President Obama makes gun control plea in Connecticut, attacks Republican filibusters plans and says ‘It’s not about politics’ TRANSCRIPT
President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned plea before a packed gymnasium in Hartford on Monday, almost four months after the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The speech served More...
John McCain and Tom Coburn don’t support Rand Paul and allies gun control filibuster threat
For what started as three liberty-minded US Senators sending a letter to the Senate Majority Leader opposing any gun control legislation coming out of the Senate, has grown to at least 13 Republican Senator supporters, More...
Vast majority of Americans are against drone strikes in the U.S. against Americans living here who are suspected terrorists: Gallup Poll
Just weeks after the 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, in which he asks the Obama administration, “Does the President have the power to authorize lethal force, such as a More...
Rand Paul to deliver keynote at ‘Lincoln Day Dinner’ in Iowa
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) will be presenting the keynote address at the Iowa Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in Cedar Rapids on May 10, according to Iowa GOP Party Chairman A.J. Spiker Tuesday. Image/Video More...
John McCain apologizes for ‘wacko birds’ name-calling, now says he ‘respects’ Sens. Paul and Cruz
Arizona Senator John McCain came out this week, several days after calling Republican upstarts Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas, ‘wacko birds”, and apologized for what he acknowledges as More...
Bill Kristol says Rand Paul filibuster ‘fearmongering’ ‘Kookiness’ and loss for the GOP
Bill Kristol is hardly the only critic of Rand Paul’s 13 hour filibuster, read more here, but the political analyst had some harsh words for the Kentucky Senator in his Weekly Standard article. YouTube screen More...
‘The McLaughlin Group’ panelist, Eleanor Clift, accuses Rand Paul of trying to ‘stir a revolt against the U.S. government’
Regular, liberal panelist of the long running PBS political talk show, The McLaughlin Group, and Newsweek columnist, Eleanor Clift, made some strong accusations on Sunday’s program at Kentucky Senator More...
Bill Maher praises the Rand Paul filibuster, then defends drone strikes
“Real Time” host Bill Maher revealed his feelings on the issue of drone strikes during a lengthy discussion on his HBO program Friday. Maher praised Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky for taking a stand Wednesday More...
Neocons attempt to blast Rand Paul filibuster
If your last name is Paul, be sure there is a group “on the right” that are going to despise you regardless of what you do. This became clear after the 13-hour filibuster by Rand Paul last week when More...
John Cusack tweets on filibuster ‘Where are Democrats’ calls Obama ‘regressive corporate warlord’
Actor John Cusack was watching Wednesday night’s drone filibuster and wondering “where are the Democrats?” Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) took up a talking filibuster against John Brennan’s nomination as CIA More...
Rand Paul filibusters, quotes circulating on Facebook
He was brilliant! Sen. Rand Paul filibustered in the Senate somewhere shy of 13 hours. He blocked the nomination of John O. Brennan, on Wednesday, to the post of CIA director. This was not so much about Brennan More...
John McCain attacks Rand Paul on filibuster, drones saying he needs to ‘calm down’
U.S. Sen. John McCain slammed fellow Republican Rand Paul on the Senate floor Thursday morning for his 13-hour filibuster to block John Brennan’s confirmation as CIA Director. Caricature by donkeyhotey, More...
Rand Paul filibusters Brennan nomination: “I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes”
Since 11:47 am today, the junior Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul (R) has been talking and talking. An old-fashioned filibuster in the Senate chamber is happening as I type in an effort to stall a confirmation More...
Obama White House adopts portions of Rand Paul’s ‘A Sequester Without Layoffs’
In response to the sequestration order Mar. 1, the White House, in a letter to Executive Departments and Agencies, wrote that they are directing all federal agencies to freeze new hires and curtail travel as part More...
Rand Paul sends third letter to John Brennan, threatens filibuster
Senator Rand PaulImage/Video Screen Shot Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), not being pleased with previous responses of “has not carried out” such strikes and “has no intention of doing so”, from More...
Senator Rand Paul introduces ‘Audit the Fed’ bill
Following in the footsteps of his father, retired Congressman Ron Paul, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has introduced the bipartisan Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2013, (S.209) aka the “Audit the Fed” More...
Rand Paul tells Cincinnati Republicans, ‘We’d attract more young people if we didn’t seem so eager to go to war’
Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continued to distinguish himself from the ‘hawkishness” of his fellow Senate republicans as he spoke to hundreds of Cincinnati-area Republicans Saturday, according More...
Ron and Rand Paul among most conservative in 112th Congress according to the ‘DW-NOMINATE’ statistical method
Photo/US Congress Texas Congressman Ron Paul (R) and his son, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) were ranked as two of the most conservative members of the 112th Congress based on data from statistical method known More...
Romney supporter, Sen. Rand Paul criticizes the Republican presidential contender’s foreign policy speech
Soon after Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered his forceful foreign policy speech to the cadets at the Virginia Military Institute’s Hall of Valor, Romney supporter and Kentucky Republican More...
Senator Rand Paul filibuster brings S. 3576 bill to debate and vote
Senator Rand Paul Photo/United States Senate After a long and steadfast battle, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul finally gets his bill, which aims to cut foreign aid to Libya, Egypt and Pakistan, to the Senate floor for More...
