At a 60-person Democratic fundraiser Monday night, President Barack Obama told donors that debates over scandals such as Benghazi and Obamacare are pointless. “The debate we’re having now is about what, Benghazi? Obamacare? And it becomes this endless loop. It’s
On Friday, four days before the polls were set to open in Tuesday’s Republican U.S. Senate primary in Oregon, a City of Portland police report about an embarrassing, year-old stalking incident involving GOP frontrunner Dr. Monica Wehby suddenly appeared as
A new Gallup poll released on Monday shows that Americans consider unemployment/jobs, government corruption, and the economy as the three “most important” problems facing the country. Just 3% of those surveyed listed the environment/pollution as America’s most important problem. President
A devastating new Politico poll released on Monday shows likely voters in key 2014 midterm election races favor a Republican candidate over a Democrat by seven points. Driving Democrats’ electoral descent is the unpopularity of President Barack Obama and his
Miss Beazley never got the worldwide attention that George W. Bush’s other Scottish terrier, Barney, received. Yet, according to the former President, “Beazley never held a grudge against him.” According to Politico, Laura Bush received Miss Beazley as a birthday
On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama used the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling to lecture graduating high school seniors in Topeka, Kansas, that America is still a racist country. Despite the fact that
The EPA is about to impose a new regulation that will reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants starting June 2 and will become permanent in 2015. The new regulation, according to Politico, is the “most dramatic anti-pollution regulation in
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro is about to be tapped by President Barrack Obama to be the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This is the second time Obama will have asked Castro to serve in his administration.
This is a truly interesting development, because it illuminates the vast gulf between the urgent need to legalize illegal aliens felt by the Ruling Class and its media, and the way average American citizens view the issue. The “Enlist Act”
The NY Times could have taken advice from its own editorial board on how to handle an embarrassing gender pay gap issue. Instead they tried to downplay the issue, exactly as they had criticized the White House for doing a
CNN’s John King, Bloomberg’s Margaret Talev, and Politico’s Manu Raju described the scandal involving the Department of Veterans Affairs as a major political pitfall for the Obama administration. Talev described the scandal as “devastating,” a point with which King strongly
On May 14, Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of The New York Times, was suddenly fired by the paper. A myriad of explanations have been offered for her ouster, but an intriguing one flying under the radar is
When Randolph-Macon College economics professor David Brat announced a challenge to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican primary several months ago, many wrote his campaign off as a quixotic whim that would go nowhere.
The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of The New York Times sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the Times‘ alleged sexist pay discrepancy
With decisive primary victories by U.S. Senate candidate Ben Sasse in Nebraska and U.S. House candidate Alex Mooney in West Virginia, the establishment’s dream of electing more status quo-supporting candidates has been stopped after just one week. Sasse and Mooney,
Alex Mooney, the Tea Party-backed candidate in the crowded Republican primary in West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, easily won his party’s nomination in Tuesday’s election. With 85 percent of the precincts reporting, Mooney leads with 35 percent of the vote. Pharmacist
President Barack Obama believes there may only be three months left to get sweeping amnesty legislation done. At a Tuesday meeting at the Eisenhower Office Building with law enforcement leaders, White House officials, and Jeh Johnson, the Department of Homeland
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Time magazine’s senior political analyst Mark Halperin asserted that Republicans would take back the Senate. Halperin was asked by MSNBC’s Willie Geist whether Republicans would take the Senate in the 2014 elections. The political panel examined
The strategy has been obvious for a number of years, but rarely has it been so blatantly espoused as in an article by Bill McKibben in Politico Magazine where he attacks the development of a Liquified Natural Gas export terminal
On Sunday, Politico reported that Oregon, Nevada, Maryland, and Massachusetts have thus far spent $474,000,000 in taxpayer dollars on busted Obamacare exchanges. “Nearly half a billion dollars in federal money has been spent developing four state Obamacare exchanges that are
Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told Candy Crowley on CNN’s “State of the Union” that “more could’ve been done” to prevent the kidnapping of almost 300 girls in Nigeria by radical Islam terrorist group Boko Haram. “The earlier we push against
The Hill has a piece desperately trying to perform damage control for the Obama Administration by somehow insisting that the GOP is abandoning its investigation into the IRS scandal in favor of its investigation into the Benghazi scandal. It seems
Wayne County, Michigan officials reported this weekend that long-time Detroit Democrat Representative John Conyers didn’t submit enough signatures to qualify for the ballot this year. Authorities say Conyers was 400 signatures short of having enough to qualify to run for re-election.
