Jun 16, 2014 – For two weeks we've been bringing you news and exclusive photos from the ongoing humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied Central American children flooding over the southern border. Border Patrol warehouses and resources are completely overwhelmed with children sleeping in chain-linked cages and on floors. Shower facilities are scarce, disease is a...

Jun 16, 2014 – Late last week the IRS announced the agency has "lost" two years of emails between January 2009 and April 2011 belonging to former head of tax exempt organizations Lois Lerner. Nobody actually believes them and statements under oath from IRS officials contradict the claim....

Jun 16, 2014 – Oops. According to a new piece in the New York Times, hundreds of thousands of people who may not be qualified to receive Obamacare subsidies, are probably receiving them anyway. The Obama administration is contacting hundreds of thousands of people with subsidized...

Jun 16, 2014 – Back in March 2013 (and after a massive cash dump from former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg), Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed new anti-gun legislation into law. Colorado's governor signed bills Wednesday that place new restrictions on firearms, signaling a change for Democrats who have traditionally shied...

Jun 13, 2014 – According to the House Ways and Means Committee, the IRS has "lost" two years of emails belonging to former head of tax exempt organizations Lois Lerner. The IRS doesn't have a record of her emails to outside groups or government agencies from January 2009 through April 2011, conveniently encompassing some...

Jun 13, 2014 – Earlier this week, Michael Bloomberg's new anti-gun Everytown released a bogus report claiming since Newtown in December 2013, 74 school shootings have taken place. The report was so bogus, even CNN went out of the way, twice, to correct the record. More from Ed Morrissey: For...

Jun 13, 2014 – The crisis of unaccompanied children flooding on our southern border is getting worse as parents in Central America continue to put their children into the hands of human smugglers bound for the U.S. For weeks, Border Patrol agents have been forced to leave wide swaths of our southern border with...

Jun 13, 2014 – Again, what could possibly go wrong with the recent release of five high-level Taliban commanders in exchange for Sgt. Private Bowe Bergdahl? Just about everything. Writing in the Weekly Standard, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Senior Fellow Thomas Joscelyn writes that the "Taliban 5"...

Jun 12, 2014 – Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson held a press conference Thursday afternoon to address the ongoing unaccompanied child crisis at Border Patrol stations and military bases across the country. Johnson held the conference in partnership with FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske, Immigration and...

Jun 12, 2014 – The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers is ripping the latest unaccompanied child crisis and push for amnesty on Capitol Hill as an "orchestrated and contrived assault on the compassionate side of Americans." In a press release issued earlier this week, Chairman Zack Taylor accused...

Jun 12, 2014 – Earlier this week I reported about Border Patrol agents in Nogales being threatened with firings after photos of overwhelmed conditions were leaked to the media. Since that time, all personal electronic devices belonging to agents have been banned from the Nogales processing center, where thousands of unaccompanied children from Central...

Jun 11, 2014 – Earlier today on Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a Homeland Security oversight hearing and DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson testified. Johnson was pressed by lawmakers, specifically Republicans, about the ongoing humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied children on the southwest border with Mexico....

Jun 11, 2014 – Since revelations of secret wait lists and veteran deaths at VA medical facilities surfaced two months ago, lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have been pressing the Department of Justice to open up a criminal investigation into the ongoing VA scandal. According to CBS News, the FBI office...

Jun 11, 2014 – When Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost to his challenger David Brat last night, shock waves were sent across the political world. As Guy already noted, Brat was unheralded, underfunded and many people didn't know who he was until his huge victory last night. In total, Cantor spent $5 million...

Jun 11, 2014 – In case you missed it last night, Rep. Eric Cantor lost his primary to Professor David Brat in one of the "biggest upsets ever seen." The majority leader has not lost a primary election since 1899. Naturally, Democrats jumped at the chance to fundraise off of the loss....

Jun 10, 2014 – Earlier we learned that in 2010, the IRS sent a massive data base full of confidential information belonging to [conservative] tax exempt groups to the FBI just before the 2010 midterm elections. The information was sent after collaboration and agreement between former IRS head of tax exempt groups Lois Lerner...

Jun 10, 2014 – Back in April, Judicial Watch released documents showing IRS officials, including former head of tax exempt groups Lois Lerner, discussing the possibility of bringing criminal charges against tea party groups for engaging in "political activity." In fact, the documents showed Lerner wanted to make an example out of someone with...

Jun 10, 2014 – As the unaccompanied child crisis along our southern border with Mexico continues to overwhelm the system, an internal Border Patrol email obtained by Townhall shows Tucson Sector Chief Border Patrol Agent Manuel Padilla Jr. calling the situation "unprecedented," comparable to humanitarian disasters like hurricanes and confirms illegal immigrant children...

Jun 27, 2014 – Forget those "lost" IRS emails America, there's nothing to see here. President Obama is accusing Republicans of using "phony scandals" to attack him, again. "These are just Washington fights, their fabricated issues, they're phony scandals that are generated,...

Jun 27, 2014 – Editors's note/correction July 21, 2014: A previous version of this post stated an incorrect location for where and how this incident occurred. When the incident occurred, the Mexican military was conducting a raid on a location known as "the ranch." "The ranch" is located 8 miles west-southwest of...

Jun 27, 2014 – Yesterday the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against President Obama's NLRB appointment power grab. Last night Charles Krathammer called Obama's disregard for separation of power, Congress and the constitution "arrogant," and suggested if he was a Republican, he'd be impeached by now. "He doesn't care...

Jun 27, 2014 – According to a local news report from KVOA News 4 out of Tucson, Arizona, at least one Mexican military helicopter crossed into the United States early Thursday morning, shot at Border Patrol agents using lethal force and then flew back to Mexico. Once the helicopter was back on the ground...

Jun 26, 2014 – Republican Senator Ted Cruz called for Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS's targeting of conservative groups on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon and said if Holder fails to do so, he should be impeached. "We need...

Jun 26, 2014 – The recently launched "gun safety" organization Evolve Together is out with a new television advertisement comparing the safe storage of sex toys to the storage of firearms. Warning: explicit material....

Jun 26, 2014 – When President Obama made run for the White House the first time around in 2008, he campaigned on the promise he'd close Guantanamo Bay prison. That promise hasn't necessarily been kept, but earlier this month we saw the administration make what could be the first of many moves to empty...