On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry met with the Senate Banking Committee alongside Vice President Joe Biden to push against strengthening sanctions on Iran. Members of both parties expressed incredulity about the administration’s case, but Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL)
On Wednesday, Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) introduced a bill in the Senate that would allow Americans to keep their health insurance plans for a limit of two years. “I have repeatedly said that the Affordable Care Act isn’t perfect,” Udall
On Wednesday, after the Obama administration released the abysmal enrollment numbers for the health insurance exchanges, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he would issue no comment until he had spoken with President Obama. Reid, the most ardent advocate
On CNN’s The Lead, host Jake Tapper said that Democrats had refused to come on the program to discuss the abysmal Obamacare enrollment numbers released on Wednesday afternoon. Dana Bash reported, “Republicans are tripping over themselves to come out and
In its first month, the ballyhooed Obamacare health exchanges signed up an average of 728 Americans per state. In the five lowest states with exchanges run by the federal government, Obamacare exchanges signed up a grand total of 335 Americans:
On Wednesday, the Obama administration finally released its first numbers for Obamacare health insurance exchange enrollment dating from October 1 to October 31. The numbers were not pretty: just 106,185 people “selected a Marketplace plan” using the exchanges, after the
On Wednesday, CNBC’s Laurence Delevigne argued that the business community would put the final nail in the coffin of the tea party. “The recent elections underlined a growing tension in political money circles,” Delevigne wrote. “Business people are increasingly fed
The New York Times has now decided that President Obama’s lie about Americans being able to keep their health insurance wasn’t a lie at all – instead, it was an “incorrect promise.” That’s the language Times reporters Michael D. Shear
Just when you think your holiday travel is safe, the Service Employees International Union is ready to help ruin the holidays. Employees of private contractors at New York airports congregated at LaGuardia’s Terminal B on Tuesday to protest their wages
Desperately spinning on behalf of President Obama‘s huge lie that Americans who liked their health insurance plans could keep them, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta told Piers Morgan on Tuesday night that it was no big deal if Americans
Last week, the media went apoplectic after a 60 Minutes report on the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, turned out to be mistaken. Much of the report was based on the testimony of one Dylan Davies,
Responding to ESPN commentator Kevin Blackistone’s statements on last Wednesday’s Around the Horn that the national anthem is a “war anthem” and should not be played before sporting events, retired Lt. Col. Allen West told Breitbart News on Monday that
On Monday, the Columbia Journalism Review reviewed the 60 Minutes debacle in which security officer Dylan Davies’ lies about his experiences in Benghazi, Libya during the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks were given heavy coverage. On Friday, CBS News reporter
On Monday, Fox News contributor and retired Marine Lt. Col. Bill Cowan told Breitbart News that ESPN commentator Kevin Blackistone’s comments on the national anthem are “outrageously disrespectful.” Blackistone said on last Wednesday’s Around the Horn on ESPN that the
In honor of Veterans Day, the publicly-funded University of Maryland Phillip Merrill College of Journalism came out in strong defense of Kevin Blackistone, the professor and ESPN commentator who labeled the American national anthem a “war anthem” and stated that
Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, Secretary of State John Kerry denied that the Obama administration was prepared to make a rotten deal with the Iranians over the Iranian nuclear program. “This is serious business,” Kerry said, attempting to hail
In July 2012, Fox reporter Jana Winter reported that James Holmes, the shooter in the Aurora, Colorado theater massacre who murdered 12 people during a showing of The Dark Knight Rises, had sent a University of Colorado psychiatrist a notebook
While outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s favored measures may have gone down to flaming defeat in states like Colorado this week, Bloomberg’s nanny state nutrition campaign has now gone national. The Food and Drug Administration has adopted new
According to a survey from the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union, almost one in three Jews in Europe has considered emigration thanks to rising anti-Semitism on the continent. The symptoms of that anti-Semitism range from local laws around
On Thursday, Newsweek released its newest cover, lionizing the Kennedys once again, but also attempting to link the JFK Administration with Twitter: Here’s our latest cover: Camelot in 101 Tweets. Each links to original #newsweek article. We’ll be posting all
