On Tuesday, Kanye “Imma Let You Finish” West told the world that he was the Steve Jobs of fashion, culture, and the internet. Really. In an interview with the New York Times, West said: Yeah, respect my trendsetting abilities. Once
On Wednesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reportedly sent a letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry to notify him that FEMA would not be providing federal emergency management aid for the West, Texas explosion that virtually destroyed the entire town.
With the immigration reform debate heating up, senators from both sides of the aisle are urging President Obama to stay out of the debate, fearing that his polarizing presence could help sink any bill. Obama, who said yesterday that “the
On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden bashed Republicans at a fundraiser for Democrat Ed Markey, the candidate for Massachusetts Senator. After punching at Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), Biden turned to problems within the Democratic Party, explaining
A certificate used to be enough for students with perfect attendance at the end of the school year. But in the Los Angeles Unified School District, two perfect attendees throughout high school received new Chevrolet Sonics, priced at $18,000, for
On Tuesday, jailed filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula spoke out. Nakoula was blamed repeatedly by members of the Obama administration for his YouTube video on Mohammed supposedly spurring the Benghazi terrorist attack of September 11, 2012. That accusation was false. Speaking
On Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) explained that he would censor Americans’ mail if the war on terror required it. “In World War II, the mentality of the public was that our whole way of life was at risk, we’re
On Tuesday morning, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was minding his own business at a coffee shop on the Princeton University campus when his world stopped turning. The Princeton University campus received a bomb threat to multiple buildings, forcing
A public service ad created and distributed by First 5 California, a government campaign dedicated to “educate parents and caregivers about the important role they play in their children’s first years,” features a photoshopped African-American child. The child is photoshopped
Thanks in part to the much-criticized sequestration cuts effected by Congress and President Obama this year, the federal workforce dropped to its lowest point in five years in May. With the month’s cut of 14,000 federal jobs, the federal payroll
According to the Inspector General for the General Services Administration, managers at the GSA helped their friends in the private sector get lucrative contracts. The stunning report shows that GSA managers routinely overruled contracting officers on certain accounts, including Carahsoft
On Friday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Obama administration’s NSA surveillance policy. In a statement released to the press, he said that while Americans should “always be mindful of the need for government to have the tools necessary to
In a contentious press conference on Monday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was battered over reports surrounding the National Security Agency’s monitoring of phone records and the so-called PRISM program, which monitors internet activity from millions of Americans. Carney
NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who claimed to The Guardian (UK) that he doesn’t “want to live in a society” that keeps tabs on all of its citizens, fled to Hong Kong in order to hide from the US government. Only
Following on the assertion of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning that the IRS scandal had been “solved” and that Congress should “move on,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA)
On Friday morning, President Barack Obama defended his administration’s massive telephone records surveillance programs by explaining that “every member of Congress has been briefed on this program.” There’s only one problem: both Republican and Democrat Congresspeople say that isn’t true.
After the Supreme Court’s decision labeling Obamacare’s mandate a tax, the IRS has become the crucial centerpiece of President Obama’s health care rollout. But with the IRS’ targeting of conservative non-profits, Republicans are calling into question the agency’s involvement in
According to local news reports on Friday, several people have been wounded including a gunman at Santa Monica College, just a few miles from President Obama’s fundraiser in the city. Secret Service was notified, but the incident did not disturb
On Friday, President Barack Obama defended secret programs to monitor Americans’ phone calls, emails, and other internet activities, labeling them “modest encroachments” on privacy. “In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother, and how this is a potential program
During his speech in San Jose, California on Friday, President Obama took one question from the press on national security monitoring of Americans. Without any sense of irony whatsoever in the aftermath of the IRS’ targeting of conservatives, the administration’s
On Friday, President Obama took one question at a speech in northern California. Naturally, the question was about breaking information that the Obama administration has been monitoring Americans’ communications, including email exchanges. President Obama first said that all the stories
When the UK Guardian reported on Wednesday that the Obama National Security Administration had been issued a blanket surveillance order allowing it to seize millions of Americans’ phone records, Obama defenders quickly assured Americans that the request seizures did not
