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On Sunday, Ranking member of the Armed Services Committee Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) blasted the Defense Department’s plan to “contribute $170 million to a massive federal giveaway to private biofuels companies.” He said the plan is further evidence of the…

Speechless. The Supreme Court threw out the Arizona law that requires people to prove they are US citizens before registering to vote. The AP reported: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens…

Around this time two years ago, Barack Obama delivered a prime time speech in which he told viewers waiting for him to shut up and make way for American Idol, “We have spent a trillion dollars on war, at a time of rising debt and hard economic times……

Trouble in paradise. This reeks of kabuki, a deliberate leak aimed at shoring up Rubio’s credibility among conservatives as criticism of him from the right gets louder. They’re aiming for 70 votes for the Gang of Eight bill in the Senate, which means at…

At a closed-door event in New York City with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Tuesday evening, former President Bill Clinton suggested that President Barack Obama should ignore public opposition to U.S. intervention in Syria and give rebel groups "a decent chance"…

In a speech on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul outlined his views on immigration reform. Acknowledging the need for some legalization process for the 12 million illegal immigrants already here, Paul stressed that border security had to come first. Under Paul's plan,…

They told me there would be no math. Yes, this will be the laugher du jour, but Ed Markey’s critics will largely overshoot the mark.  There is a difference between math and arithmetic.  Unfortunately for Markey, he still gets even that wrong: This is…

And they gritted their teeth all the way to the courthouse. Today, the ACLU did what the ACLU does best… file lawsuits.  This time it was against the Obama Administration for illegally collecting phone records of millions of Americans. The New York Times…

Last week The Guardian and The Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency collects information on the phone and Internet habits of millions of Americans. Since then we've seen President Barack Obama argue against the strawman of combining…

C'mon. The most confounding thing in writing about the NSA/PRISM/Snowden clusterfark is that, if you don’t work in national security, there’s no yardstick to measure which claims are plausible and which are insane. That in itself is a brutal indictment of…

The Internet and phone surveillance scandals hitting the news have catalyzed a growing schism between the American public and the U.S. government. According to a new Rasmussen poll, only 30% of Americans trust the government to use the Constitution as a guide…

"[It's] partly what our founding fathers fought the revolution over.” Rand Paul turns out to be not much of a fan of the NSA’s surveillance programs, which is both no surprise and the understatement of the week.  He appeared on Fox News Sunday and pledged…

Mark Steyn commented on the NSA controversy to say that, “The same bureaucracy that takes the terror threat so seriously that it needs the phone and Internet records of hundreds of millions of law-abiding persons would never dream of doing a little more…

President Barack Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and Saturday in Palm Springs, California to discuss cybersecurity, an aim that may have been undermined by revelations last week of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) massive…

Yesterday America learned that the U.S. government is gathering information on our phone calls and can follow our every keystroke. We are reassured that the information is to stop terrorists. And yet the government fails to stop terrorists when it has…

Roughly 80% of the Senate’s $955 billion farm bill, which is expected to pass this week, will go to bankroll food stamps over the next ten years. “The trillion-dollar farm and food stamp bill should not be called the ‘Farm Bill,’” said Heritage…