The US Treasury said Tuesday that the government shutdown did not affect its position and it would still run out of funds on October 17 without a debt ceiling hike. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told House of Representatives Speaker John
Two top Republicans in the Senate indicated on Tuesday that the partial government shutdown may last for weeks, forcing Congress to deal with passing a short-term resolution to fund the government while also negotiating an increase in the debt ceiling.
The House of Representatives failed to pass a bill Tuesday night which would have reopened Washington, DC’s World War II memorial thanks to Democratic opposition. 175 Democrats voted against a continuing appropriations resolution that would have funded the National Park
Detroit on Tuesday defaulted on more than $600 million of general obligation bonds deemed unsecured by the city’s emergency manager, a city spokesman said. Reuters
An Ohio woman facing an intruder in the morning hours of September 29 pulled a .357 magnum and asked, “Do you see how big this gun is?” Toledo’s 13abc.com reports that Betty Collins heard a commotion by her front door
On September 3, Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe tweeted a doctored photo saying his opponent, Republican gubernatorial nominee and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, supports “missile launchers” in airports. Politifact noted: The tweet contains a picture of an airport sign with
On the day the Obamacare insurance exchanges opened with glitches galore, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blistered and ridiculed President Barack Obama’s distortions in his Tuesday Rose Garden address to hail his own healthcare law. “I don’t believe America has
The moribund U.S. economy and the bleak jobs picture have collided to produce the highest college loan default rate in 18 years, according to data released Monday by the Department of Education. “Some colleges are simply masking default problems until
Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for governor in Virginia, has officially joined President Obama’s war on coal. On Tuesday the Washington Post reported that McAuliffe said for the first time “that he supports EPA rules on coal-fired plants.” During a tour
More than nine out of every ten employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are considered “non-essential” and have been furloughed in the federal government’s shutdown. Reuters obtained an EPA guidance in which the agency said it would “classify 1,069
(AP) Markets rise even as US government shutdown startsBy STEVE ROTHWELLAP Markets WriterNEW YORKInvestors stayed calm on the first day of a partial shutdown of the U.S. government Tuesday and sent the stock market modestly higher.A long-running dispute in Washington
(AP) House to vote on reopening national parksBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONHouse and Senate Democrats say they’ll reject a bid by Republicans to reopen portions of the government, including national parks and processing of claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs.They
Ron Binz, who was nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), revealed on Tuesday that he was withdrawing his name because of strong opposition from coal supporters, whose cause was partly spearheaded by Sen.
After serving eleven terms in Congress, Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) announced on Monday he will not seek reelection. “It is time for someone else,” said Bachus. After chairing the powerful House Financial Services Committee for six years, Bachus gave up his chairmanship
A judge in the US state of Louisiana ordered the immediate release Tuesday of a terminally ill former Black Panther who spent 40 years in solitary confinement for murder. Herman Wallace, who is dying from liver cancer is one of
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Oct. 1 (UPI) — A Ku Klux Klan rally scheduled Saturday at the Gettysburg, Pa., National Military Park has been canceled due to the federal government shutdown. The park is closed, and all permits for special events in
In the release of a final rule regarding healthcare benefits for members of Congress and their staff, the Obama administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has indicated that it will get around an amendment that makes it illegal to provide
Gainesville City Schools in GA are requesting Colt 6920 M4 carbine rifles for school defense. The Colt 6920 M4 carbine is a law enforcement version of the civilian AR-15. Capable of holding the same 30, 42, or 60 round magazines,
According to a new study in the European Journal of Social Psychology by University of Toronto researchers, people generally hate activists, making them less likely “to adopt behaviors that these activities promoted.” Dislike of activists played “a key role in
At least 104 House Republicans may be open to some type of pathway to legal status for the country’s illegal immigrants. According to a Weekly Standard report, “84 House Republicans have publicly voiced support for granting some type of legal status to
According to CT Mirror, Connecticut’s ObamaCare exchange, called Access Health CT, suffered some “glitchy” website problems, but managed to enroll its first member just before 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. CEO of Access Health CT Kevin Counihan was an in-studio guest on
Shawn Moran, the Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, recently spoke out on behalf of U.S. Border Patrol agents who routinely risk their lives to keep our nation safe and our borders as secure as possible to Breitbart
On Tuesday morning, President Obama sent a letter to federal employees across the country complaining about the government shutdown he has helped initiate, and blaming Republicans in Congress for his own refusal to negotiate. The letter reads: To the dedicated
On Tuesday, the federal government closed down the World War II Memorial after a government shutdown went into effect. That did not stop an Honor Flight of World War II veterans from moving barriers to the memorial to visit anyway.
The House first tried to defund ObamaCare. Then, it tried to delay the whole law and then just the individual mandate. In the final hours before the midnight deadline, the House ended with a simple proposal. It would agree to
As more states mull a break with the Common Core standards, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan blamed “ideologues and extremists” for standing in the way of the education reform the new standards represent. Steve Contorno at the Washington Examiner reported
The government’s official Obamacare Facebook page has been inundated with hundreds of questions and complaints from individuals experiencing myriad technical problems while trying to enroll in Obamacare online. One user wrote on the government’s HealthCare.gov Facebook: “Says cannot create account
Birmingham, Alabama — A man has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly attempting to hire an undercover FBI agent posing as a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to murder a black neighbor he suspected of being guilty
Voyager 2, a space-probe first launched in 1977 and now nearing interstellar space, has a twitter feed. I learned this because, as a result of the government shutdown, the space-probe has informed the planet that it can no longer keep
Maryland’s Obamacare healthcare exchange, Maryland Health Connection, is announcing via its Facebook page that its website and toll-free call center are “presently experiencing unexpected connectivity problems” and that citizens should “please come back and visit the site at noon.”
The online customer information chat feature on the government’s main Obamacare page, www.HealthCare.Gov, is not working. Users are receiving error messages that read: Sorry, Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat isn’t available right now. We’re having technical problems. We apologize for
On Sunday, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean said it would be a “good thing” that small businesses will ultimately decide to dump their employees into the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. “Small businesses are going to dump their employees into the exchange.
President Barack Obama told National Public Radio recently: “I shouldn’t have to offer anything.” That sounds tough, but those are words the president and his party may live to regret. As Republicans scrambled to find a way to pass funding
On Monday, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asserted that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is running the House of Representatives when it comes to the budget negotiations. According to a recent poll, Cruz is viewed as the leader of the Republican
After the U.S. Justice Department sued North Carolina over its voter ID law on Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated that he felt the state’s law requiring photo identification to vote was intended to and will discriminate against blacks. “The
Late Monday, as the government neared a midnight deadline triggering a shutdown, the House voted to appoint conferees to negotiate a solution to the funding crisis. These conferees would form the House contingent of a “conference committee” of Reps and
Though the media and the Democrats are describing the hours-old partial federal government shutdown as if Republicans can be expected to cave on their positions at any moment, it is far more likely that the shutdown will continue through the
Congressman Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) tweeted out a photo at 12:09 AM EST showing the Obamcare exchanges website was down, nine minutes after various federal government offices shut down and the Affordable Care Act exchanges went into effect. It’s 12:09 a.m.
On Monday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went on Fox News and discussed her exclusive Breitbart News op-ed in which she described Senators like Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) as flushing dogs for the conservative grassroots. On the
On Monday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went on Fox News and discussed her exclusive Breitbart News op-ed in which she described Senators like Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) as flushing dogs for the conservative grassroots. She described
