Ferguson Grand Jury: No Charges to Be filed against Police Officer

Missouri officials plan to announce the grand jury’s decision that has been made on whether to criminally charge a  police officer in the August fatal shooting of an black teenager who robbed a store moments before the shooting, then allegedly attacked the police officer in Ferguson. The  shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a resident […]

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Cruz: Obama Action Same as ‘Counterfeiting Immigration Papers’

Sen. Ted Cruz today described President Obama’s move to shield 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation as essentially the same as counterfeiting. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” the Texas Republican said: For 4 to 5 million people here illegally, he’s promising to print out and give out work authorizations — essentially, he’s gotten in the job […]

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No Cover-Up, Intelligence Failure or Military Inaction in Benghazi Attacks, House Panel Finds

Intelligence and military officials responded appropriately during the terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, a House committee concluded in a report released Friday evening. The report by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence also found no cover-ups and no deliberate misconduct by Obama administration officials following the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks. […]

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Announcing His Lawless Executive Action on Immigration, Obama Took Aim at Strawmen

On Thursday night, President Obama called for reasonable debate while attacking an army of strawmen: those who want to rip children out of the arms of parents, deport college graduates, close off the country to immigration and those who want to do nothing to fix our broken immigration system. There’s just one catch: nobody is […]

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Congressman Seeks to End Program He Calls ‘More Dangerous’ Than IRS Scandal

Calling a secretive government operation to strangle politically out-of-favor businesses “more dangerous” than the IRS targeting scandal, a congressman with a background in banking is preparing to introduce legislation to kill the Obama administration initiative. “I believe this activity is probably more dangerous and more disastrous than that of the IRS scandal because this is running people […]

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Congress Needs to Remain Engaged on the ICANN Transition

The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has contracted with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to manage core functions of the Internet since ICANN was established in 1998, including managing policy and technical features of the Internet’s domain name system (DNS). Since the establishment of ICANN, the federal government has […]

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