President Maduro attempted to dampen protests his week by extending the Carnival holiday to include Thursday and Friday. But thousands of protesters went into the streets anyway. What follows are some images that appeared on Twitter today: Anti-government demonstrators protest
Harry Reid claimed Wednesday that all of the Obamacare “horror stories” are false. But a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released the same day found that 29 percent of people who say they have personal knowledge of the law’s impact said
Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed Venezuelan protest leader Leopoldo Lopez, said this week she believes Venezuela has become a “dictatorship.” “As a woman, as a wife and as a mother, I am convinced we are living under a dictatorship,” she
A video posted to You Tube yesterday shows the kind of violence against protesters that is becoming more common in Venezuela. A member of a riot police squad in Valencia first sits on the chest of a young woman, trapping
One of the major factors driving protests in Venezuela is the high rate of inflation which means the purchasing power of the Bolivar has dropped substantially. Currently inflation is 3-4 percent per month, which works out to an annual rate
Four million people have now enrolled in private health plans under Obamacare according to President Obama. There is still an asterisk on that number as it includes hundreds of thousands of people who insurers report did not pay a premium
The White House may have been lucky that so few of the Obamacare exchanges worked last October. Newly revealed documents show that CMS staffers were aware of security flaws which made connecting them to federal databases a “high risk” proposition
Monday Senator Marco Rubio delivered a blockbuster speech on political repression in Cuba and Venezuela which touched on recent events including the death of 22-year-old Genesis Carmona. The speech makes him the most outspoken U.S. politician on the subject of
Would the progressive left in America tolerate the behavior of Venezuela’s President Maduro if it were taking place here in America? In a new piece at The Daily Beast writer Michael Moynihan suggests defenders of the Venezuelan regime should think
The young man who carried injured beauty queen Genesis Carmona to the hospital on the back of a motorcycle disputes the government’s claim that she was shot by a fellow protester. He says the shots came from a group of
President Nicolas Maduro’s ability to maintain control in Venezuela comes down to his internal intelligence network which keeps an eye and a lid on dissent. That network is heavily assisted by experts sent over from Cuba. Douglas Farah, who was
Friday Human Rights Watch published a long piece critical of the government of Venezuela, saying it had adopted “tactics of an authoritarian regime.” HRW director Jose Vivanco said “The Venezuelan government has openly embraced the classic tactics of an authoritarian
The toilet paper revolution. That’s the assessment of Fusion reporter Mariana Atencio. In the following report she explains just how serious shortages have become in Venezuela. People are forced to line up at 4 a.m. for a chance to get
Pop star Madonna weighed in on events in Venezuela and Ukraine Thursday, launching an attack against President Maduro via Instagram. Beside a picture of Maduro, Madonna wrote: Apparantly Maduro is not familiar with the phrase “Human Rights”! Facism is alive
Price controls, a government bureaucracy to set profits, and prison for “capitalist parasites.” In the past five months Venezuela has become a socialist autocracy which only insures things will continue to get worse. In 2013 Venezuela had a 56 percent
During a stop at a coffee shop in Minneapolis Wednesday, Vice President Biden said problems with Obamacare enrollment meant the final tally could be lower than expected. “Initially we talked about by the end of this period having seven million
Tuesday Venezuelan opposition leader Leopold Lopez turned himself in to police who were seeking him on charges of terrorism and murder. Lopez helped organize massive student protests against President Maduro last week, demanding Venezuela’s socialist government do something about crime,
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf fired back Wednesday morning at criticism from the White House over his most recent economic report. The White House and CBO disagree over the effect raising the minimum wage would have on employment. The
Venezuelans sick of high crime and higher rates of inflation have been protesting President Maduro’s socialist regime. Tens of thousands have marched in the streets in all of Venezuela’s cities and several have been killed by motorcycle riding government loyalists.
One of my favorite SNL skits of all time is Chris Farley as motivational speaker Matt Foley. He’s the guy who lives in a van down by the river. Collider highlights a video uploaded to You Tube Monday which shows
John Dickerson is the political director for CBS News and also a political correspondent for Slate. Monday he wrote a piece suggesting that everyone would be better off not mentioning Monica Lewinsky, or any other event in Bill Clinton’s history,
Since the death of Hugo Chavez in March 2013, Nicolas Maduro has continued to run the government along socialist lines. As you’ll see, that approach still has fans in the country but recently there have been massive street protests against
Wendy Davis must be dizzy from all the spinning she’s done this week on the question of abortion. Tuesday morning the Dallas Morning News reported that Davis had said she could support a 20-week ban on abortion, just not the
More than half of the people who called Covered California’s phone support in December received a busy signal. For those who heard a ring, wait times often exceeded 45 minutes leading more than half of all callers to simply give
This week Wendy Davis announced that she would not object in principle to a 20 week ban on abortion saying she would “prefer” it not happen except in cases of a grave threat to the woman’s health or severe fetal
