By Robert Romano There is one mystery that has perplexed political observers after Senate Democrats decided to violate Senate rules allowing the minority party to block presidential appointments. And that was why it was so important to do so to help Patricia Ann Millett to get confirmed […]

By Marta H. Mossburg Human moral progress is not a given, as progressives would like Americans to believe. Take the ancient punishment of stoning, for example. A report in The Wall Street Journal earlier this week said the Afghan government is considering draft legislation to […]

By Robert Romano Despite the brazen power grab by Senate Democrats led by Majority Leader Harry Reid to blatantly ignore Senate rules to overcome cloture on most presidential nominees, there has been little Republican backlash to a move that has sharply changed the power structure in Washington, […]

By A.F. Branco

By Nathan Mehrens President Obama’s socialized medicine law has a big problem on its hands — something much more serious than a botched website or a broken political promise. And while some say it’s nothing more than a “technicality,” the court case over this “glitch” is moving […]

By Rick Manning This past week our nation celebrated the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address.  Once a staple in schools, where kids learned the words by heart and delivered them before the whole class, modern education has apparently deemed the soaring words […]

By Tom Toth Since its original design, the United States Senate has undergone two integrally related transformations in design and purpose. In 1913, states voted away their federal legislative voice by ratifying the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, changing the appointment of Senators to a direct election. […]

By Rick Manning A version of this article appeared in The Hill on 11/21/2013 I hope packing the courts with radical nominees is worth it for the Democrats, because they will be in the minority in the Senate in 2015. And if a Republican wins election to the presidency […]

By Robert Romano Standing Rule XXII of the Senate clearly states that “to amend the Senate rules… the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting,” but none of that matters anymore. Senate Democrats under Harry Reid have changed the rules regarding cloture on most presidential nominees with just a simple majority — an […]

By William Warren