Yesterday, U.S. Representative Thaddeus G. McCotter filed the maximum 2000 petition signatures required to seek Michigan’s 11th Congressional District seat. Rep. McCotter spent filing day the same way he spends every day – working hard for the people of Michigan. While managing the GOP’s time under the House’s Committee of the Whole, his resolution honoring the late Ernie Harwell was sent to the full House.

The Iranian people’s peaceful struggle for freedom continues despite the tyrannical regime’s barbarous crackdown. In fact, in his Friday’s sermon, former President Rafsanjani called into question the legitimacy of the present government and rebuked the regime for its crackdown on peaceful protesters and its cavalier rejection of the cries that the election was stolen.
Finally, former [...]

When we celebrate the Fourth of July this weekend with our parades, fireworks and barbecues, we should all take a moment to think about what is happening in Iran.
During the past couple weeks, the world has been watching in horror as the religious-based government of Iran has violently cracked down on its own people in [...]

From the hellish streets where Iranians demand freedom, voices arise to pray for deliverance and liberty; but, elsewhere, safely ensconced in freedom, others argue for appeasement and “neutrality.”  We must choose wisely between these competing voices and visions, lest we betray our allegiance to liberty.
Some voices allege America’s support of Iranian democracy demonstrators harms their [...]

Her name was Neda. In Farsi, it means “the voice.” True to her name, she loved music; sought freedom; and she’s dead – shot down in the streets by the Iranian regime’s state sanctioned murderers. She must not have died in vain.

Welcome to “Republican Rock Bottom.”
Possessed of no vision, no principle, no purpose, and no appeal, we deserved our fate.
Now, seize freedom!
Finally, we are divorced from self-deceits. Dead is the self-indulgent imbecility of “re-branding” — as if the Republican Party was a corporate product to be repackaged, not a transformational political movement to be led. Despite [...]

To resuscitate the TV sitcom Happy Days, the show’s main character, Arthur Fonzarelli, was aquatically clad in a swim suit, white tee-shirt, and leather jacket and filmed performing a harrowing water ski jump over a shark. Though “The Fonz” pulled it off, the network pulled the plug on Happy Days. Subsequently, any inane attempt to [...]

During the 1961 Berlin Crisis, when the Free World and the Soviet Empire teetered on the nuclear tightrope of mutual annihilation, President Kennedy explained why Berliners’ freedom mattered to Americans:
“The solemn vow which each of us gave to West Berlin in time of peace will not be broken in time of danger.  If we do [...]