Jun 5, 2013 – Today, however, more voters than ever view the federal government as a threat to those rights.A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone … A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released late Tuesday shows 55 percent believe the IRS targeting of conservative groups raised … The same number say the Justice Department’s subpoenaing of reporter email and phone records in national security leak investigations…

Jun 4, 2013 – Here are the basics of Christie's baby-splitting decision, with political analysis to follow: New Jersey Gov. … Bottom line: Viewing today's events through a purely political lens, Christie's actions were pretty savvy.   … Whatever political maneuvering Christie pulled off today, it seems clear that his primary concern is state-level, not national, politics…

Jun 3, 2013 – But, Holder was caught in a lie when the Washington Post exposed an affidavit bearing Holder's signature naming Fox News reporter James … Civil Rights Commission that it was in fact Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, an Obama political appointee and top aid to … New Black Panthers, Fast and Furious, and Rosen-Fox News – three strikes should be enough to call Eric Holder out. …

Jun 19, 2013 – It's interesting that The Associated Press chose to report the story only after the news about its reporters being secretly investigated … When President Wilson introduced racial segregation to the civil service, the NAACP and the National Independent Political League protested … Rahe -- author of "Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift" -- in his National Review Online (4/11/13) article "Progressive Racism," Wilson…

Jun 17, 2013 – The bullying tactics she used to coerce Republican legislators into voting for it were so appalling, they made national news and have … National Revieweditorialized about her actions, “This is conduct unbecoming of a chief executive.” Arizona Rep. … A political moderate, he is believed to be calling a lot of the shots behind the scenes in the governor's office.…

Jun 15, 2013 – immigration bill, the 103 remaining Democrats will get a hall pass on one of the most explosive issues, where they are on the way-wrong political … the last session, the House Republican leadership generously gave Democrats “cover votes” on the balanced budget amendment and national … Good news for Pelosi and her quest to reclaim the gavel.…

Jun 15, 2013 – The third is Roger Ailes, who brought his long TV experience and political background to Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel and has … In the early 1980s, before the founding of Fox News, I met with each of the broadcast news presidents -- Robert Mulholland, Av Westin … the success of Fox News.…

Jun 15, 2013 – Building a whole national infrastructure for electric cars is expensive. … A visit with the senior executives of Israel Energy Initiatives is a frustrating journey into Israel's political pathologies. … One of the IEI's minor investors is Australian news mogul Rupert Murdoch.…

Jun 14, 2013 – According to a new Rasmussen Report, the majority of Americans believe the data collected by the NSA will be used as a political weapon … There is little public support for the sweeping and unaccountable nature of the National Security Agency surveillance program along … A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 30% consider it unlikely and 14% are not sure. …

Jun 14, 2013 – To add insult to injury, Obama has to swallow the news that his Republican predecessor, on whom he has blamed all of his problems, … That may be the result of Bush's decision to stay out of the "political swamp," as he calls it, and refrain from making any disparaging … More recently, Edward Snowden's disclosure of national security surveillance programs has presented problems for the administration…

Jun 12, 2013 – But as the struggle continues year after year, as sacrifices mount and doubts multiply, national unity begins to fray. … Note the rise and fall in political support for George W. Bush. … This little flare-up in the news, or what passes for news in this case, will surely fade soon enough.…

Jun 12, 2013 – Cue the Justice Department, which deployed the Espionage Act against a Fox News reporter and subpoenaed the records of more than 20 … the switch as the agency went rogue -- in ways that just happened to align with the president's oft-expressed ideological and political … being politicized, you can't trust him to keep anything immune from politics -- including health care and, more relevant, the National…

Jun 11, 2013 – Is this administration seriously asking us to trust the same government that admittedly targets political dissidents through the Internal … Americans should trust the National Security Agency as much as they do the IRS and Justice Department. … Monitoring the records of as many as a billion phone calls, as some news reports have suggested, is no modest invasion of privacy.…

Jun 11, 2013 – Midwestern lawmaker is calling on his colleagues in Congress to offer cover to an Army soldier under fire for his conservative political … Sommers is the poster child for an increasingly pervasive pattern of persecution,” Huelskamp told Fox News. … views,” he told Fox News.…

Jun 11, 2013 – It’s a political dissident list, not an enemy threat list…” When Hagmann asked exactly how they plan to do this, he was told: … They will use a host of national security policies, laws, letters, whatever to take out the bigger threats…Next, they will use some … Yes, we have Fox News, the soon-to-launch One America cable network and talk radio (which they’re also going after)—but without the…

Jun 10, 2013 – political and religious beliefs. … In response to that, Fox News Channel host Mike Huckabee launched a national Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day to rally support for the … Huckabee’s appreciation day,” Sommers told Fox News.…

Jun 10, 2013 – CBS News is now reporting that, “Two Internal Revenue Service agents working in the agency’s Cincinnati office say higher-ups in Washington … directed the targeting of conservative political groups when they applied for tax-exempt status, a contention that directly contradicts … The same number say the Justice Department’s subpoenaing of reporter email and phone records in national security leak investigations…

Jun 28, 2013 – on the US Senate’s select committee -- charged with investigating an incident in which five men had broken into the Democratic National … And speaking of contrast: That 40-years-ago breaking-and-entering scandal dominated the nation’s newspapers and news magazines. … Only one major broadcast news network -- Fox -- treated Benghazi as the significant news story it is.…

Jun 27, 2013 – There were no national elections. Yet Rome endured as a global power for three more centuries. What held it together? … In news stories that involve crimes with divisive racial themes, the media frequently paper over information about the perpetrators … Officially, America celebrates diversity; privately, America is fragmenting into racial, political and ideological camps.…

Jun 26, 2013 – David David Simas Deputy Senior Advisor White House On Monday, Organizing for Action, Obama's "non-political" community … Now, this is huge news: President Obama is set to announce his plan this week to address the growing threat of climate change. … We'll know more specifics on Tuesday, but it's expected he'll offer a bold, national approach to reducing carbon pollution -- and lay…

Jun 26, 2013 – This is the stuff the best political memes are made of: witty, informative, and cuts your opponent to the core. … political satire and insults going back to our founding. … Think about John Stewart’s Daily Show on Comedy Central, one of the top places this generation receives their news.…

Jun 26, 2013 – So, here we are now in Syria – a nation far, far away with political, cultural and religious cultures just as far removed from ours … What strategic national security interests does the U.S. gain from fanning the flames of factional fighting by arming Syrian rebels … If there truly were a definable and tangible US national security interest hiding somewhere in this mess, then most Americans would…

Jun 25, 2013 – Yesterday's IRS news bulletin was a bit perplexing.   … National Review's Eliana Johnson cuts through the fog and makes some important distinctions that help illuminate the truth: … A November 2010 version of the list obtained by National Review Online, however, suggests that while the list did contain the word…

Jun 25, 2013 – NBC News' Pete Williams reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — … But questions that may be untouchable for the political class aren't immune from the Court's scrutiny.   … But this does not look to “current political conditions,” Northwest Austin, supra, at 203, instead relying on a  comparison between…

Jun 21, 2013 – One might have thought beauty pageants, throwbacks to a pre-1960s world, would be political correctness-free zones. … The New York Daily News labeled Powell’s deer-in-the-headlights performance “cringe inducing.” … What is the solution to this national problem? That might have been a great question for a pageant contestant.…