The House voted 250-164 to block the Obama administration’s rule change to the Welfare Reform Act on Thursday. Nineteen Democrats voted for the resolution as well. After the Obama administration made changes to the Welfare Reform Act, Sen. Orrin
Tonight in Florida, President Obama received the first truly tough interview he’s had all election season long. Too bad that the only folks who are willing to ask him tough questions have to speak in a foreign language to make
Scott Brown: “When she applied to Penn and Harvard, she checked the box claiming she was a Native American. And clearly she’s not. That being said, I don’t know, and neither do the viewers know, whether in fact she got
Nearly every Republican senator went to the Senate floor Thursday to engage in a near hour-long colloquy, criticizing President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats for what they deemed failures in leadership, especially concerning the budget and the debt, defense cuts
Democrats are set to adjourn the Senate after three years of not passing a budget and with no plans to avert a fiscal cliff. And on the 1,240th day since Senate Democrats adopted a budget, Republican leaders in the Senate
Whoa, hey, wait just a second … Did I just hear President Hope and CHANGE correctly? Did President Hope and CHANGE really just say, The most important lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t change Washington from the inside. You
Jamie Radtke, the Tea Party candidate who lost Virginia’s Republican primary, has endorsed her former rival, George Allen, in his bid to win the Senate race against Democrat Tim Kaine. Radtke announced her endorsement of Allen in and email message
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke met with Senators on the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday in a closed-door meeting and urged the lawmakers to avoid taking the country off the so-called fiscal cliff and into a recession. Bernanke stressed this
On Wednesday, the House passed a new bill which would allow wealthy Americans to pay more than they actually owe in taxes. The bill was mischievously titled the “Buffett Rule Act,” a reference to the Buffett Rule which the president
The University of Massachusetts-Lowell/Boston Herald poll released on Wednesday shows incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown leads Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren by four points, 49% to 45%, among likely Massachusetts voters. The Boston Herald reported on the results of the poll: The poll,
Congressman Bobby Schilling spoke to Breitbart News today and is demanding Politico retract and correct a story that falsely claims he walked out on a constituent townhall meeting. Which begs a question… What is it with the corrupt media uncritically
On Wednesday, Marquette University released its latest poll of the battleground state of Wisconsin. Their last poll, taken in the middle of August, found Obama will a slim 3-point lead over Romney, 49-46. This poll, however, found Obama moving into
In the same vein as the Obama “personal” e-mails with their ubiquitous whining, moaning, and begging, Angus King has sent out his current wife, Mary Herman, to play victim because poor, weak, Angus can’t do it himself. Dear Friend, When
The lily-livered, recreant, pusillanimous Obama Administration, which is in the process of enabling an Islamic caliphate to take over the Middle East, is slowly but surely admitting what the rest of the world had figured out immediately after the September
Forty Senate Republicans on Wednesday voted against waiving a point of order that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) had raised on a veterans’ jobs bill authored by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) because the bill violated spending limits set by the debt
On Monday the Boston Globe reported that a new Suffolk University poll shows Elizabeth Warren leading Scott Brown by four points in the Massachusetts Senate Race: A Suffolk University/WHDH-TV (Channel 7) survey released late Monday had Warren at 48 percent
Bob Woodward’s The Price of Politics is a devastating exposé of the lack of leadership in Washington–especially, though not exclusively, from President Barack Obama. While the nation faces profound fiscal challenges, the Obama administration plays politics and the Republican establishment
Rasmussen Reports released a new poll on Monday that shows that “Democrat Tim Kaine has moved slightly ahead of Republican George Allen in Virginia’s neck-and-neck U.S. Senate race.” The telephone survey of 500 likely Virginia voters shows support for Kaine
Having a Pulitzer Prize gives an author license to leave his or her comfort zone. For Michael Chabon, it means telling a story set within the black cultural landscape encompassing Berkeley and Oakland, a fault line for cultural misunderstandings, recurring
Add former Maine Governor and current Independent candidate for Senate Angus King to the long list of Obama administration cronies who have personally made money off the $800 billion Obama Stimulus program. King’s personal bailout came in the form of
