Dan Riehl

With Congressional approval running near all-time lows and Obama’s own numbers too low to help them, “Do you like your Senator, or Representative” may prove to be a resounding question in 2014. The clincher is tying that to Obama and

It seems Esquire magazine reached out to House Speaker John Boehner for an endorsement to include in their January issue and Boehner chose having breakfast at a diner. No word on whether or not Speaker Boehner enjoys a spot of

In a stunning reversal, George Zimmerman’s girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe, is requesting that recent charges against him be dropped and now claims she felt intimidated by police during questioning that led to charges being filed against Zimmerman. She also states she

Apparently, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer got the new memo and has stopped calling the Affordable Care Act  “ObamaCare,” though like many others including the White House, he had no problem doing so not all that long ago. Today a

Invoking the words of Rock Hill Herald Editor Paul Osmundson, who said, “The leader of the free world should be willing to be photographed by a free news media,” McClatchy newspaper editors will no longer  ublish photographs issued by the White

Pronouncing it, “Simply unacceptable,” senior aides on the Hill, many of them working for Democrats that forced ObamaCare on America, are now being hit by sticker shock as a result of the very legislation that helped pass. It’s so bad,

Talk about defining success down. The White House is doing that very thing when it comes to their massive failure of a website. White House spokesperson Jay Carney announced today that an 80% failure rate for HealthCare.gov would be considered

Traditionally, students at America’s universities and colleges were able to take advantage of “bare bones” health insurance policies; that’s no longer an option thanks to ObamaCare. The schools are now forces to choose between offering more expensive coverage, or none at

With a government shutdown that worked in Democrat’s favor now in the rear-view mirror and the nation focused closely on the tremendous early failure of Barack Obama’s signature initiative, ObamaCare, Democrats are increasingly desperate to change the subject. The irony

According to the New York Times, “virtually every vote cast by black New Yorkers” went to Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, who captured 96 percent of NYC’s black vote. That’s a larger percentage that David N. Dinkins, the city’s first black Mayor,

The federal data hub that connects ObamaCare to the IRS and enables data checks during the enrollment process will be going down for four days beginning Saturday night. The site needs to be taken off-line for upgrades and repairs according

The Hill posits that, with more of Obama’s agenda either hamstrung, or dead because of Congressional in-fighting, the EPA’s ability to skirt the legislative process trhough rule-making may provide him his best shot for a long-term legacy. … there’s one

The Democrat-controlled New Jersey state legislature place a constitutional amendment on the ballot this year which would raise the state’s minimum wage on Jan. 1 and then every year there after. That was after trying to strike a deal with

White House regulatory official Howard Shelanski announced that the Obama administration is making  additional changes to  a metric that helps regulators estimate the value of rules that cut greenhouse gas emissions. It’s launching a public comment period “in response to public and stakeholder

Self-proclaimed never wrong wise and wonderful wizard of wonkishness, Paul Krugman was recently dismissing the silly notion of so called ObamaCare sticker shock. As usual, he blew it. You see, all the recent news on health costs has been good.

Claiming that American intelligence gathering activities he exposed represented “systematic violations of law by my government that created a moral duty to act,” fugitive contractor Edward Snowden is asking the American government to grant him clemency. Snowden reportedly made the appeal

Along with documenting the many technical failures of Obama’s so called signature website Healthcare.gov, this CBS New York item reports the Obama sticker shock many Garden State college students now face thanks to the increasingly misleadingly named Affordable Care Act. New Jersey built

With support from teachers’ unions such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, liberals like Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) are opposing a bill that would help protect school children from the possibility of being exposed to criminals,

Rasmussen reports that more than half of U.S. voters polled want to delay the requirement that everyone must purchase health insurance. The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on October 22-23, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling

CBS News is reporting that one of the so-called ‘fixes’ recently applied to HealthCare.gov is behind people being given incorrect pricing information. In some cases, the actual costs of insurance can be twice as much as what the website would

Ironically, an administration that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a botched healthcare website is suddenly claiming to have been careful and “precise” when it comes to drone strikes overseas said to have killed dozens of civilians. The real

With the IRS now claiming that tax refunds will be delayed because of the recent government shut-down, it’s worth highlighting that the same was true last year. A 2014 delay would mark the second time in as many years that

How Washington politicians use so called ‘Leadership PACs’ to skirt previously adopted ethics reform rules was one key topic touched upon tonight in a 60 Minutes investigative report by veteran CBS reporter Steve Kroft and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President