Fearing a loss in the 2014 midterm elections that would hand Democrats control of the House of Representatives, Republicans on Capitol Hill have settled on a unique strategy: let President Barack Obama fail. Speaker of the House John Boehner told
California Senator Diane Feinstein appeared on Pier Morgan’s evening CNN show on February 28 to talk about her gun-banning bill that is currently on hold in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The interview ended in a gushing mutual admiration society as
A source told CBS News that FBI transcripts of interviews with Benghazi survivors were turned over to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Along with the transcripts, were other documents relating to the deadly September 11 attack on the U.S.
If you want to have a little fun right now, here are your instructions: 1) Open this link to Wikipedia’s “Kentucky Democrats” page in a new tab. 2) In-page search for “Ashley Judd.” Note numbers of results. 3) Open this link to
Actress Ashley Judd’s Friday speech at George Washington University fueled speculation that she is considering a challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as a Democrat in the 2014 Senate race in her native state of Kentucky. Though she
Colorado Democrats have put forth a bill that not only targets “assault weapons” but some of the most popular shotguns for hunting as well. According to Colorado state senator Greg Brophy (R), the ban Democrats want to place in front
By IVAN MORENOAssociated PressERIE, Colo.Unnoticed amid dozens of tract homes in the Denver suburbs, a nondescript industrial building is suddenly in the middle of the gun control debate in Colorado. The company, started in an ex-Marine’s basement in 1999, is
House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivers this week’s address, calling on President Obama and Senate Democrats to negotiate a solution to the President’s devastating spending cuts, known as the sequester. The President’s sequester went into effect March
(AP) WASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama has signed an order authorizing the government to begin cutting $85 billion from federal accounts, officially enacting across-the-board reductions that he opposed but failed to avert. Obama acted Friday, the deadline for the president and Congress to
Actress Ashley Judd, who’s mulling a 2014 bid for the U.S. Senate against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, largely miffed an opportunity to prove herself on the national political stage Friday. Judd gave a speech on public health, followed by
Seffner, Florida (CNN) — The ground just swallowed him up. A Florida man fell into a sinkhole that opened suddenly Thursday night beneath the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, calling out to his brother for help as he fell,
Actress Ashley Judd, a potential 2014 Democratic U.S. Senate challenger to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, will refuse to take questions from the press at an event this afternoon at George Washington University. Event organizers told reporters here at the event
It’s been a year since we lost Andrew Breitbart. In sorrow, we’ll reflect upon what was, what wasn’t, and what is: specifically, the fate of Andrew’s “Pop-Cultural Conservatism.” In a Republic where the consent of the governed and their delegation
American Conservative Union chair Al Cardenas revealed this morning on WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will be the keynote speaker at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference this month. Sen. Cruz has lately become the prime
How much time did Barack Obama spend in a “meeting” with GOP lawmakers on Thursday to look for an alternative to sequestration? Seven minutes. That’s how serious Obama is about any compromise. He’s not even interested in whether sequestration does
Senator Graham’s speech on the Senate floor…
Senate Republicans are promoting legislation that would temporarily suspend the sequester for a week and give President Obama the authority to direct where specific spending cuts should be made. Rather than each Agency or program bearing an equal share of
The Senate Judiciary Committee was expected to take up several gun control measures today and mark up final legislation. The Committee, however, has put off action for at least a week. The principal reason for the delay is to allow
On Wednesday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told a GOP member in a closed-door conference meeting that any Republican efforts to stymie the Senate’s version of the Violence Against Women Act from coming to the House floor would spark a
Over the past weeks, President Obama has been running around the country like Chicken Little spreading falsehoods about sequester, all in the hopes of blaming a 2% budget cut (which he proposed and signed into law) for an anemic economy
Really! Do you actually believe that the same Senators Rand Paul, Thad Cochran, Mike Johanns and Richard Shelby can be trusted with their vote?
The Senate Intelligence Committee has postponed the vote on CIA Director nominee John Brennan until next week, and it has declined to offer an explanation for the delay. The committee’s vice chairman, Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), would only say he expects the
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate voted 71-26 to confirm Jack Lew as the next Treasury Secretary of the United States. Twenty Republicans joined Democrats to confirm Lew by a greater margin than his predecessor, Timothy Geithner. Leading the conservative charge
This morning, the State Department announced that Secretary of State John Kerry has committed $60 million in “non-lethal” aid to assist the Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime. The announcement comes on the eve of automatic budget cuts across the
With less than two days before the March 1st sequestration deadline, Senate Republicans are drafting a bill that would cancel the $85 billion in discretionary spending cuts and instead cede authority to President Obama to make the same level of