Correction: The original text of this article referred to ESPN contributor Kevin Blackistone as an employee of the Dallas Morning News, reflecting his biography on the ESPN website. He is no longer with the Dallas Morning News. On ESPN’s Around the
On Tuesday, The New York Times editorial board revealed its true agenda in supporting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act: the desire to compel religious believers to abandon their traditional ethical tenets in favor of the Times‘ superior moral universe. After declaring
On Tuesday, the electorate of New York City returned to the era of 1970s-style hard leftism in local government, electing Bill De Blasio mayor by a massive 45 point margin. De Blasio wasn’t the only hard-core leftist elected – he
Bill De Blasio, presumably the next mayor of New York City, is already considering a new schools chancellor: Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers. Weingarten was previously the head of the United Federation of Teachers in New
On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi King Abdullah to try and warm relations between the two countries. “A true relationship between friends is based on sincerity, candor and frankness,” said Prince Saudi al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign
Despite the complete failure of both local and federal law enforcement to find any evidence whatsoever of George Zimmerman’s supposed racism ending in the death of black teenager Trayvon Martin in February 2012 in Florida, the Obama administration continues to
In a cover story for Parade magazine, former President Jimmy Carter did an interview with historian Mark Updegrove. In the interview, Carter said that America was still a deeply racist place, and admitted to his own prior racism. Asked about
On Sunday, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that America’s democracy was coming up short when compared with countries like China and Singapore. He wrote: Over the years, I’ve seen an America that was respected, hated, feared and loved.
Over the weekend, leftist journalists and activists across the United States and Latin American plan to hold a “Hackathon” directed toward creating websites, programs, and apps pushing illegal immigration. The so-called Americas Datafest is designed to “use digital collaboration to
UPDATE: The suspect in the LAX shooting on Friday, Paul Ciancia, hailed from Pennsville, New Jersey, according to the Associated Press. He was living in Los Angeles, according to his family. The AP reports that Ciancia wore fatigues and carried a
On Wednesday, The New Yorker printed a piece from film critic David Denby on Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Written about any Democrat, the piece surely would have been spiked for offensive quasi-racism. “When Ted Cruz lies, he appears to be
During a House committee grilling of Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius over Obamacare shortcomings, Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), the oldest congressman in the House at 90 years of age, said that he thought he saw Sebelius riding
While being questioned before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was caught on a hot mic making an unfortunate comment. Facing scrutiny over whether she would have to join the
Testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius got testy with legislators questioning who was ultimately responsible for the failure of the Obamacare website. Rep. Greg Harper (R-MS) said, “The president ultimately is responsible.
Embattled Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is all set to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday. In her testimony, she is expected to blame private contractors for Obamacare health insurance exchange website failures,
On Tuesday, President Obama’s favorite “conservative” columnist, Josh Barro of Business Insider, tweeted out that Obama’s lie that Americans could keep their insurance if they liked it was just fine, since Americans don’t know what’s best for them anyway: Vast
A poll from ABC News-Fusion shows that fully 41 percent of Americans think that non-whites have fewer opportunities than white Americans. 62 percent of liberal Democrats believe that, and so do 25 percent of Republicans. Traditionally, polls have shown a
In sad news from the land of McCain, “Raising McCain” host and McCain family scion Meghan McCain said in an interview with ABC and Yahoo News that her father, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), was “frustrated” and “depressed” by the Tea
Asked about civility in the US Senate, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) pulled no punches with regard to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). “I have great relationships with Chuck Schumer. I don’t say that in Oklahoma…There’s no comity with Harry
On Monday, NBC News reported that President Obama’s administration knew for three years that Americans would lose their current insurance under Obamacare. The story quickly became the lead at the Drudge Report, making it the hottest political story on the
