The Senate confirmed 36 year-old Dr. Vivek Murthy in a 51-43 vote over the objections of Republicans, gun rights groups and even some Democrats. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday bucked Democratic leadership to vote against the controversial surgeon general
The Hollywood Reporter bills them as “5 of Hillary Clinton’s Biggest Hollywood Confidants,” and most go back with Hillary Clinton a long time. They include Designing Women creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Mary Steenburgen, who campaigned with Hillary in 2008. “When
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) raised a point of order in the US Senate Saturday evening. Heritage Action’s Michael A. Needham explained it this way. “If Senators are opposed to President Obama’s executive action on immigration, they should vote in favor of
Former Florida Gov Jeb Bush “plans to release 250,000 emails from his time as Florida governor, part of an e-book that he is writing as he mulls taking the plunge on a 2016 presidential bid”. Given that he was employed
If you believe everything old can be new again, then you’ll appreciate the Bush family, this time in the person of Jeb Bush, mapping out the same old plan that gave Democrat Barack Obama two terms in the White House
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) tends to talk a good game when it comes to taking on Barack Obama, especially when it comes to immigration. But now with the battle lines being drawn on the Republican side between conservatives and the
Underneath everything else going on as regards the current firestorm on Capitol Hill over a so called bi-partisan $1.1 trillion spending bill, distrust seems to be the order of the day and it’s hard to argue there isn’t good reason
Rubio recently gathered with his top fundraisers to highlight their importance and talk about the possibility of making a White House run in 2016, saying “he expected to make a decision in the first quarter of 2015.” “He was pretty
With four additional states joining “a Texas-led coalition suing the Obama administration over executive action on immigration,” almost half of the nation is now suing the federal government on the issue. Arkansas, Michigan, North Dakota and Oklahoma are the latest
Not everyone in the Senate is happy as the House advances a “$1.1 trillion spending package” to the Senate where it’s expected to pass but not without potential delay and some contentious debate. Some Republicans are upset because “the bill
The Federal Communications Commission will spend another $1.5 billion a year on “high-speed Internet in schools and libraries,” relying on a tax increase to fund it. FCC Republicans aren’t actually opposed to the measure. Their argument is that the spending
It may not be a match made in heaven but then little of Washington, D.C. these days seems heavenly. Enter Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) calling on House Democrats “to use their leverage and reject a bipartisan spending bill to keep the
Donald Trump is adding his name to a list of Republicans who will be visiting Iowa next month. He’s slated to attend a dinner party “with Gov. Terry Branstad and Steve Bruere, the president of Peoples Company, a land brokerage firm”.
If a Republican administration had to endure the headlines on this, a single day in the life of a presidency, the media would be pronouncing said administration and any further policy initiatives dead on arrival. Instead, the as usual Obama
Given that rank and file federal workers may be best positioned to assess what type of leadership we have in government, that they are “increasingly dismayed by what they see as weak leadership across government” based upon a new survey
According to a new Bloomberg poll, “a majority of Americans, 53 percent, say the interactions between the white and black communities have deteriorated” since Obama took office back in 2008. But can you blame them? In the six years since
Courtesy of Powerline blog it appears that Columbia Law School is allowing students the opportunity to petition for a delay in exam administration in cases where students are “claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments
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
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 President George W. Bush recently said it was “hard to understand” a New York grand jury’s decision to not indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, a 300-plus pound black man whose death in New York during a
Per the Christian Science Monitor, “If Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana loses her runoff election on Saturday, there will be no more white Democrats from the Deep South in the Senate. Racial polarization of the two main parties has
Both House and Senate Republican leadership appears poised to sell-out it’s base to both keep the government open, while giving Barack Obama complete freedom to move forward with his controversial executive orders. The “cromnibus” represents “a combination of a long-term
Barack Obama reacted to the grand jury in New York opting to not to bring criminal charges in the case of Eric Garner with an extended statement. “It is incumbent upon all of us as Americans, regardless of race, region,
Within hours of a Staten Island grand jury deciding against indicting police officers in the death of Eric Garner, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a Justice Department civil rights investigation into the death. The quick response may suggest to some that Holder’s
An individual meeting the CDC definition of a “person under investigation” of having the ebola virus is being treated at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital according to Public Affairs Officer Noah Brown. Director Of Emergency Preparedness at MGH, Dr. Paul Biddinger confirmed the individual
