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I should warn you that this is a very difficult video to watch. It was made last year in memory of the Fogel family of Itamar HY"D (M...

One of the more important levers of political power is the appointment of supporters to run the government. That's inherently corrupt, ...

A lot of reasonable musing has been done as to whether or not Barack Obama is advantaged politically by the Supreme Court striking down or u...

As we’ve covered extensively here at Twitchy, the Attorney General, Eric Holder, scurried under President Obama’s protective skirt as he dec...

This is a liveblog of the 'Tomorrow's borders' panel. The list of panelists and their bios are here .

Why is government involved in setting college tuition rates?

Wait. Didn’t slavery end in 1865? Oh that’s right. Progressive liberal hacks, like NBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry are so used to living on the l...

Quick quiz: What is a Progressive Politician’s favorite form of energy? A. Cold Fusion B. Pixie Dust C. Unicorn Farts D. Cellulosic Biof...

In order to become President, Barack Obama had to swear to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. But three years later, I am disgus...

Although this might be stretching the definition. Just a little: Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients e...

Dreams From His Real Father? No wonder Obama appears to be a little screwed up. Who wouldn’t be, given the milieu that produced him? B...

Get ready for another religious controversy. Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven has announced that he will begin shooting a film that is sure to inf...

One of the biggest banks in the world wants the president’s favorite banker muzzled. The banker, Robert Wolf, a top UBS executive in New...

"People who see the hearings and never hear about the hearing on the radicalization of Christianity have to ask themselves, ‘Why is thi...

The family of slain U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was killed with guns tied to the Fast and Furious program, issued a statemen...

Resolved: This House believes that the problems of the future are too great for the entrepreneurs of today....

Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation...

Republican US Senate candidate John Brunner appears to have once supported a radical animal rights group. According to the Brunner Foundat...

He once picked up a $7,500 unpaid tab for a Rod Blagojevich fund-raiser, and more notably, paid to fly a “social acquaintance” of U.S. Rep. ...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has changed her public position on an issue that divided Democrats during the fight over raising the debt...

I was upset all weekend as Obama gave 1.5 million lawbreakers a work permit in front of the millions of unemployed Americans, pandering for ...

Nobody ever got rich shorting Japanese government bonds, it is often said. Are those now aggressively shorting German bunds about to fall in...

..."Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency"...

BRUSSELS - A German-led report shows lacklustre support for the creation of a powerful new EU leader. The eight-page paper - circulated to...

BRUSSELS - Struggling banks in the EU and beyond are becoming more willing to launder dirty cash for organised crime. Italy's anti-maf...

"United States Federal, State and Local Government Spending" "Fiscal Year 1960" "GDP: $526.4 billion(1)" ...

An Arkansas company you've probably never heard of knows more about you than some of your friends, Google, and even the FBI — and it...

(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration distributed $9 billion in economic “stimulus” funds to solar and wind projects in 2009-11 that crea...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi attacked House Republicans for pursuing contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Eric Holder...

Obama Spends More Than He Raises Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, since becoming his party’s presumptive nominee, is now tak...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) refuses to explain why it has abruptly dropped terrorism charges against a member of a Middle Eastern family...

Oregon State University chemistry professor Nicholas Drapela was fired without warning three weeks ago and has still been given no reason fo...

Plymouth-Canton cafeteria association wants to ensure payment from 'voluntary' members

In a second major retraction over its version of the the gun-walking scandal, the Justice Department has retracted Attorney General Eric ...

Issa also accused the Justice Department of trying to compel the committee to close its investigation in exchange for documents it hasn...

Imagine if your taxes tripled — literally overnight. The so-called Bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year. That means that...

SHINER, Texas (AP) — A young Texas father who beat to death with his fists a man molesting his 5-year-old daughter will not be charged, aut...

The Obama Record: The chief executive who swore to faithfully execute the nation's laws picks those he'll ignore and makes up other...

A political deal will be struck to save the Democrat Party from total collapse and protect the Republican Party from revelations of complici...

Via TPM, which is aghast at the possibility that the ObamaCare bomb that’s set to drop later this week or next might be even more powerful t...

Joy Garcia is just one of the young Panhandle voters that's worried about the future. Unemployment topped the list with young voters I s...

Many Americans are stuck in jobs with low wages and lousy benefits Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most ...

As the Los Angeles Times reports, for every $1 that President Obama’s campaign has spent in support of Obamacare, his administration has spe...

On Friday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that "certain young people who were brought to the United States w...

America's welfare state is about to suffer a double whammy of epic proportions. On one hand, extended unemployment benefits are now runn...

Vice President Joe Biden was in town this afternoon. Here's The Bee's pool report from the event....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When it comes to President Barack Obama's new immigration policy, Senate Republicans are quite sure they don't li...

