Another disillusioned Obama fan has vented his disappointment with the President’s lack of progress toward a transformed America. Conventional wisdom blames an intransigent right wing for Obama’s failure but Thomas Frank says the problem is Obama himself. All presidential museums
Russian media has reportedly been spreading some wild conspiracy theories about the fate of MH17. Now the Russian military has weighed in with a theory of its own. The military made a colorful 30-minute presentation on the MH17 crash in
The White House was warned repeatedly that there was a growing crisis of unaccompanied minors on the border but chose not to address the issue for fear it would ruin the President’s push for comprehensive immigration reform. A story in
According to the Huffington Post there are 8 “simple” reasons the U.S. is responsible for the current border crisis. Those reasons begin with a U.S. backed coup 1954 and end with a coup the U.S. had nothing to do with
The RT Network’s coverage of the Malaysian plane disaster was the last straw for longtime anchor Sara Firth. Today she quit and made clear on Twitter it was about the network’s penchant for dishonest coverage. I resigned from RT today.
Josh Marshall, publisher of Talking Points Memo, suggested this morning that the separatist “warlord” who may be responsible for shooting down a Malaysian airliner and killing nearly 300 people is, somehow, just like the Tea Party. After a quote noting
Vox’s Max Fisher has a story today which acknowledges that, yes, Hamas is a group of terrorists using human shields, including children, in its war against Israel. But why, Vox asks, does Israel insist on fighting back. Only the people
Former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who is now running for Los Angeles County supervisor, left a voicemail message in 2012 asking a subordinate to help with a fundraiser to support President Obama’s reelection. Rep. Darrell Issa released an audio recording
Despite evidence that the current border crisis is at least partly the result of its previous executive action on immigration, the White House decided it was merely a “public relations problem” and moved forward with plans to issue further executive
An intelligence assessment published last week found that a misunderstanding about U.S. immigration policy is a major driver of the current surge of child immigrants from Central America. The report, published July 7th by the El Paso Intelligence Center, was
Senate Democrats eager to rally voters ahead of the 2014 midterm elections held a hearing on S. 1696, a bill designed to wipe out abortion restrictions nationwide and allow for taxpayer funding for abortions. National Right to Life calls it
Reports are now appearing on Twitter that journalist Jose Vargas, America’s most famous undocumented immigrant, has been released from McAllen, Texas where he was detained this morning. After flying in to Texas to film and report on some of the
Last night on Fox News’ Special Report, Kirsten Powers made the case that the kids arriving on the border shouldn’t be treated as illegal immigrants but as refugees. Powers apparently went to the border and talked to some of the
What does a lame duck President do with his time when he’s not raising money or giving speeches about various crises around the world? He holds dinner parties with important people to talk about important things. The NY Times reports
As many as 90,000 unaccompanied minors will arrive at the U.S. border this year. If past behavior is any precedent, most of them will probably remain in the U.S. indefinitely. NBC News highlights the stark difference between what administration officials
Negative ads about Obamacare may actually have encouraged some people to sign up. That’s the finding of a study by the Brookings Institution released last week. Brookings calculated the ratio of enrollees for each state (total number enrolled divided by
Rep. Mike Rogers appeared on Meet the Press Sunday with David Gregory to discuss the border crisis. The interview provided an object lesson in clashing worldviews. Rep. Rogers made the case that allowing kids to stay would only encourage more
Private information on over 18,000 California doctors was accidentally made public through a series of mistakes by Blue Shield and the state regulator that oversees them. In a letter explaining the breach, the Department of Managed Health Care wrote,” On
An estimate of the cost of achieving climate change mitigation goals places the global total at approximately $45 trillion. Science Daily published a story last week based on a study which was apparently made public last month. The study found
There are probably at least three factors that are contributing to the current influx of unaccompanied minors at the border. Let’s consider them using some charts on the basic data. Before we get started on the factors, let’s note that
This week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill which pushed off implementation of Obamacare’s mandates on small business insurance until 2016. Governor Brown signed SB 1446 Monday. The bill allows businesses with fewer than 50 employees to renew and
One of the side debates in the discussion of the current border crisis has been over the comparison to the Katrina disaster. The comparison has now been made by politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle. As I
Any time President Obama decries political theater you can be sure his motive is political. During a Q & A following his statement on the border crisis yesterday, President Obama tried to frame it in terms of the need to
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testifed before a subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. During one exchange with Rep. Jim Jordan, Koskinen seemed to find nothing at all suspicious about Lois Lerner’s interest in whether IRS instant
There are some reliable partisans who simply do not criticize their man no matter the circumstances. But with the current border crisis President Obama may have reached a point where even the true believers are starting to panic, at least
The California Department of Finance has said it doesn’t need a $6 million donation from The California Endowment. The money is aimed at helping people stay signed up for Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid. Kaiser Health News reports the decision
Salon is not quite beyond parody as this excellent parody Twitter account demonstrates. On the other hand it gets harder every day to distinguish the real site from the jokes. Case in point, an article published today proposing that Google
Last week the White House indicated the President would respond to the border crisis by seeking authorization to expedite deportations of unaccompanied minors. But the White House has apparently reversed course since last week and will no longer seek to
In a video interview with a UK website, Hillary Clinton contradicts her earlier story about how she came to represent a child rapist. Hillary now claims she had no choice in representing the 41-year-old who raped a 6th grader, a
The White House has all but abandoned a message of income inequality it had focused on last year. It turns out Americans are not moved by the topic and prefer a message based on opportunity. The Washington Post reported yesterday
A new conventional wisdom is forming which says Democrat’s gaffes don’t matter because they aren’t connected to (bad) Republican policies. There’s a grain of truth to this argument and yet it misses the big picture. Hillary’s policy positions won’t be
If a ballot proposition passes later this year, the state of California will be in control of setting insurance rate increases. Proposition 45 has already been placed on the ballot for 2014. Itwould allow the state’s insurance commissioner to reject
In a piece published in the Washington Post, former Venezuelan journalist Rafael Osío Cabrices describes his decision to leave the country with his family and become an immigrant in another land. We were proud of the job we were doing
Bill Ayers had been in the news again lately after agreeing to be interviewed by Fox’s Megyn Kelly this week. This brings up one of the most contested issues from the 2008 race when Democrats insisted Obama had only a
If a ballot proposition passes later this year, the state of California will be in control of setting insurance rate increases. Proposition 45 has already been placed on the ballot for 2014. It would allow the state’s insurance commissioner to
Apparently Hillary has lost her edge since the days when she was defending child rapists from jail. Back then she was able to discern her client’s obvious guilt. Today she’s apparently no longer able to see the truth even after
In response to ObamaCare Claims A Victim in Harry Reid’s Backyard: If this story is accurate, and it seems several people close to it believe it is, then Linda Rolain’s death is partly a result of her inability to sign
Thursday Rep. Jason Chaffetz appeared on Sean Hannity’s TV show to discuss recent developments in the IRS scandal. As part of that discussion, Hannity once again highlighted video of Lois Lerner discussing pressure on the IRS in 2010 which was
In a presidential campaign the candidate’s biography is everything. That’s why the media pushed a three decade old story about Mitt Romney’s dog at every opportunity. It’s why they have no excuse but to give Hillary Clinton’s defense of a
As you may have heard, the IRS claims Lois Lerner’s emails are gone forever. Apparently Lerner was storing her archived email on her local drive when it crashed and could not be recovered. I’m certainly not the first to suggest
