Ted Cruz questions ATF nominee on illegal gun purchase prosecutions

Joe Biden Accuses Gabriel Gomez of Being Afraid of Rand Paul and Ted Cruz

One sure fire way to understand who the left is really afraid of is to witness who they use as bogey men to inflame their base. According to The Weekly Standard, Vice President Joe Biden unveiled the identities of the latest enemies of the people.

Aaron Sorkin's Left Wing Alternate History 'The Newsroom' Draws Nigh

Mary Katherine Ham notes that HBO subscribers are about to be punished with a new season of Aaron Sorkin's science fiction series, "Newsroom," set in some alternate universe in which all liberals are good and pure and the right is the root of evil.

Inevitably, Bush Now More Popular Than Obama

Breitbart's Big Government notes that the latest Gallup poll shows that former President George W. Bush has become more popular that the current President Barack Obama. The development will come as a surprise to some but it is inevitable.

Ted Cruz accused of 'Obamaphobia' for opposing path to citizenship

Ted Cruz criticizes Senate passed farm bill

China's Shenzhou 10 lifts off for 15 day mission to Tiangong 1

How the Immigration Bill May Hurt Marco Rubio, but Help Ted Cruz

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL said, in a Spanish language interview on Univision, that immigration reform would involve amnesty for those illegal aliens who can pass a background check and pay a fine regardless of enhanced border security, according to the Washington Examiner.

Armed Citizens Project Giving Away Free Shot Guns to Potential Crime Victims

The prescription that many well meaning people have to tamp down on gun violence is to restrict the private ownership of fire arms. However the Associated Press reports that a private group in Houston is pursuing a different approach.

NSA Snooping Provides Rand Paul with an Issue -- and a Problem

Whatever one thinks about NSA snooping of both phone and internet records, and opinion varies and not necessarily along party lines, the revelation has given Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. a ready-made issue for his potential 2016 presidential run.

NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Living on Mars

'Bag2Go' to Cut Down on Baggage Being Lost by Air Lines

Was Hillary Clinton lying about the NASA 'no girls allowed' letter?

John Glenn interviewed about space and education

Ted Cruz's plan to eliminate the IRS questioned

Japan 'Invades' California and It's a Good Thing

There was a time, in the living memory of some, that the idea of Japanese troops storming the beaches near the Marine base at Camp Pendleton, California would have been the cause of great alarm. It still is, but from a different quarter.

Now Bill Maher is Trashing Ronald Reagan

Bill Maher, the mad cap HBO ranter who uses his cable soapbox to purvey the outrageous, seems to be running out of living conservatives to trash. He recently turned his infamous snark on the late President Ronald Reagan.

How Edward Snowden's Ideological Journey Led Him to Expose NSA's Prism

Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker who revealed to the UK Guardian the workings of the Obama administration's phone and internet snooping system and then fled to Hong Kong has gone on quite an ideological journey.

The Premise of 'The Purge' Absurd and Offensive

NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Surviving in Space

Abner Doubleday Fought at Gettysburg but Didn't Invent Baseball

Aging Bourbon in Months Instead of Years a Winner for Cleveland Whiskey

Mars Opportunity discovers signs of fresh water in Mars' ancient past

Ted Cruz raises trust issue concerning Obama NSA snooping

Obama Passive in the Face of Chinese Strategy>/P>

While the Obama administration is seeking closer military ties with China, as the Washington Times reports, the communist state is pursuing a strategy of encircling the United States with a series of alliances and with its growing naval power.

Sergeant Sommers and His Forbidden Books

The case of Master Sgt. Nathan Sommers is being seen as an example of how the Obama administration is imposing political correctness, even among serving men and women in the military, according to a story in Fox News.

Fracking Win Provides an Opportunity for California Republicans

The Wall Street Journal reports that in a rare defeat for the environmental lobby in California, an attempt to ban hydraulic fracking failed in the state assembly, 37 to 25, with 12 Democrats joining with 35 Republicans to vote down the ban.

The Robo-Raven, the Bird-Like Drone so Real Looking it Fools Other Birds

NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Landing on Mars

NASA plan boosts commercial crew, cuts planetary science, angers Congress

Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space, ready to go to Mars at age 76

Poll: Gomez/Markey Massachusetts Senate Race a Dead Heat

The Weekly Standard cites a new poll that suggests that the special election in Massachusetts to fill John Kerry's vacant senate seat is a dead heat between Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez.