No one enjoys pointing and laughing at CNN more than I do*. But you have to be fair about it, and Dylan Byers, a media reporter at the left-wing Politico, is taking a cheap shot at CNN that isn’t backed
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) was the first lawmaker to vote against Speaker John Boehner on the House floor in January 2013. Now the GOP Establishment, and especially allies of Boehner, are looking to take him out. Top GOP power brokers
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was not pleased with Democrats who suggested that Democrats work with Republicans on the select Benghazi committee, according to a report from Politico’s Jake Sherman and Lauren French. During her caucus meeting on Friday, Pelosi
On Thursday, President Barack Obama’s administration issued new guidance to schools, emphasizing that they cannot discourage illegal immigrant students from enrolling by requiring proof of legal status. As Politico reported, the Obama administration noted that schools “can violate federal law
Two Indiana state House incumbents, endorsed by the administration of Gov. Mike Pence (R), fell to candidates supported by grassroots campaigns that stood firmly against the Common Core standards. The campaigns claimed Pence performed a deceptive maneuver in simply “rebranding”
With the backdrop of a recent tornado outbreak that caused sever damage in Mississippi and Arkansas, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is criticizing his primary challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, over disaster aid. Pointing to a special session of the state
“In all sincerity, I am one of the most — strange, it might sound bizarre — but I really am one of the luckiest members of Congress,” Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) told WABC Radio’s Geraldo Rivera on Tuesday. “And I say
As previously reported by Breitbart News, the Harvard Exchange Cultural Studies Club wound up in the middle of a controversy Wednesday when an event announced for May 12 began to look like a serious attempt at denigrating the Catholic Church. As
On May 6th, Hillary Clinton gave a speech at a National Council for Behavioral Health conference in which she suggested that “fully licensed” and “fully validated” gun owners cannot be trusted to make sound decisions regarding gun usage. According to
Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics is one of the leading analyst in the country . This is his latest thinking on the primary season which starts today. Today, the 2014 primary season begins in earnest. As with 2010 and
If you were the San Francisco Chronicle, and the supposed voice of news for a city that leans heavily Democratic, and you learned that one of your favorite Democratic politicians was holding a fundraiser at a venue that calls itself “the
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney refused to apologize for Romneycare, which he instituted when he was governor of Massachusetts. President Barack Obama modeled Obamacare off of it. Now the Bay State is going to completely scrap its state health care
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll triggered Politico to assert that the results give Democrats four major reasons to worry about their election prospects in 2014. GOP voters are more driven to vote in 2014 than Democrats. When the poll
The godfather of Mississippi’s largest and most powerful industry – one that has longed push for more lenient immigration law’s to help provide cheap labor – is Sen. Thad Cochran’s fundraising chairman, the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro writes in a
The success of the American pro-life movement is inspiring European activists to restrict abortion in individual nations throughout the continent and to press the European Commission to introduce an ethics clause into its regulations that prevents the EU from funding
Luke O’Brien, writing for the left-wing Politico, details at great length the story of how The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown blew through $100 million of other people’s money (Barry Diller’s and Sidney Harman’s) on what amounted to a Tina Brown
Under fire for new “smoking gun” emails released about the Benghazi terrorist attack, the White House has an unlikely ally: the GOP House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA). McKeon slammed testimony by a key witness at a
