Debra McCown
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) announced on Sunday that she will be supporting the Senate’s bipartisan immigration reform bill (S. 744). Her endorsement of the bill brings the number of verbal Republican supporters to six and strengthens the chances of attaining…
The Guardian is reporting that during President Obama’s administration, and for the first time, millions of telephone records are being collected wholesale without any need for probable cause or suspicion. Most of the information is being harvested through a court…
Despite the looming July 1 deadline, which will up the interest rate on federal student loans from the current 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, both Senate bills addressing student loans failed during today’s vote. The Democrats’ desired legislation failed to…
After what seemed like years of intentional disregard, the burning-hot topic of abortion has made it back into the public debate. Late-term abortionists like Kermit Gosnell, Douglas Karpen, and Leroy Carhart, have made national headlines with reports of severed infant…
As Ross noted, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has died at age 89 of complications from viral pneumonia, according to his office. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will select a temporary appointee to fill his seat, and later this year there…
Immigration has been a hot issue in Washington lately. But what’s the most effective way to reform our broken immigration system? At a debate on immigration reform hosted at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action…
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on H.R. 1797, the “District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” which aims to ban abortions after 20 weeks – the accepted time when pain is felt by the baby. The bill,…
The Senate’s immigration bill cleared the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday by a vote of 13-5, reports Reuters. Amidst the fireworks of the recent scandal-mania on Capitol Hill, the bill has been quietly edging its way towards the Senate floor for…
Kermit Gosnell is not an outlier and his “house of horrors” is not an isolated case. The abortion industry’s problems run much deeper than that. There is no need to dwell on the grotesque murders of the many living babies…
Before the shock and stench of Kermit Gosnell’s horrors was even allowed to dissipate, the lieutenant governor of Texas, David Dewhurst, has announced he is asking Harris County officials to investigate claims of abuse at a Houston abortion clinic. As…
