The bill creates a new program to increase agency spending on small businesses, particularly those owned by women, minorities, and disabled veterans. --- Virginia lawmakers recently passed a bill requiring state agencies to privilege bids for government contracts made by small [...]

Sen. Rand Paul eviscerates Markwayne Mullin in DHS confirmation hearing --- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ripped his colleague, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), calling him “a man with anger issues” who “has no regrets about brawling in a Senate committee.” The shocking comments [...]

An Illinois congresswoman wants to address a hidden danger to the American public tied to the spike in abortions facilitated by the fatal drug mifepristone. Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) introduced a proposal on Wednesday that would make it illegal [...]

Growing federal debt hobbles the government’s ability to respond to crises. --- You're probably tired of hearing about the U.S. government's looming debt crisis, because it's a continuing backdrop to political conversations in this country. Unfortunately, the government's debt problem comes [...]

"Freedom of speech and of press is accorded aliens residing in this country," according to a 1945 Supreme Court ruling. --- The First Amendment states that the government "shall make no law….abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative judge, [...]

Kentucky senator to chair new DHS nominee's confirmation hearing, and it could get 'interesting' --- Mullin will undergo a round of questioning in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Chairing that committee is Kentucky's Rand Paul. Commenting on [...]

A federal appeals court on Monday largely upheld a ruling that blocked a “sweeping and unprecedented” freeze on trillions of dollars in government financial assistance that President Donald Trump’s administration instituted early last year. A three-judge panel of the [...]

The FCC chairman's reasoning is faulty. --- For nearly a decade, President Donald Trump has been threatening to revoke the broadcast licenses of TV stations that fail to cover him the way he thinks they should. Ajit Pai, who chaired the [...]

More than eight decades ago, the Supreme Court invented a vague First Amendment exception that would-be censors continue to invoke. --- "We're not going to give in to terrorism," Vice President J.D. Vance declared after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Minneapolis [...]

A convicted ISIS terrorist walked into a gun-free school zone and murdered a United States Army officer. This was a targeted attack on an educator of our future military service members. But Soros-backed Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi just stood [...]