Hong Kong Exchange & Clearing has paid £1.4bn for the London Metal Exchange, a company which makes £11.2m operating profit - a multiple ...

Minimum wage has been a topic of debate ever since the creation of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938. Just this month, U.S. Rep. Jesse Ja...

Quite a lot has been said about what Obama's instant amnesty scheme means in the purely procedural sense -- that it's illegal and un...

The Legal Requirements for Putting a Question on the Ballot

We like to believe America is a free country, but there are some instances where what is illegal and taboo in the USA is perfectly legal and...

Once again the media is reporting supposed facts about Speaker John Boehner without actually confirming them. This time Fox News’s William L...

An illegal immigrant who passes the bar exam and demonstrates good moral character should be eligible to practice law, the State Bar has dec...

The conservative outside group Americans for Prosperity has launched a $3 million ad campaign against Democratic Senate candidates in six ...

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for Somalia is looking into a fresh report that pirates are in business with Italian gangsters on toxic was...

NHS hospitals are using end-of-life care to help elderly patients to die because they are difficult to look after and take up valuable beds,...

On her show today, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell responded to criticism of the network's decision to run an edited tape of Mitt Romney...

Environmental concerns have caused one high-ranking UN official to declare that “the West” does not need more cars, televisions, and other c...

With each passing day, the Obama-loving media stoop to new lows in attacking the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his family....

It looks like Israel is going to be the next Switzerland — at least as far as the Department of Justice’s investigation into offshore tax av...

Turner told AFP he expects Romney to "address civil rights" during his speech, "as they are in line with our mission."

DeWitt, Mich. — The protesters popping up at Mitt Romney's rallies throughout Michigan Tuesday look like run-of-the-mill grassroots l...

Trashed rental homes, bad behavior and barroom brawls that have required the local police to step in have some disgusted Martha’s Vineyard h...

FORT MYERS - A lot of people get peeved about TSA pat downs. But a Bonita Springs woman is accused of groping an agent at Southwest Flor...

The North Rowan High School teacher who told students it’s criminal to speak ill of the president will keep her job with the Rowan-Salisbury...

In a press availability with reporters this afternoon Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shot down a reporter’s question using some rather co...

Mitt Romney told reporters in Michigan that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is being looked at as his possible running mate, adding that a news sto...

Four outraged Cherokee activists who say Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has ignored their emails and phone calls will trek to Boston this week ...

Beard gets Fort Hood suspect barred from court FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at...

Access, bias, herd mentality in Munro incident -- the corruption of the White House press corps.

The Greek vote has settled nothing. In fact, it may not even lead to the formation of a government; the last election failed to produce a go...

1. Hussein Onyango, Barack's grandfather, wasn't really imprisoned and tortured by the British. 2. The father of his Indonesian st...

Boston - A top Homeland Security official in Boston has been accused of repeatedly hiring illegal immigrants to clean her home. Lorrain...

Authorities are saying that they are not treating the shooting of three people in Mission as an attempted “honor killing.” The suspect Tal...

While our presumptive nominee Mitt Romney has criticized Obama's cynical, politically-timed power grab, he has yet to say whether or not...

1990 Vanity Fair article contradicts Indonesia narrative MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – On the heels of the discovery of a 1991 publicity brochure st...

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: June 21 marks the beginning of the “Fortnight for Freedom” events, the campaig...

BALLSTON SPA — A grand jury has indicted the man accused of trying to rape and kidnap an elderly woman last month in downtown Saratoga Sprin...

“This is war, not a game of cards”. Militant enthuses: “They got the guns out in Greece. It was great”. Institutions and “peace-loving” refo...

Big changes are afoot in the Glenn Beck empire– his online television network, Glenn Beck Television, will no longer exist as we know it– in...

Democrat political consultant Robert Shrum tried paint Mitt Romney yesterday as another Thomas Dewey, who lost to Harry Truman in 1948 after...

Regardless of whether the Fed ends its bond-buying program this summer, experts say, investors need to prepare for rising rates...

No matter how unfairly you're treated specifically because you're a white male, a Christian, a conservative, or a Republican, very f...

For years, politicians and retirees could safely ignore the crisis facing America's Social Security system. The problems lay in a distan...

Not even Obama can buy the votes of over half the country. Shaken by the polls, and unable to tout his accomplishments in office, the pres...

The main weapon that progressives wield against traditionalists is their ability to break down the values that make up their worldview by ch...

The Southern Poverty Law Center has a new “Intelligence Report” titled “30 New Activists Heading Up The Radical Right.” It includes well-kno...

Obama’s accompanying rationale for this decision, moreover, was full of unexamined assumptions and sentiments. “These are young people who s...

“The homosexual movement is now using local liberal judges to go after pro-family activists.