GOP Representative Crafts Proposal to Repeal and Replace Obamacare

As the Affordable Care law, also known as Obamacare, continues to careen toward the inevitable "train wreck" that Democratic Senator Max Baucus predicted, some Republicans are already thinking about what will replace it.

NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Advanced Propulsion Systems

How 3-D Printing Will Change the Way We Shop for Shoes

Multiple Sclerosis 'Breakthrough' Treatment Reported

Henry Heth, the Man Who Accidentally Started the Battle of Gettysburg

A.P. Hill, Lee's Argumentative General at Gettysburg

NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Storing Fuel in Space

Justin Bieber wants to be shot into space, tape music video

Ted Cruz suggests Obama regards Constitution as a 'pesky obstruction'

How Ronald Reagan Saved the World from Global Warming 26 Years Ago

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal suggests that along with ending 1970s stagflation and destroying the Soviet Empire, President Ronald Reagan saved the planet from global warming, which would make him the greatest president ever.

Obama NSA Snooping into Phone, Internet Data Raises Questions

The one thing one has to consider when looking at the amassing of phone records by the NSA as well as the access to computer files, is the context in which it happened. The reason why one should be appalled is that Obama did it.

IRS's 'Mr Spock' Goes to Congress and Gets Humiliated

One could almost feel sorry for Faris Fink, the IRS official who starred as Mr. Spock in the "Star Trek" moral boosting video made with so much of our hard earned tax money. Being before an angry congressional committee cannot be a lot of fun.

New Theory: Black Holes Lack a Singularity, Are Natural Star Gates

John Bell Hood at Gettysburg

NASA Develops the Technology to Go to Mars: Getting into Space

Ted Cruz courts social conservatives

NASA's Mars Curiosity begins journey to the foot of Mount Sharp

Martin Bashir's Playing the Race Card Over the IRS Scandal Inevitable as it is Tedious

Hot Air suggests that MSNBC's Martin Bashir's playing the race card over the IRS scandal is proof that the insane asylum masquerading as a cable news network has gone downhill since Keith Olbermann was giving the royal order of the boot.

Samantha Power a Worse Appointment Than Susan Rice

The appointment of Susan Rice as his National Security Adviser may not be the most bone headed move President Obama has done in his term in office. The other appointment he made, Samantha Power as UN Ambassador, exceeds it.

Saving Sarah Murnaghan

Federal judge Michael Baylson has done a number of things with his emergency order that placed 10 year old Sarah Murnaghan on the adult lung transplant list, as Fox News reported, most of them good, but one an opened can of worms.

Lewis Armistead Falls During Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg

New Handwashing Monitor Bracelet Could Cut Down on Hospital Borne Infections

Engineer Invents a Substitute for Food?

How Winfield Scott Hancock Saved the Day Twice at Gettysburg

In 'The Passage to Power' Lyndon Johnson Gains the Presidency

Brain Scanning Computer Allows Communication by Thought

Newt Gingrich touts the Penn State Lunar Lions Google Lunar X Prize team

Ted Cruz hits back at media on the Mark Levin radio show

Colossus Telescope proposed to hunt for infrared signatures of alien planets

Jesse Ventura Goes After Chris Kyle's Widow so He Can Run for President

The Washington Times notes that Jesse Ventura, former wrestler, former action star, and former governor of Minnesota, is suing the widow of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle for defamation surrounding an account of a bar fight in Kyle's book.

Tea Party Victims of the IRS Speak Before Congress

USA Today notes how representatives of a number of tea party and other conservative groups recounted before the House Ways and Means Committee how they were victimized by politically motivated harassment by the IRS.

Will Bureaucratic Rules Kill 10 Year Old Sarah Murnaghan?

Whatever the medical reasons for denying 10 year old Sarah Murnaghan a lung transplant, and thus condemning her to death, the political optics are terrible beyond human description, according to Hot Air.

