By some ironic twist of fate, the Senator from the Ku Klux Klan has died on the same day the Supreme Court — by a distressingly narrow 5-4 ruling — affirmed that the Second Amendment is incorporated, via the 14th
From Reuters: Republicans have questioned whether Kagan, a former Harvard law school dean who has served in the past two Democratic administrations, is driven more by politics than law. Democratic backers call the 50-year-old nominee, who last week received the
From the Associated Press: Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died Monday. He was 92.
Republicans should welcome a comparison of the history of the GOP with that of the Democratic Party – the party of slavery and socialism, Big Government and the Ku Klux Klan. To quote from chapter one of Back to Basics
Jim Geraghty from National Review caught up with the Senate Republican candidate from Florida and caused a bit of a controversy over his position on repealing Obamacare.
From today’s Politico: An all-night House-Senate conference committee delivered President Barack Obama and Democrats a far-reaching and historic achievement Friday – a realignment of the rules that govern Wall Street and a second victory toward Obama’s legislative triple crown. The
According to an LA Weekly investigation, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa “has very quietly accepted — and even angled for — free tickets to as many as 80 pricey events, then failed to report all but one of them, as
According to an LA Weekly investigation, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa “has very quietly accepted — and even angled for — free tickets to as many as 80 pricey events, then failed to report all but one of them, as
According to an LA Weekly investigation, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa “has very quietly accepted — and even angled for — free tickets to as many as 80 pricey events, then failed to report all but one of them, as
Aside from breaking her word to the AMA and physicians across the country, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has effectively demolished doctor reimbursements for most of the healthcare industry. The 21.2% Medicare fee schedule cut has taken effect, but what
I’m watching the media reports on the change of command at the top of the war in Afghanistan and I’m thinking two things….one I figured out, the second, I’m a little confused about. First, my column of a couple days
No, not because this is the day that the 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, was sworn into office; although the words of “Silent Cal” lend credence to the modern movement in opposition to progressive-statism. Take a gander:
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not take up the Senate’s “doc fix” bill, which passed through the Senate on Friday. A letter from Pelosi reaffirms her position and scolds Republicans for blocking the jobs portion of the bill: “What
It’s the question no one from the press is asking. Who is lying? Over the weekend a video of Sen. John Kyl at a North Tempe town hall meeting shot through the internet like a bullet. The video showed Sen.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying that his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermine civilian control of the military and erode the needed trust on
The longest days of summer are proving to be even longer days for Obama. His approval ratings are mired in the mid 40s, primaries herald losses for Democrats and the Gulf Oil spill is turning out to be more slippery
There was a particularly disturbing segment during Howard Kurtz’ Reliable Sources program on CNN this weekend. Host Howard Kurtz was interviewing David Remnick, Editor-in-Chief of the New Yorker, who was “pimping” his new book “The Bridge: The Life and Rise
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse… Last week Barack Obama told Politico that the BP oil spill was like 9-11— But, it’s been over 60 days since the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and he’s only sent 20
If the First Amendment protects anything, it protects the right of all Americans to speak to one another about politics without first having to register with the government. Unfortunately, ever-increasing layers of red tape and regulation are strangling the political
Sen. John McCain’s opponent in the AZ Senate primary starred in a 2007 infomercial highlighting “free” money from the government.
New York Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is proving a canny politician the further he progresses in his career. Thursday, the son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo trashed outgoing Gov. David Paterson’s budget plan, saying he opposes
Unable to discuss facts in any logical, coherent way, or even engage in civil discourse, the modern left has two modes of argumentation: tu quoque and ad hominem. The former translates roughly as “and so are you,” while the latter
South Carolina’s political phenomenon Alvin Greene, who won the Democratic Senate primary despite a complete lack of any campaign, talks with Laura about a few of his favorite things.
As a 2010 Census watchdog, I am extremely disturbed to learn that a man so deeply involved in the Blagojevich/Obama-Senate-seat-for-sale scandal is now employed in an upper level management position by the Census Bureau in Chicago. Even if the man,
It’s long been clear modern Democrats and their ops are quick to anger, and far too comfortable with resorting to physical violence. The other day it was Congressman Bob Etheridge (D, N.C.), going nuclear on a couple of college kids,
