By: Erick Erickson / RedState.com Mitch McConnell is doing his best to walk back his comments about conservatives. He told the New York Times he intended to “crush them everywhere.” Now he says he was only talking about the Jim DeMint founded Senate Conservatives Fund and its candidates — candidates like Ben Sasse supported by Paul Ryan, Mike Lee, Club for […]

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YEARS OF HARD WORK PAYING OFF! Senate Bill 0469 and House Bill 0120, are still alive in Nashville! The bills’ purpose as introduced, exempts the sale of gold, silver and platinum coins and bullion that are used as mediums of exchange from sales tax .  This is a once in a millennium chance:  freedom lovers AND the banks want the bill. We […]

Gun Owners Prepare to Seize Senate from Harry Reid Not a GOA member yet?  Click here to join Gun Owners of America!  And Click here to Take Action on today’s alert. At GOA’s request, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has bypassed Harry Reid’s stranglehold on the Senate by bringing a pro-gun bill directly onto the Senate calendar. The bill is H.R. […]

1. Experts see no signs of terrorism in Malaysian plane mystery Malaysian authorities said Tuesday that one of two men allegedly traveling with stolen passports on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 when it disappeared Saturday was an Iranian seeking asylum in Europe. Investigators said that weakened the theory that the plane was the target of an attack. Still, experts have not […]

By Walter E. Williams What kind of rules should govern our lives? I’d argue that the best rules are those that we’d be satisfied with if our very worst enemy were in charge of decision-making. The foundation for such rules was laid out by my mother. Let’s look at it. My mother worked as a domestic servant. That meant that […]

Lyle Denniston looks at a recent free speech case involving students and why the Supreme Court itself has never deviated from the teaching moment that was the Tinker decision. THE STATEMENTS AT ISSUE: “Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District is known throughout the school law community as the high-water mark of student free speech rights….This case is not Tinker.  […]

NRA asks Supreme Court justice to block law banning high-capacity magazines WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association is asking Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to block enforcement of a California city ordinance that bans gun magazines capable of holding more than 10 bullets. The ban in Sunnyvale went into effect Thursday after 66 percent of voters approved it in […]

by Matt Frost / The American Scene First it was Hesiod Amazonson, the 125-year-old bad boy of Elderporn, who sported one in his Super Bowl halftime performance.  Then teachers noticed a certain glitter when they surveilled their adolescent MOOC students, particularly students in their rebellious early thirties. Finally, Jaden knew it was a trend: “monocles are back,” he says. Jaden, who […]

Even as the unprecedented uprising continues to grow against the Obama administration-pushed Common Core nationalization of education, one of the key “architects” of the controversial national standards announced an overhaul of the SAT that has critics up in arms. In addition to dumbing down the important test, one of two main standardized exams generally used by colleges for admissions, analysts […]

Written by  Thomas Sowell If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left’s avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now — and the place would be New York City, where far left Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched an attack on charter schools, cutting their funding, among other things. […]

Editor’s Note: Wonder if that includes me? By STEPHEN BRAUN WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say they plan to set up a sweeping system of electronic monitoring that will tap into government, financial and other databases to scan the behavior of many of the 5 million federal employees with secret clearances. The system is intended to identify rogue agents, corrupt […]

Editor’s Note: Maybe we are just not compassionate enough to have much of a feeling for those that wish to do such harm to themselves and most first responders are always late to this type of call but that doesn’t mean Holder can’t weigh in. WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the increase in heroin-related deaths […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — For most of Vincent Gray’s three-plus years as District of Columbia mayor, federal prosecutors have been investigating alleged dirty tricks in his 2010 campaign. While the mayor never spoke in great detail about the investigation, he maintained he did nothing illegal and was aware of nothing illegal. And even when four people who worked on his campaign […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco stopped the destruction of millions of telephone records collected by the National Security Agency more than five years ago. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, who is overseeing an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against the agency, issued a nationwide order Monday to safeguard evidence until March 19, when he will hold a hearing […]

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Voters on Florida’s Gulf Coast head to the polls Tuesday to fill a vacant U.S. Congressional seat in a special election watched by both major parties for what it portends for November when all 435 congressional seats will be up for grabs. “It’s still anybody’s guess who’s going to win. Turnout is key,” […]

Editor’s Note: We are not exactly sure how to take this…. we saw this occur in 1996 with the split of Ross Perot’s United We Stand group and knew then the split would be fatal. Will the creation of top down organization change to effective work local’s have done? Time will tell. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In early 2009, amateur conservative […]

By Arit John / Wire As far as disastrous Obamacare exchanges go, Maryland has taken the lead. The Baltimore Sun reported Sunday night that the federal inspector general will launch a probe into how the state spent federal funds, according to Rep. Andy Harris, the Republican congressman who asked for a probe last month. This comes less than a week after […]

Editor’s Note: We had almost decided not to run this article… one, it was a little late and two, they seemed a little old for a slumber party. Washington (AFP) – Dozens of US lawmakers eager to make climate change a major political issue will begin an all-night Senate session Monday urging Washington to enact legislation that reduces the threat of […]

Editor’s Note: Sorry did I say that… WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s top economists say the nation is on track to make economic progress over the next two years, but say it would do even better if Congress would enact the additional spending he proposed in his most recent budget. A divided Congress in an election year is not […]