With Republicans having won control of the Senate, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) appears poised to take charge of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. As Lauren Camera of Education Week writes, Alexander, the former U.S. Secretary
Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds has an excellent list of suggestions at USA Today for an early salvo of bills the Republicans could fire off when the new Congress comes into session. As he puts it, there are three kinds of bills
In response to Democrats’ Failed Attacks On The Koch Brothers: Dan, you missed the punchline to your story on the Democrats’ failed attacks on the Koch brothers. Apparently, they have no intention of backing down but are in fact doubling down
Democrats and aligned groups ran “nearly 100 different political spots that ran in states from Alaska to Florida” attacking businessmen Charles and David Koch but a funny thing happened on the way to the would be lynching, according to the Washington Post. …
LOS ANGELES, California—In an exclusive interview at Breitbart News Network’s headquarters, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said President Barack Obama would cement a legacy of being the worst president in American history if he moves forward on executive amnesty. “I don’t
After Democrats got trounced in last week’s midterms in part because voters disapproved of Barack Obama on illegal immigration, the President said one of the messages he took away from the election was that he and Congress needed to act
On “Fox News Sunday,” Sen-elect Cory Gardner (R-CO) says the new Republican majority has two years to prove to the American people a GOP lead Senate can govern with “competence” and “maturity,” or face the same kind of electoral wave
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus, implying that donors do not want much dissent from conservatives after the midterms and during the presidential primary season, vowed to call out Republicans who rip into other Republicans. At a Christian Science Monitor
Veteran California politician Willie Brown has warned this weekend that presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “is going to lose” in 2016 “[u]nless there are some serious readjustments to the Democratic operation.” Brown made his remarks in his regular
With the midterm elections largely decided, save for a small number of races, federal gun control legislation that seemed improbable with a Democrat-run Senate looks nearly impossible with a Senate run by Republicans. In fact, the door on federal gun
Incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is calling on Republicans to follow through on Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus’s commitment to do everything possible to block President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty. “Before the election, RNC
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) laid out the Republican Party’s agenda for the next two years, which included approving the Keystone XL pipeline, repealing harmful Obamacare regulations, and fixing a “broken tax code” during the Republican Party’s Weekly Address on
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) said Saturday that President Barack Obama’s nomination to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, must denounce Obama’s planned executive amnesty. “President Obama’s Attorney General nominee deserves fair and
Editor’s Note: Jeremy Peters of The New York Times describes the continuing schism between the grassroots and The Establishment. WASHINGTON — As most Republicans were taking a victory lap the morning after the elections, a group of conservatives huddled anxiously
Columnist and author of “Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican,” Ann Coulter argued that the Republican Party shouldn’t “suck up” on immigration during an interview on Saturday’s “Huckabee” on the Fox News Channel. “Don’t suck up on things
The Fast Food chain Hardee’s recognized Joni Ernst, the first woman to represent Iowa as a United States Senator, with a full page ad in the Des Moines register, Thursday. Ernst had given a shout-out to her former employer at
Actor Kevin Spacey has been chosen to portray President Richard Nixon in an upcoming film called Elvis & Nixon about the pair’s famous meeting at the White House in which Elvis asked the president to make him an undercover federal agent.
It is not the end of the year, and Senator Marco Rubio is now saying that he will make his decision to run for President in 2016 “in the coming weeks”. “For me, the decision is made based on the
The patriarchy, not content with its suzerainty over wombs through the sexist demand that women buy their own birth control, has invaded the soccer pitch to ensure that men and women compete on unlevel playing fields. Thirteen members of the
From left: Speaker of the House John Boehner, President Barack Obama, outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In back: Democratic Party mastermind and Andrew Breitbart nemesis John Podesta Not pictured: incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Texas Attorney General and Governor-elect Greg Abbott (R) vowed to “add yet another lawsuit against the Obama administration” if President Obama implements immigration reform via an executive order on Friday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. Abbott said “for
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says he will decide on a potential 2016 presidential run “in the coming weeks.” He’ll do so without the help of a pro-amnesty adviser and former chief of staff who has left his office. “For me,
Congressional GOP leaders urged President Obama to drop his plans to issue an executive amnesty at the White House, prompting an intense back-and-forth between the top leaders of both parties. A senior GOP aide with knowledge of the meeting’s events
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has spent a lot of his time in an ultimately toothless attack on Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers who have spent millions on Libertarian and Republican political causes. Now, despite massive electoral losses
A delegation of American LGBT activists is traveling to Geneva, Switzerland tomorrow to make the case to the UN Committee on Torture that “conversion therapy” is a form of torture and should be designated as such in international law. They intend to
