A bill designed to stop the Obama Administration from lifting a 31 year prohibition on Libyan nationals coming to the United States to attend flight schools and other related activities cleared the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. The House Judiciary Committee today approved the Protecting the Homeland Act (H.R. 5401) by a 21-11 vote. The bill […] Read More → 
The FBI and Justice Department didn’t move quickly enough to identify the cases handled by 13 FBI crime lab examiners whose work was found to be flawed, meaning defendants sometimes were never notified that their convictions may have been based on bad science, according to a harshly critical government report released Wednesday. The report from […] Read More → 
Ed Feulner I don’t know who the next U.S. attorney general will be. But I know I pity that person. Restoring the Justice Department’s reputation in the wake of Eric Holder’s tenure will take a lot of work. You can find out just how big a task it will be in “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s […] Read More → 
The tension between federal and state powers over a permanent ban on Internet access taxes took the spotlight on Wednesday during House Judiciary Committee debate. Without an extension passed by Congress, a moratorium banning state and local governments from taxing internet access, first enacted in 1998, is set to end on Nov. 1. The bill, the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom […] Read More → 
For years revenue-hungry states and local municipalities have salivated over the prospect of taxing the life out of the internet. Now a move by a small but dedicated minority in Congress may result in the scraping of the Internet Tax Freedom Act and usher in a new era of exorbitant taxation, according to The Wall […] Read More → 
Up to 70 percent of all federal drug offenses could carry shorter prison sentences if the recommendation passed on Thursday by an agency that advises U.S. federal judges on sentencing is not opposed by Congress. The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s recommendation reflects a policy supported by the Obama administration to bring punishments for low-level drug offenders […] Read More → 
by Trevor Loudon New Zeal Eliseo Medina, foreground The Service Employees International Union is to mount a major campaign to punish Republicans opposed to the labor union’s militant “immigrants’ rights” agenda. Under the influence (if not complete control) of the U.S.’s largest Marxist organization Democratic Socialists of America, SEIU has long abandoned its membership’s best […] Read More →