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House Vote Sets Up Senate Cybersecurity Showdown

The House’s solid bipartisan vote for a cybersecurity bill sends a message to the Senate: Now it’s your turn to act. Ignoring a White House veto threat, the House approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which would encourage companies and the federal government to share information collected on the Internet to help prevent […]

Another SCOTUS defeat for Obama looming

And as was the case with the SCOTUS hearing on Obamacare, some liberals are shocked – shocked I tell you, – that the Supremes just might uphold the Arizona immigration law – a law they call “racist.” The Hill: The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared highly skeptical of the Obama administration’s objections to a controversial […]

RINO Senator trails primary opponent by 5 points

Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar has fallen behind state Treasurer Richard Mourdock by five points, according to a new poll released Thursday. The survey, taken Tuesday and Wednesday by Wenzel Strategies on behalf of Citizens United, places Mourdock at 44 percent and Lugar at 39 percent. Nearly 17 percent remain undecided with just 12 days to […]

House Moves Ahead With CISPA, Despite Criticism Of The “Cybersecurity” Bill

House Republicans are pushing ahead with legislation to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure and corporations from electronic attacks despite Obama administration objections that the legislation fails to protect Americans’ civil liberties. The House begins work Thursday on the bill designed to address the cybersecurity threat by getting the private sector and government to share information […]

Supreme Court Takes Up Arizona Immigration Law

The Supreme Court is questioning Arizona’s tough “show me your papers” law aimed at driving illegal immigrants out of the state, amid objections from the Obama administration that states have a limited role to play in immigration policy. The court’s review of the Arizona law includes a provision that requires police, while enforcing other laws, […]

Obama Campaign Asks Unions to Help Cover Convention Costs

President Barack Obama’s political advisers are pressing labor unions to contribute to the Democratic convention in September to cover a fundraising shortfall resulting from their self-imposed ban on corporate donations, according to two people familiar with the matter. Democratic officials gave representatives of the major U.S. unions, including the AFL-CIO, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters […]

Kagan’s Handwritten Notes to Bell on Critical Race Theory

Breitbart News has discovered previously unknown handwritten notes from Elena Kagan to radical professor Derrick Bell, sent to Bell as Kagan worked on his seminal 1985 article on Critical Race Theory in the Harvard Law Review (99 Harv. L. Rev. 4). The notes, which were not among materials presented to the Senate during Justice Kagan’s […]