Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday spoke about civil rights in Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, but what she didn’t mention was nearly as significant: the Black Lives Matter movement. The former secretary of state spoke about both the civil rights struggles of the past, including the 1955 […]
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday his plan for combating Islamic State militants involves targeting not just the group’s fighters but also their families. “When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” Trump said on Fox News. “They care about their lives, don’t kid yourselves.” Trump said if he
With less than a year to go before the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Dr. Ben Carson’s campaign may need a shot of adrenaline — stat! According to a Quinnipiac University National poll released today, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon has dropped to third place in national standings. “[Front-runner Donald] Trump gets 27 percent of Republican voters
Congress has plenty of work to do over the next couple of weeks before they jingle their way home for Christmas. One of the many items that we’re closely watching is the budget reconciliation debate that is heating up in the Senate. Despite the far-Left’s attempt to derail the language to defund Planned Parenthood, the
A Tea Party organization is mobilizing its supporters nationwide in an attempt to stymie a proposed regulation from the Internal Revenue Service regarding the disclosures of donor information. Tea Party Patriots is launching an email and social media campaign—using #IRSPowerGrab—today, encouraging supporters and conservative leaders nationwide to push back against a rule proposed by the Internal Revenue
The U.S. House of Representatives will take up a bill this week to tighten U.S. border control after last month’s Paris attacks by toughening entry requirements for those traveling from “visa waiver” nations, a Republican leader said on Wednesday. “Now we’re looking at the visa waiver program – those gaps and vulnerabilities in that,”
Control of the United States Senate after the 2016 elections is perhaps the second most-watched aspect of the coming political year. Now in Republican hands, a shift to Democratic control would create a firewall against a Republican president in 2017, or help a Democratic successor to President Barack Obama enact elements of their agenda. In
Happiness in politics is a divided opposition. That’s why Donald Trump doesn’t seem to be alarmed by his sudden drop in a Reuters poll of Republicans nationwide. He’s still getting more than twice as many votes as any of his rivals. Right now, there is no mainstream anti-Trump. Ben Carson is still running second
President Obama’s opening remarks at the Paris climate agreement were effectively an apology for industrial progress. At the kickoff of the talks, Obama remarked, “I’ve come here personally, as the leader of the world’s largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this
Democratic 2016 presidential nomination front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton may be worried about the consistency of some of her stories — and her health, media reports indicate. Clinton, who turned 68 in late October, was described in a January 26, 2013 email from top aide Huma Abedein as “often confused.” The admission came roughly two months
Hoping to forestall a repeat presidential bid by 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush used a “shock and awe” campaign against the former Massachusetts governor, a new book asserts. McKay Coppins, a political reporter for BuzzFeed, suggests Romney was ready to make a third bid for the White House when Bush’s
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump met a group of black pastors on Monday, some of them polarizing figures in their own right, despite objections from other African-American clergy and academics who have assailed what they call Trump’s racially charged rhetoric. The billionaire mogul emerged from the more than two-hour meeting saying it went “very
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