Obama Squeezes Republicans’ Throats on Defense Spending
Obama’s strong stand on Gitmo underscores two vital points. First, President Obama does not fear defunding America’s national security. Second, Obama does not fear Republicans in Congress.
Obama’s strong stand on Gitmo underscores two vital points. First, President Obama does not fear defunding America’s national security. Second, Obama does not fear Republicans in Congress.
As the Associated Press notes, the defense policy bill “is one of the few bipartisan measures in Congress that has readily become law for more than a half-century,” but President Obama is threatening to veto this one, with Senate Democrats standing behind him.
Arizona state Senator Kelli Ward raised $525,000 in the first quarter in her pursuit to oust five-term U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ). Ward raised the sum from 2,100 individuals, according to the campaign.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared Friday on “The Dan Patrick Show” on NBC Sports and host Dan Patrick asked him if he would “want a piece” of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in his prime. McCain, who was backed by Trump
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union With Jake Tapper,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) discussed his recommendations for ending the Syrian civil war and said Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s plan to let Russia fight ISIS means he doesn’t understand the situation. Host Jake
Jeb Bush has dropped to 4 percent support among the GOP presidential field according to a newly released Pew Research Center poll. Asked about his response to his donors while campaigning in New Hampshire, Bush compared his path to 2008 Republican nominee John McCain.
Ambassador John Bolton is endorsing three congressional candidates including Senator John McCain, who’s facing a primary challenge in Arizona.
Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Hard Line” the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said “the weakness and feckless foreign policy of the president of the United States” has allowed Russian President Vladimir Putin to “gain significant control of
Wednesday, in response to Russia’s air strikes in Syria, with early reports that civilian Syrian rebel are being targeted instead of ISIS, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave a speech on the Senate floor. McCain said, “We now have information that the Russians
On September 23, a scrapyard worker at Tucson Iron & Metal was killed after the torch he was using caused a 500-pound bomb to detonate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) should hold up the nomination for the next Secretary of the Army until the military overturns its decision to kick out a decorated Green Beret for striking a child rapist, according to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA).
The Pentagon has revealed that on September 15, two Chinese “Flounder” JH-7 fighter-bombers intercepted an American RC-135 surveillance plane over the Yellow Sea, in international airspace.
Army General Lloyd Austin, in charge of the anti-ISIS war effort from the U.S. Central Command, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that only “four or five” members of the U.S.-trained moderate rebel force are still fighting the Islamic State in Syria.
The second GOP debate of the 2016 presidential election takes place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley Wednesday evening–and, like past debates, California will share a spot onstage with the contenders.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says an 1883 poem requires Americans to accept huge numbers of Muslim refugees who are fleeing the jihad-shattered wreckage of their home nations and region. “We’re Americans… [and] Americans have welcomed people in the past who have been fleeing oppression,” the Republican from South Carolina told host Tucker Carlson on FOX & Friends. “Go read [the 1883 poem] on the Statue of Liberty.”
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) made fun of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in an interview alongside South Carolina Senator and GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham on Friday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” At the beginning of the interview, McCain said, “Thank you very much,
On Saturday, National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg penned a controversial column in which he rejected Donald Trump and his followers from the conservative movement. “Well, if this is the conservative movement now, I guess you’re going to have to count me out,” Goldberg writes.
Ward was the choice of 45 percent of the registered Arizona voters polled, while McCain only garnered 36 percent. 1,271 of the more than 1,400 voters polled say they intend to vote in the 2016 primary election. Approximately one fifth remained undecided at this early stage of the race.
Critics of Donald Trump’s rise in the Republican polls have now turned on large swaths of the Republican base in a fit of pique and frustration.
Black teen conservative political activist and Internet sensation CJ Pearson, 13, touted his endorsement of Ted Cruz for president during an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Sunday.
When the Republican candidates take stage in Cleveland for the first presidential debate, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry will likely be watching from his hotel room somewhere. The candidate who briefly dominated polling in the 2012 contest and began this campaign in the middle of the pack, looks to settle in 11th or 12th place when the debate cut-off is set.
Last week, Jackie Calmes, national correspondent for the New York Times and Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, released a study decrying conservative media’s influence on the direction of the Republican Party.
Entrenched U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) may be in for the fight of his life in his 2016 re-election bid, as he uses the term “crazies” to describe the approximately 15,000 border security-advocating Arizonans who showed up for Donald Trump’s July appearance in Phoenix.
With their legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and redirect those federal funds to women’s health care facilities that don’t provide abortions, Senate Republicans say they are sending the message that their proposal is not about politics, but about the “moral fabric” of the nation.
Let’s break down what Trump is actually saying here. Over the course of just a few minutes, Trump says America should: (1) Deport everyone; (2) Reimport nearly everyone; (3) Expedite the system to accomplish (2); (4) Allow everyone who came back in via (2) to gain legal status; (5) Perhaps give them citizenship; (6) Perhaps not give them citizenship; (7) Do “something” with DREAMers.
In the Palin Update radio program released Monday, host Kevin Scholla interviews 2016 Presidential candidate and American success story Donald Trump, who offers his admiration of Governor Palin, his take on the “amazingly dishonest” political media, taking on “weak, ineffective” politicians in both major political parties, the pathetic treatment of veterans, “nuclear climate change,” his run for the White House, and how he plans to make America great again.
Fresh off his trip to the West Coast, Joe Biden received accolades from the Los Angeles Times’ Cathleen Decker, who cast the vice president as a stark contrast to the controversy surrounding Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, guest host Matthew Boyle and co-host Alex Swoyer will be discussing the most important news stories of the week.
Columnist and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan declared, “the political establishment is appalled by Trump and frightened by Trump, and they want to basically drive him out of the race” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Buchanan stated, “I think Trump was badly
During a July 23 interview on the Lars Larson Show, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) said that in June he “submitted an amendment” to the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) “to give military base commanders the authority to allow service members to carry personal firearms.”
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) says he will make sure the four Marines and a Navy Petty Officer killed during the attack on a Navy training center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, receive Purple Hearts.
The whole world is upside down, especially in the Republican Party. When a powerful United States Senator faces no Party repercussions after smearing everyday Americans, there is something horribly, terribly, and self-destructively wrong with the GOP. There is no question
In a poll conducted from July 17th to July 20th, support for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump hasn’t taken a hit despite Trump’s comments about Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Saturday, July 18th, while attending the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa.
On Tuesday, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh clarified that he was not trying to “come to Trump’s defense” over the GOP presidential candidate’s remarks about Senator John McCain (R-AZ) on Monday. After reading from a New York Times story entitled, “Rush
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered a speech at a rally with supporters in South Carolina on Tuesday, removing himself from the politicians as a friend of the private sector and U.S. economy.
Note: I consider Donald a pal. That’s why I’m critical of him.
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump – who recently made media headlines with a spat between him and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) – is announcing a move to show he is committed to the military and veterans.
On Saturday, 2016 presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump, angered by Senator John McCain’s (R-AZ) derogatory slam at immigration hardliners as “crazies,” said that McCain wasn’t a war hero: “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” The slam was apparently an awkward, Michael Scott-like adaptation of a 2008 Chris Rock routine.
On Monday, Fox News Channel and talk radio host Sean Hannity stated that Donald Trump’s remark that “I like people that weren’t captured” made him “cringe.” During his interview with former Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, Hannity
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addressed the comments he made about Senator John McCain (R-AZ) over the weekend where he said McCain is “a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured” by stating that he