SocietyNews
Do Mississippians want more federal money or less government? That’s essentially the choice being offered to them in the June 24 U.S. Senate GOP primary… Read More
LawCommentary
Today’s revelations about local prosecutors’ claims that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker “was at the center of an effort to illegally coordinate fundraising among conservative groups”… Read More
SocietyNews
Kevin McCarthy of California defeated Idaho conservative Raúl Labrador in this afternoon’s Republican conference election for House majority leader. In the election to replace McCarthy… Read More
SocietyNews
Vote counts show California’s Kevin McCarthy has all but secured election today as majority leader of the House of Representatives, but Idaho’s Raúl Labrador looks… Read More
SocietyNews
A conservative challenges two “establishment” Republicans in the race for the House’s No. 3 leadership post. While the contest for House majority leader has come down to… Read More
SocietyNews
Kevin McCarthy’s main responsibility as House majority whip is counting votes. And although he hasn’t always delivered for Republican leadership, Washington pundits appear so confident… Read More
LawCommentary
Imagine if Congress passed and the president signed a law making it a crime to utter “false, scandalous and malicious” statements “against the government.” Do… Read More
LawNews
Congressional investigators reacted with outrage to the Internal Revenue Service’s claim that it lost two years of Lois Lerner’s emails during a period when the… Read More
LawCommentary
Money can’t guarantee an outcome in an election. As we saw this week, the person with the most money does not automatically win. Underdog economics… Read More
SocietyNews
Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, is in the race for House majority leader. Labrador this afternoon announced his candidacy for the House’s No. 2 post, giving Rep…. Read More
SocietyNews
Defeat at the polls for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent shock waves through the House of Representatives. The Virginia Republican’s primary loss also left… Read More
SocietyNews
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today warned Republicans and Democrats alike that they need to “get back to listening to Main Street,” not Wall Street, to… Read More
SocietyNews
Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, lost his primary election race Tuesday to a local economics professor in… Read More
SocietyNews
Two outspoken conservative lawmakers predicted John Boehner’s days as House speaker are numbered—despite an assurance from the Ohio Republican that he has every intention to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We had a great conversation on our first Daily Signal Hangout this week, and if you weren’t able to join us LIVE, I hope you’ll… Read More
LawCommentary
It wasn’t the biggest story following Tuesday’s elections in various states, but it was the biggest and most-ignored non-story. Mississippi’s new voter ID law got… Read More
EducationNews
Some of Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s latest appointments to posts at Virginia’s prestigious public universities also have donated generously to his gubernatorial campaign — up… Read More
LawNews
Democrats pushing for a constitutional amendment that would give government the authority to regulate political spending by outside groups will do so without one traditional… Read More
LawCommentary
The largest hearing room the Senate has in the Hart Building was standing-room only on Tuesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee held its hearing on… Read More
LawCommentary
In a May 17 commencement speech at Morgan State University, Attorney General Eric Holder once again dismissed the problem of voter fraud as being inconsequential…. Read More
LawCommentary
President Barack Obama can brag all he wants about the voting-rights cases his administration has allegedly “taken on.” But here’s a case conspicuously absent from… Read More
LawNews
RICHMOND, Va.—Some 308,000 Virginia voters also are registered elsewhere, according to an analysis of 22 states’ election records. The finding follows a Watchdog.org report that… Read More
LawCommentary
Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos recently published a commentary in The Hill claiming that “voting online is the future.” He also accused me of… Read More
LawNews
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) found himself on the receiving end of criticism this week for comments he made to The New York Times about voter… Read More
News
What did we learn from the primary races held in a handful of states this week? Most of the mainstream media explained it was the… Read More
Donors like the Koch brothers make the news a lot, but did you know unions are five of the top 10 groups giving political donations… Read More
News
‘We have to win elections.” Party strategists in Washington throw around the phrase as though it were some brilliant political insight. It’s not. Most Americans… Read More
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that it is unconstitutional to limit the total amount of money someone can give to political candidates. The limit remains… Read More
The Foundry’s Israel Ortega will make his debut on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this Sunday. Ortega will join the show’s roundtable to discuss and debate… Read More
LawNews
With midterm elections underway in Texas, the fight over voter ID will undoubtedly garner some serious attention in the national media in the coming weeks… Read More
