By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  February 9th at 12:00 PM  | 

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has put out yet another excellent report on waste, fraud and abuse in federal job training programs.  The report titled “Help Wanted” describes specific instances of “waste, mismanagement, and even corruption.”  This report proves, in addition to other reports by Senator Coburn, that the government is a poor allocator of resources. The Coburn report indicates that these federal jobs training programs are | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  February 5th at 09:00 AM  | 

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) delivered his first Senate speech last week.  Senator Paul discussed the idea of compromise. Please watch an excellent speech by an emerging conservative leader of our great nation. I will sit at Henry Clay’s desk. There is likely no legislator from Kentucky more famous than Henry Clay. He served as both the Speaker of the House and Leader of the Senate. | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  February 4th at 08:00 PM  | 

For more than six months, breast cancer patients have been stuck in a horrible limbo, being forced to wait and watch the rationing battle over Avastin play out in a debate between government bureaucrats with little concern for their well being at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There has been an ongoing battle between victims rights groups, families of cancer victims and the FDA specific | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  February 3rd at 05:00 PM  | 

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the constitutionality of ObamaCare.  Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) questioned Walter Dellinger, former Clinton Solicitor General for the 1996-97 term and law professor at Duke, about his views on the individual mandate provision in the law.   The questioning of Professor Dellinger on the constitutionality of the individual mandate was a preview of the debate that we shall see before | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 11:00 AM  | 

This Sunday will be the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan.  When I was an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts, Reagan was a beacon of hope.  I felt like I was behind a red curtain of crazy liberals and far leftists at UMass-Amherst.  Reagan inspired me to be a conservative.  The Heritage Foundation blog, The Foundry, has a more lengthy post on the subject written by | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 30th at 09:00 AM  | 

It is clear that the Obama Administration is facing a big diplomatic test in dealing with the fast developing situation in Egypt.  On one side is the Obama Administration’s interest of promoting freedom and democracy for the people of Egypt.  On the other side is the national security interest of maintaining a strong pro-Western U.S. ally in the Global War on Terror in Egypt.  These are very difficult interests to balance.  | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 29th at 03:53 PM  | 

From 4-7pm today, I will be on 630AM WMAL in Washington, DC with Derek Hunter and Mary Katherine Ham.  You can listen at http://www.wmal.com/.  Scheduled guests include Andrew Breitbart, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Greg Gutfeld of Red Eye on Fox News.  The call in number is 800-630-9625 or 202-432-WMAL.  Feel free to call in or use the comments section of Red State to pose a question.

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 28th at 12:30 PM  | 

The first ever meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus was convened yesterday on Capitol Hill and it was a great success.  The left wing media is doing everything they can to demonize the Tea Party movement.  It is not going to work.  The Heritage Foundation sent a camera and here is a video of the proceedings for those who could not make the first | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 27th at 06:30 PM  | 

Moe has a good post on the demise of so called “Filibuster Reform” from earlier today.  The Senate voted on a package of rules reform proposals, but the filibuster is safe from an attempt by a simple majority of Senators to expunge it from the rules of the Senate.  The minority party and individual Senators will retain the right to force an extended debate and participate in the | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 24th at 11:45 AM  | 

President Barack Obama is known as a great orator.  One would think that this skill would serve him well during the State of the Union tomorrow, yet his public speaking is fast becoming his biggest liability.  It is because the American people look at many of his biggest promises skeptically. The AP reports in a story titled, “At Obama’s Midpoint, an Altered State of the Union” that the President has a record of promises | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 03:00 PM  | 

From 4-7pm today, I will be on 630AM WMAL in Washington, DC with Derek Hunter and Mary Katherine Ham.  You can listen at http://www.wmal.com/.  Scheduled guests include Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Adam Baldwin from the show “Chuck” and the movie “Full Metal Jacket.”  The call in number is 800-630-9625 or 202-432-WMAL.  Feel free to call in or use the comments section of Red State to | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 21st at 01:00 PM  | 

Now that the House has passed H.R. 2, ObamaCare Repeal, by a 245-189 vote, the fight moves to the Senate.  I wrote a few days ago Repeal of ObamaCare in the Senate – How to do it and I wanted to further explain how to force a vote in a Senate on H.R. 2 or another measure to repeal every word of ObamaCare.  Here is exactly how one | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 18th at 04:30 PM  | 

I just posted a piece on The Heritage Foundation blog, The Foundry, titled “How to Repeal ObamaCare in the Senate.”  I tried to put into easy to understand terms the way for the Senate to repeal the unconstitutional ObamaCare.  Although it is unlikely that the Senate will take up the House repeal measure H.R. 2 in the next few months, it is possible to bring it | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 15th at 09:00 AM  | 

America is a nation in mourning as a result of the violent tragedy in Arizona last weekend.  This is an appropriate time for prayer and national healing.  This is not the time to restrict the Second Amendment rights of Americans to defend themselves from unbalanced individuals. The enemies of freedom will use the Arizona tragedy to push for gun control.  streiff of Red State said it | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 5th at 04:00 PM  | 

The Senate commenced debate on a filibuster reform today.  Be aware that liberals in the Senate are using strong arm tactics to seize power.  They are using something called the “Constitutional Option” and you need to understand that this is a rhetorical and procedural trick.  There is nothing unconstitutional about the filibuster and the “Constitutional Option” is a means to ignore the explicit rules of the | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 28th at 04:00 PM  | 

Progressives, liberals and left of center politicians have teamed up to radically curtail the rights of Republican Senators in the next Congress.  They have a plan to “kill the filibuster,” so that they can establish a top down system of control next year in the Senate.  This plan to kill the filibuster will stifle dissent and relegate Republican Senators to observer status in the newly reformed Senate.  | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 23rd at 07:00 PM  | 

Senate Democrats are going to be working over the Christmas break to deliver a lump of coal to the American people in the form of a radical changing of the Senate’s rules.  This is a naked power grab by liberals in the Senate pure and simple.  The National Journal reports that Senate Democrats are laying the groundwork to chip away at the filibuster on January 5, | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 21st at 11:30 AM  | 

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has put out a new study on government waste called “Wastebook 2010.”  This report proves that the federal government is a poor allocator of resources.  Somebody please alert billionares Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, Bill Gates and Tom Steyer that higher taxes will not necessarily lead to a more efficient and effective federal government. Senator Coburn said yesterday that “as 2010 ends, | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 20th at 12:15 PM  | 

This week should be the last week of this Congress for the year.  The House and Senate need to pass a Continuing Resolution (CR) funding the government into next year and then they can leave.  Of course, liberals will try to jam a few more pieces of legislation through the House and Senate before they leave town.  Conservatives should keep a close eye on Washington | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 17th at 05:30 PM  | 

Liberals want to do away with the filibuster, in the name of “Filibuster Reform,” so they can have complete control over the Senate agenda in the next Congress.  Before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took over his position as the most powerful member of the Senate, he was against filibuster reform.  Now he is for it.  The fight for so called Filibuster Reform is merely | Read More »