The conventional wisdom headed into the November mid-terms was set, illegal immigration was going to divide the GOP and lift the sagging image of Obama and his fellow Democrats, possibly even giving them a chance in what most concede will
Rick Perry writing at the Washington Post: As a veteran, and as a governor who has supported Texas National Guard deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, I can understand the emotions behind isolationism. Many people are tired of war, and the urge
Facing calls to concede from Ann Coulter and his opponent, State Sen. Chris McDaniel is moving full speed ahead with his challenge of the Mississippi GOP primary runoff election results and now has enough questionable ballots to cast the entire
Perception and reality continued to baffle Palestinian advocates Thursday as the conflict between Israel and Gaza terrorist groups reached a third day. Palestinians fired more than 100 rockets at major Israeli cities, including Beersheba, Rehovot, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Israel, meanwhile, stepped
On Thursday, House Republican leaders reportedly denied Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart’s (R-FL) final request to act on his amnesty bill, which he had planned to push after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) June primary. After Cantor was stunningly ousted because of the
Freedom Fest’s first major panel of the conference opened with the question: “NSA, TSA, IRS: Are Big Brother and The Thought Police Here?” And the question didn’t mean “here” as in watching the conference, it meant “here” like in the
WASHINGTON (AP) — An online magazine reported Wednesday that the National Security Agency and the FBI covertly scanned the emails of five prominent Muslim-Americans under the government’s secret surveillance program aimed at foreign terrorists and other national security threats. The
The Senate is preparing to take up gun control again–but this time it is with Republicans pushing to repeal or limit various gun control statutes already on the books. According to The Washington Post: Republicans want to overturn the ban
When Pope Francis visited the Holy Land in May, he wasn’t there as an emissary to the Muslims or to the Jews in the area. He visited political and religious leaders of both groups, but he was there to minister
There’s always talk of outreach to independents and the “mushy middle,” but what about people who just don’t care about politics? Or those who think politics don’t affect their daily life? How do we reach them? An article in the
On Tuesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer offered his assessment of the layout of the current media environment, particularly with regards to liberal bias. Krauthammer was particularly critical of The New York Times. In its news pages,
The scandal surrounding Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) roared back to life late Monday evening with a new report from the Washington Post in which the senator’s attorney accuses the Cuban government of planting negative stories
Sticking to her claim that she and husband Bill were “dead broke” when they left the White House, Hillary Clinton told German magazine Der Spiegel they were in deep debt because of “relentless persecution of my husband and myself.” The
According to an unscientific metric used to gauge how far Kindle readers make it into a book they have purchased, even the very few people who have purchased Hillary Clinton’s lousy-selling “Hard Choices” aren’t bothering to read it. The Washington
Americans are waking up to how bad Common Core really is for education, but its nightmare does not go away quickly. Liberal education bureaucrats (“educrats”) are now trying to enforce Common Core through the courts, with one lawsuit already filed
During Monday’s “Special Report” panel segment, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer explained how the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 is being used in ways it was not intended pertaining to the influx of Central American youth
The Associated Press is reporting that lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and the American Civil Liberties Union against a North Carolina voter ID law will go to trial in 2015. The
President Barack Obama hailed it “the defining challenge of our times.” The Pope called it the “root of social evil.” And progressive economics sensation Thomas Piketty bagged big money penning a best-seller on the topic. Yet despite the left’s best efforts
In a Washington Post profile that compared gay rights and illegal immigration to the Civil Rights Movement, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson suggested that illegal immigrant children who are flooding across the border should not lose hope. When the Post “asked about the emotional
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced to the nation Sunday that the Ukrainian army had retaken the city of Sloviansk from pro-Russian rebels, a city believed to be one in which the anti-Kiev forces were most deeply entrenched. According to the
Trying to quell a controversy over a $225,000 speaking fee at UNLV, Hillary Clinton told ABC News Friday that all her speaking fees from colleges were “donated” to the family’s Clinton Foundation. It naturally didn’t occur to ABC News to
On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer offered a scathing rebuke of President Barack Obama’s unilateral immigration policy actions. According to the Post columnist, Obama’s justification for acting, which is to bring in
The White House has all but abandoned a message of income inequality it had focused on last year. It turns out Americans are not moved by the topic and prefer a message based on opportunity. The Washington Post reported yesterday
HOUSTON, Texas–The enormous growth of the Hispanic population does not seem to be turning Texas blue as fast as many political pundits expected. Recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed a decreasing non-Hispanic white population and a rapidly growing
A new conventional wisdom is forming which says Democrat’s gaffes don’t matter because they aren’t connected to (bad) Republican policies. There’s a grain of truth to this argument and yet it misses the big picture. Hillary’s policy positions won’t be
