Sugary drinks could soon have a warning label printed on them, if a California bill designed to address the Golden State’s growing diabetes epidemic passes in the Senate. Senate Bill 1000 is slated for voting this week, according to California Healthline.
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced new initiatives to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning opportunities, but his push for massive amnesty legislation and more guest-worker visas may be setting up young Americans, especially those from low-income backgrounds,
Is it a campaign flier for Majority Eric Leader Eric Cantor, or Rep. Steve King (R-IA)? Cantor, whose primary race against a political newcomer, Randolph Macon economic professor David Brat, has improbably garnered national attention, has sent thousands of voters
Mariem Yahya Ibrahim, the 27-year old Sudanese Christian doctor who was sentenced to death for apostasy, gave birth to a baby girl in Omdurman Women’s Prison in Khartoum on May 27, 2014. The baby, the daughter of Ibrahim and her
Senator Ted Crux (R-TX) was in Israel Monday. The Senator from Texas spoke of the need to stand with Israel against the many Islamist entities that seek their destruction. Cruz did not buy into the mutual culpability argument that both
MADISON, Mississippi–Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) told the Associated Press that if he’s re-elected, he plans to serve the full six years of what would be his seventh term in the U.S. Senate. “I sure hope, if I am alive and
President Barack Obama’s administration may be on the verge of limiting the deportation of illegal immigrants who have been arrested for “nonviolent” crimes. According to the Los Angeles Times, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, “in private meetings with police,” has “said he is
President Obama is struggling to get members of his party who are running for election in 2014 to come to his side in support of Obamacare, his signature achievement. In fact, a growing list of Democrats are trying to distance
On Monday’s broadcast of “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer was not optimistic that Democrats in Washington, D.C. would learn their lesson from the Veterans Affairs hospital scandal and the fallout from it, particularly
Sen. Thad Cochran’s longtime executive assistant was listed as being part of a “spouse group” and photographed participating in recreational events for senators’ spouses on a taxpayer-funded trip in 2004 to South America. In captions to photos posted online by
The Huffington Post, in its zeal to slam GOP candidates for any faux pas that it can find, has taken GOP House candidate Tony Strickland to task because his campaign sent a robocall extolling his support of Second Amendment rights
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic candidates are trying to figure out whether to embrace or avoid President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul — or land somewhere in between. The president says his party shouldn’t apologize or go on the defensive about
On Monday’s “Fox & Friends,” on the Fox News Channel, former Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) commented on the ongoing VA scandal in an appearance to promote his new memoir, “I Heard My Country Calling.” Webb had been much more critical
HOUSTON, Texas–Early voting for the Texas Primary Run-off election ended on Friday with a very low total turnout. After five days of early voting, the total turnout for both the Democrat and Republican run-offs was 313,878 or about 3.62 percent
Below is an excerpt from American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character tragically, shockingly, angeringly appropriate for Memorial Day. One day, I hope, the sacrifice of these lost American men, too, will be recognized by the nation — and those
JACKSON, Mississippi — Dr. Milton Wolf, the conservative primary challenger to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), is calling on Roberts to publicly denounce his U.S. Senate colleague, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), for bringing his executive assistant, Kay Webber, on 33 taxpayer-funded
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told college graduates to “embrace tradition” and the “essential character of our country” by pushing for amnesty legislation. In her Bard College commencement address on Saturday, Pelosi said that “another boost to our economy
JACKSON, Mississippi–It’s the Tea Party’s biggest test in 2014: can the movement knock down an establishment Republican whose name in and of itself is an institution in the state he’s represented for 42 years? Ten days out from the election,
Santa Barbara gunman Elliot Rodger underwent background checks for all his guns, and law enforcement officials say those checks presented “no flags” that would have prompted further action. This means Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) failed Senate gun bill would not
TheDemocrats’majority in the Senate is on the line this electionseason, and if Republicans take back control, the GOP will needtodecide on new rules for the new Congress in the upper chamber. Some Republican members are willing to go back to
The California Senate Rules Committee is stonewalling requests from the media to release the legislative calendars of its members, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Three recent requests from the newspaper for the calendars were rebuffed despite the fact that
President Barack Obama’s Obamacare law has Democratic candidates in a political quandary, the Associated Press reported on Sunday. The latest Associated Press poll finds that only 28% of Americans support Obamacare, despite the fact that the law has been in
Sunday on on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said after Friday’s deadly shooting near the University of California-Santa Barbara he is planing to revisit gun control and mental health measures in the Senate. Blumenthal lead the failed
The situation at the University of Texas has been quite a S.N.A.F.U since Wallace Hall was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to the Board of Regents in 2011. The Dallas businessman’s quest to fulfill his fiduciary obligation to Texas taxpayers
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” co-host Martha Raddatz moderated a heated political roundtable discussion between Matthew Dowd, Ana Navarro, David Plouffe and Kristen Soltis Anderson. Republican strategist Ana Navarro opened the discussion on the 2014 midterm primaries this week which
