Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement on the pending nomination of Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, highlighting his past support of mortgage principal reductions for as many as 10.4 million borrowers who are $628 billion underwater on their mortgages, owing more on their homes than they are worth: “Mel Watts’ [...]

By Robert Romano — “Under U.S. law, United States citizens cannot be tried in military commissions.” That was White House Press Secretary James Carney on the Obama Administration’s decision not to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an unlawful enemy combatant following the Boston Marathon bombings. What a difference two months can make. Just in February, NBC News famously revealed a Department [...]

Republican Study Committee members sent a scathing letter to members of the Senate asking them to stop the appointment of Thomas Perez to become the Secretary of Labor. Republican Study Committee Anti-Perez Letter

By Rick Manning – Hell must have frozen over this past weekend as the U.S. Senate broke a four year record of intransigence and failure as it unleashed a blizzard of votes that culminated with the passage of a budget document that reveals the plans and priorities of the 50 Democrats who supported it. It was no mistake that the [...]

Due to the sequester, some entrances to Capitol Hill Congressional building have been closed. But in a sign that these entrances are merely being closed for the theater of it all, the closed entrances are still receiving regular maintenance. Odd. Here’s a picture of one of the closed entrances being painted: The closing of the entrances is merely a way [...]

Sen. Harry Reid has abandoned Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assualt weapons ban amendment to a gun control bill moving through the Senate. The reason? Reid could not find many people that supported it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday he will not include a renewal of the federal assault weapons ban in a Senate gun control bill because it [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com. By Rick Manning – News flash. Senate Democrats pass a budget out of committee that includes massive tax increases, dramatically increases spending, never is projected to come close to balancing the budget, and in a tip of the hat to George Orwell, they call it “balanced” in its approach. Is there [...]

By Rick Manning — Senator John McCain went all whacko bird to the Huffington Post attacking fellow Republican Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.  His fellow Republican Senators crime was to have had the audacity to actually stand up to power and force the Obama Administration to accept that the U.S. Constitution does not allow the random killing of its [...]

UPDATE: Rand Paul’s filibuster concluded after nearly 13 hours. The filibuster has brought much needed light to the Federal government’s drone program that Attorney General Eric Holder said could be used to constitutionally kill U.S. citizens on U.S. soil… Scary stuff. Rand did the right thing and shed much needed light on this. Rand Paul has launched a filibuster against [...]

The U.S. Senate should reject Obama nominee, Gina McCarthy, for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. McCarthy has been embroiled in scandal after scandal which can only indicate either pure managerial incompetence or a complicity in the failure to perform her most basic duties. One example that reportedly has held up McCarthy’s nomination at the White House was the failure [...]