On Tuesday, 44 House Democrats joined Rep Jan Schakowsky in her bid to submit H.R. 261, legislation supporting a “public option.” When ObamaCare was passed in 2010, the “public option” was removed, but like the seven-headed Hydra, another head has
Senator James Inhofe, the second-highest-ranking member the Senate Armed Services Committee, has committed to opposing Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. This position constitutes a reversal of Inhofe’s earlier support and may have serious consequences for Hagel’s chances. Inhofe changed
How much do the Democrats want to spend your money? They are submitting a bill to eradicate the debt ceiling. They are also accusing Republicans who want to keep the debt limit instead of jettisoning it of “weaponizing” the debt
Leave it to Nancy Pelosi to rewrite the swearing-in oath members of Congress take, in order to further the Barack Obama gun control agenda. The House Minority Leader, speaking at a House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing on “Gun
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa started his war against gun companies Wednesday. Following Obama’s lead, Villaraigosa threatened departments in the city’s bureaucracy. The Mayor warned them to divest holdings, such as city pensions, that they have invested in any gun
How is Barack Obama making more and more people dependent on the federal government? Here’s one way: he has been stubbornly extending long-term unemployment benefits. What this means is that those out of work are not incentivized to look for
Experts are saying Iran will be able to make a nuclear bomb by mid-2014. The Project on U.S. Middle East Nonproliferation Strategy has authored a report analyzing the progress of Iranian nuclear technology. “Iran’s advancing nuclear program violates U.N. Security
With the growing divide in America between the secular and the religious, (thank you, President Barack Obama) there has been a growing demand for films that reflect religious themes. From The Passion of the Christ to the Narnia franchise, with the
During his Monday press conference, Barack Obama bizarrely claimed he needs to raise the debt ceiling because Congress won’t stop ordering him to spend money: This is a matter of Congress authorizes spending. They order me to spend. They tell
Remember those two tall buildings that dominated the skyline of New York City before 9/11? Some wanted to build a memorial on the site of the former World Trade Center after that horrifying day. Others wanted to leave the area
Even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is getting in on the act. He said Monday that we should get rid of the debt ceiling entirely: “It would be a good thing if we didn’t have it.” The debt now stands
Barack Obama has trotted out Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to claim that if the GOP refuses to raise the debt ceiling, the results will be catastrophic and that he has been using “extraordinary measures” to keep the U.S. economy afloat: Treasury
In the most cursory, superficial, trifling, desultory, half-assed, perfunctory, shallow, cut-rate, inadequate, insubstantial, meager, rinky-dink review of a book ever written, Justin Green, writing on David Frum’s blog, called Ben Shapiro’s Bullies “less a book than a marketing campaign for
How far will the federal government go to cover-up the fact that the Palestinian Authority (PA), which gets millions of dollars in aid from the United States, works hand in glove with terrorists who murder Israelis? This far: Richard Leon,
Big Boi, formerly part of the hip-hop duo Outkast, revealed that he voted for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson rather than Barack Obama, surprising at least one Caucasian woman. Big Boi, who is black, recounted the story: Well, I was leaving
Lady Gaga, pop star extraordinaire, worldwide phenomenon and professional weirdo, has now outraged both sides of the political aisle by wearing a machine-gun bra on stage at her concert in Vancouver. She wore two plastic assault rifles, one attached to
Anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment on American college campuses is growing as those leftist institutions join with the Left worldwide to stand against Israel. One of the groups fighting back is the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
At Globalchange.gov, a Federal Advisory Committee called The National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee (NCADAC) is boasting of their climate report. In the upper right corner of the webpage, the motto is written: “Thirteen Agencies, One Vision: Empower the
Oliver Stone, whose fury at America and desire to tear down American institutions has been on display for decades, has teamed with historian Peter Kuznick for the book and now Showtime series “Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States.”
CNN’s Reliable Sources panel is taking their orders well: ignore the Ben Shapiro-Piers Morgan debacle and play up the Morgan-Alex Jones interview. It’s a clever strategy that the left always uses; when they get creamed they pretend it never happened.
CNN, in an attempt to frame the gun debate as rational gun control advocates versus wild-eyed gun owners, posted two clips edited from the Ben Shapiro–Piers Moran wipeout, while at the same time posting the entire two-segment interview Morgan did
Evan S. Connell, the writer most noted for his masterpiece “Son of the Morning Star,” a biography of George Armstrong Custer, has died at the age of 88. Connell was an eclectic writer; unlike others he eschewed finding a successful
There have always been those who doubted the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the JFK assassination. Now, they have an interesting ally: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Because 2013 is the fiftieth anniversary of Kennedy’s murder,
In a clearly articulated, illuminating piece in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, authors David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey convincingly make the case that there are three prevalent myths bandied about by the Obama Administration with regard to the debt
In New York and Connecticut, Democratic governors used their State of the State speeches as opportunities for rip-roaring, hysterically emotional responses to the Sandy Hook massacre. Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy was blunt about his distaste for arming protectors of children
