The Cornyn re-election campaign released a dramatic web ad today touting the Senator’s longstanding record of combatting the Environmental Protection Agency. The timing of the ad release tracks with the State of Texas’ ongoing challenge against controversial EPA emissions standards
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has opened up a sizable lead over State Senator Wendy Davis in the race for governor of Texas. After what looks to be easy primary wins in March for the leading gubernatorial candidates, according to
Updating our report from Feb. 23, on Monday morning the Supreme Court declined to consider two National Rifle Association cases on whether young adults have full Second Amendment rights, and whether those rights for any Americans–young or old–extend outside the
The 2014 elections are fast-approaching. Every day Americans are getting health care policy cancellation notices, coping with unemployment or underemployment, and getting fed up with an Administration that’s outright hostile to its citizens. The Left is desperate to hold on
Monday, Feb. 24 at 9:30 a.m., the Supreme Court will release its list of orders on a number of important cases asking for the Court’s review – including some on the Second Amendment – revealing which ones it will take. Then, at 10:00 a.m.,
One of the more persistent myths of modern politics is that Democrats are swimming against a torrent of money supporting Republicans. In the media narrative, nefarious business and monied interests subvert the democratic process by deploying millions against Democrats progressives.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has released a new book focused, in part, on “improving” the Constitution through amending the Second Amendment–by making the rights protected therein applicable only to a militia instead of the citizenry at large.
On Feb. 21, a Chicago-based federal appeals court handed a defeat to the University of Notre Dame on an Obamacare regulation, the HHS contraception mandate. But that defeat may be a temporary one, as the Supreme Court will review challenges to
The Obama Administration has engaged in an unprecedented assault on the First Amendment which is accelerating as he expands the reach of government using regulatory powers well beyond their legal limitations. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall famously wrote in
At some point when America is at war, terrible violations of basic constitutional freedoms will occur. So says Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Speaking at the University of Hawaii’s law school on Feb. 3, Scalia talked about World War II,
Editorial Director of the Huffington Post Howard Fineman on MSNBC’s “The Cycle,” who discussed one of the consequences of the Supreme Court’s “Citizen Untied” ruling being moving the base of power out of Washington D.C….
If Obama administration officials thought the controversy surrounding the bin Laden death images was put to rest after the Supreme Court refused to consider Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, they could not be more wrong. Judicial Watch
Is Vladimir Putin’s police Pussy Riots’ oppressors or their press agents? Two members of the Russian punk-rock collective Pussy Riot claim that Russian secret police arrested them and roughed them up on Tuesday. The incident took place in Sochi, just
I don’t care which side of the political aisle a bigot stands on. The explanation or the apology has never been, and is no longer good enough. In this case it involves the silent NAACP and the Democrats. Alabama State Representative Alvin
A sophomore at the University of South Carolina was shocked recently to find a school textbook presenting as fact the claims that Ronald Reagan was a sexist and that conservatives think people are incapable of charity and those on welfare
“We are called upon to decide whether a responsible, law-abiding citizen has a right under the Second Amendment to carry a firearm in public for self-defense,” wrote Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Hill argues that Attorney General Eric Holder is resurgent after a series of scandals seemed to portend his fall. The paper writes that Holder’s new aggressive actions in calling for states to give felons the right to vote and
Texas gubernatorial hopeful and Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis asserted on Thursday in an interview with statesman.com, “Texas is not really a red state, it’s just a non-voting state.” Davis, who gained notoriety for her 11-hour filibuster against a bill that
A Justice Department lawyer who describes himself as a “Voting Rights Gladiator” on Twitter, was in a Kansas court Tuesday, trying to stop Kansas and Arizona from verifying the citizenship of people registering to vote. Via J Christian Adams at PJ
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday filed a class action lawsuit against President Barack Obama and other administration officials for the National Security Agency (NSA) program that collected millions of Americans’ phone and other records. FreedomWorks, a grassroots Tea Party-aligned
President Barack Obama’s announcement Monday that he would extend the suspension of Obamacare’s employer mandate is illegal in a way that should concern both liberals and conservatives, as the left and Obama’s media supporters go into overdrive to argue that
Governor Jay Inslee of Washington issued a reprieve to all death row prisoners in the state, suspending the use of the death penalty. Inslee says that the use of the death penalty is inconsistent and unequal. “Equal justice under the
On Monday, the Obama administration announced that it would be delaying one of the key components of Obamacare yet again. This time, the Treasury Department stated that mid-sized employers – businesses with between 50 and 99 employees – would be
CHEVY CHASE, Md. (AP) — Change is coming quickly to the Boy Scouts of America after years of turmoil and debate over its membership policy, with an openly gay 17-year-old in Maryland achieving the highest rank of Eagle Scout. On
Okay, let’s stipulate that the new George Clooney/Matt Damon movie, The Monuments Men, is getting mostly bad reviews. According to rottentomatoes.com, just 33 percent of film critics nationwide liked the film. And here at Breitbart News, John Hayward derided the
