This afternoon, the Supreme Court of the United States announced it will hear King v. Burwell, a challenge to the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) authority to subsidize health coverage purchased through insurance exchanges run by the federal government. It’s likely the Court will schedule oral argument in early 2015 and issue a decision by the […]
Republicans swept into control of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, but that only begins to tell the story of a midterm election that turned into an electoral rout. From Nevada to New Hampshire, Republicans won resounding victories in state-level elections. Combined with unexpected victories in gubernatorial races in Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts, the Republicans are […]
The Media Research Center received considerable news coverage with an October 22 study and October 28 follow-up documenting how the Big Three broadcast evening newscasts were virtually ignoring this year’s midterm elections, even as they aggressively covered the midterms in 2006, when Democrats were predicted to make major gains. Over the next two weeks, Fox […]
(CNSNews.com) – Amid concern about terrorists’ increasingly effective use of the Internet to spread their message and attract recruits around the world, the head of a key British security agency is appealing for major Internet companies to cooperate more closely with the intelligence community to tackle the challenge. Some of the big U.S. tech companies […]
Republicans’ heady win on Election Day, in which they regained control of the U.S. Senate and increasing their majority in the House, soon will give way to sober reality. While awaiting their newly elected colleagues’ arrival in January, GOP lawmakers will be faced with a “lame duck” session that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has […]
This is the story of how a simple act by Sen. Ted Cruz exposed the hatred many members of the U.S. Senate have for your freedom to speak. The story begins in 2009 in the United States Supreme Court where Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart presented the Obama administration’s interpretation of the relevant part of […]
This morning we woke up to a changed America. Republicans now control 52 seats and counting in the Senate, and expanded their majority in the House. Importantly, these majorities were won by committing to repealing Obamacare and standing for conservative priorities. Republicans also gained at the state level, picking off governorships in liberal-leaning states and […]
If Republicans should capture the Senate and retain their majority in the House of Representatives, can they move America toward greater freedom, opportunity and prosperity in the next two years? Or, as some cynics claim, will a conservative Congress and a liberal president simply produce more of the divided uber-partisan government that has characterized Washington […]
WESTON, Fla. (AP) — A retired U.S. Marine who fought in Afghanistan returned home to Florida on Saturday after spending eight months in a Mexican jail for crossing the border with loaded guns, a case that led U.S. politicians to bring intense pressure on Mexico to release him. Family spokesman Jon Franks said the private […]
Mitt Romney speculated today that a Republican-controlled Senate would mean passage of a conservative immigration reform bill focused on border security that President Obama would sign. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Romney predicted that although Obama would move ahead with his own executive action on citizenship for illegal immigrants, Republicans would pass a bill in […]
