Spending $35 billion on new Border Patrol agents and fencing would only stop one-third to half of illegal border crossings, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Conservative rocker Ted Nugent says he’s considering running in 2016 and already has a campaign pitch: “Hi, I’m Ted Nugent. I have nine children from seven women, and I’m running for president.”
An activist who planned, and then canceled, an armed march into the District on July Fourth posted online what appeared to be a video of himself loading a shotgun in Freedom Plaza.
One hundred and fifty years ago, on July 4, 1853, twin Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg decisively turned the course of the Civil War.
According to an analysis just published by the Wall Street Journal, healthy people will pay double or triple their current health insurance rates under Obamacare.
Gallup found not only that the vast majority of the Americans believe the Founders would be disappointed, but that conservatives are more proud to be American than liberals. See the stats here.
When the Supreme Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on June 25, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that Congress’s actions may not be “based on 40-year-old facts having no logical relationship to the present day.” Maybe he should apply that logic to Roe vs. Wade.
More than 1,100 National Guard soldiers and airmen in Hawaii — and thousands in other states — will be living with 20 percent less pay over the next three months as the Defense Department carries out automatic federal budget cuts.
The progressive nonprofit organization Common Cause urged then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman to investigate activities of conservative donors despite housing the campaign-reform group that employs Shulman’s wife.
The Alaska Republican Party lost another popularly elected official with the resignation of its secretary, Alicé Leuchte, on July 4. Read her resignation letter here.