Sudan is making an example of Meriam Yahya Ibrahim. Now it is up to the United States government and concerned citizens to make their response to Sudan’s treatment of Ibrahim an example – an example of effective, aggressive advocacy. The
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has defeated millionaire businessman Matt Bevin in an expensive and bruising primary election in Kentucky. He’ll face Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes in the fall as he pursues his sixth
JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos on Tuesday, killing at least 118 people, wounding dozens and leaving streets strewn with bloodied bodies. There was no
Clay Aiken, the American Idol runner-up and Democrat who is running for Congress in North Carolina, has not been paying attention to the wait-list scandal at the Veterans Administration even though Fort Bragg is in his district. On Tuesday, NBC’s
Once-enthusiastic Obama donors, disappointed by Obama’s lack of leadership, have stopped writing checks. Instead, they are casting their eyes beyond the midterm elections and focusing on a potential 2016 presidential bid by Hillary Clinton. According to The Hill, the beleaguered
Ret. Col. Rob Maness, who is the conservative GOP Senate candidate in Louisiana, said there should be criminal charges for anyone in President Barack Obama’s Veterans Administration (VA) found to have broken laws in the scandal involving secret waiting lists.
On the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) attacked the GOP’s investigations into the 2012 Benghazi terror attacks by calling them a “political witch hunt” designed to damage former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s potential 2016 presidential candidacy. According
Tuesday on NewsMax TV, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) the member of the Senate who took the infamous “what difference does it make” response from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to his question during the 2013 Senate hearing on Benghazi, said
As Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) prepares for re-election, a report out of the Senate finds that he visited his home state less than 100 days in the last two years, spending the rest of his time in Washington, D.C. A
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scoffed at complaints as he prepared for a screening of an anti-Koch brothers documentary at the Capitol Visitor Center. Republicans criticized Reid and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for hosting the documentary, using taxpayer-funded resources to
This article originally appeared on CNN.com Matt Bevin reaches into the breast pocket of his jacket and extracts a wrinkled, yellow piece of paper. “Fraud Alert,” it reads, in alarming, official-seeming font. “Sensitive Materials Enclosed. Please Open Immediately.” A Republican
Much has been made about former Congressman Allen West’s recent statement that he would “consider” running for higher office, fueling the speculation that he would run for President. West has been hinting a run for office for sometime now, but
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s powerful military chief intervened Tuesday for the first time in the country’s latest political crisis, declaring martial law and dispatching gun-mounted jeeps into the heart of the capital with a vow to resolve the deepening conflict
Dinesh D’Souza’s plea deal on charges he broke campaign finance laws to help Republican Wendy Long’s 2012 U.S. Senate run reduces potential jail time and will keep his next film project on schedule. That doesn’t diminish the fact that the
California Senator Barbara Boxer denounced Republicans for investigating the terror attacks in Benghazi and praised Hillary Clinton for her reaction to the incidents. Boxer took the Senate floor on Tuesday and labeled the House Select Committee on Benghazi a “sham,” a “political
In September, the Obama Administration and many Republicans were pushing for the U.S. to intervene in Syria. I said no. We did not have an articulable national security interest in that country, and it was also unclear if we had
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a campaign finance law violation, averting a trial that had been expected to begin the same day in Manhattan federal court. D’Souza, known for
Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction last week compared Common Core opponents to “barbarians at the gate,” and vowed to fight them to defend the nationalized standards whose main agenda, it appears, is to invest taxpayer dollars into yet another social
Despite the clamor that there is a perpetual shortage of American high-tech workers, the number of foreign workers with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) degrees that the United States imports annually alone exceeds the number of available STEM jobs,
On Monday, a Pentagon official declared that the Obama administration may issue a directive to allow DREAMers who have received temporary amnesty under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action program to enlist in the military by this summer. Testifying at a
The Texas Tech University System Board of Regents announced Monday that Texas State Senator Robert Duncan will become the next Chancellor of Texas Tech University. The announcement Monday that Duncan is the sole finalist comes after reports last week that
Controversial British Member of Parliament George Galloway has been caught on camera grabbing a constituent by the shoulders and saying, “I don’t want your f*cking vote, so don’t give me that sh*t!” Galloway was being covertly recorded by shop-worker Khasim
The personal attorney for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) offered little explanation late Monday for why nearly three weeks elapsed between when Cochran’s campaign initially learned a crazed blogger had broken into his wife’s residence and when he went to the
On Friday, four days before the polls were set to open in Tuesday’s Republican U.S. Senate primary in Oregon, a City of Portland police report about an embarrassing, year-old stalking incident involving GOP frontrunner Dr. Monica Wehby suddenly appeared as
Monday on “The Capitol Hill Show with Tim Constantine,” Rep Steve King (R-IA) discussed Senate Democrats attempt to attach a measure called the ENLIST Act to the defense budget bill that would allow a path to legal status for illegal
