As Congress presses further into its annual December budget battle, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., launched the latest campaign in what he calls his ongoing war on waste. With the timely title “The Farce Awakens,” Flake’s 2015 Wastebook highlights 100 government programs of questionable merit—such as the millions in taxpayer dollars spent on sheep in microgravity, […]
The arch-progressive Woodrow Wilson is under attack—but conservatives should not join the fray. Wilson is the latest target of modern liberalism in its war against the past. Our 28th president has recently drawn the ire of student protestors at Princeton, who want to scrub the university clean of his name and image because of his […]
By Jonathan Easley Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has surpassed Donald Trump and Ben Carson in Iowa, a new poll finds, giving the Texas Republican his first lead of the cycle in an early voting state. Cruz, who has been on a sharp upward trajectory in the polls in recent weeks, takes 24 percent of support […]
President Barack Obama clearly meant to convey the seriousness of the situation we currently face as a nation from the terrorist group known as the Islamic State (ISIS) by delivering his third address to the nation from the Oval Office Sunday night. The address, however, did not contain any new strategy, or any new ideas, […]
Reports that the White House will declare that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has committed genocide against Iraqi Yazidis, but not against Christians, are of grave concern. Omitting Christians would be a strategic mistake because ISIS’ spiritual legitimacy depends on their promise to cleanse the “Caliphate” of infidel Christians. The U.S. must […]
I was a Muslim, I converted to Christianity for a reason because I found out I do not get along with you people. I don’t like what you’re preaching, I don’t like your religion. I’m sorry. You cannot force it upon me. That’s why I came here. But I’m not an advocate for war. For […]
By Polina Tikhonova With U.S. President Barack Obama’s move to place American fighter jets on the Turkish-Syrian border to “target Russian planes,” the tensions between the U.S. and Russia could spiral into a “devastating nuclear war,” according to a U.S. representative. With Russian President Vladimir Putin warning NATO of “serious consequences” for shooting down a […]
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., thinks he has a solution for much of the surge in mass shootings. Rather than reacting with new gun control measures, Murphy proposes to overhaul the nation’s mental health system to get at what he believes is the root of the violence. Recent mass murders have given that reform effort traction. […]
Senate Democrats blocked GOP efforts Thursday to repeal Obamacare’s risk corridor program, which Republicans have referred to as a taxpayer-funded bailout of insurers. Now, conservatives are looking to the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill to continue restricting the use of taxpayer dollars for the program. As Congress begins to debate this year’s omnibus spending bill, […]
Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee formally rejected the idea of a Palestinian state on Thursday, stating at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington that he wants to go on record in rejecting the “two-state solution.” “I consider [the two-state solution] no solution whatsoever,” Huckabee said. “There cannot be two states trying to own the same […]
