Many celebrities didn’t wait to see what the grand jury in Ferguson, MO had to say about the death of Michael Brown. They started firing off their opinions via social media long before we learned officer Darren Wilson wouldn’t be
The first take-away from a recent Politico Magazine item: Reinventing Jeb Bush How America misremembers the family’s true conservative, is that as is appropriately disclosed at bottom, the author is S.V. Dáte, the author of “Jeb: America’s Next Bush” and “an editor on
On November 26, Politico Magazine (PM) ran a column suggesting police get the benefit of the doubt when accusations of “excessive force” are made, but “blacks and other minorities… [get] alleged police abuse.” PM argues that this is largely forgotten until “a
On Thursday, two top editors of the liberal The New Republic magazine quit over a dispute with the magazine’s new owner about the publication’s future. The next day, nearly the entire Washington-based staff resigned in support of the editors. Now,
Reggie Love, known as the “body man” to Barack Obama is said to be writing a book on his experiences, “Power Forward: My Presidential Education,” detailing his time spent over the years with Obama. It’s currently slated for a Feb. 3
Former Massachusetts Governor and failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney is not yet ready to relinquish his title as the head of the pale-pastels establishment wing of the Republican Party to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. “A senior Republican who has
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says she is looking forward to finding compromise with Republicans on next week’s must-pass spending package. “My inclination is obviously is to be hopeful that the legislation will be something that we can accept and support,”
Just days ahead of a runoff election, the conservative Super PAC Ending Spending Action Fund is running a devastating new web ad that cites incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) parroting President Obama’s famous claim that “if you like your health care plan, you can
With House conservatives wanting to keep the pressure on Barack Obama given his end run of the political process when it comes to illegal immigration, reports indicate Republican House Speaker John Boehner may be considering doing the un-thinkable — abandoning
In an increasingly desperate looking attempt to hold onto her Senate seat, Democrat Mary Landrieu can’t seem to decide if she’s for Barack Obama as president, or against him. Well, actually, depending on the audience, she appears to be both.
Republicans in Washington, under the tutelage of House Speaker John Boehner, are planning a full-scale cave to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, by aiming to fund Obama’s immigration action in full this week. Boehner on Tuesday pitched colleagues on a
The media has six hard and fast rules that dictate how the children of politicians should be handled. Anyone confused by the media’s standards on this issue simply haven’t been paying attention. 1. Any unknown Republican staffer who says anything
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
National Action Network’s Reverend Al Sharpton tweeted that he would be attending the White House meetings on Ferguson and law enforcement that President Barack Obama is hosting. In NAN DC Bureau this morning, before heading to meetings on Ferguson and police
House conservatives are considering legislative language that would prohibit appropriations or fees from being used by any agency charged with carrying out President Obama’s executive amnesty, according to Britain’s MailOnline. The text conservatives hope to insert into an upcoming spending
Ever since Pope Francis said “Who am I to judge?” when asked about the possibility that some gay clerics may be working in the Vatican, many have assumed that Francis was effecting a major sea change in Vatican politics and
On Sunday, Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA) added his voice to the criticism over the Ferguson grand jury decision not to incident a city police officer for the August shooting of a local teenager. Without having any facts of the case
The media framing for stories about fiscal responsibility now involves portraying Republicans as “anti-science” when they object to handing out fat research grants for stupid projects. For example, Politico’s big article on the subject is entitled, “Next Battle In the
Sources close to Texas Gov. Rick Perry claim he will “meet in person with more than 500 major donors and bundlers from around the country in December,” at a major gathering in Texas designed to set the stage for a
House Republicans could formally respond to President Obama’s executive amnesty as early as next week, according to reports. A senior GOP aide confirmed to The Hill Friday that House leaders have reserved time on the floor in the hope that
Abortion advocates were already alarmed with advances made by pro-lifers in state houses around the country. NARAL Pro-Choice America reports that pro-lifers enacted more laws over the past two years than in the previous decade combined. Now, they face even
Wednesday the Obama administration is expected to announce a “sweeping regulation, which would aim at smog from power plants and factories across the country, particularly in the Midwest…”, a controversial regulation the opposition insists is the “most expensive regulation ever’.”
The Boston Red Sox, on a free-agent-signing high after landing Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval and Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez, expressed their joy in a boastful tweet, asking the world, “So how was everyone’s Monday?” Mine was pretty good, Red
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, a former operative for former President Bill Clinton and his wife former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will reportedly get the first interview with Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson. To make matters more complicated,
When immigration agents begin to implement President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for an estimated five million illegal immigrants, the potential for fraud may increase as officials who are already pressured to rubber-stamp applications may be pushed to approve even more
President Obama’s unilateral action to grant executive amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in the United States has shed light on a host of failures that are likely to take place with regard to the logistics of processing the applications.
What can a chronicler of barbarian invasions, writing in the 18th century, explain to Americans in the 21st century?What lessons can we learn today from the fall of an ancient empire? Plenty. Many. Indeed, as immigration is a hot issue
The New York Times acknowledged on Friday that Republicans can win the White House without the Hispanic vote, especially since President Barack Obama will no longer be on the ticket. This analysis comes as Republican establishment operatives like Jeb Bush continue
President Obama urged Congress not to “defy” the will of voters as part of a push for gun control legislation broadcast on the April 13, 2013 version of NBC’s “Today.” Obama said that “the notion that Congress would defy the
As part of his argument for executive amnesty tonight, President Obama asserted that now was the time for action, instead of waiting any longer for Congress to act on immigration reform. Reports detail, however, that Obama made his decision a
After spending $10.6 million in the Nov. 4 elections and “barely [winning] half its contests,” Gabby Giffords’ gun control group–Americans For Responsible Solutions (ARS)–says it will be back in 2016. But Politico describes this as “a steep task,” and that
The political repercussions for supporting President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty could be so massive they could put Democratic U.S. Senate seats in bright blue states in play for Republicans in 2016—an open secret that Democrats on Capitol Hill seem
A clearer picture of the strategy Republicans in both the House and the Senate will use to stop President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty in government funding bills is beginning to emerge. The key point is that no matter what
A new Politico item by Paige Winfield Cunningham asks a timely and perhaps interesting question: New Obamacare furor: Was Jonathan Gruber the “architect”? But what may prove more interesting to some is how Cunningham appeared to have no problem identifying his
Three members of the feminist protest group Femen took to Saint Peter’s Square yesterday in criticism of Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to the European Parliament. Dressed only in black leather miniskirts, the three got down on all fours and simulated
The White House must have thought Republicans in Congress would fall in line behind Speaker John Boehner and let President Barack Obama do what he’s “gotta do” on executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Politico reports that as Republicans have instead
On the heels of President Obama’s defiant post-midterm election remarks last week, he now has announced a “10 point plan” concerning illegal immigration which will be enacted unilaterally by executive order. With few consequential political allies left in Washington, Obama
Senator Mary Landrieu isn’t the only Democrat looking to stage a little Separation Theater to open daylight between herself and Party leadership. Politico reports she was one of several Senators to stage show votes against keeping Harry Reid as the
Not many doubt that Hillary Clinton is already in the hunt for the Democratic nomination for president for 2016, but despite that badly kept secret, the purported Democrat front-runner was not invited to a closed-door meeting of deep-pocketed liberal donors
Perhaps trying to save face by proving he can win something, outgoing Senate majority leader Harry reid is reportedly putting the arm on Democrats in a big way in an effort to save a struggling Mary Landrieu in Louisiana. Politico