There are probably at least three factors that are contributing to the current influx of unaccompanied minors at the border. Let’s consider them using some charts on the basic data. Before we get started on the factors, let’s note that
The DCCC, the campaign arm for Rep. Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats, has raised $22 million more than the House GOP for the fall elections. That result is surprising enough, as Democrats’ minority status gives them little political leverage in
On Thursday, House Republican leaders reportedly denied Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart’s (R-FL) final request to act on his amnesty bill, which he had planned to push after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) June primary. After Cantor was stunningly ousted because of the
Any time President Obama decries political theater you can be sure his motive is political. During a Q & A following his statement on the border crisis yesterday, President Obama tried to frame it in terms of the need to
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) told Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) that he may be the next victim of the anti-incumbent Tea Party mood sweeping America with the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier this year, Politico’s Manu Raju reports.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s connections and millions could not defeat the Tea Party to pass comprehensive amnesty legislation this year. Politico concluded that “Zuckerberg’s immigration reform push had all the capital, connections and star power to merit success,” but “not
What is Hillary running for? What is the “big idea” around which she intends to form her campaign for president? This is a good question, but for one Politico columnist, Hillary is offering no answers, at least not yet. But
The Obama/Democrat messaging machine is bracing for some bad ObamaCare news that should hit voters by early Fall – right before the midterm elections. That’s when most state insurance rates are scheduled to be approved, and they’re expected to sky-rocket. The
With just 121 days until Democratic candidates face angry voters at the polls, President Barack Obama is touting a recent jobs report as evidence that his jobs agenda is finally working. “We’re making progress,” Obama declared proudly. Yet as even
The unpopular, job-killing Obamacare provision that forces businesses with 50 or more employees to pick up the tab for workers’ health insurance or face a hefty tax has now lost support from even liberals, Politico Magazine reported Sunday. Liberals ranging
Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Politico’s Maggie Haberman said Democrats are privately complaining former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is using her book tour to help herself instead of the party which is facing a challenging midterm election in the
Religious schools and nonprofits that are outside the scope of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case are preparing for what Politico calls a “Hobby Lobby repeat,” by readying requests for the high court to hear their
At the eleven minute mark of this 15 minute interview, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is reduced to a stumbling, bumbling pile of a 47 years in Washington incumbent who can’t manage to coherently explain why he doesn’t actually live in
Earlier this year, the conventional wisdom was that the moderate establishment had taken control of the GOP back from the Tea Party and other “extremists.” With Dave Brat defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Chris McDaniel receiving the plurality
A new conventional wisdom is forming which says Democrat’s gaffes don’t matter because they aren’t connected to (bad) Republican policies. There’s a grain of truth to this argument and yet it misses the big picture. Hillary’s policy positions won’t be
Why Buy Big Bulky Bigscreen TVs Instead of a Projector? The AP reports that lower prices have resulted in a big boost in sales for televisions that exceed 55 inches. Overall sales of televisions are still crashing 10% per year
Former Weather Underground radical and colleague of President Barack Obama Bill Ayers told Fox News’s Megyn Kelly in an interview Monday that “I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.” Reacting to a line of questions
America: Imagine the World Without Her, conservative author Dinesh D’Souza’s follow up to his smash 2012 documentary, 2016: Obama’s America, doesn’t really live up to its title–not after the first few minutes anyway. The Lionsgate docudrama begins with a musing on what
The Tea Party “spooked” House Speaker John Boehner “into cowering in a corner” to avoid taking on immigration reform, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid charges. “Our broken immigration system is one of the biggest challenges we face as a nation
Breitbart Texas’s reporting on the illegal immigrant children who were being warehoused along the U.S.-Mexico border and Dave Brat’s primary victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) made Congress and President Barack Obama give up on amnesty legislation this
Nothing in life is free. And now that Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) was able to narrowly beat his Tea Party rival, due to thousands of black Democrats who crossed party lines to vote in the GOP primary runoff, his new
Although former IRS official Lois Lerner refuses to speak, pleading the fifth amendment, her attorney spoke on her behalf regarding the controversy over two years of missing IRS emails. William Taylor III said that accusations by Republicans that she is
A heated battle between Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and the state’s defiant superintendent John White demonstrates the bitterness of Common Core supporters as more states exit both the standards and the multi-state test consortia. The intense debate between Jindal
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reportedly promised a prominent Latino group last summer that Republicans would try to pass an amnesty bill last fall, just months after the Senate passed its comprehensive immigration bill that would give a pathway to
MCALLEN, Texas–Democrat gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’ campaign failures appear to be obvious to everyone but Wendy Davis. Even left of center media outlets like Politico are reporting her fall from Democrat rock star to political failure. “She’s down in the
House Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has announced that she will travel to the Texas border to visit with illegal immigrant children detained by immigration officials. “The humanitarian crisis unfolding across our nation’s southern border demands Congress come together
President Barack Obama used the power of his Executive Office “pen” Wednesday morning to allow the U.S. Commerce Department to issue a ruling that all but terminates a four-decade Congressional restriction against exporting U.S. domestically produced crude oil. The new
A new musical called Clinton: The Musical is set to debut at the New York Musical Theater Festival this summer from July 18-25. It will be showcased at Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at the Pershing Square Signature Center. The
Politico’s James Hohmann has released his list of “takeaways” from Tuesday’s primaries, among which is the claim that Eric Cantor’s loss in Virginia earlier this month is “an outlier” in 2014. Leaving out Tea Party victories in places like Nebraska, or
Even a more or less Democrat-friendly publication like Politico can completely disguise the purely political nature of Democrats continuing to beat the drum of campaign finance reform …. all the while benefiting from the same form of big donations they
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Homeland Security Committee Republicans spent Tuesday morning calling out the Obama administration for causing and failing to cope effectively with the ongoing crisis of unaccompanied minors flooding the border. “This is a crisis that has been
Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” panelist Politico’s Manu Raju said the Democrats are facing a huge problem in the 2014 midterms because it is not “entirely clear” what the party stand for or what national issue they are running on.
Several new polls are out today suggesting that challenger Chris McDaniel has closed the gap with incumbent Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran in the Republican primary there. One poll reported by Politico and conducted by Chism strategies has found that McDaniel has
Las Vegas hotel magnate and prominent GOP donor Sheldon Adelson believes all of the country’s illegal immigrants should be put on a path to citizenship and given driver’s licenses and bank accounts while on that path. A post-election poll showed
House Whip Kevin McCarthy might have been elected to be the the next House majority leader Thursday, but he wants his constituents to know he is there for them. “I’m in Congress to serve you, first and foremost” McCarthy says
Politico, the left-wing site that has nevercome across a Republican scandal it didn’t flog to death (3 Scott Walker stories in 5 hours) or a Democrat scandal it wanted anything to do with, assured its readers Thursday that there is
As you may have heard, the IRS claims Lois Lerner’s emails are gone forever. Apparently Lerner was storing her archived email on her local drive when it crashed and could not be recovered. I’m certainly not the first to suggest
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the majority whip who was elected on Thursday to be the next House majority leader, is viewed as the “go-to” guy for Silicon Valley who listens to the industry’s concerns “100 percent” of the time. Of
Amid new reports claiming that Louis Lerner’s emails sought by Congress pursuant to claims the IRS targeted Tea Party groups are lost forever, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued a blistering statement alleging that such federal
New York Magazine’s “Science of Us” vertical admits that Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s Tuesday attack against the Heritage Foundation is riddled with inaccuracies but still insist he was right. In a post titled “Real-Life Muslims Like Saba Ahmed Pose an Existential
