With numerous Obamacare cancer patients now telling their nightmare stories, Democrats have declared war against individuals willing to share their struggles with fellow Americans. Democrats’ latest target: Michigan cancer patient Julie Boonstra. Boonstra says attacks by Democratic Senate candidate Gary
One of the top Republican leaders in the House believes it is still possible to pass immigration legislation this year. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the House Republican Conference Chair, sounded more hopeful than other amnesty supporters in the House
Thomas Sowell wrote a two-part column last week taking Senator Ted Cruz to task for advancing his own interests at the cost of the conservative movement and Republican Party. (Part I here, Part II here.) It’s mostly about the political
A new study finds that the Obamacare tax on medical devices killed 33,000 jobs. The study, conducted by the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), said the Obamacare tax slashed 14,000 industry worker jobs and quashed the hiring of 19,000 more.
Few political figures have more good will built up with the Tea Party than Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). He ascended to power by taking on the GOP establishment, has a conservative voting record, and has electrified the Senate with his
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has opened up a sizable lead over State Senator Wendy Davis in the race for governor of Texas. After what looks to be easy primary wins in March for the leading gubernatorial candidates, according to
Dr. Milton Wolf, the Republican senate candidate who is challenging Sen. Pat Roberts in the Kansas GOP primary, apologized again for joking about patients’ X-Rays he posted on Facebook but explained that his black humor about gunshot victims was an
The 2014 elections are fast-approaching. Every day Americans are getting health care policy cancellation notices, coping with unemployment or underemployment, and getting fed up with an Administration that’s outright hostile to its citizens. The Left is desperate to hold on
Common Core developed such a bad name in Arizona that Governor Jan Brewer had to change the name of her program to get people to forget it was connected to the policy. Now a Senate panel in Arizona has voted
Politico just doesn’t get it about conservatives. Again. The inside-the-beltway publication that keeps tabs on all of the “inside baseball” minutiae of Washington’s permanent political class does not understand why it is smart for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to oppose
Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) spokesman says he’s voted “against amnesty in every chance he’s gotten.” However, a review of his voting record shows that’s not true. Cochran voted against an amendment to strip amnesty provisions from a 2006 bill, as
MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews had a harsh prediction for Senate Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” panel segment…
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel may face a formidable challenger when he runs for re-election in 2015: Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Though Preckwinkle says she will seek a second term on the county board in November, there is a
The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) published an op-ed in the New York Times Saturday in which its leaders made a passionate and well-argued case for continued pressure on Iran, and also for the role of Congress in setting foreign policy.
A Democratic Senate candidate is trying to intimidate television stations into dropping an anti-Obamcare ad produced by Americans for Prosperity – a new tactic that critics warn has grave implications for free speech. Attorneys for Representative Gary Peters (D-MI), who is
The NAACP has invited Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a potential 2016 GOP presidential contender, to speak to the group in the future. In an interview that will air on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers on Sunday, NAACP’s interim president, Lorraine Miller, reportedly said that
In 2009, when she was still just a nominee for the Federal Communications Commission, Mignon Clyburn, the daughter of Rep. Jim Clyburn, told the Senate Commerce Committee, “The FCC is not in the content business.” But just over a year
Just before waiving bon voyage to America, Former-Sen. Max Baucus cut a fat check to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Baucus donated $475,000 to the DSCC Jan. 31, three days after he admitted in his Senate confirmation hearing he is
State Senator Dan Patrick was recently accused by Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson of hypocrisy and hiring illegal aliens years prior. Both are candidates in a tough Republican primary. Senator Patrick is known for taking a tough stance on illegal immigration
President Obama’s FY 2105 budget will drop the one concession he had made to Republicans on entitlement reform. Under pressure from Congressional Democrats, Obama’s budget will not contain a proposal called “chained CPI” which changes the calculation of cost-of-living increases
Friday morning Senator Ted Cruz announced his endorsement of Konni Burton to succeed Democrat Wendy Davis in Texas Senate District 10. Burton worked as a key grassroots leader for Cruz in Texas, playing an integral part in the much lauded
Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Matt Bevin said on Wednesday that if same sex marriages were legal, marriages between parents and children could be next. Bevin made the comments following his attack on Mitch McConnell for recommending a judge who ruled
Feeling his oats, Barack Obama has decided to jettison his proposal from last year to use chained CPI (consumer price index) to calculate benefits, which would have cut Social Security benefits. Obama had proposed the ideas last year as a
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will be the featured speaker at the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators’ (NICHE) seventh annual “Homeschool Iowa Day at the Capitol” on Tuesday, March 18. A press release from NICHE presents Cruz as “a strong
Apparently, taking former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s advice to “rebrand” the Common Core standards without repealing them, Louisiana lawmakers are considering how their state may keep Common Core in its schools while convincing parents and taxpayers that their math and
