Speaker John Boehner’s top aide for more than two decades, Dave Schnittger, has announced he is leaving Boehner’s office and walking through Washington’s revolving door to become a lobbyist at powerhouse Squire Patton Boggs–a move that will give Schnittger maximum
A Pew Research Center study released on Friday finds that in 2013, the wealth of white households was 13 times greater than black households, a dramatic increase since 2010 when white wealth was eight times that of black household wealth.
A new Gallup poll finds that 51% of Americans oppose President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty plan for illegal immigrants versus 41% who support it. Among Hispanics, 64% said they approved of Obama’s executive amnesty plan, with 28% saying they disapprove.
A new USA Today/Pew Research poll finds that President Barack Obama’s core policy initiatives such as combating global warming and income inequality barely register as top concerns for most Americans. In the wake of historic midterm election losses for Democrats,
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it will allow four companies to use drones that weigh less than 55 pounds for commercial use. The four companies–Trimble Navigation Ltd., VDOS Global LLC, Clayco Inc and Woolpert Inc.–say they plan to use
Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney says the massive so-called Cromnibus spending bill contains special carve outs and crony perks for Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the reauthorization of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) which doles out taxpayer dollars to overseas companies.
On Tuesday, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) joined the growing group of Democrats who blame Obamacare for their party’s electoral woes. “We never recovered from the [Obamacare] rollout because the election became one that was directed toward the president. We couldn’t
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the deeply unpopular Obamacare program is working but needs a name change. “Obamacare, no question, has a very bad brand that has been driven intentionally by a lot of misinformation
Obama supporters continue to find out the hard way that the reality of Obamacare stands in stark contrast to the rhetorical promises of Obamacare. Case in point: Obama supporter Catherine Keefe. On Wednesday, the Washington Post published an essay by
For the first time in U.S. history, food stamp enrollments have been above 46 million for 36 months in a row. According to newly released numbers from the United States Department of Agriculture (which oversees the food stamp program), food
Louisiana’senator-elect Bill Cassidy told Fox News Sunday what national polls overwhelmingly confirm: the Republican Party is now the party of the working-class. “If there’s one party for the working person right now, it’s the Republican Party,” senator-elect Cassidy said. Cassidy,
A civil war has opened up inside the Democratic Party over Obamacare. With half of all Senate Democrats who voted for Obamacare no longer in office, top Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and outgoing Tom Harkin (D-IA) have begun trashing
Even as the Obama White House was busy touting its Friday jobs report, CNBC’s Jeff Cox looked deeper inside the government’s data and discovered that the actual increase of working Americans numbers a paltry 4,000. Worse, reports Cox, “the jobs
Before he’s replaced by Republican Senator-elect Joni Ernst next month, Obamacare co-author Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) is expressing regret over passing Obamacare. “We blew it,” said Harkin. “What we did is we muddled through and we got a system that
Progressive New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall wrote on Tuesday that Democrats’ embrace of Obamacare’s redistribution scheme has angered and alienated working-class and middle-class Americans. “Even though midterm elections favor Republicans, the 2014 results show middle and working-class dissatisfaction
U.S. debt has now surpassed $18 trillion. Under President Barack Obama, America’s debt has skyrocketed 70%. On the day Obama took office, January 21, 2009, Zero Hedge reports U.S. debt stood at $10.625 trillion. The national debt cleared $18 trillion
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is blasting President Barack Obama over the fact that U.S. debt has soared past $18 trillion. “This is a sad milestone for America. Under President Obama’s failed leadership, the national debt has skyrocketed by
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Tuesday that passage of the highly unpopular Obamacare program has revealed Americans’ ignorance about health insurance. “One of the things that we have learned with the passage of the
Retailers’ decision to move up many holiday sales to Thanksgiving Day resulted in a 27.3% jump in store traffic over last year’s Thanksgiving Day numbers, reports retail analytics firm ShopperTrak. “It’s ruining the spirit of Thanksgiving,” 20-year-old Cathyliz Lopez of New
The Obama administration’s recent challenge to Obamacare’s “workplace wellness” provisions has given Obamacare’s big business backers second thoughts about their support for the highly unpopular health care law. New lawsuits filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) challenge so-called
