The media fell in love with Wendy Davis and her pink sneakers. They have followed her moves in the race for Governor of Texas. But now that the Dallas Morning News has found fault with elements in her official biography,
Lawmakers in the state of Washington are seeking to pass legislation that would give financial aid to illegal immigrants. Though the measure was approved in the House last week, it is unlikely to pass the Senate, where there is a
A Hillsdale College professor has penned a book he hopes will serve as a user’s guide for parents, citizens, and state lawmakers to help them fully grasp what will actually happen in classrooms where the Common Core standards are being
Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday…
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox New Sunday” discussing NSA overreach and Attorney General Eric Holder role in it:
President Obama has dropped the hammer on sixteen Democratic senators who have joined a bold Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, and Mark Kirk, Republican of Illinois, in co-sponsoring new legislation that will increase sanctions against Iran should they fail
“The history of California water is the history of droughts…Droughts motivate us to do stuff,” says Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. On Friday, Governor of California Jerry Brown announced he is ready to
After devoting most of 2013 to pushing for more gun control, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will start 2014 by lobbying for amnesty when he travels to Washington next Friday. He’s set to pressure House Republicans to ram immigration
The Alabama State Board of Education gave the impression they listened to the people and started the 2014 legislative season with changes to Common Core in english and math. However, a closer look shows nothing changed. State Superintendent of Education
The omnibus spending bill that just passed the U.S. Congress slashes the budget of a program that pays to incarcerate illegal aliens who have committed crimes in the United States, the Arizona Republic reports. “A massive 2014 federal spending bill
While Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) seemed to hint this week that his state would drop the Common Core standards, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) gave a clear signal Thursday that she was determined to drop the new education
On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), who has been widely discussed as a possible 2016 presidential candidate, told Susan Arbetter of The Capitol Pressroom that “extreme conservatives” should leave the state. He said that “extreme conservatives who are
President Barack Obama told Senate Democrats that he believes House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will pass immigration reform in the House that will ultimately lead to a broader and more comprehensive bill once the House conferences with the Senate. The
If you accept the premise that our country was founded on liberty, then what’s been happening at the National Security Agency is a challenge to that core principle. I say this because as conservatives we fight taxes or spending because
On Friday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said the House was the last line of defense for the millions of Americans whose wages and livelihood will be put at risk by amnesty and comprehensive immigration reform. He urged House Republicans to
The number of Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) receiving food stamps zoomed from 1.7 million to 3.9 million between Fiscal Year 2007 and Fiscal Year 2010. In that same period, food stamp recipients in total grew from 26 million to nearly
In introducing Alison Lundergan Grimes at a political event in Kentucky, Thursday night, Democrat Greg Stumbo managed to compare defeating Sen. McConnell to liberating Europe from Nazis. Lundergan-Grimes is running against McConnell in the US Senate race in Kentucky. “You
Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R) will retire at the end of the current Congress. He has been battling a recurrence of prostate cancer. “Serving as Oklahoma’s senator has been, and continues to be, one of the great privileges and blessings
(AP) Okla. Sen. Coburn to retire after current sessionOKLAHOMA CITYU.S. Sen. Tom Coburn says he plans to finish the current year in office and resign his seat nearly two years before his term is scheduled to end. The 66-year-old Coburn
By ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONCongress sent President Barack Obama a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill Thursday, easing the harshest effects of last year’s automatic budget cuts after tea party critics chastened by October’s partial shutdown mounted only a faint protest. The
No unemployment benefits for millionaires? You would think a proposal to cut them off wouldn’t generate much opposition, particularly from Senate Democrats – but you would be wrong. Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania figured out how to get a little
The U.S. inspector general for spending in Afghanistan told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control that Afghanistan’s opium “crisis” is a U.S. national security concern because it destabilizes the country’s economy and it nourishes insurgent groups like the Taliban.
On March 4th Breitbart News reported that MAGPUL Industries would leave Colorado if the state house and senate passed a “high capacity” magazine ban. On Thursday, Breitbart News sat down with MAGPUL Industries’ Duane Liptak, Jr. to discuss the recent announcement
Only Washington could create a sleazy charlatan like Bob Gates and pass him off as some bipartisan example of competence and honor. With his new memoir out justifiably sliming President Obama, Vice President Biden, and former Secretary of State Hillary
The forthcoming House GOP leadership immigration “principles” will reflect much of what was in the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill that passed last year, the Wall Street Journal reports. House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Budget Committee
