrested in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, according to an author and collaborator close to the couple.
by Daniel Nussbaum18 May 2015, 8:59 AM PST0

The 39 California Democrat members of the House of Representatives almost unanimously oppose Barack Obama’s request for fast-track trade promotion authority, which would expedite his desire to pass the 12-nation Asian trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Sacramento Bee reports.
by William Bigelow17 May 2015, 11:30 AM PST0

Martin O’Malley, a likely Democrat primary opponent for Hillary Clinton, is saying that America’s city residents have become worse off during the entirety of Obama’s years in the White House. During a campaign trip through New Hampshire, O’Malley, a former
by Warner Todd Huston13 May 2015, 7:29 PM PST0

What has President Obama done to earn my trust and the trust of the American people over the past six years? The answer: nothing.
by Rep. Jeff Duncan12 May 2015, 10:22 AM PST0

The intellectual elites at the New York Times Editorial Board have weighed in on what should happen “Beyond the Iran Nuclear Deal,” when President Obama is finished securing a nuclear deal with the Ayatollah’s theocratic regime in Tehran.
by Jordan Schachtel11 May 2015, 8:41 PM PST0

By now, it is beyond cliché to point out the many ways in which President Barack Obama abandons his former positions when they become politically inconvenient. His reversal on free trade, however, stands out because it is the one reversal that faces significant opposition from within his own party, and specifically from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Recently Obama said that “Elizabeth is a politician just like everybody else.” That would, presumably, include Obama himself.
by Joel B. Pollak10 May 2015, 2:28 PM PST0

Barack Obama makes a habit of castigating police for their misbehavior, and by his actions, it could easily be assumed that he is disinterested in engendering any sympathy for police, even those killed in the line of duty, while he fans the flames of anti-police rage by honoring those killed by police.
by William Bigelow8 May 2015, 6:23 PM PST0

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is celebrating the news a federal appeals court rejected President Barack Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) data collection program on Thursday.
by Matthew Boyle7 May 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

Democratic Congressman Ami Bera, who represents California’s tightly-contested 7th district in eastern Sacramento County, has been accused of plagiarizing in an op-ed he wrote for the Sacramento Bee on Sunday, according to the Bee. In the column, Bera supported a Trade Promotion Authority bill giving Barack Obama “fast-track” authority to negotiate a trade deal.
by William Bigelow6 May 2015, 11:48 AM PST0

With hundreds of thousands of parents refusing the Common Core-aligned tests for their children, Wall Street Journal contributor Jason Riley says the “soccer mom” opt-out movement has the momentum and is determined to win its fight.
by Dr. Susan Berry5 May 2015, 10:03 PM PST0

On Saturday at South Carolina Republican Party’s annual convention, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who recently won two straw polls in two of South Carolina’s biggest counties, forcefully attacked big business for its collusion with the Democratic Party in attacking Indiana’s religious liberty law. He also slammed the Obama administration for its intrusion on Americans’s liberty.
by William Bigelow3 May 2015, 5:03 PM PST0

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is sounding the alarm to his colleagues Senate-wide, warning them and the American public with a “critical alert” published Sunday evening that voting for the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) deal that would set up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal with Asian countries is fraught with problems and concerns.
by Matthew Boyle3 May 2015, 4:25 PM PST0

Electronic music pioneer Moby (real name Richard Melville Hall) went on quite the Twitter tirade on Saturday, railing against “racist, xenophobic, ignorant” Republicans who “support war” and “hate immigrants.
by Daniel Nussbaum3 May 2015, 12:24 PM PST0

Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders raised $1.5 million on his first official day as a candidate, and that’s more than most, if not all, top-tier Republicans raised.
by Dan Riehl1 May 2015, 8:40 PM PST0

Gwen Keyes Fleming—who will now be leading ICE’s legal team when it comes to immigration law enforcement—has had a lengthy legal career, but no official experience whatsoever in immigration law.
by Matthew Boyle29 Apr 2015, 1:00 PM PST0

A video has surfaced on Facebook of a group of about 12 Cuban refugees halfway through their voyage to Miami on a tiny motorboat, displaying their rudimentary navigation technology and hoping to make it ashore in America “with luck.”
by Frances Martel29 Apr 2015, 7:18 AM PST0

While race riots tear Baltimore apart due to concerns about local law enforcement, protests against President Barack Obama’s administration’s alleged sexual and racial abuses against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are emerging in the San Diego area.
by Matthew Boyle28 Apr 2015, 2:03 PM PST0

The United States has announced a program to help the Colombian government rebuild areas of the country ravaged by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terror group whose half-century of violence in the nation’s rural areas has significantly hindered the nation’s progress.
by Frances Martel28 Apr 2015, 7:43 AM PST0

Several times I’ve written for The American Spectator on the person of David Axelrod, the figure most responsible for giving America two terms of Barack Obama. My first piece was a cover feature for the March 2012 print edition, titled, “David Axelrod, Lefty Lumberjack.”
by Breitbart News28 Apr 2015, 6:02 AM PST0

Wimbledon decided to ban selfie sticks from the prestigious tournament at the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC). They join numerous museums and other tourist attractions to ban the stick.
by Mary Chastain27 Apr 2015, 12:07 PM PST0