As the military budget continues to be whittled down post-sequester implementation, eyes are turning to cuts in military pensions as a possible means of compliance. According to Politico, House and Senate negotiators are considering this option as they look for
The U.S. Senate confirmed Patricia Millett, along partisan lines, to be a judge on the extremely powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Conservatives are outraged, as this is the first confirmation since Senate Majority Leader
The aggressive, uncivil, and in-your-face ways in which amnesty advocates have recently harassed lawmakers in Congress to pressure them to pass comprehensive immigration reform have backfired, according to the inside-the-beltway publication Politico. Politico notes that amnesty advocates are in “all-out
The left-wing polling firm Public Policy Polling took a look at Michigan and concluded that ObamaCare is hurting Democrats in a state President Obama won by nine points in 2012. Obama’s approval is upside-down 47/51%; ObamaCare polls even worse with
A new poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) finds the Michigan GOP Senate candidate, Terri Land, taking the lead over Democrat Rep. Gary Peters in the race to replace retiring Sen. Carl Levin. Land trailed Peters by 7 points in
Freshman Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has surged to a seven-point lead over incumbent Democrat Mark Pryor, according to a poll provided by a conservative group to Politico on Monday. The poll, if accurate, shows that the ongoing failure of Obamacare
As the Senate prepares a vote to extend the U.S.’s federal plastic gun ban, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is pushing to expand the ban to require “undetachable” metal parts. The Undetectable Firearms Act originally passed in 1988, the height of the
Rep. Annie Kuster (D-NH) faced some fire from her constituents at a recent event over not having a response for a question about last year’s terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Kuster denied Benghazi was associated with U.S.
Congress is racing towards the end of its 2013 session with a full agenda of unfinished business. The House is scheduled to adjourn for the year on Friday, December 13th. The Senate comes back into session this week and is
Sen. Ted Cruz, the ranking member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, released a report, Monday morning, accusing the Obama Administration of unilaterally rewriting parts of the Affordable Care Act, citing the law’s multiple statutory and constitutional problems currently under review
The Tampa Bay Times has given Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist the dubious honor of “Loser of the week,” after his campaign manager, Bill Hyers, and press secretary, both bailed on him. Rumor still has it from that last time we posted
The National Football League, which Forbes Magazine recently called “the most lucrative sports league in the world” has enjoyed federal tax-exempt status since 1966. In September, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced the PRO Sports Act (S. 1524), which is designed to
This week, the Sacramento-based Tea Party Express endorsed Sen. Mike Lee for re-election … in 2016. In throwing their support behind the Utah Republican, the group stated that Washington, D.C. needs “more conservatives like Mike Lee to protect the Constitution
(AP) Thai crisis deepens as opposition quits ParliamentBy TODD PITMANAssociated PressBANGKOKThailand’s main opposition party resigned from Parliament on Sunday to protest what it called “the illegitimacy” of an elected government with which it can no longer work. The move deepens
On Thursday, the Washington Examiner reported that “sources close” to former Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) “say the odds of him running [for the Senate in New Hampshire in 2014] have risen to 50-50.” The political logic behind such a move is compelling.
The 2014 midterm elections will come down to who was for and who was against Obamacare. As conservatives, we relish this fight because now that the law has unfortunately gone into effect, Americans are now seeing before their very eyes
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) announced Friday he would seek reelection to a seventh term in the U.S. Senate. “I’m comfortable with my decision,” Cochran, who turns 76 years old this weekend, told Gannett on Friday. “I’m looking forward to it.
Via CSPAN Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) delivers remarks on U.S. leadership on human rights and the administration’s use of drones overseas. The event is hosted by Human Rights First.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the original author of the Patriot Act wants the Department of Justice to prosecute Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for lying to Congress. Via The Hill: “Lying to Congress is a federal offense, and Clapper ought
We knew the left would go there, and MSNBC’s Chris “Chicago is racist” Matthews, of course, was among the first, along with his colleague Al Sharpton, who is, of course, an icon of racial reconciliation in his own right. Matthews
Last week the House Judiciary Committee raised the overarching question of our generation: will the American Constitution stand? All the laws passed under that Constitution have well-developed and well-armed agencies to enforce them, but the Constitution itself has no such
The Democratic Party is willing to spend a pretty penny on a herculean effort of pushing their far left congressional candidate, Gwen Graham, to defeat Republican Congressman Steve Southerland, who currently represents Florida’s 2nd congressional district. Gwen Graham, who calls
In response to Minimum wage distractions: Heck yeah, they’re looking for distractions. Spurred by panicked Democrat Senators, a hush-hush meeting was held between Sen. Michael Bennet (Colo.), chairman of the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm and White House chief of staff Denis McDonough,
Barack Obama is coming under fire for his willingness to bypass Congress when implementing his agenda in contravention of the Constitution’s desire for three equal branches of government. GOP congressmen speaking at a House Judiciary Committee meeting this week were
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is heading to Detroit, Michigan, on Friday to open up a new Republican National Committee (RNC) office aimed at conducting GOP outreach in the inner city there, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive phone interview.
