The FISA Amendments Act was the brainchild of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but now, President Barack Obama is supporting the 5-year extension of the spying law. So are many Democrats in the House and Senate. Any grassroots effort to stop the renewal of the FISA Amendments Act will therefore face a steep uphill battle.

Even if the two Aguilars are unconnected, reasonable doubts about coordination exist. Voters should be asking what this “ground campaign” created by the Restoring Our Community Super PAC is, and what relationship it bears to the official Pete Aguilar for Congress campaign. What were Cynthia Aguilar and the other “ground campaign” workers being paid to do, other than just being on the ground?

Today, only a slim majority of House Democrats, 53%, voted for the amendment to end the war in Afghanistan. 42% joined the House Republicans to keep the Afghanistan war going on even longer.

like everyone outside the Washington D.C. elite, we were not sent an invitation to Grimm’s private cigar club meeting. We will note that Congressman Grimm is explicitly asking for $1,000 from industry-affiliated political action committees in exchange for his company tonight.

It’s not about harm. It’s about hype. According to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, every year heart disease kills two hundred times more Americans than terrorist attacks killed in the peak year of 2001. In other years, heart disease deaths are hundreds of thousands of times more numerous than terrorism deaths. Yet year [...]

The rights to Reactive Red 264 are owned by Unilever, a multinational corporation with roots in the USA. Unilever could easily start making the dye Reactive Red 264 right here in the USA, creating jobs by doing so, but Representative Bonner is selling out American workers, saying that Chinese workers are the only people who can properly make the color red.

Duties on imported niobium could provide just the sort of economic pressure needed for quick development of niobium mines in Nebraska, bringing jobs to the American heartland. In spite of this, Senator John Rockefeller has introduced two pieces of legislation that extend the suspension of import duties on a form of niobium.

ReUSAble bags sells American-made reusable shopping bags for just 50 cents each. With made in the USA reusable shopping bags available at low prices like this, there’s no reason, economic or environmental, for the import duties on foreign-made shopping bags to remain specially lowered.

If he really thinks that the true source of power is prayer, and not Congress, why does Mike McIntyre keep on running for re-election to Congress, instead of just staying home and praying full time?

Republican Congressional candidate Marc Carey of Kentucky’s 4th District maintains a political blog called BluegrassBulletin, subtitled “a blog dedicated to honest and respectful comment on the political and cultural issues of our time.” On the morning of April 20, 2012, Marc Carey shared the following thoughts: “Of course you will hear very little about Obama’s [...]