On Monday, the Columbia, Missouri, school board voted to allow “select staff” to carry concealed handguns in public schools for use in the defense of their own lives and the lives of school children. According to KRCG 13, the staff
Election results in November that emboldened the House Republican majority and delivered the U.S. Senate majority to the GOP be damned, House Speaker John Boehner is desperately turning to the Democrats to pass his omnibus bill that enables President Barack
Senate Democrats are “likely” to give anti-gun Surgeon General nominee Vivek Murthy a confirmation vote before they lose control of the Senate at year’s end. This gives departing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) an opportunity to poke midterm voters in
A few short hours after the House GOP posted Speaker John Boehner’s 1,603-page $1.1 trillion omnibus bill text on its website, the website failed. The bill text–both the PDF and the XML versions–went down around 11 p.m. on Wednesday night,
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave remarks at his office’s annual Christmas party Monday night at the NRSC, and according to an attendee, McConnell said that people overestimate what Republicans can do even though the GOP will have majorities
House Republican leadership’s strategy of waiting to combat President Obama’s executive amnesty via the power of the purse until next year is a ‘punt’ and a cowardly one, according to Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ). “To me the old adage ‘he who
Back in early, November Breitbart News featured a story about the speculation that California’s junior United States Senator, Barbara Boxer, might retire. The piece opened: In 2016, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) will be up for re-election for the fifth time. California’s
California activist Robin Hvidson with We the People Rising (WTPR) and Stolen Lives Quilt told Breitbart California that the groups will “hold a stolen lives quilt display and stop Obama amnesty rally the same day sheriffs will be in Washington
Late on Thanksgiving eve, with no one paying attention, the Obama administration released its regulatory road map of thousands of regulations for 2015. Within the bundle of more than 3,000 regulations lies a rule on ozone that President Obama himself
AUSTIN, Texas — In a press conference at the Capitol Monday, Texas Governor-elect Greg Abbott announced key staff hires and outline his top priorities for the upcoming legislative session. Now that the elections are over, Abbott called this a time
AUSTIN, Texas — State Senator Charles Perry (R-Lubbock) has filed a bill to prohibit the sale and use of synthetic drugs in Texas. “Synthetic drugs” are chemical compounds that are designed to mimic the pharmacological effects of an illegal drug, often
In its last significant act, the Democrat leadership of the U.S. Senate plans to release a long-delayed report of the Intelligence Committee detailing the techniques used by the government to interrogate terror detainees in the years following the 9/11 attacks.
House Republicans are expected to unveil their must-pass spending legislation Monday — and despite conservative opposition, Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) says he expects the measure to pass. “I think the votes are there. The agreements have been made and it’s
On Wednesday, 50 sheriffs from around the country will converge on Washington, D.C. to demand that the GOP block House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) plans to fund Obama’s executive amnesty. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), “the
Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says immigration reform will be a low priority next year in the wake of President Obama’s executive action on immigration. Speaking to Roll Call, McConnell said that while the current immigration system is “broken,”
An action alert sent to Capitol Hill staffers from CQ Roll Call suggests that House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to fund President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty action for illegal aliens in a “CR-omnibus” bill may be beginning to fall apart–even
The White House confirms that the much buzzed about Senate Intelligence Committee’s “torture report” will be released tomorrow, and that the Obama administration is preparing for violence around the world in response. Spokesman Josh Earnest explained that although it was
Following Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) resounding loss to Senator-elect Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on December 6, the Daily Beast threw in the towel on the South, which it describes as a post-Democrat region lacking “tolerance, compassion, [and] civil decency.” In short, the
Ten years ago in his only nonfiction book, Born Fighting, James Webb came to the defense of red-state America, standing unapologetically for the marginalized Scots-Irish stock that heavily populates the South and Midwest. On the wrong side of the cultural
WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign governments and U.S. intelligence agencies are predicting that the release of a Senate report examining the use of torture by the CIA will cause “violence and deaths” abroad, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said
BRENHAM, Texas — State Representative Lois Kolkhorst celebrated her decisive victory in the Senate District 18 election with family and grassroots supporters in Brenham last night. A special election was called when Senator Glenn Hegar resigned after he won his
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s News Headquarters,’ ranking Senate Budget Committee member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said considering the majority of those effected by President Barack Obama’s executive order amnesty have low income jobs, when you factor in both
Louisiana’senator-elect Bill Cassidy told Fox News Sunday what national polls overwhelmingly confirm: the Republican Party is now the party of the working-class. “If there’s one party for the working person right now, it’s the Republican Party,” senator-elect Cassidy said. Cassidy,
A civil war has opened up inside the Democratic Party over Obamacare. With half of all Senate Democrats who voted for Obamacare no longer in office, top Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and outgoing Tom Harkin (D-IA) have begun trashing
Majorities are not lasting long as they used to and as of Saturday night’s elections, Barack Obama has just surpassed Harry S. Truman as the U.S. president who presided over the most midterm election defeats in his own party over
