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On the fifth anniversary of the first Tea Party rallies, the movement’s record appears mixed. It swept the GOP to a majority in the U.S. House, where it has blocked President Barack Obama’s most radical ambitions. It helped the GOP

Late Wednesday afternoon, Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the controversial Arizona bill that would have allowed small business owners to refuse service to certain customers under a claim of religious freedom. Brewer said, “Senate bill 1062 does not address a specific

Senator Barbara Boxer has yet another excuse for President Obama to deny approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline: she says it causes cancer. President Obama has been delaying his decision to approve the jobs-creating pipeline for much of his Presidency,

On the floor of the Senate, Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid insisted that anyone who had the temerity to complain about the tremendously higher costs of Obamacare or are upset over their canceled insurance polices despite being told by the

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is the Republican front-runner for President in 2016, according to Scott Jennings, a former George W. Bush deputy political director now running a super PAC in Kentucky.  The veteran Republican strategist asserts, “The political instinct of

PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday vetoed a Republican bill that set off a national debate over gay rights, religion and discrimination and subjected Arizona to blistering criticism from major corporations and political leaders from both parties. Loud

Pro-abortion groups operating outside of Texas are largely responsible for the increase in funds coming into the Wendy Davis gubernatorial campaign according to an analysis of records by the Dallas Morning News. Planned Parenthood alone spent $20,000 to help Davis conduct a

With the help of a media much more interested in fact-checking cancer patients who oppose The State than they ever were in vetting ObamaCare or Obama’s years-long lie promising you can keep your health insurance, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

House Democrats are divided on when to put immigration legislation on the floor for a vote, which they can force by using a discharge petition.  The discharge petition would need a majority of lawmakers’ signatures. Because of the difficulty in coming

On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to table legislation raising the minimum wage. The legislation was supposed to be on the table on March 6, but now it has been delayed until after the March recess of March

The trouble with being an actor is that you have to remember your lines. The trouble with being a political actor is that that you have to make the new lines fit with all the other lines you’ve delivered in

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, began laying the groundwork for a major new populist economic strategy at a hearing today, including a “welfare-to-work” program that would strive to place unemployed Americans in the

Stu Rothenberg, arguably the top political prognosticator in the country, argues in his Roll Call column today that the GOP pushing immigration in 2014 would basically be political suicide.  “An immigration fight this year would be very nasty, with conservatives

The AFL-CIO is conceding its union lacks the power in the South to influence the upcoming 2014 elections, so it is not investing heavily in three hotly contested Senate races.  The AFL-CIO looked at the number of union members in

The executive director of the Alabama Association of School Boards criticized recent proposed legislation to repeal the Common Core standards in her state, stating that repeal would be like going back to a “bag phone from an iPhone.” Sally Howell