House leaders narrowly voted down an amendment by Justin Amash to defund the NSA surveillance program.  A bipartisan coalition arose to fight the unconstitutional surveillance.  ( You can watch the full debate on the amendment here. ) With only a 7 vote swing, the amendment would have passed.  Let your representative know what you think […]

By Rick Manning The Obama Administration and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the wool over the eyes of naïve Senate Republicans in agreeing to pull back two objectionable appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in exchange for the dropping of any filibuster threat against […]

By Robert Romano The National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) domestic surveillance program suffered a near-death experience on the floor of the House of Representatives July 24. Although an amendment to the 2014 Defense Appropriations Act by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) was narrowly defeated 205 to 217 in a truly bipartisan vote , the fact it even came up for a vote was a victory. The amendment […]

By Brad Tidwell Using the hashtag #4259Broadway, SEIU-backed worker center Fast Food Forward posted pictures of a strike at McDonalds. Suspicious timing, or fortunate photo op? Mere minutes after posting an update about a broken air conditioning unit, Fast Food Forward’s twitter account posted a […]

By Robert Romano The National Security Agency’s (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) domestic surveillance program will face its first up-or-down vote in the House of Representatives today. An amendment offered by Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash to the 2014 Defense Appropriations Act would defund any surveillance to collect communications data “if such things do not pertain to a person who is the subject of an investigation.” Under current law in Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the FBI and NSA […]

By Bill Wilson “[T]he only question now is just how bad the crash will be.” That was none other than New York Times pundit Paul Krugman commenting on recent financial developments , including a credit slowdown, in China, an economy he says “has reached its limits” after decades of record expansion. The Krugman warning comes at a time when Fitch is flashing the […]

By Rick Manning Earlier this summer, headlines blared across many conservative oriented and mainstream websites declared , “DOJ Defunds Youth Programs that Reference God.” A Young Marines program run by the Bossier Parish Sheriff in Louisiana was notified that they would be denied future federal support of their […]

By Willie Deutsch Over the past two weeks, Republican leadership in the House and Senate drastically increased conservative distrust of Republican compromises.  In the House of Representatives, the compromise version of the Agriculture Bill proved to be worse than the original, and the Senate filibuster […]

By Robert Romano The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting of tea party and other 501(c)(4) organizations has now reached the post of the agency’s top lawyer, chief counsel William Wilkins, a political appointee. The bombshell was revealed in recent congressional testimony as reported by the House Oversight Committee . How far we have come. […]

By Willie Deutsch In the Senate Republicans capitulation on stopping Obama’s radical nominees, their consolation prize was that Obama would withdraw his nomination of Richard Griffin and Sharon Block to the NLRB.  While Obama took advantage of this by nominating two equally radical nominees , their is a further irony. It […]