Gang of Eight Bill Doesn't Get 70 Votes, But it Gets 68
Democrat-led Senate passes the unpopular immigration bill, but will GOP-controlled House be crazy enough to pass it?
Democrat-led Senate passes the unpopular immigration bill, but will GOP-controlled House be crazy enough to pass it?
Obama’s spokesman dismisses the idea that there is anything scandalous about the administration’s handling of the September terrorist attack that killed four Americans.
The IRS hearings inspired a Pennsylvania Republican congressman to go on a tirade against the tax agency that drew spontaneous applause.
Republicans in the House yesterday began a push for their latest congressional effort: legislation to offer more flexibility to working families who want to spend more time with their children. The bill, H.R 1406, would allow private employees to ask for time off according to bargaining agreements, and includes a controversial caveat known as ‘comp time’ that allows overtime to be paid on an hourly basis. This bill would modify […]
Less than a month after a video of a University of Southern California professor denouncing Republicans as “angry old white people” went viral, another example of a USC professor using his classroom to bash conservatives has been uncovered. Political Science Professor Richard Dekmejian is seen in this video attacking former President George W. Bush. Dekmejian said the former president suffered from “serious intellectual and mental problems.” Oliver Darcy and Josiah […]
Joe Miller, who narrowly lost a Tea Party-backed challenge to Alaska’s Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski four years ago, is preparing a possible 2014 campaign against Democrat Sen. Mark Begich. In an announcement on his Restoring Liberty site, Miller named three recently-elected senators popular with Tea Party activists as examples. “We need a candidate in 2014 who will join reformers like Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz to confront President Obama, not one who […]
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has cancelled a planned trip to Iowa after being hospitalized Saturday. Santorum, who was second to Mitt Romney in the 2012 Republican presidential primary campaign, had previously announced he would speak Monday at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition’s 13th Annual Spring Kick Off near Des Moines. However, that speech and other Iowa events have been cancelled, Santorum’s non-profit group Patriot Voices said in a statement Sunday: Former […]
A group calling themselves the “Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry” has written a letter to the RNC asking voting members to reject the recent resolution draft which condemns same-sex marriage and “. . .implores the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the sanctity of marriage in its rulings on California’s Proposition 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act.” Prominent figures as S.E. Cupp and Meghan McCain among others […]
Perhaps signaling his intention to make another bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, Rick Santorum announced Monday that he will speak at an event next week in Iowa sponsored by the state’s largest social conservative organization. Santorum will give the keynote address at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition’s 13th Annual Spring Kick Off April 15 at Des Moines Christian School in Urbandale. “Senator Santorum’s remarks will focus on the future […]
A New York City councilman who was arrested Tuesday in an alleged plot to rig this year’s mayoral election is a “prince” in a cult that practices an ancient pagan religion, the New York Post reported Saturday. Republican Dan Halloran, a councilman from Queens, converted from Catholicism to the pagan belief known as “Theodism” in the 1980s. Members of Halloran’s group “wear medieval garb, make sacrifices to multiple gods and […]