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Possible hacker attack at the State Department

CBS News is careful to note that the State Department shut down its unclassified email system to repair “possible” damage from a “suspected” hacker attack, but those suspicions must run pretty deep to justify the measures that were taken: A

States: Show Me The Money For Climate Change

Supposedly, Obama is re-focusing his Climate Change efforts back toward the states after playing it up on the international stage. However, if one reads between the lines, it’s not hard to see that what this is actually about for many

Pipeline Activists Threaten Democrats

While having approximately 50 Keystone pipeline protesters camped out on her doorstep may almost be a positive for Democrat Mary Landrieu in her Louisiana run-off election against Republican Bill Cassidy, it can hardly be a welcome sight for national Democrats

Loose-Lipped Gruber Fuels GOP Obamacare Attacks

 A Democrat Party assassination squad has surely been put on  notice to take out Jonathan Gruber now that a fourth Obamacare snafu has surfaced. I’m kidding. Democrats are not going to go out and actually take Gruber out. Gruber is

Obama Just Stepped In A Pile Of Gruber

There are at least two notable issues that emerge from this brief clip of Barack Obama’s latest remarks on the current fire storm surrounding Jonathan Gruber, ObamaCare and the White House. First, Obama describes Gruber as “some adviser who never

Obama Just Stepped In A Pile Of Gruber

ISIS claims to have beheaded another American hostage

The new ISIS snuff film is a little different than their previous offerings, in that they don’t show the marquee murder taking place, but according to the UK Daily Mail, a severed head purportedly belonging to captured aid worker and

The Ministry of Silence

In response to Senator Chris Murphy, Jake Tapper and the Unsung Villains of GruberGate: It’s amazing to think we reached the end of the week with a hard blackout imposed on the Gruber story by two major networks, ABC and

Comet Guy and the social-justice black hole

An amazingly stupid story with a clever Twitter hashtag, #shirtstorm, has been brewing for the past couple of days.  Long story short, one of the brilliant scientists who just landed a space probe on a moving comet decided to wear

Cruz Hits ObamaCare With Gruber Video: "Can't Shake It Off"

Realizing the significance of keeping Jonathan Gruber’s growing number of newly discovered revealing statements regarding the formulation and passage of the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, Texas Senator ted Cruz is out with a new web video hitting ObamaCare architect

Rob Portman Talking Up White House Run

Clearly Republican Bob Portman wants the media talking up the notion that he’s considering a run for the presidency. But given his deep ties to D.C. and both previous Bush administrations, one has to wonder how he would keep any

Confiscating the instruments of ObamaCare fraud

In response to 5th Video Shows Gruber Laughing At and Mocking ObamaCare Critic’s Accurate Predictions: Shed no tears for Jonathan Gruber, fair Debra, for he was well-compensated for his perfidy, and we were forced to pay him.  I want to

Slate: Landrieu's "Desperate, Pointless" Campaign

How bad are things for Democrat Mary Landrieu in her bid to try and hold onto power? This bad. When Slate is calling your campaign cynical, desperate and pointless, it may well be time to give it up. But that’s

Hit By Wave, Democrats Avoided A Tsunami

If the 2014 mid-term elections constituted a wave election, new findings via a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute indicate Democrats may have just barely avoided being hit by a tsunami that could have given the GOP additional senate seats

The Liberal Landslide Away From Mary Landrieu

Imagine the sinking feeling you might experience if the very ground you were walking on began to fall away beneath your feet. That’s likely how Mary Landrieu feels as the liberal wing of her own party cuts and  runs on

Democrats Stuck On Stupid, Or At Least With It For Now

If you thought Democrat leadership in Washington is accountable to someone, or something other than D.C. Democrats … you’d be wrong. Despite overwhelming and near historic Democrat losses in both the House and the Senate, the party faithful are poised

House Dems To Obama, Go Big On Immigration Reform

With news that the White House would use executive action to protect up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation, House Democrats showed their solidarity with Barack Obama in his willful disregard of American voters and how they expressed themselves

October Budget Deficit Up Over Last Year's

While blaming accounting procedures, the federal government’s budget deficit for October came  in higher than it did for October of last year. According to reports, the Treasury Department reported “a $121.7 billion deficit in the first month of the fiscal year,

Wait For The Next Wave Of Losses For Democrats

In response to Hit By Wave, Democrats Avoided A Tsunami: I totally agree that he Democrat Party avoided a political “tsunami” on election night, but give it time. Landrieu could lose her seat, giving the GOP 55 Senate seats.  Now

Obama gets rolled everywhere from Beijing to Tehran

Barack Obama is the most dangerous lame duck ever to haunt the marshes of post-election defeat.  He’s angry at the American people, testy with Democrats who blame him for their electoral losses, and more determined that ever to finish “transforming

Pew Survey Finds More Americans Want Republicans to Lead

President Obama has done great things for the party. Not his party, the Republican party. According to a new survey published by Pew Research, American’s views of which party should take the lead in solving problems have shifted dramatically over

GOP Targets Reid In 2016

While it remains uncertain if outgoing Senate majority leader Harry Reid will run for re-election to the senate in 2016, for now, all signs are that he will and the GOP is making it clear he’ll have a target on

Run Marco, Run Jeb

In response to George W Bush: Run, Jeb, Run: I’m not completely sold that Jeb will run, regardless of what his hermano or son say about a possible candidacy for President. Today’s news that Rubio will release his book this