Congressman John Kline [R-MN] has been one of the House of Representatives’ most vocal opponent of SEIU’s labor board appointee, Craig Becker, as well as a vocal defender of workers’ right to choose by secret-ballot whether or not to become
Why is the Obama administration frantically trying to push New START, a strategic arms-control agreement with Russia, through the “lame duck” session of Congress? Because of the president’s deep commitment to U.S. nuclear disarmament. He fears that New START may
Will the real hostage taker please stand up. Democratic Representative Dan Boren (D-OK) blamed democrats, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi by name, for holding the tax cuts hostage and not bringing the bipartisan package to the House floor for a vote.
At Claremont McKenna College, one of America’s best conservative liberal arts college, Bassam Frangieh, a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, teaches a senior seminar on “Trends and Movements in the Modern Middle East” about “the emergence of the Modern Middle
From the Associated Press: House Democrats voted Thursday to reject President Barack Obama’s tax deal with Republicans in its current form, but it was unclear how significantly the package might need to be changed. By voice vote in a closed
WASHINGTON (AP) – American Indians and black farmers will be paid $4.6 billion to address claims of government mistreatment over many decades under landmark legislation President Barack Obama signed Wednesday. The legislation “closes a long and unfortunate chapter in our
Transcript available at HughHewitt.com. Senator Jim DeMint appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show and said he’d vote to filibuster the tax deal worked out between Senate leaders and the Obama Administration because it’s a bad deal.
President Obama’s announcement yesterday that he struck a tax compromise with Senate Republicans that will temporarily halt the automatic income tax hikes that were due to hit all Americans. Although the President announced the compromise with little excitement, saying he
While we certainly hope the possibility of multi-billion dollar fraud was enough to pique your outrage, what may be the most frightening revelation from our research is that Pigford may be the proverbial tip of the farmer scam iceberg. Fox
On April 14. 1999, Judge Paul Friedman signed a Consent Decree in the class action law suit PIGFORD, BREWINGTON v GLICKMAN and the US Department of Agriculture. Following is a portion of the opinion written by Judge Friedman: Forty acres
As of four months ago, I was like many BigGovernment.com readers, except that I had the pleasure of writing a few articles as a contributor to BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com over the past year as time permitted. But things changed in
It’s like watching the Little Engine That Could, the way Charles Blow slowly comes to the realization that all the negativity that progressives have been heaping upon Sarah Palin is actually – GASP – helping her. Why? Because they came
Much to my surprise, Senate Republicans held firm yesterday and blocked President Obama’s soak-the-rich proposal to raise tax rates next year on investors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners. I fully expected that GOPers would fold on this issue several months
Today, the Senate will vote to increase taxes on American job creators. Ironically, the November unemployment numbers came out yesterday and unemployment has risen to 9.8%. Only in Washington would politicians think that this is the time to punish job
The news to be culled from this latest Federal Communications Commission (FCC) attempt to usurp Internet regulatory authority and impose Network Neutrality is – there really is no news. At least in the broadest – and most important – sense.
Untitled from Breitbart on Vimeo. Sen. Jon Kyl appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show and explained exactly what the GOP Senators would and would not allow to get through the Senate in the lameduck session.
From The Hill: Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are complaining that legislation funding a settlement for discrimination against black farmers sets too high a bar for claimants. The lawmakers argue language added by the Senate, which is meant
An unrepentant terror mastermind has a parole hearing scheduled for early January 2011 in civilian court. No, it is not Ramzi Yousef. It’s not Khalid Sheikh Mohammed nor any of the other Guantanamo detainees. This pioneer in terror was plying
It’s a full court press by the Obama Administration. The goal: to hurry the Senate into approving the stalled nuclear arms treaty, the New START Treaty, with Russia during the Lame Duck session. This treaty is flawed, yet the Administration
I’m being completely serious. From “How Mark Kirk Re-Segregates the Senate:” For reasons that go back more than a century, all the way to the First Great Migration from the South, Illinois has led the nation in black political empowerment.
He used to be known as “Richard Nixon’s favorite Mayor” when he was Mayor of Indianapolis and while the New York Times says he’s a “conservative” there is little in his record to indicate this. Indiana Senator Richard Lugar has
This morning on The Laura Ingraham Show, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee voiced opposition to the DREAM Act in the U.S. Senate and issued a backhanded critique of likely presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. Huckabee criticized
President Obama made clear yesterday that he is determined to get Senate approval on the New START Treaty before Christmas. His press spokesman actually predicted that it would happen – thanks, in part, to forward-leaning comments made in recent days
Retiring Sen. Chris Dodd thanked his colleagues, supporters and friends as he delivered his final speech on the Senate floor Tuesday. He urged Congress to find paths to bipartisanship.
Wouldn’t you think it would be a big deal if a Republican president lost his senate seat to a Democrat only two short years after he was elected to the highest office in the land? I mean, don’t you think
