Covered California Director Peter Lee said on Thursday that improving health care literacy remains the state’s top task. Lee, a vocal cheerleader for his state’s Obamacare exchange, claims 3.3 million Californians have enrolled and that the program is “relatively succeeding.”
I took a trip from Kansas City to Wichita Sunday afternoon to cover the Tea Party Express rally with Senate candidate Milton Wolf for Breitbart.com. While I’m importing pictures, and uploading videos, I thought I’d tell you about my bizarre
This week the Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to vote on a housing reform proposal sponsored by Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), chairman of the committee, and Mike Crapo (R-ID), the ranking member. The bill would wind down Fannie Mae and
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) easily swept a straw poll of 2016 GOP contenders at the Maine GOP convention this weekend, securing nearly a hundred votes more than the next best potential presidential candidate. Paul topped the field with 176 votes
In a unanimous 71-0 vote last Thursday, with no debate or discussion, the California State Assembly passed a bill that would require the state’s board of education to teach students the racial “significance” of Barack Obama’s presidency as part of
The Senate Education Committee voted 5-2 — the minimum number of votes needed — to advance a bill that would levy a 9.5% tax on oil pumped from the ground in California. The aim is to raise $2 billion annually
Transcript as follows: Good morning. I’m speaking to you from the Hartzell Propeller plant here in Piqua, Ohio. This is about 25 miles north of Dayton, Ohio, the birthplace of aviation. Hartzell has come a long way since working with
The growing gap between CEO and worker pay over the last 30 years has ushered in the creation of California Senate Bill 1372, which targets leaders at corporate companies by raising the corporate income tax. While the bill still has
California Senate Bill 962, requiring that all cell phones include a “kill switch,” was defeated on Thursday. According to the Sacramento Bee, the innovation, providing owners with the ability to shut down the phone rendering it useless if stolen, is strongly endorsed
A thousand Nebraskans turned out at 10 AM on Friday for a rally for conservative Senate candidate Ben Sasse that featured former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT). Sasse, the anti-Obamacare candidate who
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he believes some type of amnesty legislation could pass this year. Appearing at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, Paul again said that he voted against the Senate’s immigration bill because there were not enough visas for
Citing an explosive undercover video taken at a March 29 cockfighting rally that aired Thursday in a Louisville television station’s investigative report, a spokesperson for Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday called his primary opponent, Matt Bevin, a pathological liar.
Are Democrat candidates violating campaign finance laws to coordinate attacks on the GOP with Super PACs? The NRSC thinks so, arguing that there is an unmistakable pattern to these attacks. First an attack shows up on a candidate’s website in “an
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who co-wrote the Senate’s amnesty legislation and has been trying for more than a decade to pass comprehensive immigration reform, believes not granting amnesty to all of the country’s illegal immigrants is a “stain on America’s
On April 22nd, 2014, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sent a letter to Bureau of Land Management requesting responses to five specific inquiries regarding their land claims along the Red River. BLM responded the next day with the following statement; “BLM is categorically
JACKSON, Mississippi — Hours before two major Tea Party rallies in this state, the American Conservative Union endorsed state Senator Chris McDaniel over incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran, providing the imprimatur of an organization that remains the most highly-sought validator of
In a video that aired on Louisville NBC affiliate WAVE on Thursday, Matt Bevin, the self-proclaimed Tea Party challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke in front of a so-called cockfighting rally with more than 700 people in attendance.
As Elizabeth Warren tells it in her new book, A Fighting Chance, it all began with a single question from the press about a long-ago forgotten Harvard Crimson story. “It started in April with a question,” she writes. “Sixteen years
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) made an appearance to promote her new book “A Fighting Chance.” Co-host Joe Scarborough asked the freshman senator about her complaints that since 2008 Wall Street big banks had gotten “38
On Thursday, 22 Republican senators, including even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), denounced President Barack Obama in a scathing letter for threatening America’s “entire constitutional system” with his immigration “enforcement review” that threatens to “nullify” the nation’s immigration laws.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has cancelled his appearance at an Oklahoma City police academy graduation ceremony amid a planned protest by conservative lawmakers and organizations. Holder will still be traveling to Oklahoma City but will no longer be speaking
Sometime during the 1980s, former-KKK leader Glenn Miller, who was recently charged with killing three people at Kansas City Jewish centers, was caught in the backseat of a car while engaged in a sex act with a male prostitute dressed
On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) complained that America had “fundamentally changed” so that the rich get richer and the poor continue to struggle. During an interview with The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, Warren explained that she grew up in
Gun control is being decimated at the state level, as more and more state legislatures pass laws nullifying gun ordinances, expanding concealed carry, instituting open carry, and legalizing campus carry, among other things. During the first week of January 2014
BILOXI, MS–South Mississippi Tea Party chairman John Rhodes is fairly involved in politics. The Tea Party chapter he leads meets twice a month. An active supporter of state Senator Chris McDaniel in the U.S. Senate primary here, Rhodes has been
