PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox is resigning from his leadership post and will not run for re-election, he said Saturday, a day after federal and state authorities raided his Statehouse office and home as part
Michael Madigan, the all-powerful Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, announced Thursday that he would direct the Democrat-controlled state legislature to place a referendum on the November ballot that would raise taxes on millionaires by three percent. The measure
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Two days after Illinois Republicans chose a multimillionaire as their candidate for governor, the powerful Chicago Democrat who controls the Illinois House proposed a tax on millionaires Thursday to fund the state’s financially strapped education system.
Britain’s left-wing National Union of Students (NUS) is being criticised for its latest attempt to grab power from local university student unions. Students fear the NUS is seeking to impose NUS returning officers for elections. The move has already caused
Just as Lord Tebbit was telling me last night that the Conservative Party chairmanship was being mishandled… the Conservative Party chairmanship was being mishandled. The reactions to Grant Shapps and Tory HQ’s patronising post-budget graphic have covered all the satirical
The left is having a collective giggle-fit over the nomination of Suzanne Atanus as the Republican nominee to challenge Jan Schakowsky in the 9th district of Illinois. I was the Republican nominee in 2010–and Atanus ran then, too. She was
A new poll released by the Quinnipiac Polling Institute finds that New Yorkers continue to sour on Mayor Bill de Blasio, with the mayor’s approval rating dropping from 53% to 45% since his first poll results in January. Quinnipiac’s new
This was yet another weekend of failures for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, but you would never know it from reading the New York Times. While the mayor lost his bid to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers
The BBC’s appointment of a Labour candidate as the new economics editor of its flagship politics show has provoked genuine anger in the Conservative Party. Sources at Tory HQ reacted not with faux outrage but actual bewilderment at how a
A study of donations that corporations have made to political candidates in the last 25 years finds that most of the groups at the top of the list either exclusively fund Democrats or are mostly left-leaning. The study, from OpenSecrets.org,
Big business interests that want Common Core imposed will unleash an advertisement campaign to blunt the momentum of conservatives and grassroots parents across the country in their efforts to stop the implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards. The top-down
Israeli diplomat Arthur Lenk has penned a lengthy rant at the Times of Israel about why he, and his fellow diplomats, are refusing to work. Yes, that’s right–much of Israel’s diplomatic corps has walked off the job in the midst of
Rep. Renee Ellmers had been on Laura Ingraham’s nationally-syndicated radio program to talk about Obamacare and North Carolina politics Thursday, but when the conversation turned to immigration about five minutes into the interview, things got ugly. Ellmers, under fire on
On March 5, Pope Francis gave an interview to the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera in which he was asked a question concerning civil unions as a legal alternative to marriage. It’s worth reading the entire thing (click here for
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been in office three months, but he has managed to make enemies of the Democratic Party establishment, far-left charter school opponents, beloved weatherman Al Roker, and beloved weatherrodent Punxsutawney Phil in that short
Left-wing lobby group, 38 Degrees, has been accused of deliberately wasting MPs time ahead of today’s vote on NHS reforms. The group, which is opposed to the Care Bill, has asked it members to send tens of thousands of identical
I’ve had my eye on Detroit’s bankruptcy proceedings because it is indicative of what’s to come for a lot of cities. How Detroit deals with its bankruptcy could also set a precedent for other cities forced to deal with the
An expert scholar on mass shootings labels the NFL’s edict banning off-duty cops from carrying weapons inside stadiums “completely crazy” and suggests the league may be unnecessarily exposing fans to dangers by transforming stadiums into gun-free zones. “Banning off-duty law-enforcement
Big-business and establishment groups vowed they would wage war on conservatives and Tea Party candidates, particularly incumbents, in 2014, but they are backing off after realizing they may not want to throw money at losers. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The New York Police Department’s Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) will join Minnesota police unions’ lawsuit against NFL gun ban. According to the New York Post, SBA president Edward Mullins said the NFL’s policy barring off-duty officers from carrying guns into
