In light of last night’s election results in Mississippi, there is one question every conservative should be asking: how much longer can a party survive when its leadership is inexorably against the ethos of its base? While Democrats harness their
Politico’s James Hohmann has released his list of “takeaways” from Tuesday’s primaries, among which is the claim that Eric Cantor’s loss in Virginia earlier this month is “an outlier” in 2014. Leaving out Tea Party victories in places like Nebraska, or
As Tea Party challengers grappled with the stunning news that Sen. Thad Cochran had beaten the odds to win his primary against Chris McDaniel, Tennessee candidate for Senate Joe Carr vowed that the fight would continue. Carr specifically criticized the
I’m not particularly aggrieved by Thad Cochran’s victory in the Senate runoff in Mississippi over challenger Chris McDaniel. Cochran’s tactics–ginning up fear among black Democrats by exploiting false accusations of racism against the Tea Party–may be nasty, and they certainly
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. James Lankford has won the Republican nomination for Oklahoma’s open U.S. Senate seat. By capturing more than 50 percent of the vote Tuesday in the seven-man GOP primary field, Lankford avoids a runoff and
Tuesday from his campaign headquarters in Hattiesburg, MS, Chris McDaniel, a candidate for the Republican nomination of Mississippi’s senate seat currently held by Sen. Thad Cochran, did not offer a formal concession in a speech following his apparent defeat in
HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — State Sen. Chris McDaniel will challenge the results of the Tuesday runoff election, in which 41-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran won by about 6,400 votes, McDaniel announced to a room of supporters here at his victory party
With idea that surely someone somewhere knows something, one of the non-profits that was victimized by the IRS, is offering a million dollar bounty for smoking gun evidence that leads to the White House. In May, Catherine Englebrecht’s group, True
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters cast ballots Tuesday in primary elections in six states, plus a runoff in Mississippi. Highlights: ___ TOP OF THE TICKET The top race was Mississippi’s often-bitter Republican contest between veteran Sen. Thad Cochran and state Sen.
Former Rep. Bob Beauprez has won the Colorado Republican Primary for Governor beating Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, Secretary of State Scott Gessler, and former State Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp. Tancredo called Beauprez to concede the race which showed him
Rep. James Lankford (R-OK), the 5th-ranking member of the House GOP leadership, won the Oklahoma Senate special primary election outright on Tuesday, avoiding an August runoff against T.W. Shannon, the former Oklahoma House Speaker who was backed by former Alaska
Even a more or less Democrat-friendly publication like Politico can completely disguise the purely political nature of Democrats continuing to beat the drum of campaign finance reform …. all the while benefiting from the same form of big donations they
Tuesday at the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony after lawmakers posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), Rep John Lewis (D-GA), Senate Minority
Tuesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee on global violence against women, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) demanded America “use our might to speak for those who cannot.” He also proposed to stop sending foreign aid to countries that persecute Christians
California Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg no longer supports a water bond that will be on the ballot in November, which he negotiated with then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009, because it provides for water to be tunneled to
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is calling for President Obama to intervene to free Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman whom an Appeal Court freed yesterday, who was just re-arrested at the airport trying to leave Khartoum. “There is an
After Ben Sasse’s primary win in Nebraska’s GOP Senate primary last month, it seemed like former conservative Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon was next. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT), all of
Allies of the recording industry in Congress have introduced new legislation to change copyright law in the face of a new, online landscape. But the proposal is facing criticism that it would insulate entrenched players in the market from competition,
The Republican National Committee is charging that the Obama administration’s day-long White House Summit on Working Families rings hollow. “Democrats are not just ignoring the bills passed by the Republican-led House. They also refuse to consider bills sponsored by Senate
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is calling on two California Democrats to return campaign donations made by Kareem Ahmed, a “mega-donor” who gave over $1 million to Obama and Democratic Party candidates and super PACs, and who was indicted
Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson went on an op-ed offensive over the weekend, running an open letter to the parents of children illegally crossing America’s southwest border in Spanish-language news outlets. Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors, largely
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is boldly defending his vote for the Senate “Gang Of Eight” immigration bill as he campaigns for re-election in Tennessee, after his Tea Party-backed primary challenger Joe Carr has made the issue a central point in
As reported here earlier, Senate Democrat Kay Hagan had no problems making bold pronouncements about her concern for veterans when she was first running for her current office. However, six years later as she runs for a second term, it
North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan appears quick to try and capitalize on the on going Veteran’s Affairs scandal; however, it seems a bit disingenuous of her, given that she was aware of issues in the VA as far back as
If the Obama administration decides to unilaterally adopt policies to further reduce immigration enforcement in August, the flood of unaccompanied minors and family units illegally entering the United States could worsen, according to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). “This