The European Union is holding firm on its plans to tax U.S. airlines for time spent in domestic and international airspace. The unprecedented power grab is a clear violation of international law, which allows each nation to control its own
Fox News reported on Thursday that UCLA has shut down the controversial National Dream University featured in several articles by Breitbart News. Following scrutiny from a California lawmaker, the University of California is shutting down a controversial college program for
The collective bargaining law passed under Gov. Walker in Wisconsin has been struck down. Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled the law was unconstitutional Friday afternoon. The law in question restricted collective bargaining by public sector employees. At one
US senators called for a comprehensive probe into security protocols at US facilities worldwide Friday after protests that left four Americans dead and several missions torched or breached. Two different sets of lawmakers wrote letters to US officials, including Secretary
Suddenly, President Obama cares about notifying Congress of troop movements under the War Powers Resolution. This afternoon, after moving military personnel to Libya and Yemen, President Obama issued a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Senate President Pro Tempore
CREW, the left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington released its annual “Most Corrupt” members of Congress list Wednesday, and there was only one candidate for the United States Senate who made the list: Shelley Berkley of Nevada: a
It was not supposed to be difficult for Congressman Chris Murphy (D-CT) to beat former WWE executive Linda McMahon in the race for retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman’s seat. After all, Connecticut is a deep blue state with a congressional delegation
The same Gravis Marketing Poll released today that showed Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama by 49-44 in Virginia showed Republican George Allen leading Democrat Tim Kaine 47-42 in the Senate race. For Allen, today’s 5 point margin reflects a 2
On August 9, 2001, a bomb blast pulverized a Sbarro Pizzeria located at the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in Israel. The blast occurred at 2 pm, on a
Even Californians jaded by the antics of their state’s obnoxious political class were stunned by the outrageous sense of entitlement displayed by long term California senator Dianne Feinstein when a local television reporter dared ask her why she refuses to
Congress released the continuing resolution to fund the government into next year late yesterday. One provision in the bill should send shivers down the collective spines of those who treasure freedom of the Internet and the right to privacy. It
Angus King, who is running for the Senate in Maine, has taken out an ad that claims he will “shake things up” and “get things done.” That’s nice; he certainly shook things up and got things done when he was
The U.S. Senate campaign of Linda McMahon, a Republican from Connecticut, has filed an ethics complaint against McMahon’s opponent, Congressman Chris Murphy (D-CT), with the Office of Congressional Ethics. The complaint charges that Murphy received preferential treatment in 2008 from
Yesterday, appropriators in the House released the text of a bill to prevent a government shutdown when the fiscal year ends on October 1. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) agreed on the bill’s
Scott Van Duzer, the owner of a Florida pizza shop who made a name for himself when he spontaneously bear-hugged President Barack Obama on Sunday, said Floridians are now boycotting his restaurant. “People are saying a lot of bad things
The Obama administration is famous for its crony capitalism. It’s famous for wasting money on disastrous investments like Solyndra to pay off its political allies. It now appears, however, that they go a step further: they put public funds in bad investment loans,
The Washington Post‘s fact check on President Obama’s vote on Illinois’s Born-Alive Protection Act ignores its own facts to come out with an anti-Republican takeaway. To see why, we first have to take a look at the facts presented in the
In another sign her campaign is not paying attention to details, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was caught on video in Worcester on Saturday autographing a copy of the Pow Wow Chow cookbook that contains her own plagiarized recipes.
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown has accused Jewish opponent Josh Mandel of employing “the big lie,” a term coined by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf to cast aspersions on European Jews. The accusation was not an off-the-cuff remark but an attack
On Friday, Democratic Massachusetts State Representative Chris Fallon endorsed incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown: Malden State Rep. Chris Fallon became the first sitting Democrat to endorse Republican Sen. Scott Brown Friday, calling the endorsement of his “long time” friend an “easy
