The Supreme Court is rejecting a Pennsylvania inmate’s appeal to consider banning the death penalty across the United States. The justices did not comment Monday in turning away a challenge from death row inmate Shonda Walter. Walter’s appeal plays off Justice Stephen Breyer’s call in an impassioned dissent in June… Read More
Bloomberg: I’ll spend a billion dollars to beat Trump
Businessman Michael Bloomberg has spent a lifetime building his fortune and a political career that peaked with his election as mayor of New York City. Now, according to reports, the media executive has a new goal in mind for 2016. Bloomberg could be planning to spend a fortune to stop his rival –… Read More
In the race, but out of the spotlight: How Trump’s wife remains private
First lady Melania Trump. If that prospect evokes no clear image, that’s no accident. Donald Trump’s wife has said little in the campaign about the type of first lady she’d like to be should her husband win the Republican nomination and the presidency. The distance, she’s said, is intentional so… Read More
Cover-up! Government hiding Hillary emails until after primaries
By the time we learn what’s really contained in thousands of Hillary Clinton emails that have been withheld from the public, voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina will have already cast their ballots. And it doesn’t look like this is any accident. Long criticized for their cozy… Read More
[Video] Trump takes aim at Cruz with first attack ad
A few days left until the Iowa caucus, and the gloves are coming off. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is out with his first political attack ad aimed squarely at rival Ted Cruz. The ad, entitled “Clear Difference,” paints the Texas senator as a “flip-flopping” politician who once supported allowing… Read More
GOP launches revolt against Trump
It’s the most direct attack on Donald Trump from Republican leaders yet — and it’s causing a major shakeup in the GOP debate. In a special edition released today, The National Review published essays from 22 leading conservatives who demanded that the Republican party and voters distance themselves from Trump. The… Read More
Obama funding Iranian terror?
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry couldn’t keep the lid on it, and admitted Thursday what critics long suspected – the White House knew billions of dollars in sanctions relief granted to Iran under President Obama’s nuclear deal would be going straight to funding terrorists. And they did the deal… Read More
GOP wins big in “Fast and Furious” gun investigation
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Justice Department’s claim of executive privilege used to withhold certain documents tied to the Fast and Furious “gun-walking” scandal from release to a congressional committee. House Republicans sued in federal court in 2012 to obtain thousands of emails related to the botched effort… Read More
VA chief: Please stop making me fire people
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Thursday disputed claims by members of Congress that his scandal-plagued agency hasn’t dismissed enough employees, saying, “You can’t fire your way to excellence.” McDonald told the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee that he and other top leaders are turning the VA around, “providing more and… Read More
Check out this hilarious “fix” to Bernie Sanders’ campaign ad
Someone made a small, but hilarious, fix to socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ latest campaign ad. Enjoy, comrades: Bernie For Glorious Leader from Aleister on Vimeo.