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Senate Republicans are continuing to work through the details of a bill to repeal Obamacare with just 51 votes, and some are calling for the legislation to include a provision rolling back the law’s Medicaid expansion. The House sent a reconciliation bill rolling back parts of Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood to the Senate last…
A black conservative professor who found herself the latest target of student protests nationwide has one thing to say to those calling for her to be suspended from the university where she teaches: “Grow up.” Among other allegations, students accused Carol Swain, a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University for nearly 27…
Each year, American tech workers are laid off in masses across the United States, successively forced by their companies to train lower-wage and often less-skilled foreign workers to replace them, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin said Thursday. Malkin slammed the United States’ H-1B visa program for driving American workers to “dig their own graves” for “cheap”…
Senate Republicans are about to consider a House bill defunding Planned Parenthood and portions of Obamacare after receiving a green light from the official who advises on proper procedure. But, experts caution, the bill may face significant roadblocks. A spokesman for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the parliamentarian—the officer overseeing Senate procedure—confirmed that…
Keely Mullen, a student organizer of the Million Student March, struggled to answer Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto’s questions regarding how the goals of the movement would be compensated during an interview Thursday. In the interview, the Northeastern University student said the march is seeking to accomplish three goals: “free public college, a cancelation of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Ron Vaselech estimates he has spent close to 30 years in prisons across the United States. Time has taken its toll on the kind, soft-spoken man who is originally from Ohio. He wears oversized, Coke-bottle eyeglasses and a sleeveless shirt, exposing weathered tattoos. He looks older his 56 years. “I stole things, and I…
A man deported from the United States three times is accused of running over a Dallas police officer and backing into a second cop. The illegal immigrant, Eduardo Gonzalez-Rio, is being held in the Dallas County Jail, according to The Dallas Morning News. Gonzalez-Rio, 29, was escorted out of a nightclub early Mondaymorning. He got into…
For federal state and local law enforcement agencies, a little-known practice giving them the power to take Americans’ property, cash, and cars has proven to be a boon over the last decade. According to a new report from the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, the federal government has seen a substantial increase…
A controversy continues to brew over the red cup introduced by Starbucks to kick off the holiday season: Is the new cup design in line with the Christmas spirit? The coffee company describes the cup’s color as a simple, poppy red “that shades into a darker cranberry.” “We have anchored the design with the classic Starbucks holiday red…
In one Mississippi town, residents are fighting back after an an atheist organization requested that that a Christmas display in their city be removed, organizing a show of support for the display. “I just feel like Christians lose a lot nowadays because we’re too polite,” says Andrea Kirkley, a resident of Collins and a stay-at-home…
A little-known whistleblower lawsuit accuses Planned Parenthood clinics in Iowa of wrongly siphoning millions of American taxpayer dollars with a series of complicated billing schemes aimed at increasing profits. Among other dishonest practices, a former manager of the clinics alleges, Planned Parenthood staffers routinely purchased birth control pills for just under $3, billed Medicaid $35…
Frustrated by an entrenched Democratic minority in the Senate, some of the Republicans who control both houses of Congress have renewed calls for filibuster reform. House Republicans penned a letter to Senate leadership in September, asking that it lower the threshold of votes needed to achieve “cloture” and overcome a filibuster blocking action in certain circumstances. A total…
PHILADELPHIA—In state capitals and courtrooms across the nation, lawmakers and lawyers are challenging a tool used by law enforcement to take property and cash from Americans who, in many cases, have not committed a crime. But in no other city is the convergence of efforts more evident than Philadelphia, where attempts to reform “policing for…
Senate Republicans are asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain a leaked agency memo reportedly revealing that federal officials are planning to evade a federal court order barring pieces of President Barack Obama’s executive immigration actions. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, led eight others on the committee in a letter sent to DHS Secretary Jeh…
Veterans gathered in Times Square on a wet, rainy morning the day before Veterans Day to watch a video. Producer Stephen Clouse was present as a video tribute played to a crowd of a couple dozen veterans, who turned out in New York City despite pouring rain. The video, featuring the poem “Just a…
Around a thousand miles northeast of the University of Missouri, where racial tensions and protests led to the resignation of the university president, students and faculty at Ithaca College have mounted a challenge to their own leader following protests over alleged incidents of racism at the small private college. For months, the college of just…
The disputed policing tactic that enables law enforcement to seize property from people who were never convicted, or often even charged, with a crime is on the rise across the U.S., according to a report released Tuesday. The Institute for Justice found that despite heightened public awareness of the practice, called civil asset forfeiture, government…
On Veterans Day, the nation honors all those who served in the military—both dead and alive. In celebration, we’ve compiled some of the best homecomings of our veterans.
It has been 234 years since Deborah Samson donned a waistcoat and breeches and, under the alias Robert Shurtliff, became the first recorded woman in U.S. forces. Since then, over 2 million women have served the United States with honor—and 55,000 female veterans today remain homeless, according to Finale Salute Inc. Indeed, according to reports from the U.S. Government…
‘Tis the season to be generous. But throughout the year, warmhearted Americans put the United States near the top of the most giving nations in the world, according to a newly released scorecard. The World Giving Index, compiled by the Charities Aid Foundation, ranks 145 countries on how generous their general populations are in charitable activities. The…