Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican up for re-election in 2014, told the Washington Examiner in an interview published Friday that he believes it is time for the GOP establishment to stop conservatives and Tea Partiers. McConnell argued
Colombia loves soccer, including members of the Marxist-Lenin revolutionary guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC). In order to bring peace to the country, Colombian soccer great Carlos Valderrama has proposed a “match for peace.” Valderrama, a former
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman, Senate Intelligence Committee on CNN’s “State Of The Union”
Individual Americans fighters entering the Syrian conflict on the side of Islamists pose a security risk for the United States. According to the AP, federal officials worry that such fighters could return to America and bring their radicalized ideologies with
(AP) Obama visits activists fasting for immigrationBy DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama on Friday told activists who are fasting to protest House inaction on immigration legislation that their “commitment to change” ultimately will help pressure lawmakers to act. On the
After House Speaker John Boehner promised the American people there would be no conference committee on the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, The Atlantic‘s Molly Ball is out with a new report detailing how amnesty supporters are cooking up
The Hill reported on Wednesday that Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky who seeks to defeat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the 2014 general election, has something in common with Democratic Senator
(AP) Dems, Obama, head into 2014 distant, determinedBy LAURIE KELLMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONA month after emerging from a government shutdown at the top of their game, many Democrats in Congress newly worried about the party’s re-election prospects are for the first time
Add to the chorus of celebrities piling on the Obamas this Thanksgiving the fitness legend Richard Simmons. Speaking to HuffPost Live Wednesday afternoon, Simmons lamented that while he “loved” Michelle Obama, he had been “totally” rejected by the White House.
The 24-year old illegal immigrant who heckled President Barack Obama on Monday did not enter the country illegally. In fact, Ju Hong and his family entered the country legally and overstayed a tourism visa, highlighting how dramatically increasing the number
By JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONWhen President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders for an urgent meeting last month, at the height of a fiscal crisis, Joe Biden wasn’t initially mentioned as a participant. The vice president’s staff quickly followed up with reporters,
Illinois lawmakers in the Democrat-dominated state legislature have adopted a pension reform plan based on Republican ideas, after years of dithering and delay. According to the Chicago Tribune, the deal will raise the retirement age for state employees, trim cost-of-living
With ObamaCare revealing that except for lies and incompetence Emperor Obama is naked, all around the country voters are turning against the president’s political party and anyone who made it possible for ObamaCare to rape the middle class. Just a
(AP) Colorado lawmaker resigns to avoid recallBy KRISTEN WYATTAssociated PressDENVERA third Democratic Colorado state senator facing possible recall after voting for gun-control measures says she will resign. Sen. Evie Hudak of Denver’s western suburbs announced her resignation Wednesday, less than
Facing a burgeoning recall effort from citizens in her district, Colorado State Senator Evie Hudak (D-Westminster) plans to resign before being recalled so that Democrats can hold their one seat majority in the senate. On Wednesday, Hudak held a news
Winning a battle that costs you a war is no victory. The silver lining from President Obama’s and Senate Democrats’ unprecedented power grab last week is that now a conservative Republican president can appoint a Supreme Court that will restore
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) military sexual assault legislation has hit another snag. According to numerous reports, the bill was blocked: Gillibrand, the junior Democratic senator from New York, believes passage of her bill to shift the decision to prosecute sexual assaults
It’s become a hallmark of Barack Obama’s presidency that mistakes made by policy makers, businesses, and governments at all levels must be paid for by American taxpayers. This perverse bailout culture is again evident in ObamaCare, which we now know
A day after President Barack Obama told a heckler that he did not have the power to end all deportations with an executive action, the White House did not rule out other executive actions Obama may use on immigration. At a
It is no secret that the Democrat party is hemorrhaging support in the wake of the disastrous ObamaCare rollout. As the Administration warns that the website will not be fully operational at the end of November, nervous Democrats are expected
In response to Couldn’t Obama have asked Iran to release its American hostages before he capitulated on nukes?: Twitchy calls the White House statement expressing a commitment to bring Mr. Levinson home, “the worst timing ever”, given the fact that
Should Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lose in the Kentucky Republican primary against Tea Party candidate Matt Bevin or the state’s general election, Texas will become home to both the top-ranking Republican senator and one of its most popular,
For the past year, most political observers have focused on Republican opportunities to capture Senate seats in red-states like Louisiana and Arkansas. The GOP had a plausible, but narrow, path to capture enough of these seats to win control of
Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the chairman of the Senate GOP conference, has discovered that President Barack Obama’s administration has decided to grant an exemption to labor unions from Obamacare’s reinsurance tax. On page 70 of regulations the administration published on
A new CNN poll finds a dramatic reversal in the battle for Congress. A month ago, Democrats held a 50-42 advantage on a generic ballot, gauging basic party preference. The disastrous rollout of ObamaCare has driven a ten-point swing to
