Citizens United has filed a new lawsuit against the U.S. State Department regarding “long-lingering freedom of information requests,” in effect asking the judge to compel them “to respond to four separate requests seeking documents that were filed in May and July of last year.
Civil Rights advocate Peter Kirsanow strongly opposes the nomination of Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as Barack Obama’s Attorney General.
President Barack Obama had some laughs at the expense of Hillary Clinton’s email problem at this year’s Gridiron dinner. The New York Post‘s Ed Klein reports his senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, actually leaked the Clinton story to the media.
According to a report in The Hill, prospective GOP presidential contender Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke at historically black Bowie State University today, where he “frequently nodded to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s idea that there are ‘two Americas,'” and made his case for criminal justice reform.
A White House Vine post has Vice President Joe Biden doing bicep curls in celebration of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign, which has mostly “fizzled,” according to the Washington Post.
According to Bloomberg Politics, Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie now has “a core of powerful donors” of the sort he’ll need to compete with Jeb Bush in the GOP’s money primary.
The clock is ticking. Congress must deal with a key Medicare issue before March 31, and the stage is set for Republican leadership to cave once again.
As chairman of the Senate Space, Science, and Competitiveness Subcommittee, Texas Republican Ted Cruz is on a mission — to get NASA back on course regarding it’s original focus, space, and less on what many view as pseudo-science: global warming research.
As Politico reports, despite backing Barack Obama’s executive power grab on amnesty — and her belief that illegal immigrants share the same “right and the obligation to work” in America as citizens, including veterans — Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch is poised to be confirmed thanks to the support of some Senate Republicans.
Fueled by the media narrative that a number of Republican Senators sending a letter to Iran was an act of treason, a whitehouse.gov petition to that effect has been gathering signatures and easily broke the 100,000 signature barrier that forces a response from the White House.
Apparently it wasn’t enough for Rep. Peter King (R-NY) that, as reported yesterday, Democrat VP Joe Biden spent most of his time at a gathering of firefighters bashing Republicans — a very petty Peter King opted to do the very same
Prospective GOP candidate for the 2016 nomination Jeb Bush has sold his interests in the consulting firm Jeb Bush & Associates and also in the consulting and investment group Britton Hill, meaning he is now divested from all of his business interests, according to a report by The Hill.
Jeb Bush has resigned from the educational foundation he founded. But that organization’s spending policies in recent years indicate Bush is far from a staunch conservative on education policy.
While Rep. Paul Ryan doesn’t explicitly say it’s his only reason for not seeking the 2016 GOP nomination for president, in this Yahoo News report, he points to a film showcasing his fight against “poverty” to explain why he isn’t running for president.
Wisconsin Gov. Walker seems to be stepping back from his principled opposition to ethanol mandates. Instead, he’s engaging in the time-honored art of pandering to Iowa’s corn farmers, promising to keep the RFS for now, and phase it out at an undetermined future date.
All Biden wanted to do was fire cheap shots at Republicans also speaking at the event and put his pandering to Big Labor above everything else.
A new poll still points to Hillary Clinton as the likely Democrat nominee next year. But on the Republican side, things are much more competitive.
The Washington Times reports in a move to “beef up” staffing for a possible run for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has hired Senate staffer Brian Phillips as senior adviser to his Jobs, Growth, and Opportunity PAC.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was roundly applauded by both the crowd and the media for rejecting the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), an ethanol subsidy that contributes significantly to Iowa’s farming economy.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s remarks in Selma, AL, “echoed”—according to a report by The Hill—Obama’s comments on Saturday that “the march is not yet over.”
Hillary’s ongoing email scandal may just as well have never happened in Clinton land.
A new McClatchy-Marist College poll has Hillary Clinton leading Senator Rand Paul by 11 points, 51 to 40, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker comes closest to Hillary out of all Republicans in the survey.
Amid controversy over having taken money from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, former Clinton U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala will be taking over at the Clinton Foundation.
Friends and associates of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry launched the Opportunity and Freedom PAC on Thursday, a Super PAC to raise and spend money on behalf of Perry’s effort to secure the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
The Star Ledger’s Paul Mulshine highlights two polls, one in South Carolina and one in Florida, in which Christie is stuck far back in the GOP pack in also-ran land.
RNC Communications Director and chief strategist Sean Spicer issued the following statement in response to former DNC Communications Director and current American Bridge President Brad Woodhouse’s attack on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, which claimed Democrats “want to kill him dead.”
As Politico pointed out, the exclusive, closed to the press annual Clinton Foundation gala on Wall Street last night couldn’t have come at a worse time for presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. With its star-studded cast of attendees, its plush
Potential Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has apologized for recent remarks he made on CNN claiming being gay is a choice because “a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re
Jeb Bush used what amounts to an early campaign stop in Nevada to draw a distinction between himself and two past Bush presidencies.
According to a New York Post report, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) will head a panel, joining the House Benghazi committee, to investigate whether former Secretary of State and likely 2016 Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton broke the law in using a personal email account for official business while Secretary of State.
With Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s numbers and name recognition climbing, Rasmussen Reports is out with a new poll that has him giving “likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a run for her money,” now that Walker is seen as at the head of the GOP pack of potential candidates.
In “How to Beat Hillary Clinton,” BuzzFeed reviews several aspects of past campaigns against Hillary Clinton and how gleaned insights might help her next opponent, from capitalizing on “Hillary Hate” to being ready for a biased liberal media helping her when they can.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker already has staff and time invested in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states in the GOP’s presidential sweepstakes. Now he’s plotting what CNN describes as a “blitz” in South Carolina.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) has announced her retirement from the Senate. She will serve out the remaining two years of her term and not seek re-election.
With the House and Senate at odds over a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would or would not fund Obama’s unconstitutional power grab in immigration policy, there may be a way out for House Speaker John Boehner, although it’s bound to come with risks of its own.
In a somewhat contentious interview dealing with the current Homeland Security funding debate with Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), CNN’s Dana Bash didn’t have much patience with arguments involving the U.S. Constitution.
On Friday at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference, Breitbart News Editor Alex Marlow moderated a panel thart included Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint, former Ronald Reagan Defense Department official K.T. McFarland, and American Enterprise Institute head Arthur Brooks in a
In his speech at CPAC Friday, National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called the NRA “freedom’s safest place” and gave a pointed defense of his organization, the right to keep and bear arms, and rights in general, saying, “They are all linked.”
Radio and TV host Sean Hannity fires up the crown at CPAC ahead of appearances by some presidential contenders.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) began by talking about American exceptionalism asking if we are “ready to do what it will take to keep America exceptional,” and also invoking his family history to point out his love for America. “American doesn’t
