“Let me assure you, and this fine tom turkey, that he will not end up on anyone’s dinner table, not this guy. He’s granted a presidential pardon as of right now.” These are the words that officially saved two turkeys in 1989 when President George H.W. Bush began the "presidential turkey pardon" tradition. Although turkeys…
The Conservative Action Project has released a “Memo to the Movement” on the state of religious liberty in the United States. The project was founded by former Attorney General Edwin Meese and includes leaders of over 100 organizations in the conservative movement. The signatories urge that “we must act now to protect religious liberty in…
Before the Hunter Biden/New York Post/Twitter imbroglio blew up a little more than one week ago, one of the primary targets of social media censors and left-leaning activists was a small nonprofit operating out of Arlington, Virginia. That group is the CO2 Coalition, formed in 2015 to educate policymakers and the public about climate change and…
After its passage by narrowest of margins in the House of Representatives, Republicans' “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill is facing the prospect of major changes in the Senate, which could make it extremely difficult to pass when the revised bill is returned to the House. The bill passed the House by a 215-214 margin with…
These aren’t your grandpa’s campaign ads. Two divergent groups — Rock the Vote and the College Republicans — have set their sights on next month’s midterm elections with new ads designed to push the 18- to 29-year-old demographic to the ballot box. Rock the Vote, a nonprofit aimed at boosting voter turnout among young Americans,…
Rabbit massages, laughing classes, and watching the grass grow–these are just a few examples of where your tax dollars went this year. During a time when many families have made financial sacrifices to make ends meet, the federal government continues to spend. Washington politicians continue to claim their levels of spending are necessary and that…
Democrats who used to work on Capitol Hill are helping to disrupt Republican lawmakers’ town hall meetings across the country through a nationwide effort to oppose and “resist” President Donald Trump’s agenda. “Indivisible is ultraslick leftist astroturf activism at its finest,” @Vadum says. They call their group Indivisible Guide, a name that came from an…
Thirty-five Republican House lawmakers sent a letter on Thursday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., urging three specific actions regarding the debt ceiling as a deal has yet to be reached. “As a result of your skilled leadership since your consequential election in January, Congressional Republicans have not been so united in decades,” the lawmakers…
As the House Budget Committee approved a $1.07 trillion budget plan on Wednesday night, a leading conservative group was set to propose its own fiscal blueprint that spends less money, in the hope it would inspire the Republican conference to move in the same direction. The Republican Study Committee’s budget, which will officially be unveiled…
President Donald Trump warned that lawmakers in Washington, D.C., negotiating border security funding are “[w]asting their time” if they do not include a physical barrier via Twitter Wednesday. “If the committee of Republicans and Democrats now meeting on Border Security is not discussing or contemplating a Wall or Physical Barrier, they are Wasting their time!”…
A top adviser for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lashed out Wednesday at a group of House Republicans after they called on the Justice Department to subpoena the Democrat following the release of a report that found the state undercounted coronavirus deaths among nursing home patients. Seven Republicans from New York, led by Rep. Elise…
If Sam Bankman-Fried offers a new cryptocurrency investment scheme, are you in? Not likely. I’d rather trust the ghost of Bernie Madoff with my money. Once bitten, twice shy. That’s why conservatives don’t trust the immigration “compromise” proposals being discussed on Capitol Hill in the lame-duck session of Congress just weeks before control of the…
The removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday was historic, but now it’s time to talk about the future, one knowledgeable Capitol Hill watcher says. “We are at a critical juncture in this country,” says Ryan Walker, executive vice president of Heritage Action for America, an independent, nonprofit…
The European Court of Human Rights sided with a group of female senior citizens who had sued its government over its perceived failures to sufficiently address climate change on human rights grounds, according to The Wall Street Journal. A group of more than 2,000 Swiss women over the age of 64 alleged that the Swiss government’s climate…
Within hours of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers’s publication of their final rule on federally regulated waters, more than half of the states—27 of them—filed lawsuits against the rule. They are joined by farmers, ranchers, home builders, mining companies, manufacturers, counties, states, Democrats, and Republicans, to name just a few,…
In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, “From Bauhaus to Our House,” Tom Wolfe notes that seemingly every American child “goes to a school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts wholesale distribution center warehouse.” Anecdotally speaking, this still seems to be the case in East Coast metro areas like Washington and…
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is in the hot seat this week, as he attempts to rally his majority around a Senate-modified spending package and avert a protracted government shutdown. Since Saturday, the federal government’s discretionary spending authority has expired for key agencies. Senate Democrats and Republicans crafted a deal on Friday to fund…
California lawmakers appear almost as afraid of President-elect Donald Trump as they do of the wildfires that have raved 40,000 acres of their state. With fires still burning across Los Angeles County, California Democrats met to authorize $50 million in the state’s budget to “Trump proof” California. State Senate Budget Committee Chair Scott Wiener, a…
Americans who believe the Fourth Amendment protects them from warrantless government searches may be surprised to learn that this protection only applies to about 4% of privately owned land in the United States. A 1924 ruling by the Supreme Court in Hester v. United States established what is known as the “Open Fields Doctrine,” which…
On the last day of his trip to Washington, D.C., Pope Francis arrived on Capitol Hill around 9:15 Thursday morning. Francis first met with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, before he entered the House chamber for a joint session of Congress. This event marks the first time a pope has addressed Congress—a goal Boehner, a Catholic himself, has…