Senate GOP Blocks Dems from Extending Debt Limit Beyond 2014 Midterm Elections
Senate Republicans on Saturday blocked a bid by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to extend the nation’s debt limit until after the 2014 midterm elections.
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Glenn Beck to Values Voter Summit: ‘You are Looking at a One-Party System’
Glenn Beck praised GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, but denounced the Republican Party leadership at the Values Voter Summit Saturday in Washington, D.C.
Boehner says Obama Rejected GOP Plan to End Shutdown as Negotiations Shift to Senate
House Speaker John Boehner today told fellow Republicans that his talks with President Barack Obama have stalled.
MURRAY: Obama ‘Clueless About this Country in Some Profoundly Disturbing Ways’ (+video)
President Barack Obama successfully portrayed himself as a uniting candidate during the 2008 election, but his actions in office deepened the partisan divide, author and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray told The Daily Caller in an exclusive interview.
Michael Needham: The Strategist Behind the Shutdown
‘I really believe we are in a great position right now,” says Michael Needham, the 31-year-old president of Heritage Action, the lobbying arm of the nation’s largest conservative think tank. By “we” he means the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
Edward Snowden Says NSA Surveillance Programs ‘Hurt our Country’
The National Security Agency whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has said that the mass surveillance programmes used by the US to tap into phone and internet connections around the world is making people less safe.
Special Counsel to Investigate Armed EPA Mining Raid in Alaska
Alaska’s governor, Sean Parnell, announced Thursday that a special counsel has been named to investigate raids by conducted by federal and state authorities near the town of Chicken.
Hillary Clinton: We Need to Talk Sensibly about Spying
Hillary Clinton has called for a “sensible adult conversation”, to be held in a transparent way, about the boundaries of state surveillance highlighted by the leaking of secret NSA files by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Surprise! GOP, Dems Playing for Same Team
More of America seems to be catching on to the fact that – while we have two political parties – they aren’t in fact the ones that are labeled Republican and Democrat.
Food Stamp Debate Holds Up Farm Bill
Food stamp program would be cut by $39 billion over a decade under House proposal. The Senate version would cut food stamps much less.