As their hold on control of the U.S. Senate becomes more tenuous, high-ranking Democrats — including the president — are invoking charges of GOP racism more aggressively. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Steve Israel told CNN’s Candy Crowley that “not
The accused shooter in the Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting once praised Hitler as the “greatest man that ever walked the earth” in an interview with radio host Howard Stern. Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. was interviewed by Stern in
The rain didn’t come to California last year, but it is was raining “Benjamins” on Capitol Hill as the Central Valley’s Paramount Farm interests contributed $457,000 to Congress, and the Westlands Water District spent $1,600,000 on lobbying and outreach last year.
Despite promises to the contrary, it appears that State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) voted on bills that affect her clients and favorably impact the bottom line of her law firm. “I have never done anything in a way that
The Hill columnist Niall Stanage reports that Democrats have been calling conservatives and Republicans “un-American” in their political debate. Stanage claims that this habit of attacking others’ patriotism is “mainly a weapon of the right,” but that liberals are now
David Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, is hoping to play the role of David to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s Goliath in this June’s Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. But he’s got his work cut out
As an object lesson in how difficult the political climate has become for opponents of Common Core, the laborious journey taken by Georgia State Senator William Ligon to the state’s current position on educational standards is worth delving into. Common
President Barack Obama can’t stop the California drought, but he is making it rain–for the Democratic Party. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Obama will return to the Bay Area in early May for two fundraisers–one at the home of Yahoo!
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire–The intra-GOP bloodshed that followed the 2012 elections is far from over, but the activists and officials who came together for an energetic day of speeches from top Republicans here showed an increasing clarity of purpose as the
Speaking at a New Hampshire event on Saturday that hosted many potential GOP 2016 presidential hopefuls, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Republicans cannot be the party of plutocrats and crony capitalism if they are going to be a majority again.
I caught wind of the Bundy ranch standoff in Nevada last week, and watched as the standoff between the Bureau of Land Management’s shock troops and an obstinate Mormon cowboy family escalated to ominous proportions. At one point, a no-fly
As President Barack Obama’s approval ratings decline, so have sales of his two blockbuster books. As a result, the Obamas made nearly $130,000 less last year than they did in 2013. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama earned “$481,098 in
In a Friday Rose Garden ceremony, President Barack Obama hailed the work of his newly-resigned Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for historic work in implementing the highly unpopular Obamacare program. Obama said Sebelius will “go down in history”
52 local Tea Party activists from Nebraska have signed a letter objecting to the national organizations who have endorsed Ben Sasse in the Nebraska Republican Senate primary, prompting FreedomWorks to fire back that the letter is a ploy from a
President Obama’s pick to replace Kathleen Sebelius atop the Department of Health and Human Services has developed a knack for dodging questions about government activities. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who is President Obama’s nominee
For months on end, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been ranting about libertarian political donors David and Charles Koch, but one senator in Reid’s own party, Sen. Joe Manchin, has finally had it with the Leader’s constant attacks.
On Thursday, less than two weeks after telling the press she was going to “stick around,” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced her resignation from the Obama Administration. The announcement caught Washington by surprise, as the chattering class had only recently
Cardiff University Students’ Union has attempted to ban pro-life demonstrations on campus despite opposition from the University’s Islamic, Catholic and Pro-Life societies, and some pro-abortion students. The Union’s senate last week debated the motion to “prevent affiliated societies and groups
A Thursday Huffington Post article highlighting Obamacare victims is causing quite a stir on the left. The piece, titled “How Obamacare Leaves Some People Without Doctors,” breaks from the Huffington Post’s usual embrace of Obamacare and features the voices of
The Senate Rules Committee passed the bipartisan Safeguarding Elections for our Nation’s Troops through Reforms and Improvements Act (The SENTRI Act) authored by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX). The bill, passed unanimously by the Rule Committee, now moves forward to the
It was the kind of story that decides elections: a Senate candidate caught asking a friend to write an official-looking military memo praising him, after the Pentagon could not confirm its veracity. But Shane Osborn’s fraudulent Navy memo has been
Former Navy pilot Shane Osborn is getting help from two of the most prominent moderates in the Senate in his campaign for the GOP nomination for an open senate seat in Nebraska. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he had donated
Following plaintiff Shaun McCutcheon’s victory in the campaign finance reform case, several conservatives have hailed him as a hero. Certainly, he was on the right side of the issue of campaign donation limits, but like many he still doesn’t get
Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi is no stranger to scandal, and certainly no stranger to being convicted of tax fraud. His latest conviction may have the 77-year-old working with the elderly at a nursing home to complete his one-year sentence, announced
Former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius claimed approximately 7.5 million people have now enrolled in health coverage through the Obamacare exchanges in Senate testimony Wednesday–just hours before news broke of her resignation thanks to the incredibly problematic rollout of ObamaCare. If accurate, the
