Posted by Brian Darling
Friday, January 28th at 12:30PM EST
The first ever meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus was convened yesterday on Capitol Hill and it was a great success. The left wing media is doing everything they can to demonize the Tea Party movement. It is not going to work.
The Heritage Foundation sent a camera [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the face of an ever-expanding national debt, newly elected Senator Rand Paul is taking a bold and proactive step in protecting our national security and lowering our deficit. By introducing $500 billion in spending cuts today – to be enacted over one year – Sen. Paul is [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Senator Rand Paul will join Senator Roger Wicker as an original sponsor of the Life at Conception Act. This legislation declares that the unborn are persons, as prescribed in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
This legislation does not amend or interpret the Constitution, but simply [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Below is Senator Rand Paul’s Statement Regarding the 2011 March for Life:
“January 22nd of this year marked the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one of the most horrific judicial travesties in the history of our nation. Since abortion was legalized in 1973, there have been over 50 million abortions performed in [...]
By Mona Charen
It was always for our own good. It was always for a very good reason. It was always within the American tradition of this, that, or the other.
That’s what they’ve told us, that’s how they’ve patronized us, for generations, as the long tendrils of the federal government have spread and multiplied into every [...]
Even before its report was released, Washington hearts were aflutter and tongues were a-wagging about the Obama deficit reduction commission. The bipartisan blue-ribbon bunch solemnly vowed they would propose $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases, a ratio reminiscent of past tax-hiking budget agreements. Whatever fat is trimmed from the budget, overall [...]
By George F. Will
As the new political group No Labels convened in Manhattan, a judge was issuing a decision that illustrated why the group’s premise is preposterous and its pretense is cloying. The premise, obscured by gaseous rhetoric, is that political heat is inherently disproportionate. The complacent pretense is that it is virtuous to transcend the vice of [...]
Great work by Dr. Coburn’s team: A listing of the thousands of earmarks in the 2,000 page Omnibus spending bill being rushed to the house floor. The Senate needs to listen to the voices of the American people: Cut the wasteful spending. Stop the backroom deals. Read the bills.
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A reality check finds that, minus fringe benefits, the gap is $81,000 to $50,000.Several studies have found that an apples-to-apples comparison of job categories substantially reduces — but doesn’t quite eliminate — the divide between public and private pay. The Washington bureaucracy is well paid because it is full of scientists, doctors, engineers, lawyers, accountants [...]
