DUMPBOEHNER.COM — The House will soon be voting on Boehner's replacement, and for others in House leadership. Conservatives have a historic opportunity to take back the House of Representatives and install principled leadership – those who will honor their oath and listen to their constituents... (more)

October 12, 2015

America's founders foresaw the danger of elitist tyranny

ALAN KEYES — "In previous generations, Americans had the sense to understand that if you vote for people who don't represent you, you get a government that doesn't represent you. That's self-evident"... (more)

October 12, 2015

CLIFF KINCAID — Will CNN use Tuesday's Democratic Party presidential debate to challenge Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on his atrocious handling of the Veterans Affairs (VA) scandal? Hillary Clinton has big problems that include blood on her hands over Benghazi, a Russia "reset" that has resulted in Russian aggression in Europe and the Middle East, and the mishandling of national security information through a private server... (more)

October 12, 2015

BREITBART — Several Republicans who aren't as closely associated with outgoing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)37% as House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)58%... (more)

October 12, 2015

NBC NEWS — Reps. Charlie Dent (R-PA) and David Brat (R-VA) clash over what direction their party should take in Congress -- functionality or ideology.... (more)

October 12, 2015

BREITBART — President Obama insisted that he could run and win a third term as president if he wanted to, but assured Americans that he would follow the lead of previous presidents before him.... (more)

October 11, 2015

CLIFF KINCAID — Near the end of Mel Gibson's film "Apocalypto," we see Christian missionaries arriving in the New World to save the natives from a culture of death that celebrates beheadings and human sacrifices to pagan Gods. Gibson has said he based the dramatic landing scene on the fourth expedition of the great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.... (more)

October 10, 2015

YAHOO NEWS — Some conservatives in the Republican party are sharpening their knives to keep Representative Paul Ryan from succeeding House Speaker John Boehner, even as they say publicly the election of the next speaker will center on reforms in the U.S. House of Representatives instead of the candidates.... (more)

October 10, 2015

YOUTUBE — "A new team is ready to bring America back: Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan.... [T]ogether they are ready to make history, together they are the Young Guns. Innovative, energetic, forging new solutions. One book will outline the vision to restore America's prosperity: 'Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders.'"... (more)

October 10, 2015

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — 'I know you lied in your testimony, but I understand why you believed you had to do it." If there was an audible sound in the courtroom after these words left the lips of the sentencing judge, it was my jaw caroming off the floor. I was a young prosecutor and it was the mid Eighties, before federal sentencing reforms substituted the public's sensibilities for the judges' in the matter of serious crime.... (more)

October 10, 2015

POLITICO MAGAZINE — John McCone came to the CIA as an outsider. An industrialist and an engineer by training, he replaced veteran spymaster Allen Dulles as director of central intelligence in November 1961, after John F. Kennedy had forced out Dulles following the CIA's bungled operation to oust Fidel Castro by invading Cuba's Bay of Pigs. McCone had one overriding mission: restore order at the besieged CIA.... (more)

October 10, 2015

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — During this week's turmoil over the Republican would-be successors to House Speaker John Boehner, the Ohioan retracted his earlier timetable for leaving the top House position and also exiting Congress itself at a fixed date this month... (more)

October 10, 2015

NEWSMAX — The conservative House Freedom Caucus that bedeviled Speaker John Boehner and derailed California Rep. Kevin McCarthy's shot at the top job has "more members than people suspect they do" -- and will keep rattling Congress, former Rep. Tom DeLay tells Newsmax TV... (more)

October 10, 2015

NEWSMAX — The chaos on Capitol Hill continued Friday as Republicans spent a second unnerving day scrambling to find a new candidate for House speaker, with Rep. Paul Ryan now reportedly mulling the job... (more)

October 10, 2015

BREITBART — 7:30 UPDATE: The last time Republicans faced a crisis of succession for Speaker of the House, they turned to a quiet figure from the Land of Lincoln, Dennis Hastert, to lead them. With Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), the House GOP may again find the answer in Illinois... (more)

October 10, 2015

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Conservatives in the House may yet try to resurrect their motion to vacate the speaker's chair, legislators confirmed to the Washington Examiner. With House Speaker John Boehner confirming yesterday that he will stay on until his successor can confirm 218 votes, the motion to remove him could be "brought at any time if things get too nefarious," said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky... (more)

October 10, 2015

NEWSMAX — Gun-rights activists gathered in Oregon on Friday to protest President Barack Obama's visit to meet with families of victims of last week's shooting at a community college that left nine people dead and nine others injured... (more)

October 10, 2015

JOSEPH FARAH — It was 1987 that a book came out that opened my eyes to the truth. Just seven years earlier, I had voted for Jimmy Carter in his bid for re-election against Ronald Reagan... (more)

October 10, 2015

WND — Democrats, perhaps fearing a flood of Planned Parenthood body-parts trade videos appearing at congressional hearings, took a shot at killing one such video at a hearing this week... (more)

October 9, 2015

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY — How many times have we been told that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, running for the GOP presidential nomination, is an ineffective "wacko bird,"in Arizona Sen. John McCain's insulting words?... (more)

October 9, 2015

NEWSMAX — North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones says he doesn't know any deep, dark secrets on Senate Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy -- he just wants to ensure any party leadership candidates don't have skeletons in their closets.... (more)

October 9, 2015

POLITICO — The doubts haunted Kevin McCarthy. Publicly, he projected an air of confidence, the appearance of the man who would be the next speaker of the House. But in private, his allies told him the pursuit for power was changing him and he wasn't himself. Some said that even if he won, he couldn't govern.... (more)

October 9, 2015

BOB UNRUH — An attorney who first obtained a preliminary injunction to shut down a National Security Agency spy operation against American citizens nearly two years ago is hoping for the same result now. A hearing was held in Washington on Thursday in the case brought by Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch on behalf of himself and several other plaintiffs.... (more)

October 9, 2015

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is defending the practice of eminent domain, or the taking of private property for public use in exchange for compensation -- an issue on which he has taken some heat during the 2016 presidential race.... (more)

October 9, 2015

NATIONAL REVIEW — Where's Ted Cruz? The outspoken Texas senator has been unusually quiet in recent weeks. But in GOP circles, there's soft but growing chatter that he is likely to be one of the last men standing in one of the most chaotic and unpredictable presidential races in recent memory.... (more)

October 9, 2015

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama signed into law a change in the way small employers can be defined under Obamacare starting next year. The legislation, dubbed the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act, represents a relatively rare instance in which Democrats and Republicans have agreed to tweak the 2010 healthcare law. Starting in January, the law was going to move employers with 51 to 100 workers from the large group insurance market to the small group market, which would expose them to new, costly coverage requirements.... (more)