By Peter Hong This could be the hottest summer in Washington, D.C. I’m not talking about the weather.  I’m talking about the Supreme Court and the prospects for a confirmation fight like none other. With the Supreme Court’s current term coming to an end, rumors […]

By Printus LeBlanc In early February, five employees of the House of Representatives were banned from the House IT network. The five former House employees are the subject of a criminal investigation by the Capitol Hill Police. They are accused of stealing equipment and accessing House IT […]

By Robert Romano An unsealed April 26 court ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court found that the Obama administration had violated “the NSA’s minimization procedures involving queries of data acquired under Section 702 using U.S. person identifiers. The full scope of non-compliant querying practices had not been previously disclosed to the Court.” Under FISA, the court is supposed […]

By Natalia Castro The President’s budget sets the tone for Congressional spending for the entire fiscal year, and Trump has sent a strong message to Congress that the federal government must be cut. In his $4.1 trillion budget , Trump reinforces spending caps on agencies and takes crucial […]

By Printus LeBlanc The current pattern cannot continue. Terror attack, cry, post flag filter on Facebook, forget, and repeat. How to attack the current threat, while maintaining the rights guaranteed in the Constitution? On May 22 in Manchester, England, radical Islamic terrorism struck Europe once […]

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By Peter Hong Approaching Memorial Day, the air in Washington, D.C. is generally filled with three things:  pollen, cherry blossom remains, and hot air (both God-made and man-made). Today, on the Republican side of the aisle, it’s full of something else: the unmistakable stench of […]

By Robert Romano Federal employees received a total of $1.7 billion of performance-based bonuses in 2016, data compiled by the Office of Personnel Management and Fedstats shows . The bonuses were up 5.7 percent from 2015, the data shows, when bonuses were $1.6 billion. Bonuses were $1.5 billion in 2014, $939.6 million in 2013, $1.6 billion in 2012, […]

By Robert Romano Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein shook Washington, D.C. with his May 17 appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to, according to the Justice Department press release , “oversee the previously-confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and related matters.” “My decision […]

By Rick Manning Things are getting real in D.C. and the swamp is in full fury trying to take down the presidency of Donald Trump before it even begins. Today’s decision by the Justice Department number two officer to appoint a special counsel to examine the Trump […]