The country’s latest culture war has shifted to North Carolina in recent weeks, where lawmakers are engaged in a tense debate over whether or not transgender people should be given full, unrestrained access to bathrooms that correspond with their preferred gender identity instead of their biological sex. The issue arose last Monday, when the Charlotte […]
Finally, support from Congress for something other than a federal bailout for Puerto Rico or letting the commonwealth break its contracts and constitutional obligations. The Republican Study Committee issued the following position: The RSC opposes granting access to Chapter 9 bankruptcy for Puerto Rico or access to similar forced restructuring of debt. The RSC does […]
As President Barack Obama delivered his speech from the Roosevelt Room in the White House on closing Guantanamo, his plan to close the terrorist detention facility was delivered to lawmakers. The 9-page plan—read together with the administration’s legal analysis of the immigration consequences if some of the remaining 91 Guantanamo detainees were brought to the […]
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., is still angry about the omnibus spending bill that passed through Congress more than two months ago. Buck’s frustrated, not only by what Congress included in the massive $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, but also by what Congress intentionally left out. He wants the legislature to reassert its rulemaking authority by […]
From the steps of the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats unleashed their latest messaging barrage in the battle over whether President Obama should fill the open seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., blasted Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, after the chairman of the Judiciary Committee accused Democrats earlier Thursday of throwing […]
The Republican debate that took place last night in Houston, Texas, was phenomenally good for America and freedom lovers everywhere. Ahead of Super Tuesday, arguably the most important day in the GOP primaries that takes place on March 1st, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio teamed up to expose Donald Trump’s leftist views and reveal Trump to […]
Last Friday, the Georgia Senate passed a good bill that protects religious freedom in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage. And already special interest groups and big businesses are trying to pressure the governor into refusing to sign the bill unless it is significantly watered down in the House. This is yet […]
At dawn on Feb. 10, a camp for displaced people in the northeast Nigerian town of Dikwa began stirring to life. Three unaccompanied young girls asking for shelter had arrived the day before, and spent the night with approximately 50,000 others who had fled the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. That morning, in the midst […]
Aaron and Melissa Klein, the Oregon bakers who were ordered to pay $135,000 for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, have assembled a new legal team to take their case through the appeals process. The Kleins are now being represented by attorneys at First Liberty, a law firm that specializes in […]
Rush Limbaugh: this “just may be the best endorsement Ted Cruz has received yet”: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/…/robert_b_reichhhh_produces_th… Robert Reich breaks down why Ted Cruz is more dangerous than Donald Trump. Note that the Democrat states that Cruz does not support immigration reform. Of course, this implies that Trump does. That is something that any thinking American who […]
