By Star Parker When Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential aspirant Rand Paul re-surfaced the Monica Lewinsky scandal as relevant to Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy, fellow Republican Karl Rove immediately took him to task on national television. “Frankly, Rand Paul spending a lot of time talking about the mistakes of Bill Clinton does not look like […]
By Debra J. Saunders On the day that Facebook paid $19 billion for the aptly named WhatsApp, San Francisco’s Gap Inc. announced it would raise its minimum wage for American employees to $9 per hour this year and $10 per hour in 2015. The announcement probably won’t make a dent in the income inequality gap […]
By John Ransom I got a pen; I got a microphone. And they can have them when they pry them from my cold, dead hands. While it looks like the FCC has at least temporarily backed down from their threats of putting monitors into newsrooms, we haven’t seen the last of it. This has been […]
Today’s Logic Letter, By Lynn Woolley Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Dear Lojiks, Were this 178 years ago, we would be in day two of the siege of the Alamo. William Barret Travis would not yet have written his “Victory or Death” letter. Texas was not yet a Republic. But it was on its […]
The Wall Street Journal Workers prove to be smarter than their bosses in Tennessee. The decision by workers at the Volkswagen VOW3.XE -0.64% plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee to reject the United Auto Workers is the best news so far this year for the American economy. Even with Volkswagen management on its side, the union that […]
By Congresswoman Kay Granger Texas insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. — We are all familiar with identity theft when it comes to our credit cards and bank accounts. But another type of ID theft is on the rise. Over the last two fiscal years, the federal government has sentenced 661 individuals for ID theft tax refund fraud.
‘It’s a sad day when the White House & Congressional Democrats are celebrating the prospect of a smaller American labor force.’ By Sen. John Cornyn Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN — It’s hard to deny that the Obama Administration has declared a war on the American worker. One need look no further than two recent reports […]
Sen. John McCain, called President Obama “the most naïve president in history” Thursday, slamming the administration’s inept handling of relations with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin “played us so incredibly,” the Arizona Republican said on Phoenix radio station KFYI. “This is the most naïve president in history.”
Son of Conservative Civil Rights Icon, a Member of Project 21, Issues Statement–FBI, Local Police Investigating Apparent Hate Crime Washington, DC – Members of the Project 21 black leadership network condemn the apparent February 16 hate crime on the campus of the University of Mississippi in which a statue of civil rights icon and prominent […]
By Aaron Blake The White House on Thursday called for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to remove his security forces from the scene of protests in Kiev — its most forceful statement to date on the quickly escalating conflict. At least 50 people were killed Thursday morning after a tentative truce fell apart, according to a […]
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee The bloodshed in Syria is unacceptable we must remain committed to peacefully resolving a civil war that has claimed about 154,000 Syrian lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of women and children, says Rep. Jackson Lee.
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — (Fort Worth, Texas) – “The Cattle Raisers Expo is the largest expo in Texas and Oklahoma designed specifically for ranchers,” said Pete Bonds, TSCRA president. Nearly 200 exhibitors will showcase their products and services to cattle producers across the state at the 37th Annual Cattle Raisers Expo during the […]
Houston Physician Arrested in Health Care Fraud Conspiracy Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — (HOUSTON) – Dr. Enyibuaku Rita Uzoaga, 41, and Charles Harris, 53, have been indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and health care fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Michelle Malkin This week’s award for Biggest Common Core Jerk goes to Missouri GOP state legislator Mike Lair. Parents, teachers and administrators who object to the government education “standards” racket — which usurps local control, impedes academic achievement and undermines family privacy — have politicians on the defensive. The only thing these Fed Ed flacks […]
By Michael Barone It is 611 miles from the United Auto Workers headquarters in Detroit to Volkswagen’s assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. It’s a long day’s drive, about 10 hours almost entirely on Interstate 75, but it turned out to be too far for the UAW. Or so one must judge from the results of […]
Today’s Logic Letter, By Lynn Woolley Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Here’s a question to ponder in Temple, Texas. If someone is accused of committing a crime — and she can bring a dozen or so “character” witnesses to testify on her behalf, does that say more about her? Or the witnesses? This is […]
By Ben Barrack Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Last December, Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), and Steve King (R-IA) visited Egypt. The Washington Post referred to the details of the visit as “hush-hush”. Last month, a delegation led by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) which included Rep. Steve Stockman and Rep. Cynthia Lummis […]
Beyond Affirmative Action By Dr. Ben Carson Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – I was a victim of the racism of low expectations for black children. As a child growing up in Detroit and Boston, I had many opportunities to experience the ugly face of racism, and witnessed the devastating toll exacted by its mean-spirited […]
