Cruz Fires Back at Napolitano on Border Security

This week, President Obama continued to push forward his agenda on immigration reform, suggesting all the while that a pathway to citizenship need not be prefaced by better border security. . In that vein, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, in ridiculous fashion, that everything is now hunky-dory at the border. Residents of the border states laugh at that contention. 14 Feb 2013

Cruz: 'No Reason' to Vote on Hagel Until Senate Sees Records

In the aftermath of the Senate’s decision to postpone a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of Defense, Sen. Ted Cruz said, “There is no reason to rush his nomination to a vote until he has adequately responded to multiple requests from members of the Armed Services Committee for additional information.” 14 Feb 2013

Obama Bemoans Hagel Delay: 'I Need a Secretary of Defense'

On Wednesday evening at an online “fireside hangout” at Google+, President Obama discussed his feelings regarding the Republican filibuster of anti-Israel Secretary of Defense nominee and former Senator Chuck Hagel. “What seems to be happening, and this has been growing over time, is the Republican minority in the Senate seems to think that the rule now is that you need to have 60 votes for everything,” Obama blustered, ignoring the fact that cloture has been a legislative issue for centuries. “Well, that’s not the rule.” 14 Feb 2013

CNN: Was Rubio's Water-Sipping a 'Career-Ender'?

According to CNN, on Tuesday night, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) committed a cardinal sin: he took a sip of water from a bottle during his response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. They actually ran a chyron reading: “CAREER-ENDER?” 13 Feb 2013

Obama's Favorite Things!

Much like "Oprah's Favorite Things," Barack Obama used Tuesday night's State of the Union Address to propose a cornucopia of giveaways. These big government spending programs included but are not limited to: Investment in green energy, an increased minimum wage, fixing roads and bridges, new mortgage regulations that will allow “families with solid credit” to buy homes, more preschool programs, more spending on education, and much much more. 12 Feb 2013

Nate Silver: Rove Super PAC Could Destroy GOP Establishment

Elections guru Nate Silver now writes in the pages of the Times that Rove’s endorsement of candidates may actually backfire on those candidates, since Rove is perceived as an establishment insider. Money, says Silver, isn’t the deciding factor in Tea Party vs. establishment primaries – perception of conservatism is. 12 Feb 2013

The Lost Tribe: Jewish Democrats Back Hagel

If a Republican president nominated someone as anti-Israel and borderline antisemitic as Hagel to Secretary of Defense--say, Pat Buchanan--the press would rightly have a field day. But when President Barack Obama does so, aided by self-interested politicians who proclaim their abiding belief in the ties between the United States and Israel, the press remains silent. (Warren by family lore, apparently.) 12 Feb 2013

The Neverending Campaign: Obama Plans Post-SOTU Public Relations Tour

In its ever-evolving quest to turn the presidency into a permanent campaign organ rather than the executive branch of government, the Obama White House will be launching yet another in its endless series of public relations pushes in the aftermath of Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening. 11 Feb 2013

IL Town Runs Out of Gas Money for Police Cars

Dixmoor, Illinois, has a government spending problem. After years of taxing its inhabitants into leaving, resulting in a loss of $600,000 in tax revenue last year, the city has run out of cash to pay for the gas for the town’s police cars. 11 Feb 2013

Obama Gun Control Tour to Hit Chicago Friday

President Obama announced on Monday that he’d be visiting crime-ridden Chicago – his hometown, and the domain of his former chief of staff Mayor Rahm Emanuel – to talk about gun violence. 11 Feb 2013