By Robert Romano “It was my hope we could get forward on this appropriation bill with a full and open amendment process and a reasonable number of amendments from both sides.” That was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last week pushing for simple majority amendments to a $180 billion Senate appropriations measure combining the budgets of Agriculture, Transportation-Housing […]

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. A far-reaching plan cooked up by transportation officials in the District of Columbia aims to propel the nation’s capital into a position of undisputed leadership in the wondrous world of “sustainability.” The District’s “Multimodal Long-Range Transportation Plan” sets goals for […]

By Robert Romano American Center for Law and Justice’s Jay Sekulow might get to the bottom of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal of targeting the tea party and other 501(c)(4) organizations long before the House of Representatives ever does. Lois Lerner’s emails outside the IRS are […]

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Can you guess what year these charges against the President of the United States were filed? “Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States […]

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 […]