Obamacare was signed into law four years and eight months ago, yet the highly unpopular program’s back-end computer systems still remain unbuilt. The problem is so bad, health officials have been forced to perform some verifications by hand. “Health insurers
A new Gallup poll finds that President Barack Obama’s approval rating with working-class white Americans has fallen to just 27 percent, a record-low for his presidency. Among whites who’ve graduated college, Obama’s approval stands at 41%, also a new low
Over 1,000 protestors swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and blocked traffic Monday night as rage from Ferguson, Missouri, rolled across the nation. Early Tuesday morning, NBC New York reported that “hundreds of other protestors” also took another bridge: Hundreds of other
President Barack Obama’s split-screen moment Monday night is a piece of iconography that will endure, a crystalizing meta-message that visually communicated the federal government’s impotence and Obama’s irrelevance. Even as Obama spoke a little after 10 p.m. ET Monday night
The Obama administration is seeking “suggestions” on how to increase “transparency, ownership, and accountability” for Obamacare in the wake of its admission that it fudged Obamacare enrollments by 1.3 million. On Sunday evening, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia
President Barack Obama’s much-touted 8 million Obamacare enrollment number was inflated by 1.3 million, the Obama administration now admits. “The mistake we made is unacceptable,” tweeted Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell. “I will be communicating that clearly
The Obama administration threatened to cut Maine’s food stamp funding on Thursday over its law requiring welfare recipients to show their photo ID when receiving their taxpayer-funded benefits. In a letter to Maine officials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which
Obamacare customers enrolled in the most popular health plans will experience an average 10% premium spike in 2015, a new analysis by Avalere Health finds. The rate hike may come as a surprise to many Obamacare customers whose plans will
On Monday, President Barack Obama announced the release of a global warming “toolkit,” one day before all 50 U.S. states fell below freezing temperatures. The White House says its “resilience toolkit” is an extension of Obama’s “Climate Action Plan” released last year
All 50 U.S. states, including President Barack Obama’s home state of Hawaii, dropped to freezing or below on Tuesday, reports the National Weather Service. Hawaii’s dormant volcano, Mauna Kea, experienced 30 F to 32 F temperatures. In New York, western
As Democrats race to distance themselves from disgraced Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber and his disparaging remarks about “the stupidity of the American voter,” a 2013 Senate hearing transcript reveals top Democrat Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) lauded Gruber as a “very smart”
A joint study by Gallup and the Walk Free Foundation finds that the global scourge of slavery has now grown to include 35.8 million adults and children worldwide. The landmark 81-page report, titled “The Global Slavery Index 2014,” is the first index of
A Gallup poll released on Monday finds the lowest-ever support for Obamacare, President Barack Obama’s signature achievement. Just 37% of Americans support Obamacare, while a full 56% disapprove. Nonwhite support for Obamacare has fallen below 60% for the first time,
A new Bloomberg Global Poll of international investors finds deflation fears rising and optimism about the world economy at the worst levels in two years. Nearly two-thirds of investors said the euro zone’s economy is growing worse. The poll also
A forthcoming inspector general’s report reveals lax judges wrongfully doled out disability checks that cost U.S. taxpayers $2 billion, and a projected $300 million more next year. The Social Security Administration report says the agency’s lackluster oversight of judges who
A new Gallup poll finds that Americans favor Republicans determining the nation’s future trajectory over President Barack Obama by 17 percentage points. When asked, “Who do you want to have more influence over the direction the nation takes in the
Martin Greenfield is regarded as America’s greatest living suit maker. A Holocaust survivor, Mr. Greenfield is the tailor to America’s most powerful and influential men. Breitbart News interviewed Mr. Greenfield about his new book, Measure of Man: From Auschwitz Survivor
With the U.S. Senate now firmly in Republican control, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has canceled advertising for embattled Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu before her December runoff against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy. The DSCC’s canceled advertising was supposed to
Democratic donors may be among the midterm election’s biggest losers, as figures from the Center for Responsive Politics reveal Democrat-aligned groups spent $1.64 billion dollars, a sum nearly equal to that of Republican-aligned groups who spent $1.75 billion. Among election
In an eyebrow-raising Wednesday press conference, President Barack Obama appeared unapologetic to fellow Democrats for Tuesday’s historic midterm election losses — losses many in the president’s own party attribute directly to him. “I’m having a great time!” Obama said with
