The So-Called Republican Majority Is Advancing Only Washington’s Priorities

The American people elected a Republican majority to the U.S. Senate believing that a Republican majority would be somehow different from a Democratic majority. Unfortunately, the way the current Senate operates, there is one party, the Washington party. Senate leadership consists of the Mitch McConnell-Harry Reid leadership team. They operate as a team. They support […]

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Right-Wingers vs. Muslim Extremists?

Debunking the 2015 New America Study and the myth that America’s ‘Right-Wing’ is a greater threat than Islam Shortly after a racist walked into a Charleston church and gunned down nine innocent people in June, a group called “The New America Foundation” released a study appearing to show that “right-wing” terrorists have killed more people […]

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Martin O’Malley at Iowa Caucus Forum Series: Wants an ‘Inclusive’ Economy

DES MOINES, Iowa—Former governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley spoke at the Iowa Caucus Consortium 2016 Candidate Series in Des Moines Friday afternoon. O’Malley said he votes for the “sensible rebalancing” of the economy. “Together we have to choose to make a more inclusive economy that works for all of our people,” O’Malley said. The Caucus […]

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Democratic Members of Congress Want the Group Behind Planned Parenthood Videos Investigated

Democratic members of Congress have requested an investigation into the Center for Medical Progress, the group behind two undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives. The Center for Medical Progress has released two undercover videos in its “Human Capital” series, depicting two senior Planned Parenthood executives discussing the price “per specimen” of fetal organs such as […]

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Trooper Threatened Sandra Bland With Taser Before Her Death: ‘I Will Light You Up’

Texas law enforcement released a graphic dashcam video Tuesday showing a routine traffic stop escalate into a violent altercation between Sandra Bland and a state trooper, leading to her arrest. Bland was found hanging in her jail cell three days later. The footage from trooper Brian Encinia’s car initially shows the officer handing Bland a […]

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Twitter Reacts to Another Video Exposing Planned Parenthood

The Center for Medical Progress unveiled another covertly filmed video that exposes a Planned Parenthood executive negotiating the price of aborted fetal body parts. Social media has been erupting with responses from both sides of the aisle since the release of the video. Common hashtags surrounding the scandal include #DefundPlannedParenthood, #PPSellsBabyParts, #SketchySource and #StandwithPP. Among […]

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Arthur Laffer Resells His Reagan-Era Tax Cuts to Create ‘Boom of All Centuries’

Arthur Laffer sat at dinner with Ford administration officials Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld 40 years ago, sketching his tax policy theory in sharpie on the back of a cloth napkin, declaring that tax cuts would stimulate the floundering economy. The napkin drawing etched Laffer’s name as the intellectual architect of Reaganomics and spurred a […]

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