On Friday, President Barack Obama will travel to Fresno, California, the heart of the state’s hard-hit farming region. Usually, when the president travels to California, it’s to raise money. So observers are scratching their heads. The president “can’t make it
The president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (SBA-List) said Wednesday that Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’s sudden support of a ban on late-term abortions is simply “political desperation.” Marjorie Dannenfelser of SBA-List said in a press release: National
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is headed to New Hampshire to address the inaugural Freedom Summit event being held in Manchester on April 12. The Freedom Summit, an event sponsored by Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Citizens United, aims to
The price tag for Congress suspending the debt ceiling until March, 2015 may give some Americans sticker shock. According to an analysis by the Senate Budget Committee Republican staff, the national debt when the debt ceiling comes back into effect
In response to Hanging out with Big Al de Tocqueville: I’m not inclined to write off the president’s “Alex” gaffe as a verbal stumble. I think it’s very unlikely that Obama has read any part of Alexis De Tocqueville’s remarkable
Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has spent the past two weeks working feverishly to pivot the political conversation away from her biographical falsehoods and towards issues that matter to Texans. After infuriating Democrats with a surprise pro-gun stance this
Before the House voted to raise the debt ceiling without any spending reductions or restorations of the military pension cuts Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly warned her members not to act like Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman and
Following House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to move forward a no-strings-attached increase in the debt ceiling, the Senate Conservatives Fund asserted that Boehner must be replaced. “Republicans are giving up because they know that winning is impossible when their leaders
On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Tuesday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reported he felt certain cuts to cost of living adjustments agreed upon on the previous budget deal would be repealed on Wednesday. Transcript courtesy of the Hugh Hewitt
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium, one of the very few countries where euthanasia is legal, is expected to take the unprecedented step this week of abolishing age restrictions on who can ask to be put to death — extending the right
On February 12 New Hampshire representatives will vote on House Bill 1589, which mandates Colorado-style background checks “for all transactions at gun shows and on private sales conducted through [classified ads]” in newspapers or on the internet. The NRA-ILA reports
Newly-unearthed documents contradict claims from Matt Bevin, challenger to Sen. Mitch McConnell in the upcoming Kentucky Republican primary, that he always opposed the 2008 federal bailout while attacking McConnell for supporting it. Politico reports Bevin was a supporter of the 2008 $700
President Barack Obama will attend a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee next month at the home of Miami Heat and Georgetown legend Alonzo Mourning. The March 20th fundraiser will also feature House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and
Washington, DC–Representative James Lankford (R-OK), Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, today introduced the House Joint Resolution legislative proposal for the Health Care Compact, a breakthrough governance reform that allows states to clean up the health care mess created
House Speaker John Boehner just threw Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) under the bus. Less than two months after House GOP leadership threw their weight behind Ryan’s budget deal with Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA),
The House voted to reverse many of the cuts to veterans’ benefits in a budget deal struck less than two months ago today, offsetting the spending increase with planned “sequester” cuts in 2024 – five election cycles from now. Speaker
The Democratic game plan for success in the 2014 midterm elections is to “get out the vote” among women. In order to do so, Dems will use a three pronged strategy of promoting the “war on women”: military sexual assault
Hoping that anger will lead to action, on Tuesday amnesty advocates announced plans to aggressively confront House Republicans opposed to comprehensive immigration reform to demand they act on legislation this year. Kica Matos, a spokesperson for the Fair Immigration Reform
On Monday, the Obama administration announced that it would be delaying one of the key components of Obamacare yet again. This time, the Treasury Department stated that mid-sized employers – businesses with between 50 and 99 employees – would be
Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly are collaborating on a book titled Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence, scheduled to be released in June. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, the book is an outgrowth of
Politico reports the February 10th Senate vote to restore military pensions was “designed by Democrats, in part, to showcase several of their vulnerable members fighting for veterans.” Democrats are pushing Senator Mark Pryor’s (D-AR) plan to restore military pensions to
Sen. Sessions spoke on the Senate floor on Monday to discuss the Pryor amendment, which would restore the pension cuts from the Ryan-Murray spending agreement but would violate that law’s spending limits in doing so. As Sessions noted, Senate Democrats
On Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, SiriusXM’s David Webb unveiled footage of him at last weekend’s Moral March in Raleigh, NC. In that footage, Webb challenged William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, who had called Sen.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R – CA) is the only Republican on the Committee who has not signed on to become a co-sponsor a resolution that would create a select committee to investigate the attack against the
Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi faces his latest trial starting on Tuesday in Naples for allegedly bribing a senator to join his party’s ranks, even as he attempts to retain a leading political role. The billionaire tycoon, who lost
