In Nashville on Thursday, about a half-dozen Tennessee Tea Party leaders gathered with the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund to denounce current Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander and promote his Republican challenger Joe Carr. Cunningham explained that every six years, Alexander
Florida Senator Marco Rubio is taking another hard-line position on immigration reform, this time in regards to the thousands of illegal immigrant children and adults that have been flooding the U.S. Southern border. Rubio appeared on Fox News’ “The Kelly
In response to Loose bear blocks pregnant woman from reaching hospital: The love/hate relationship between President Boyfriend and the adoring lapdogs who helped get him elected twice is a sight to behold. Most of them have protected Obama with friendly
Former Congressman Allen West, is still thinking about running for elected office, but has some serious reservations. In a statement he put out yesterday, West stated that really didn’t “miss the arena of lies, deceit, and incompetence known as American
While the Obama administration and Senate Democrats were talking tough on guns in 2013, federal prosecution for gun crimes was plummeting. According to The Washington Times, “federal prosecutors brought a total of 5,082 gun violation cases in 2013…compared to 6,791
There did seem to be something off as the senators left the headquarters of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Tuesday. An unidentified NRSC staffer had come out of the building and jokingly referred to me as a “tracker”–a term
Up to one million activists will march in support of Gaza through London this Saturday. The march is the latest in a series of high profile demonstrations to show solidarity between the British left and the Hamas ruled territory. The
Nearly a third of Senate Democrats’ version of President Barack Obama’s $3.7 billion emergency supplemental appropriations spending bill for the border crisis will be spent on other issues than the border crisis if it were to pass, the Democratic chairwoman
Well, that didn’t take long. Although, to be fair, the Huffington Post turning so quickly on a military man isn’t exactly a shock. At this point, one has to wonder when the calls will begin for Walsh to withdraw. Via
An earlier New York Times item detailing a significant case of plagiarism by Senator John Walsh of Montana specifically claimed Walsh had not sought treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after his service in Iraq. The aide said Mr. Walsh,
On Wednesday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin endorsed conservative Tennessee state representative Joe Carr in his primary bid to oust incumbent Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN). Carr has been hammering Alexander before the August 7th primary for voting for the Senate’s Gang
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), an immigration hawk, shredded House Speaker John Boehner’s working group border crisis recommendations in a Wednesday afternoon statement, calling Boehner’s plan an “institutional surrender to the planned illegality” of President Barack
The New York Times reports that Montana U.S. senator, Democrat John Walsh, “plagiarized large portions of his final paper submitted for his 2007 master’s degree at the U.S. Army War College…..” Walsh’s military credentials were heralded as a large part of his
As American veterans were languishing on wait lists unable to get critical health care they deserved and needed, Iowa Democrat and Senate candidate Rep. Bruce Braley appears to have spent two years mostly ducking his responsibilities on the Veterans Affairs Committee
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As hopes dim for bipartisan action in Congress this summer, President Barack Obama is calling on Republican lawmakers to cooperate while complaining that they have “gone off the rails” and urging Democrats to get over their
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats prepared Tuesday to whack $1 billion from President Barack Obama’s emergency spending request for the border, while leaving out policy changes Republicans have demanded as their price for agreeing to any money. The developments pointed
A working group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner released a set of recommendations to the House GOP conference Wednesday, including $1.5 billion in new spending and proposals to send the National Guard to the border and require the
Democrats may talk about change but that seems dubious given that the names at the top of their Georgia ticket harken back to the politics of decades ago. State legislator and grandson of the notoriously failed President Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter, is
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Civil rights leaders at the NAACP annual convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday worried that dwindling African-American turnout in November could lead to the expansion of voter-identification laws that make it harder for that community to
NASHVILLE, TN — Talk radio show host Laura Ingraham skewered Sen. Lamar Alexander during a rally this evening in support of his primary challenger Joe Carr, comparing him to an “old sweater” that had become full of moths, with faded
While Republicans are reluctant to speculate about the possibility of a Mitch McConnell loss to Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky this November, when asked if his number two, Texas Republican John Cornyn, was a lock for Leader if he does lose,
President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for illegal aliens via the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and other executive orders is a “magnet” for illegal immigration, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News on Tuesday. “All of that is
Most political handicappers of Senate races this fall generally assume that the GOP will capture the seat of former-Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT). Cook Political Report ranks the race as “Lean GOP,” a relatively bullish indicator. A new poll from liberal
Senate liberals–a mix of almost all Democrats and a few Republicans–missed by a hair last week in a bid to overturn the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, which ruled unconstitutional the Obama administration’s heavy-handed requirement that business owners provide abortion
Senator Al Franken has declined a Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) invite to debate both his Republican and Independence Party opponents at the Minnesota State Fair. The debates had enjoyed a 20 year MRP tradition. Franken’s campaign gave no explanation. Perhaps this
