“People are finally getting tired of this push toward trying to push our kids in the wrong direction, and I think that this is a pushback from parents, from people who see this as a big problem,” said state Sen. Mike Thompson...
In the endorsement, York said that Chafee would be the first Republican she voted for since Richard Nixon.York was appointed to the Providence Zoning Board of Review and was re-appointed by incoming Mayor Angel Taveras in 2011. She currently serves as the Board's chair. York has received ...
Former Michigan House Speaker Craig DeRoche. He is now the president of the conservative Family Policy Alliance and was summarizing a message Republican legislators and governors are sending to members of the incoming Trump administration — namely, that they are not waiting for Donald Trump to take...
The Arizona Republican announced on the Senate floor in October that he could "better serve my country and conscience" by dropping his re-election bid, "freeing myself of the political consideration that consumed far too much bandwidth," he said. Flake issued a thinly-veiled take-down of Pres...
As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, Lincoln confronted Radical Republicans, who demanded harsher treatment of the South; War Democrats, who rallied a large faction of former opponents into his camp; anti-war Democrats (called Copperheads), who despised him; and ...
Republican Sam Brown, asked about Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportations” if elected, said in a Nevada Senate debate on Thursday that he would “support making sure that criminals who are here illegally … need to be deported immediately.” ...
He served as chief U.S. prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. The Legislators Notable among the many legislators who fought to attain passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was Republican Congressman William Moore McCulloch. McCulloch served in the Army during ...
House Republican leaders will choose new chairs for a number of influential committees this week, people who will have the power to help deliver on President-elect Trump’s priorities in the GOP trifecta over the next two years. While most of the committee chair positions are uncontested, ...
Federalism is based on the axiomatic FACT that the Federal Government was created or formed by the States, not the other way around. Under this principle of State Primacy (my own term), the creature (the Fed) cannot destroy or cannibalize its own creator(s). This is why the powers of ...
That’s what I put right on my title page: Everyone in Washington, DC knew but did nothing. There are people who have told me that congressmen actually said to them, “Everybody down here knows Obama is a fraud, but there’s nothing we can do about it,” or “People are afraid to...