Jubal Early, Lee's 'Bad Old Man,' at Gettysburg

NASA Searches for Technology Fixes for Astronaut Psychological Stress

NASA: Mars Curiosity Findings Highlight the Need for Radiation Sheilds for Astronauts

Company Raising Funds for Safe Gun Technology

SpaceX successfully tests Merlin 1-9 rocket engine cluster for new Falcon 9

XCOR COO warns that proposed State Department rule could cripple space tourism

Ted Cruz blasts Supreme Court DNA decision in Maryland v. King

How the IRS Entertained Itself at Our Expense

The latest detail in the unfolding IRS scandal is the revelation that the tax agency spent lavishly on conferences, to the tune of $50 million over about three years, that were part team building exercises and part excuses to party.

What 'Game of Thrones' Has to Teach About Real World Politics

Much band width is still being taken up by reactions to the ending of the second to last episode of season three of "Game of Thrones," the HBO series based George R.R. Martin's study of power politics in a fantasy universe.

Lautenberg's Death Gives New Jersey's Christie a Problem and an Opportunity

Frank Lautenberg, World War II veteran, unabashed liberal, and the "last of the swamp dogs" as CNN described him, as departed from the United States Senate as well as this life, leaving New Jersey Governor Chris Christie with a problem and an opportunity.

Longstreet and the Gettysburg Countermarch Controversy

New Software to Allow a Robot Butler to Anticpate Its Owners Needs

Wired recently reported that some researchers at Cornell have produced some software that may advance the day when people will be able to have personal robot servants that not only act on command, but anticipates ones needs.

NASA's Bolden walks back 'no return to the moon' remarks

Development of NASA's Space Launch Vehicle, commercial spacecraft proceeds apace

Ted Cruz opens his mind on the IRS, Obamacare, and immigration reform

White House Aides Wish Eric Holder Would Go Away

A story in the New York Times illustrates the extent of the trouble Attorney General Eric Holder now finds himself in. Publically the White House still supports him. Privately some White House aides wish he would do the decent thing and resign.

IRS Agents at the Heart of the Scandal Are Beginning to Talk

According to the Conservative Intelligence Briefing, one of the spins put on the IRS scandal is that the harassment of tea party and conservative groups was the result of rogue, low level agents has started to unravel.

The President Mitt Romeny Counterfactual

Thanks to Time Magazine and the publication of a new book, The Romney Readiness Project, we have a look into a counterfactual Romney Administration. It is clear that had Obama lost, we would have been living in a different world by now.

General Richard Ewell and His Gettysburg Controversy

Study on Rats Shows Promise of Spinal Cord Injury Repair

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace Plotting a Commercial Return to the Moon

P.J. O'Rourke expresses disquiet, confusion about NASA's space program

NASA to fly 3-D printer to International Space Station for experiments

Why MSNBC's Ratings Have Tanked and What Can Be Done About It

The Hot Air story about the collapse of MSNBC's ratings and the continuing ascendency of Fox News is interesting in what it says about the political beliefs of those people who pay attention to the news and try to stay informed.

The Decline and Fall of Detroit is a Warning

Detroit, once one of the great manufacturing cities of the world, has seen better days. In fact, with a declining population and large parts of it in ruin, Motor City resembles Ancient Rome of the late 5th and early 6th Centuries AD after the barbarian invasions.

Bill Maher Thinks the Pope is an Atheist and so is Barack Obama

In his eternal quest to say something more outrageous than he has ever said before, the HBO ranter Bill Maher suggested that both Pope Francis I and President Barack Obama "might be an atheist" according to the Daily Caller.

Alternate Gettysburgs: Could the South Have Won?

NASA Funds a 'Food Replicator' with a 3-D Printer

The Death of General John Reynolds on the First Day of Gettysburg

Dark Invasion - Chapter One

Chris Matthews plays the birther card against Ted Cruz, Republicans

1998 QE2 passes Earth as NASA, Planetary Resources tout asteroid ventures

America Must Strike Back Against Chinese Cyber War

Recent Chinese hacking attacks, which have, among other things, compromised American weapons systems technology, has thus far elicited a passive response from the Obama administration.

As Americans Turn Against Intervention in Syria, Obama Inches Toward It

Hot Air reports that a new Gallup Poll reports that Americans are overwhelmingly against any kind of military intervention in the Syria civil war. This is at a time when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. is demanding it and President Obama is inching toward it.

Rand Paul Seeks to Expand Republican Base in Reagan Library Speech

Sen, Rand Paul, R-KY, finished his journey to California, in search of West Coast campaign donations, with a speech at the Reagan Library in which he laid out how he intends to ask for West Coast votes, according to the Los Angeles Times.