Jul 6, 2016
The House won’t vote on proposed Democratic gun curbs, Speaker Paul Ryan suggested Tuesday as the rekindled election-year clash over firearms showed no sign of resolution. Democrats discussed their demands for votes with Ryan and said they told him:...
Jul 4, 2016
WASHINGTON — Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., will get a second chance to push a controversial immigration bill through the same partisan Senate that rejected a similar proposal six months ago. Mr. Toomey changed his sanctuary cities bill to ameliorate some of the Democrats’...
Jun 22, 2016
Per the admission of President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser and once-aspiring fiction writer, Ben Rhodes, the Obama administration deceived the American people as it sought to gain public and congressional support for its nuclear deal with Iran. The...
Jun 11, 2016
Big changes sometimes demand first steps. That’s a pretty good way to describe the movement in Harrisburg this week to take Pennsylvania out of the Prohibition era by whittling away at our irrational state monopoly on alcohol sales. For years, I’ve fought an...
May 29, 2016
We’ve all been there. Things are going OK financially and then the car breaks down. You and your family are suddenly forced to scour the monthly budget to find an extra $800 to make the needed repairs and keep the wheels turning. Since we use our cell phones most of...
May 27, 2016
Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the GOP presidential nomination, securing his status as the presumptive Republican nominee and avoiding a contested convention, according to a delegate count released Thursday by the Associated Press....
May 12, 2016
It’s good practice for teams, businesses, and even political parties to learn as much from failure as they do from success. That was the principle Republicans applied after losing the White House in 2012, when under the leadership of Chairman Reince Priebus, the...
May 4, 2016
INDIANAPOLIS — Once dismissed as a fringe contender, political outsider and businessman Donald Trump now is all but certain to lead the Republican Party into the fall presidential campaign against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton — a stunning political triumph...
Apr 20, 2016
Donald Trump scored an easy win in Tuesday’s New York primary and was poised to claim the vast majority of his home state’s 95 delegates as he predicted imminent victory in the Republican presidential nomination race. “We don’t have much of a...
Apr 15, 2016
Lawmakers have struggled for years to answer the question of how to best meet the Constitutional mandate to provide a thorough and efficient system of public education. For too long, the process of developing a funding formula for education dollars was influenced by...
