Will Republican Recycling Bring Back the Bushes?
Talk of Jeb Bush for president in 2016 is back in circulation, as the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. ...
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Sen. Tom Coburn to Join Push for Constitutional Convention
Tom Coburn, the junior U.S. senator from Oklahoma, has said he will join efforts to call for an Article V convention to amend the Constitution. ...
U.S. Troops Reported Fighting in Iraq
The official U.S. government line is that there aren't any U.S. forces fighting in the battle at Zumar, in northern Iraq, but eyewitnesses say otherwise. ...
Rand Paul: Changing Feathers, Now Flying With the Hawks?
Even Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) seems to be singing from the hawkish hymnal about a U.S. military solution to the chaos in Iraq. ...
ObamaCare Is a Jobs Killer, Studies Find
The Obama healthcare program is a jobs killer, according to recent studies by three Federal Reserve Banks. ...
Airstrikes Alone Won’t Defeat ISIS, Kerry Says
"Airstrikes alone won't defeat this enemy," wrote Secretary of State John Kerry, describing the threat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria poses to the United States and the...
Foley, Others Waterboarded by Islamic State Captors Sources Say
Informed sources say American journalist James Foley was waterboarded several times before being beheaded by his Islamic State captors, the Washington Post reported. ...
Brits to Lead New NATO Division to Counter Russian Moves In Ukraine
At the end of the month marking the centenary of the start of World War I, Great Britain appears to be readying once again the "Guns of August," this...
DNC Fires a Preemptive Shot at Rand Paul
Republican Rand Paul has claimed that if he runs for president in 2016, he would be able to draw more Democratic and independent votes than most other GOP hopefuls....
Kaine’s Call for Vote on Bombing Worries Senate Colleagues
Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) has called for a congressional vote on U.S. military strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). ...
Legal Theory Emerges for Obama Rewrite of Immigration Law
As President Obama ponders his options for executive action on immigration reform, a rationale has emerged for the defense of such action. ...
Cantor, Toppled in Primary, Didn’t Fall From Hunger
If former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was a weakened candidate in his failed campaign against primary opponent David Brat, it was surely not from hunger. ...
Ex-Im Bank Now Hot Issue in Congressional Campaigns
You might not be able to tell the Right from the Left, or the Tea Party favorites from "mainstream" Republicans, without a scorecard in the late-blooming controversy over the...
Bergdahl Swap Broke Law, and Obama Isn’t Stopping There
The Obama administration violated a "clear and unambiguous law" in exchanging Guantanamo prisoners for Army Sgt. Bergdahl, says a General Accounting Office report, and he isn't stopping there. ...
Rand Paul Calls “Gung Ho” Hillary a War Hawk
Rand Paul has not yet announced he's running for president, but he is all but daring the Democrats to nominate "war hawk" Hillary Clinton for a race he predicts...
Sen. Paul Questions $8M to Fight “Terrorism” in Fargo, N.D.
In the nearly 13 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, there has not been a single reported incident of terrorism in Fargo, North Dakota. ...
Obama’s About-face on Ex-Im Bank Recalled
President Barack Obama, who once called the U.S. Export-Import bank "little more than a fund for corporate welfare," urged business owners Saturday to press members of Congress to renew...
More Than 1/3 of Americans in Households Receiving Federal Welfare
More than a third of Americans were living in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded 'means-tested" programs — commonly known as welfare — in the...
Should Movie Theaters Hire SWAT Teams?
Coming soon to a theater near you — airport-like security measures at movie theaters, shopping malls and just about any other public gathering place. ...
Marietta, Ga., School Board Takes Issue With Federal Snack Laws
With guidelines setting limits on student food choices and calorie consumption, the federal government is overstepping the limits of its authority, says Marietta, Georgia's Board of Education. ...