House Speaker Paul Ryan vowed Tuesday to deliver results for voters who handed control of Washington to his party in the November election, as he easily won re-election to the top congressional post at the opening of the 115th Congress. Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican who ascended to the speakership in late 2015 after John Boehner’s […]

In cities and states across the U.S., the new year brings a flurry of new laws addressing everything from soda consumption and sick leave, to semiautomatic weapons and catfish catching. Here are the highlights: New Taxes, Higher Taxes ”Soda taxes” are bubbling up. More than a year after Berkeley, Calif., introduced the nation’s first tax

On Faith in the Future and Human Freedom. My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn’t first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines, which will contribute to a vastly different and better world in the twenty-first century. Recalling what has happened

Via the Washington Examiner:  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis introduced a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that would impose term limits on members of Congress, following through on their December announcement about the proposal. “D.C. is broken,” Cruz said in a statement Tuesday evening. “The American people resoundingly agreed on Election Day,

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, said the Russian government was not the source of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign that his organization released during the 2016 presidential race. Despite the Obama administration’s claims that Russia was behind cyber-intrusions meant to interfere

Hailed a success by its organisers for reducing the number of violent crimes committed on New Year’s Eve from over 1,000 last year to less than a dozen, Cologne police are now being criticised for using “racial” methods. Left-wing activists, including members of the local Green party, have criticised the police for focusing their security

Blake Neff over at The Daily Caller makes his prediction of the Five Biggest Ed Issues of 2017:  A Major School Choice Push The End of the Campus Title IX Crusade? Transgender Bathrooms The End of Common Core? Throwing Out Michelle’s Lunch Program You can read his breakdown on each one here.  

The satellite data is much better than surface data. And the satellite data cannot be fudged the way the surface data is.  From Dr. Roy Spencer:  Strong December Cooling Leads to 2016 Being Statistically Indistinguishable from 1998 The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for December 2016 was +0.24 deg. C, down

For practically all of the Obama administration, the partisan battle lines over the Affordable Care Act were clear. Democrats love it. Republicans want to kill it. End of story, right? But at the end of 2016, as President Barack Obama prepared to leave office and the health care law entered another open enrollment period, something

From Breitbart News: During the year 2016, some 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith around the world… The 2016 report found that “Islamic extremism is by far the most significant persecution engine” of Christians in the world today and that “40 of the 50 countries on the World Watch List are affected by this kind

Jones went on to say that the socialist wing of the party, under the leadership of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Keith Ellison, would now take the reins of leadership and push the party even further left.  

Dems around the country aren’t happy with the Obama legacy.  Democrats around the country are demanding change from a national committee they say has focused too heavily on the White House at the expense of governorships, legislatures and state party operations. “It’s got to be helping us organize in our states to be able to

From Dr. Roy Spencer:  The coast-to-coast cold that will be spreading across the U.S this week will be be accompanied by the development of a Gulf Coast low pressure center that will threaten the South and Southeast with substantial snowfall by the weekend. The low is just now approaching N. California and will intensify as

Most of the long-term change in Americans’ political views occurred after 2000 and can be explained by one overarching factor — an increasing likelihood of Democrats (including independents who lean Democratic) to self-identify as liberal. Democratic liberal identification has increased by about one percentage point each year, from 30% in 2001 to 44% in 2016.

36% of Americans now conservative, 25% liberal Liberal figure has inched up from 17% in 1990s Conservatives mainly steady, while moderates decline PRINCETON, N.J. — Many more Americans have considered themselves politically conservative than liberal since the early 1990s. That remained the case in 2016, when an average of 36% of U.S. adults throughout the

On the Dangers of Those Seeking Power. Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.