The amount of food stamp benefits families in Ohio receive will drop $50 a month based on new US Department of Agriculture calculations. The monthly amount each household is offered under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — commonly known as
Unnamed sources tell Fox News that the CIA Annex in Benghazi held three Libyan militia members for days and that retrieving these detainees may have been a motive for the September 11th attack on the nearby US consulate. The new
LA Weekly recounts the story of Deputy District Attorney Patrick Frey, the well-known conservative blogger Patterico, being SWATted last summer. SWATting is the practice of impersonating someone to call in a fake 911 emergency. The result is armed police showing up,
Eric Holder says he has not decided whether he will continue as Attorney General during Obama’s second term in office. Holder was speaking to a group of law students at the University of Baltimore Thursday. He indicated he will speak
Obamacare did not help the President get reelected Tuesday, but exit polls suggest the narrative that Obama cares more may have been the difference between winning and losing. We’ve all heard the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” coined by James
Democrats won big in California Tuesday night in both state legislative chambers while also seeing tax-increasing initiatives passed on the state’s ballot. Voters in California passed Proposition 30, a tax increase designed to prevent $6 billion in budget cuts to
Senator Harry Reid is outraged by Republican obstructionism in the Senate. He has also pledged himself to Democratic obstruction in the Senate should Mitt Romney win the White House. Will the real Harry Reid please stand up? Two months ago,
F.H. Buckley wrote the book on the social meaning of humor. The Morality of Laughter, published in 2003, was his attempt to collate and systematize not only what makes us laugh but why it makes us laugh. Last week, I
On Tuesday, residents of Georgia will be voting on a ballot initiative to create a state commission which can authorize charter schools outside the normal political process in the state. Teacher’s unions are against the measure which would mean more
Pew Research released a survey of 2012 media coverage Friday which shows the three major networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — are more favorable in their coverage of President Obama than Mitt Romney. In its survey, Pew examined the
US staff in Benghazi held an emergency meeting to discuss security issues less than a month prior to the deadly 9/11 attack. A cable summarizing the meeting warned of the compound’s vulnerability to a “coordinated attack” and indicated that additional
Here’s one more historical curiosity to observe this election cycle. Since election day was standardized in 1845 there have been 6 presidential elections held on November 6th and Republicans have won all six. That means next Tuesday, the 7th Presidential
Even as the streets of Manhattan were flooding and hundreds of thousands of residents lost power Monday night, the New York Times turned its attention back to national politics. It published a misleading editorial attacking Gov. Romney and in defense
Update: The police incident report which I noted below has been updated this afternoon as follows: In an interview this afternoon with Madison Police detectives, the victim in this case recanted his earlier statements in regards to this crime. This
The state of Illinois and the nation of Greece have similar sizedpopulations. They also face similarly dire financial problems according to anew report by Illinois’ State Budget Crisis Task Force. The report callsIllinois’ budget “a mess” and says unfunded liabilities
The release yesterday of an Obama for America ad featuring Lena Dunham discussing her “first time” in a voting booth caused a flare on Twitter yesterday, but for the most part the major media has ignored the ad and the
Obama made a major immigration speech last year casting the need for reform in economic terms and explicitly connecting it to jobs and the middle class. But the glossy jobs booklet the President is promoting in swing-state appearances makes no
A shopkeeper in Chicago came to work one morning and found the word “racist” scrawled in lipstick on the window of his bead shop. The vandalism was in response to a hand-written political sign the owner had placed in his
Schools across the country have announced they are cancelling Halloween activities this year. These decisions are being made by administrators, often with little or no input from parents. Administrators claim they want to focus on academics but also note “religious
One question that did not come up in Monday’s foreign policy debate was the President’s use of drones to target specific individuals, including American citizens, for death – aka, the president’s “kill list.” When asked about it in the spin room
Two stories published this week note that Democrats are increasingly uneasy as they see challenger Mitt Romney surging in the polls. While Democrats still expect Obama to pull off a win, there is a dawningrealization that this is not going
Just over two hours after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi began on Sep. 11, the White House Situation Room was notified that a militant group with connections to al Qaeda had claimed responsibility, undermining claims by the
Once the left invents a gaffe they never let it go. There’s a good example of that at Huff Post yesterday where a post on political blunders includes Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric. Huff Post claims Palin’s statements about
Scott Adams, the creator of the popular comic strip “Dilbert,” endorsed Mitt Romney on his blog Wednesday. The reaction he received from liberal news sites was predictably outraged and, in Adams’ hands, hilarious. Adams chronicled the results of his announcement
Three years ago, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave an interview which made some unintentional news when she discussed Roe v. Wade in terms of limiting “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” This Friday, the
