Concerns about the militarization of police — highlighted this month during protestor clashes with police in Ferguson, Mo. following the shooting death of Michael Brown — will be a topic of debate in Washington when lawmakers return in September. Missouri
Politico chief economic correspondent Ben White argued that President Barack Obama’s frequent golfing will hurt Democrats in the Senate on Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I think it took a turn for the serious this past week…one minute he’s
With their latest poll showing Republican U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito up over West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant (D) 50 – 33, Rasmussen asks, “Is the West Virginia Senate race turning into a rout?”, perhaps Tennant having Elizabeth Warren
A new poll by Insider Advantage/Opinion Savvy Survey shows that Republican David Perdue leads Democrat Michelle Nunn by 7 points, 47% to 40%, but Libertarian Party candidate Amanda Swafford’s 8% could force a runoff between Perdue and Nunn after the November general election.
Republican North Carolina Senate candidate Thom Tillis is more aggressively calling out Sen. Kay Hagan’s (D-NC) hypocrisy on amnesty as Democrats worry that they can lose the Senate because of the immigration issue. Hagan, who, as late as 2013 said she
SALAMA, Guatemala –“It’s a lot different in the sense that here we see a problem and fix it,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News in an interview outside the makeshift operating room at an ophthalmologic clinic in the remote
How unpopular are Democrats this cycle? This unpopular. Last month, Brown trailed Shaheen in the WMUR Granite State Poll by 12 points. The new poll shows Shaheen leading brown by 2 points, 46 percent to 44 percent. While Barack Obama’s
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Oklahoma City FOX affiliate KOKH 25 that because of the threat of groups like ISIS “we’re in the most dangerous position we’ve ever been in as
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released the zip codes associated with the Obama administration’s release of 169 immigrants convicted of “homicide-related” offenses who were awaiting deportation proceedings. ICE released the new information about the 169 immigrant convicts to Iowa Republican
Iowa Democrat and Senate candidate Rep Bruce Braley continues to devolve into something of a political caricature. It’s gotten so bad even The Daily Beast has taken note. A new ad out from America Rising reveals Braley’s inspiration for getting
After meeting with a “bevy” of big-business groups, President Barack Obama is reportedly considering granting them up to 800,000 additional guest-worker visas via executive actions. According to the Associated Press, “one of the more popular requests among business and family groups is
A new conservative documentary featuring exclusive interviews with Tea Party members allegedly harassed by the IRS will hit select theaters Oct. 14 for one night only. Gov. Mike Huckabee, who stars in UnFair: Exposing the IRS, will participate in a
West Virginia Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller is one of the wealthiest U.S. senators, having a reported estimated worth north of $100 million. Nonetheless, he makes taxpayers pay for his private charter flights to West Virginia. According to a Washington
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — Here performing eye surgeries on blind Guatemalans for several days in the rural town of Salama, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) strongly criticized President Obama’s immigration policy in a closed-door Wednesday meeting with Guatemalan President Otto Perez
Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) – the political arm of the abortion industry giant – launched its largest ad purchase thus far this cycle against Alaska Republican Senate candidate Dan Sullivan less than 12 hours after he won the GOP
Sean Haugh, a 53-year-old Libertarian Party nominee in North Carolina, is imperiling Republican Thom Tillis’s chance to defeat incumbent Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) in North Carolina’s Senate race, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling. Hagan leads Tillis
Last week, a grand jury in Austin, Texas indicted Governor Rick Perry on two counts of abusing his official office. The charges stem from a public threat Perry made to veto appropriations to a department of the Travis County District
Hundreds of Chaldeans came out Tuesday night in El Cajon, California in an organized demonstration advocating for the United Nations, United States, and other countries to intervene in Iraq over actions of the terrorist group ISIS. Part of the evening’s
A California Republican says President Obama should call the Senate back to Washington to take action on the House-passed border bills, according to a local report. “I expect him to do the right thing. I don’t want to send any
Higher taxes aren’t generally a path to economic growth and job creation. Higher cigarette taxes, however, are increasingly boosting at least one sector of the economy, organized crime. ‘Smuggled cigarettes have become the new currency of organized crime, and a
The Senate must pass the House bill to stop President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and deal with the ongoing crisis of illegal immigration, Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady said at a town hall event in his district.
An old rule of politics is to ignore what campaigns say and watch, instead, what they do. Where a campaign devotes its money and resources says more about their view of the landscape than what they say in a press
A blockbuster new poll obtained by Breitbart News reveals that a majority of likely voters want to push the pause button on massive immigration, similar to what occurred between 1915-1964, which allowed legal immigrants a chance to more fully assimilate
Thanks to recent financial disclosures, Michigan Congressman and Senate candidate Gary Peters has been caught playing every side of the energy debate in ways that benefit his campaign coffers, as well as his own pocket. From here, it only gets worse
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) is making a valiant effort to raise campaign dinero for her political party’s liberal causes, all at the expense of those mean and nasty Koch brothers. Wasserman Schultz and her colleague over on the Senate
