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Despite admonitions from amnesty activists, more Senate Democrats are urging Obama against extending executive amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, especially before the November elections, according to a Politico report. “I have concerns about executive action,” Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken,

In a remarkable admission on Wednesday, the Obama administration’s Department of Justice argued that granting a Constitutional “right” for illegal immigrant juveniles to have lawyers would make the border “completely open” for foreigners under 18 and attract even more illegal

On September 3, the gun control group founded by Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly began running ads against Martha McSally (R-AZ)–a retired Air Force pilot seeking to fill the congressional seat Giffords herself once held. McSally, who was “the first

President Obama insists that he still plans to make an executive decision on immigration reform, but his timeline for action grows increasingly convoluted. Obama and his team spent most of the summer previewing his executive action on immigration reform, vowing

SAN DIEGO — Like stores stocking Christmas decorations in August, campaign ads in California’s 52nd Congressional district have begun making appearances especially early in the high profile battle for a seat held by freshman Democrat Congressman Scott Peters (right, above)

Note from Senior Management: National Review Editor-in-Chief Rich Lowry takes on Warren Buffett’s tax strategy in Politico. We reprint here. It must have been a bitter moment for President Barack Obama when he got the news that his favorite economic

In a story initially and doggedly pursued by former Breitbart News reporter Lee Stranahan, Jesse Benton has resigned as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager, “citing potential distractions over renewed attention to a scandal from the Iowa 2012 caucuses.” At issue

Two governors. Two quotes. And an opening for Republicans this fall. This week in Los Angeles, Gov. Jerry Brown — standing hand-in-hand with Enrique Peña Nieto as the Mexican president declared the United States “the other Mexico” — assured illegal

The U.S. Department of Education (USED) has punished the state of Oklahoma for repealing the Common Core standards and reverting to its previous academic standards by rescinding the state’s waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), making it the second

Watching the guilty men and women dive for cover over the Rotherham affair, I begin to wonder whether their incompetence and neglect stems from their own inadequacies, or from a more profound ignorance on key issue surrounding the vexed subject

A new poll shows that two-time losing GOP candidate for President Mitt Romney leads in Iowa among candidates for the 2016 nomination. According to the new USA Today poll, 35 percent of likely GOP voters in Iowa would pick Mitt

Politico reports that Barack Obama will take time out from golfing to join Hillary Clinton and Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the DNC’s Women’s Leadership Forum in Washington on Sept. 18-19.  The welcome reception will be hosted

A Rasmussen Reports Poll released on Wednesday shows that the Arkansas U.S. Senate race is currently a dead heat. Incumbent Mark Pryor (D-AR) leads Republican challenger, U.S. Representative Tom Cotton (R-AR 4), by a single point, 44% to 43%. The

Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) of Louisiana said he will file a lawsuit against the Obama administration, accusing it of illegally manipulating states with federal grant money and regulations that forced them to adopt the Common Core standards. According to the

Though the Islamic State (IS) has taken nearly half of Iraq in a surprise blitzkrieg, murdered thousands, expelled Christians–who had occupied Iraq and Syria for 2,000 years–and gathered supporters and recruits from all over the world, an editor at Politico mocked those

Monday morning, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews interviewed Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, as she sat in front of a collapsed storefront. Nancy and husband Paul Pelosi own a winery in Napa, the Napa Valley Register reported in

After reportedly getting paid $4 million to leave NBC and not denigrate Meet the Press, former host David Gregory is reportedly trying to cash in some more on the speaking circuit. According to Politico, the president of Gregory’s speakers bureau

Files scheduled to be released from Clinton White House records will show his efforts to shackle militias and set up a “strict licensing system” for paramilitary groups, Politico reports. In other words, gun control was to be complemented–and in places,

According to Politico, Sharpton has become a key advisor to Obama on issues involving race. Suddenly I miss Jeremiah Wright. During the 2008 presidential election, when videos surfaced of Obama’s 20 year mentor screaming “God damn America!” and worse, then-Senator

Al Sharpton may be reveling in his close relationship with President Obama, but the controversial activist is also taking time to highlight his differences with the Clinton family as Hillary Clinton explores a presidential run. Sharpton suggested that he still

Al Sharpton is always there for the rallies and marches but rarely for the solutions.  Why are some Americans shocked when President Obama’s point man on race in Ferguson, MO is Sharpton as written on Politico Revved Up: How Al

A new poll from Gallup has found that Republican voters think the immigration woe facing America is the most important issue in the country. Of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters, the Gallup poll found that 22 percent believe immigration is the

In April of 2012, Fareed Zakaria had to apologize for lifting paragraphs from a New Yorker article. Three days ago, two anonymous plagiarism cops hit Zakaria with a litany of examples of what they defined as plagiarism. Friday, this same

Politico’s Dylan Byers, the left-wing outlet’s media writer, offered up a paragraph of analysis Friday that attempted to explain why the incoming plagiarism charges against Fareed Zakaria aren’t “gaining nearly as much steam as those that brought down BuzzFeed editor

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

Last year, several billionaires were busy putting their money where their mouths were in an attempt to push amnesty, disguised as “immigration reform,” on a Congress that everyone thought was ripe for the issue. But ever since the border crisis

Politico’s Glenn Thrush reports in this week’s edition of the magazine that Al Sharpton has become President Barack Obama’s “go-to man on race” in Ferguson and elsewhere. Thrush tells the story as one of Sharpton’s own reform and revival, dwelling on

Scottie Hughes, news director for the Tea Party News Network, gives her analysis of Paul Ryan’s new book in Politico Magazine. Who doesn’t remember the boyish Paul Ryan, open-collared and brimming with confidence, coming down the gangplank from the USS

On August 21 Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly posted a video in which Kelly did the ALS ice bucket challenge and nominated his brother, a family friend, and the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre to do the same. Once challenged,

— Politico: “I came back from vacation because I am furious, furious, about how the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown is being reported and how various people are reacting to it,” [Bill] O’Reilly said on his show “The O’Reilly

We all remember the media endlessly hectoring George W. Bush about his golfing, fundraising, and vacations at his ranch in Texas. We also remember this very same objective, unbiased, not-at-all-liberal media excusing and even defending (with false reporting) President Obama’s

With their proposals defeated in Congress for now, pro-amnesty activists have dropped off the radar while President Obama considers a major executive action that Republicans have warned could precipitate a constitutional crisis. August recess town halls have also been relatively