Chalk another one up to “bipartisanship.” David Dewhurst, the lieutenant governor of Texas, spent time in November hanging out with his left-wing friends in Washington D.C. to raise a little scratch for his run for the Senate. One of those
Rick Santorum last night explained his vote for the No Child Left Behind law of 2001, which was the cornerstone of President Bush’s education policy. “I have to admit, I voted for that, it was against the principles I believed
President Obama’s campaign team for 2012 is beginning to look very familiar. Today, the Obama campaign named 35 national co-chairs. And no, Obama’s voice is not Grammy-worth there. Many of the names will ring a bell: Former White House Chief
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Republican John McCain has been traveling the Mideast with a bipartisan delegation of his Senate colleagues. He seems to think the region’s ascendant Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood are people America
Mitt Romney’s next line of attack against insurgent frontrunner Rick Santorum will likely be that Santorum is, like Newt Gingrich, a former quasi-lobbyist. While Santorum was not legally registered as a lobbyist, he pulled down hundreds of thousands of dollars
PHOENIX – Public school teachers who use their classrooms to indoctrinate students with their personal political beliefs may finally be getting the attention they deserve. Arizona lawmakers are debating the merits of a bill that would punish teachers who preach “partisan
Only a small portion of the book “Game Change,” the political best-seller covering the 2008 presidential campaign, is about Sarah Palin. And yet, all of the HBO movie is. You could write a book about all the important people, fascinating stories, and events the movie
In the states that matter, his approval rating is low, low, low Much is made about how President Obama is suddenly popular again, but this rests on a faulty assumption: that the national polls actually matter at this stage in
[audio: http://www.coffeeandmarkets.com/CoffeeandMarkets022012.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the White House’s rosy predictions for job growth, the Burr-Coburn Medicare reform plan, and what it will
Both the House and Senate have now passed their respective versions of a bill known as the STOCK (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge) Act to ban members of Congress from using private information to enrich their investments. As the two
Six cows are helping millionaire Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) dodge $43,000 in property taxes on his 55 acres of land on the Indian River, reports the Tampa Bay Times. While no one begrudges any American from striving to pay as few dollars in
Republican US Senator Scott Brown now has a 9-point lead over Elizabeth Warren, his likely Democratic opponent in the November election, a new poll has found. The Suffolk University/7News poll, which was released late Thursday night, asked 600 likely voters
In a sweeping and stirring oration on the floor of the House of Representatives, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) proudly recounted the Republican Party’s long history of fighting for black freedom against the Democratic Party’s history of racism and oppression. [youtube rXJ-9QyJtEg]
Progressive loon Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has argued time and again that unemployment benefits are a great way to create jobs. As Big Government readers know, Pelosi isn’t the only congressional Democrat to build a career coaxing the masses into Washington’s crushing embrace. Where there’s
If one clicks in to listen to National Public Radio’s (NPR) 3 minute report on the recently passed payroll tax cut deal, NPR’s Tamara Keith first plays a clip of a kumbaya-singing Barack Obama calling for action on the payroll tax cut
Throughout time politicians and their handlers have been prone to omitting unpleasant facts or manipulating them so as to mold issues to their advantage. This is the concept behind “spin”; a form of propagandizing that crafts an “alternative” interpretation of
Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, Defense Intelligence Agency director, told the Senate Armed Services Committee “Iran has the ability to fire missiles at U.S. targets in the Middle East” and “temporarily” close a key sea transit route. He went on to
After the 2010 congressional elections, which President Obama admitted were a “shellacking” of his party at the hands of irate independent voters, the President and his administration shifted gears. When Democrats ran all of Congress, the Administration was curiously passive,
Here’s a a question: If tax dollars were being used to make prices cheaper for companies overseas while simultaneously forbidding American companies from enjoying the same luxury…would that be fair? I would submit that it’s not and President Obama claimed
News broke Wednesday that Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was delinquent on his property taxes due September 2011 until last week. Sherrod, who angrily demands bigger central government and higher taxes from “The Rich,” paid the nearly $900 in taxes, penalties, and
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) asked Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Obama administration’s budget request on what constituencies the administration consulted before announcing its changes
[youtube JCG1UT5J5lg] Few lawmakers have expressed as much outrage over President Obama’s unconstitutional “recess” appointments as Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). He was among the first to warn about the consequences of the president’s unilateral action on Jan. 4. More than a month later, a
There’s talk that it’s Rick Santorum who is currently under the gun, not Mitt Romney. He can write a check to himself, if need be, while Santorum must win Michigan and Ohio to make the case that Romney has a
The U.S. Senate’s leading proponent of tax increases on the American people — Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was delinquent on his property taxes on until a reporter called him to ask him about it. Brown who supports higher income, energy and investment
If you shake out the Obama budget in terms of bold headlines, it’s really a class-warfare, tax-the-rich budget. Layer upon layer of tax hikes are piled on successful investors, small-business owners, and corporations. The capital-gains tax goes from 15 percent