Watching the 86th annual Academy Awards from the red carpet was a real eye-opener. The sun miraculously came out on cue at precisely 2 p.m. (EST) as the stars started parading down the red carpet. Before that moment, three days of
Nearly 10,000 Las Vegas casino workers say they are considering going on strike over what the unpopular Obamacare program has done to their health care insurance. If contract negotiations to keep their existing benefits go unsettled by March 20, Nevada’s
Less than a year after suffering a major investment downgrade, Chicago has been downgraded again. Moody’s Investment Services announced Tuesday that it was lowering Chicago’s rating from A3 to Baa1, three levels above junk bond status. Last July, Moody’s downgraded
This weekend the Labour Party held its so-called ‘special conference’, organised to give delegates a vote on a series of reforms concerning the party’s relationship with trade unions. Members travelled from across the country to the conference hall in East
Len McCluskey, head of the Unite union, has said that Ed Miliband’s reforms of party funding will give his union more power over the party. Under the plans, which were approved today, union members will no longer be automatically affiliated
The Common Core-aligned practice field tests are coming to American public schools in April; but it is only in preparation for their official launch in Spring 2015. This year’s tests will not even be graded, according to the Smarter Balanced Assessment
As part of their election year strategy of steering the public’s attention as far away from ObamaCare as humanly possible, Democrats have been pushing for a vote on a minimum wage hike in the Republican-led House – which they know,
The religious liberties versus government battles began long before state legislature like Arizona began considering bills to protect business owners’ religious freedoms or bake shops refused to make wedding cakes for same sex couples. Almost two years ago an uproar
On the fifth anniversary of the first Tea Party rallies, the movement’s record appears mixed. It swept the GOP to a majority in the U.S. House, where it has blocked President Barack Obama’s most radical ambitions. It helped the GOP
As Republicans nationally are fighting to stop the Obama Administration’s IRS from imposing new rules limiting political speech by conservative groups and forcing them to reveal their donors, a state agency in Texas is trying to impose a similar restraint in the
A Member of Parliament has called for the threshold for strike action to be raised after a strike by tube workers caused two days of chaos in London. The RMT and TSSA unions held 48 hours of industrial action on
Immediately following a press conference by the Connecticut Education Association (CEA), during which the state’s largest teachers’ union said “implementation” of the Common Core standards had been “botched,” Connecticut state House Republicans announced they were able to force a public
In May 2012, major Conservative donor and LGBT activist Ivan Massow wrote an article making the case that the Conservative Party had nothing to fear in discarding social conservatism, because its advocates in the party had nowhere else to go.
In an address to the National Association of Attorneys General, Tuesday morning, Eric Holder, the nation’s top law enforcement official, urged state attorneys general to refuse to enforce state bans on same-sex marriage. He had foreshadowed this latest example of the
A spokesperson for Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman has said that she expresses “regret” over the National Council for Civil Liberties’ (NCCL) links with the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) group, the former over which Harman presided as Legal Officer in
One of the more persistent myths of modern politics is that Democrats are swimming against a torrent of money supporting Republicans. In the media narrative, nefarious business and monied interests subvert the democratic process by deploying millions against Democrats progressives.
Employees from NBCUniversal dropped off over 10,000 petitions seeking better workplace rights, to MSNBC’s primetime hosts, Thursday. According to TV Newser, the workers requested that Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton, and Lawrence O’Donnell come down and personally receive the
In a Politico Magazine op-ed on Thursday, Republican strategist Rich Galen attempts to educate “the right” about why it should “love the Common Core.” From the get-go, Galen misses the boat on who doesn’t love the Common Core standards. Opponents
Next week parliament will vote on the thorny issue of titles for married gay partners. They will be asked to clear up laws dating as far back as 700 years. The changes are needed to ensure a gay married King
New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio has only been in office for a short time, but already he is starting to look like a lame duck. A year ago, nobody would take a call from de Blasio, but
