In an interview with Breitbart News, William Estrada, Director of Federal Relations of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), said that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has taken the lead in the Senate to draft a letter to Attorney General
Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor has launched the first ad of his reelection campaign for 2014. His opening message to voters defends his vote against Obama’s gun control legislation, stressing that the proposals would have done nothing to prevent recent tragedies.
KOLO: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) lamented in this local interview the fact that he gets hate mail: “When issues come up that are national in scope, the mail that I get and emails and tweets are so mean-spirited,
By JACQUES BILLEAUDAssociated PressPHOENIXA campaign to force a recall election against the polarizing sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix failed on Thursday after recall organizers said they couldn’t collect enough voter signatures to bring the lawman to the ballot again. Organizers of
Former President George W. Bush questioned the political motives of lawmakers behind the immigration bill making its way through the U.S. Senate during an interview with the Huffington Post’s Jon Ward this week. Bush suggested that some in Congress pushing
While the Obama Administration scrambles to respond to a host of multi-agency scandals, five cabinet level agencies are still without Inspector Generals. These agencies are the Departments of State, Interior, Labor, Defense, and Homeland Security. The National Endowment for the Humanities
With a new poll showing over three-quarters of U.S. voters, including 63% of Democrat respondents, supporting a special prosecutor being appointed to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party groups, President Obama is being forced to nominate Republican James B.
In the midst of the widening Internal Revenue Service (IRS) conservative targeting scandal, the Obama Administration and Democrats are scrambling to downplay the IRS’s role in implementing Obamacare. That will be difficult to do, says the Washington Post. “The IRS
The assault on Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) from the left is on, and its motivation is obvious: stop this up-and-coming intellectual powerhouse from making traction on the national scene by painting him as a kook. Cruz, who attended Princeton and
The ethnic riots in Sweden last week lasted for days. I say again: ethnic riots in Sweden. The very otherworldliness of that turn of phrase is what caught the world’s attention. As Megan McCardle, writing for the Daily Beast in
So Ted Cruz doesn’t trust the Republicans. Imagine that. “Let me be clear” he said on the Senate floor the other day. “I don’t trust the Republicans, and I don’t trust the Democrats.” And why not? The last four years
Despite the Boy Scouts’ attempt to avoid Democratic ire over their policy prohibiting homosexual scouts – last week the Boy Scouts voted to allow openly gay scouts – the California State Senate rammed through a bill attempting to strip the
California Democrats passed eight new firearm-related regulations this week, including background checks for ammunition purchases and broadening of justifications for seizing firearms from California citizens. According to the Sacramento Bee, the background checks on ammo purchases are contained within SB
On Wednesday, MN businessman Mike McFadden announced he would challenge first-term Sen. Al Franken in next year’s midterm elections. McFadden released a three-minute video introducing himself to voters. A serious challenge to Franken expands the Senate map next year, giving
On June 3, President Barack Obama will sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT passed in the U.N. General Assembly by a vote of 153-4 on April 2. This treaty is ostensibly aimed at putting an end to gun
FOX CT: The state Senate has passed a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a special driver’s license. Fox CT’s Angelica Spanos has more information about the bill that’s expected to be signed into law by Gov. Malloy.
Even as Senate Democrats express concern over the Department of Justice targeting reporters, Senate Democratic press spokesperson Brian Fallon is moving from the Senate Democrats over to the Justice Department to do flacking for Attorney General Eric Holder. Fallon will
(AP) Former Nev powerbroker guilty in contribution caseBy SCOTT SONNERAssociated PressRENO, Nev.A former Nevada powerbroker has been convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to Sen. Harry Reid. A federal jury reached its verdict Wednesday in the case against real estate
Ronald Machen, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, omitted relevant information from his legal career in written testimony before the United States Senate during his confirmation process in 2009 and 2010, Breitbart News has learned. While in
(AP) – Independent Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee is joining the Democratic Party ahead of his bid for a second term, two Democratic officials said Wednesday, confirming a move that Chafee has been talking about for months. Chafee served in
Former RNC Chair and former Lt. Governor of Maryland Michael Steele says he is weighing a possible run for Governor of Maryland. Steele appeared on “Mornings on the Mall” on WMAL in Washington DC with me and co-host Brian
President Barack Obama is finalizing an aggressive strategy to pack a court. It’s not the Supreme Court; it’s the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Whether Obama’s agenda succeeds or fails turns on whether he remakes
In a recent interview on the “To the Point” television show in Nevada, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) said that getting 60 votes on the immigration bill would be “pretty easy.” “I think we have 60 votes. Remember, we start out
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take case where a federal appeals court struck down an Indiana law denying Medicaid funds to abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Medicaid is a federal-state partnership where government pays for healthcare for low-income Americans.
