Federal
DOJ Protects D.C. Brothel Customers… As Congress Votes For New FBI Facility
DOJ press release explains “elected officials” among the brothel’s clientele but does not name any of them.
Biden Administration Approves $950 Million for Border Wall Construction and Repairs
According to legal documents, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has granted four contracts to repair existing border walls in San Diego, El Centro, El Paso, and Tucson.
Illegal Alien ‘Failed to Disclose’ Homicide Conviction
The Venezuelan national was arrested by federal officials in Massachusetts months after originally crossing into Eagle Pass, Texas.
US Reps. Request More Funds for First Responders in Border Communities
Two congressmen sent U.S. Rep. Kay Granger of Texas a letter requesting additional funds for strained local governments.
Federal Archive
Cliff? Behold Obama’s Fiscal Tsunami
With all the "fiscal cliff" talk, it seems like everyone has forgotten about the tsunami scheduled to hit our economy tomorrow: the $1 trillion Obamacare Tax. Well, not everyone. The helpful folks at Americans for Tax Reform have a list of just some of the the new...
Debt Limit Debacle
As the dust settles around the debt deal struck earlier this week, it has become clear that Americans are not pleased with the outcome - and in many cases, far less enthralled with the leadership that has brought us here. So, Congress has voted themselves a new max on...
Fiscal Recklessness Threatens US
For nearly all of us, the size of the national debt is all but unimaginable. If you counted off 14.1 trillion seconds, it would take 447,000 years. Printing 14.1 trillion dollar bills would weigh more than 15 million tons – or, the weight of 136 aircraft carriers the...
Fed Up this Christmas?
Most of us have become fed up by politicians, especially those of the federal variety. With our federal government bloated unrecognizably out of its constitutional bounds, no facet of life has been left untouched, untaxed or unregulated. Gov. Rick Perry's new book,...
Cornyn wrong on Federal Balanced Budget Amendment
Senator John Cornyn wrote this week that: “A balanced budget amendment is necessary because Congress has proven it cannot agree on how to keep total federal spending in line with total federal revenue. Moreover, the president is not even required to propose a budget...
Feds Playing Politics With Drilling?
After being rebuked by federal courts, President Obama's secretary of the interior, former U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO), announced that the ban on offshore drilling would be lifted. Not so, in a practical sense, says Elizabeth Ames Jones, a commissioner on the energy...
Obama “Economic Stimulus” Isn’t Working
The Financial Times recently reported these dismal figures for private sector hiring: “Since the stimulus began, about 400,000 public sector jobs have been added (through May 2010) while 2.7 million private sector jobs were lost.” The National Federation of...
Hey, Big Spender
This week the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste issued their annual Congressional scorecard. Our own U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison improved her score over previous years to be listed as a taxpayer hero. While the state's senior senator continues to...
Left Hook to Voters?
Liberals must see the handwriting on their electoral wall maps. Beyond the present concerns voters have with the Obama administration, the projected changes that will occur as a result of the 2010 Census seem to predict the political landscape will be very favorable...