The Obama administration “has no foreign policy,” says Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice-presidential candidate. While we may tune out this kind of election year rhetoric, similar complaints, no matter which president is being denounced, are common on both sides of the aisle. When the Democrats are in power we hear it from Republicans, and when the GOP is in the saddle we hear similar... 

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that almost three quarters of Americans want to see government enforced mandatory quarantines for health workers returning from West Africa. A whopping 71% of respondents said they felt health workers who have treated Ebola sufferers abroad should be subject to a 21-day isolation, even if they show no symptoms of the virus themselves. Just 24 percent disagree... 

US Senate floor Americans will go to the polls on Tuesday to vote for their congressional representatives, both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, their governors and their state representatives. They will elect 435 members of the House of Representatives, 33 senators, 38 governors and 46 state legislatures. The House of Representatives is already controlled by the Republicans and polls... 

The magic that President Obama once enjoyed at political rallies appears to have vanished into thin air, as a crowd of spectators walked out on the president during a speech for Democrats Sunday in Maryland. During an appearance for Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown, who is running for governor of Maryland, “early departures of crowd members while he spoke underscored his continuing unpopularity,”... 

A new CNN/ORC International poll released Friday indicates that over a third of Americans wish to see President Obama impeached and thrown out of office for consistently acting beyond his authority. Overall, 33 percent say they want Obama impeached, with 57 percent of Republicans backing the move. Over a third of Independents also said they supported impeachment, with 13 percent of Democrats, more... 

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio fully supports President Obama’s plan to bypass Congress by using executive actions to further enact amnesty for illegal aliens. During a press conference earlier today, the Democratic mayor said Obama “has every right to act in every way he can” to implement so-called “immigration reform” by himself. “If Congress is uninterested in acting on crucial... 

On Saturday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi traveled to the South Texas Detention Facility to exploit the situation on the border. The trip was part of a concerted effort by Democrats to push amnesty legislation through Congress. Infowars was denied access to the Congressperson because it was not “pre-credentialed” by the establishment, in other words it was decided the news organization based... 

U.S. military advisor in Vietnam, ca. 1967-75. Several hundred advisors sent to Vietnam in 1955 eventually resulted in 500,000 U.S. troops, more than a million dead Indochinese and 55,000 dead U.S. soldiers. Photo: U.S. Department of Defense. Senate Democrats are standing behind Obama and his “limited plan to reengage in Iraq” in a declared effort to prevent the country from falling to ISIS fanatics... 

Senate Democrats are standing behind Obama and his “limited plan to reengage in Iraq” in a declared effort to prevent the country from falling to ISIS fanatics trained by the U.S. government. Officials told Politico targeted military strikes against ISIS in Syria are also “on the table.” Democrats consider the former al-Qaeda affiliate a threat to U.S. national security. “We have to think... 

Republican and Democratic leaders in the US Senate are reportedly “very close” to announcing a deal on the nation’s borrowing authority that would avert an unprecedented default on US debt. Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders held talks on Wednesday morning as the Thursday deadline on the debt limit is fast approaching. The US Treasury taps out its reserves... 

As the US government shutdown nears its third week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have been unable to strike a deal over the budget and raise the nation’s borrowing authority to avert a default. Since efforts in the House of Representatives to reach a fiscal deal failed last week, negotiations on ending the shutdown and avoiding a potential federal default have shifted to the Senate. Senate... 

US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned that a prolonged political crisis in Washington would weaken the country at a global level as a political stalemate in the US has forced the federal government shutdown to stretch into its fifth day. “If it were prolonged, or repeated, people would begin to question the willingness of the United States to stay the course and its ability to,”... 

A new poll has found that the majority of all Americans believe the federal government has too much power – news that comes in wake of numerous government scandals, including the IRS’ targeting of conservatives and the feds’ targeting of journalists. Gallup on Monday released survey findings indicating that 54 percent of Americans consider the federal government too powerful, while only eight... 

In a move that can be seen as a clear sign of things to come, California Democrats recently unveiled a ten point plan to “curb gun violence,” after the horrific Sandy Hook mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The ten proposals would make California the most restrictive state in the country when it comes to private firearm ownership and, much like the New York law is driving this gun grab push... 

The US Senate has approved Senator John Kerry as the next secretary of state by a wide majority. On Tuesday, the Senate voted 94 to 3 in favor of President Barack Obama’s nominee for the post, after the chamber’s Foreign Relations Committee endorsed the Kerry nomination earlier in the day. Republicans and Democrats praised the 69-year-old as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton,...