Nebraska GOP Senate nominee Ben Sasse may not see himself as an establishment slayer, but Nebraska’s primary voters may have given him a dominating 27-point victory on Tuesday to send a message to the Washington Republican establishment. At the beginning
It appears the Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) could use a better filing system. A new Government Accountability Office investigation released Thursday found the agency had no documentation at all for millions of dollars worth of
Socialist elites in Venezuela have expressed little concern about United States sanctions that may fall upon them. While Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and others strive to engage Congress in passing targeted sanctions against human rights abusers in the country, Chavistas
California Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) has made it clear that he is ready, willing, and able to use the state’s embattled high-speed rail as leverage in his fight to win funding for social services and anti-poverty programs, including his
This year Californians are going to pay a steep price for their decision to lock in one-party governance in their state government. You see, Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has introduced revisions to his proposed budget for fiscal year 2014-2015
Conservatives who believe that winning back control of the Senate will destroy any chance of amnesty legislation passing are sorely mistaken. In fact, a Republican-controlled Congress may make it easier to provide a path to citizenship for all of the
On Thursday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki testified before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on the subject of the so-called unofficial patient waiting list at VA hospitals, which have been blamed in part for causing the deaths of at least
On the Senate floor Thursday in continuation of his personal campaign against a “couple of oil barons,” the Koch Brothers, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called for a constitutional amendment limiting campaign contributions adding, “The Constitution does not give
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) hit back at liberal critics who blasted him for his comments on global warming, pointing out their hypocrisy on “settled science.” Liberals were the real science deniers, Rubio explained, for refusing to believe that life began
Here’s Ken Blackwell on CNN, decrying how the Obama administration and the left are co-opting NFL and other professional sports as a platform and force multiplier to advance the liberal agenda. Many people know Blackwell was a statewide elected official
LINCOLN, Nebraska–We’re sitting in an RV that Ben Sasse and his family and aides have lived in and campaigned out of for eight months, and I’m getting the sense that I’m riding with a militia member. There’s a stuffed pheasant
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions slammed the Obama administration Wednesday on the Senate floor for releasing 36,007 criminal immigrants being processed for deportation into the U.S. last year. “These are serious crimes, and criminals, if you’ll recall and kept up with
In 2013, I filibustered the nomination of CIA Director John Brennan. I did so to defend a core constitutional principle that has made America a leader among nations for as long as we have been a nation–the right to due
Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) re-election campaign asserts that questions about his extensive, taxpayer-funded travels with executive assistant Kay Webber are “sexist.” “This is sexist,” Cochran spokesman Jordan Russell told The Clarion-Ledger. “Why are they questioning her qualifications? All members of
The Tea Party, left for dead by the mainstream media only a week ago, roared back to life on Tuesday with two big Republican primary victories in Nebraska and West Virginia. All eyes now turn to Mississippi’s June 3 Republican
The conclusion of a recent GOP McLaughlin poll, funded by a grantee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was that there is only “anecdotal evidence” that the Common Core standards are a “red-hot” electoral issue. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN),
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Ben Sasse, who won Nebraska’s GOP Senate nomination on Tuesday, would be a much needed reinforcement for conservatives in the Senate should he win the general election in November. Cruz, who endorsed and campaigned for
This will put a useful spotlight on three poor Fed nominations as well as a good bill that is being ignored. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) threatening to put a
In an interview with Omaha CBS affiliate KMTV, victorious Republican senatorial hopeful Ben Sasse expressed his elation over his convincing Nebraska primary win, coming in with nearly 50 percent of the vote. But he added there was still more work
LINCOLN, Nebraska–Contrary to some reports, the tension between Nebraska GOP Senate nominee Ben Sasse and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell does not seem to be over. McConnell and Sasse feuded in the fall, with McConnell upset about Sasse’s involvement with the
With decisive primary victories by U.S. Senate candidate Ben Sasse in Nebraska and U.S. House candidate Alex Mooney in West Virginia, the establishment’s dream of electing more status quo-supporting candidates has been stopped after just one week. Sasse and Mooney,
Alex Mooney, the Tea Party-backed candidate in the crowded Republican primary in West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, easily won his party’s nomination in Tuesday’s election. With 85 percent of the precincts reporting, Mooney leads with 35 percent of the vote. Pharmacist
LINCOLN, Nebraska–Midland University President Ben Sasse won convincingly against former State Treasurer Shane Osborn and businessman Sid Dinsdale in the Republican Senate primary here, likely sending a vaunted young conservative voice to the Senate in 2015. Sasse, who received the
Last week the California Senate passed a resolution calling on President Obama to stop the deportation of “undocumented immigrants” with no criminal history. The resolution calls on President Obama to suspend deportations by executive order. It passed with bipartisan support
President Barack Obama has a serious challenge next week with judicial nominees. Despite changing Senate rules to end filibusters and to confirm nominees with 51 votes, two of Obama’s picks to the federal courts are in jeopardy, with a possible
