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President Obama seized on the veneer of good news about Obamacare to tear into his critics, issuing one of the most partisan speeches of his presidency and accusing opponents of lying about the law to scare the public because they’re

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to scuttle a deal to raise the minimum wage, The Hill reports, despite the fact that the proposed increase matches one proposed by President Obama last year, providing new evidence that Reid and

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) thinks Republicans can win Hispanic voters only if the party gets “beyond deportation to the rest of the issues.”  “The bottom line is, the Hispanic community, the Latino community is not going to hear us until

While her campaign has been mostly silent on issues regarding the state’s lucrative oil and gas business, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wendy Davis’ legislative record shows her taking positions outside the Texas mainstream. Davis voted against legislation in 2011 that sought

On Monday, a resolution to honor the late labor leader Cesar Chavez failed to get through the Senate because Democrats did not want to acknowledge that Chavez was against illegal immigration and supported stricter border security. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ),

House Budget Committee Chairman released his Fiscal Year 2015 budget Tuesday ahead of a potentially difficult vote in the House as he continues to deal with unrest on the right from a deal he struck with Democratic Senate Budget Committee

Top Black and Hispanic Democrats in California have vowed to put an initiative to overturn the state’s ban on affirmative action on the ballot by the 2016 presidential election in a move that could potentially shatter what has always been

WASHINGTON (AP) — Manufacturing giant Caterpillar Inc. has used an aggressive tax strategy to shift profits overseas in order to avoid paying billions in U.S. taxes, according to a new investigative report by a key Senate Democrat. Caterpillar has avoided

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday threw his support to Sen. Brian Schatz over Colleen Hanabusa in Hawaii’s Senate race, stepping into a primary that has been divisive for voters in the state where Obama was born. Obama’s

On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who is under fire for spending at least $31,000 in campaign funds to buy jewelry from his granddaughter, asked his supporters to send him campaign donations because former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

We are all well versed about the factions of the Republican Party. From Tea Partiers, to social issues supporters, mavens of foreign policy and establishment GOPers, the rifts are well known. But not so thoroughly discussed are those rifts among

In another sign that Democrats are worried that the 2014 midterm elections may resemble the 2010 midterms in which the Tea Party movement gave the GOP historic gains, Vice President Joe Biden sent out a fundraising email Sunday imploring Democrats

Kain Colter, the Northwestern University quarterback who organized his teammates into a union, meets with senators and representatives in Washington, DC on Wednesday and Thursday. Ramogi Huma, the president of the College Athletes Players Association, joins Colter in meeting with

Last week Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) signed legislation repealing that state’s ban on privately owned short-barreled rifles and shotguns.  The legislation–Senate Bill 610–passed in the house and senate by near unanimous margins.  NRA-ILA executive director Chris Cox applauded the

Grassroots parents’ groups across the country who, through new media, have developed organizations around opposition to the Common Core State Standards are making the education initiative central to the 2014 mid-term elections. Opposed equally by people on the right and

On Friday, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) vetoed a measure that would protect unborn children from abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support by the Democrat-led state

Ronald Reagan famously once said: “We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money.” With Democrats looking like they may lose

On March 27th, Breitbart News reported that California Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D) warned senator Leland Yee (D) to resign or face suspension. Yee “refused to step down,” so the senate suspended him. However, he will continue to draw his

As the Missouri Senate Education Committee meets this week to debate the state’s Common Core education scheme, testimony has been revealing if not disheartening. In one case, an autistic teen testified that Common Core’s one-size-fits-all policies are so out of

On Friday, FreedomWorks, the grassroots conservative group, pulled its endorsement in the Nebraska GOP Senate primary from Shane Osborn and gave it to conservative, anti-establishment candidate Ben Sasse, who has been surging as the anti-Obamacare candidate. In one of the

Senator Marco Rubio took to the Senate floor Thursday to bring the anti-socialist cause in Venezuela to the fore of the nation yet again, detailing the atrocities of the Nicolás Maduro regime and announcing that he is crafting a bill

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he was “very optimistic” Republicans will win the six seats they need to take control of the Senate after this year’s midterm elections.  “We’re going to retire Harry Reid as Majority Leader,” Cruz said while

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blasted statistician Nate Silver days after he predicted that Republicans had a 60% chance of taking back the Senate and retiring Reid as Majority Leader.  “He gave me a 16 percent chance of being

The Ted Cruz for Senate YouTube account broke with its usual offerings of fast-edit news clips and suspenseful soundtracks this week with an upload that–despite the junior Senator’s 2018 re-election date–may lead casual viewers to believe he could be on

At a state Senate education hearing, a kindergarten teacher from Sikeston, Missouri, described that she has been intimidated by both her school district and the local school board for speaking out against the Common Core Learning Standards. As reported by Missouri

A respected professor of economics at Sussex University in England has severed ties with the upcoming United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, claiming that his colleagues are “alarmist” about the threat of climate change. According to Richard

On “The O’Reilly Factor” on Thursday, Democratic strategist and former adviser to Bill Clinton James Carville reacted to the most recent data in the string poor poll numbers for President Barack Obama. Carville blamed ObamaCare and the economy, but he

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public support for President Barack Obama’s health care law is languishing at its lowest level since passage of the landmark legislation four years ago, according to a new poll. The Associated Press-GfK survey finds that 26 percent

Nearly one month after Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke before a group of oilfield executives and employees to announce his idea of an American Energy Renaissance Act to increase jobs and energy independence–his office recently announced the filing of similarly-named

Last Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight blog editor Nate Silver predicted the Republicans had a 60 percent chance of taking control of the U.S. Senate in the upcoming midterm election. Silver faced criticism from some on the left,

Angered by Georgia’s pending expansion of concealed carry laws within state lines, liberal radio host Mike Malloy said he’d like to invite an NRA board member to come meet him, then shoot the board member and claim “Stand Your Ground”