The Treasury Department reports that the debt ceiling will be reached before the end of the year and that “extraordinary measures” will be needed before then to keep the government fully funded into the early part of 2013.
On November 6, the people of the United States rejected President Barack Obama. And re-elected him to a second term in office.
Americans for the first time approved homosexual marriage at the ballot box on Tuesday, pointing to changing attitudes on the divisive issue. Read which states passed the laws and by what margins here.
Republicans have not done a good job reaching minorities as the country has started to shift from a majority white society, which may have cost them the presidential election.
Read this story detailing how Republicans may now have more governorships than at any time since the 1920’s. Given the loss of the presidential race, these governors will need to carry the fight against DC big government.
Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul will retire from Congress next year after serving for 12 terms, but several Republicans influenced by the iconic libertarian-leaning lawmaker will be arriving to take his place.
The fallout from Gov. Chris Christie’s effusive praise of Obama last week continues with Laura Ingraham suggesting that Christie has much more in common with Obama than conservatives thought.
Judge Roy Moore, who made headlines when state officials removed him from his position as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2003, has been re-elected to that very post.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama’s re-election and said he hoped it would have a positive impact on relations with the United States.
A police officer in a small Oklahoma town has caused an outrage after issuing a $2,500 ticket to a woman because her three-year-old son tried to urinate in the family’s front yard.