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Surprise! The individual mandate has been watered down by the White House to the point that it barely exists at all. That’s the conclusion of a piece at Politico which confirms what many conservatives were saying about the mandate two

An internal review carried out by attorneys picked by Gov. Christie has reportedly concluded the Governor played no role in instigating lane closures on the George Washington Bridge which became a damaging political scandal known as Bridgegate. The New York

Republicans are celebrating the 4th Anniversary of Obamacare as they look forward to an expanding electoral map that could see them retake the Senate this November. Though the official anniversary doesn’t happen until Sunday, Friday afternoon RNC Chariman Reince Priebus

A former Cover Oregon employee is blowing the whistle on her working environment, claiming that employees were encouraged to push paper applications through the process despite obvious problems such as missing Social Security numbers. The whistleblower appeared in an interview

Venezuelan President Maduro has been calling protesters “Nazis and fascists” for weeks. State television is now backing him up by running a segment connecting a familiar social media hashtag to Nazi symbols. With opposition media censored, the hashtag “#SOSVenezuela” has

The Federation of Journalists in Spain has condemned the censorship of media in Venezuela. While the statement was issued last month, this is the first time the entire statement has been published in English. The statement outlines some of the

A socialist member of Venezuela’s National Assembly has accused opposition leader Maria Machado of treason. Legislator Tania Diaz called for a vote to investigate Machado for deaths that have taken place since the protests began last month saying “We will

Contrary to a promise candidate Obama made more than 50 times, Health insurance premiums are going up substantially next year. That’s the word from an insurance industry executive who says rates will double in some places around the country. The

Chris Christie held a town hall meeting today in South River, New Jersey. During the Q&A Christie debated a woman from the audience who was pushing for more funding for Medicaid. As part of his answer, Christie said “I’m not

Wendy Davis became a political star after her much-hyped filibuster of an abortion bill while wearing pink sneakers. The bill in question was eventually passed, but Davis is still reaping the benefits of her media generated national fame. An analysis

Obamacare “enrollment” in qualified health plans has now reached 5 million according to an announcement posted on the HHS website Monday. As with all the previous “enrollment” milestones, we know for certain this one isn’t true. What we don’t know

The biggest Obamacare story last week was belated attention given to a little noticed hardship exemption that seems broad enough to allow almost anyone to claim exemption from the law’s individual mandate. Rather than report on the exemption itself and

Anti-government protests continued in Venezuela over the weekend and so did the government crackdown against them. Police raided Altamira Square in Caracas, using tear gas and water cannons to push back protesters. Unconfirmed video shot yesterday shows a group of

Venezuela is in danger of being cut off from the rest of the world as air carriers consider cutting flights because the government refuses to pay them in currency other than the increasingly worthless Bolivar. Currently, international air carriers are

In a letter sent today, Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, accuses ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings of acting as if he were a defense attorney for former IRS employee Lois Lerner. He also

An exemption is only an exemption if people know about it. That’s why the White House kept a broad hardship exemption to Obamacare’s individual mandate quiet, including leaving it off the official exemption page on Healthcare.gov for nearly three months.

A broad exemption to the individual mandate which only requires people to claim they had “another hardship” first appeared on the relevant HealthCare.gov page in the past 24 hours. Another narrower exemption for people with cancelled policies, which was announced

In a TV interview, the Mayor of San Cristóbal, Venezuela, Daniel Caballos, lamented the killing earlier this week of student protester Daniel Tinoco. Caballos placed blame for the shooting on government aligned militants known as “colectivos.” “These ‘colectivo’ groups arrive

Obamacare enrollment continued to slide off December highs in February with HHS reporting 940,000 people enrolled last month. In addition the percentage of “young invincibles” signing up was the same as in January, just 27 percent. That’s far short of

The 22nd person killed in clashes in Venezuela was 24-year-old protester Daniel Tinoco. Tinoco, who was considered a student leader of the protests, was shot in the chest sometime after 10pm. Eyewitnesses to the incident say he was killed by

Darrell Issa’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a staff report Tuesday aimed squarely at Lois Lerner and her involvement in the IRS targeting of conservative groups. The report suggests Lerner misled Congress in four instances and attempted to

Earlier today Sharyl Attkisson announced on Twitter that she was leaving CBS News. Early reports suggest the split was “amicable” though Attkisson is said to have wanted to leave because she had grown frustrated with the network’s “liberal bias.” Specifically,

The hyperlink, which means that no news story ever really needs to end, seemed revolutionary a decade or so ago but is almost taken for granted today. Now comes Ezra Klein and his new Vox.com site to bring us “explanatory

When bloggers at Think Progress became too critical of President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy their bosses at the Center for American Progress heard about it from the White House. Shortly thereafter, Think Progress writers were “berated” by supervisors for “creating

The National Security Action Conference hosted by Breitbart News across the street from CPAC featured a panel on the Benghazi scandal Thursday. There was a consistent message at the panel: We haven’t heard the complete truth about what happened in

Lois Lerner appeared briefly before Rep. Darrell Issa’s Oversight Committee Wednesday morning and once again asserted her 5th amendment right not to answer questions. But back in October 2010 Lerner did speak to a group of at Duke’s Sanford School

Russian Special Forces faced off with members of the Ukrainian Navy today at a base located in the city of Sevastopol. According to a report, the Russians entered a Ukrainian Navy training base to collect weapons. When they tried to

Remember the Peanuts cartoon where Lucy promises to hold the football for Charlie Brown then pulls it away at the last moment? Something similar happened between the U.S. and Russia this week. From the Russian soldiers now stationed in Crimea

A news blog in Crimea has been collecting information on what the new Ukrainian leadership is calling an invasion and the U.S. is now calling an “uncontested arrival” by Russia into Crimea. This first clip shows Russian helicopters headed for

The woman who was filmed being beaten by police earlier this week has spoken about her experience in an interview with a regional news station. Wednesday Breitbart News posted video of a woman protester being held down on the street

As protests in Venezuela enter their third week, some parts of Caracas have become an urban war zone. One of the tactics adopted by some of the protesters has been to blockade streets as a way to keep police and

President Maduro attempted to dampen protests his week by extending the Carnival holiday to include Thursday and Friday. But thousands of protesters went into the streets anyway. What follows are some images that appeared on Twitter today: Anti-government demonstrators protest