By Rick Manning Tuesday in Mississippi marks the next faceoff between a Tea Party challenger and an entrenched, out of touch Republican incumbent. The race features thirty six year Senator Thad Cochran against state Senator Chris McDaniel, and has been fraught with twists and turns suitable to […]

By Robert Romano On May 30, in an amendment offered by Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) to the Department of Commerce appropriations bill, the House of Representatives by a 229 to 178 vote denied funding to the Obama administration to transition control over the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the domain name system (DNS) to an as of yet unnamed international body. That was the first assertion of […]

By Robert Romano How much is being House Majority Leader worth? How about $27.3 billion? That is how much in loans the U.S. Export-Import Bank doled out in 2013 to supposedly “facilitate exports of goods and services,” according to the bank’s charter . Yet, ahead of the June 18 House leadership elections […]

By Rick Manning House Leadership races are difficult to pin down.  Nothing makes this point more clearly than the elevation of Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy to Eric Cantor’s vacated House Majority Leader slot. Those who want to make this internal election into an establishment versus tea party […]

By David Bozeman The idea that Bill and Hillary Clinton were broke at the end of his presidency is so patently absurd that her fake emoting is far more damaging to her reputation than any outrage from the right.  In fact, the pertinent question here is […]

By Rick Manning This is not a joke. The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, led by Saturday Night Live comedian turned politician Al Franken, voted unanimously against the exact language contained in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.  This marks perhaps the […]

By Robert Romano Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens on June 18 in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) urged the Senate to change the name of the Russell Senate Office Building. The building was named after Georgian Democrat Senator Richard Russell, Jr. who Mehrens noted “filibustered civil rights legislation, actively supported segregation, […]

By Robert Romano In 1974, then-special prosecutor Leon Jaworski issued a subpoena for the infamous White House tapes. Those tapes were the critical bit of evidence that might prove Richard Nixon was involved in the Watergate scandal and cover-up. Nixon refused, claiming an absolute executive privilege against […]

At the end of the week, the House Republican conference will select a new Majority Leader to replace the ousted Eric Cantor. To date, two Representatives have thrown their hats into the ring, vouching for the second highest position in the House. The first was […]

By Nathan Mehrens Throughout the course of the Obama Administration we’ve seen the President and his appointees make a regular practice of dodging laws that make implementing their agenda difficult. One such example of this practice will be receiving greater scrutiny now that the U.S. […]