Ron Fournier, usually a dependable Barack Obama acolyte, has attacked the President in the National Journal this week for his apparent indifference to Vladimir Putin’s motivations as he seizes Crimea. Fournier writes: On a playground or in a bar, the
On Tuesday, Reid announced he would reimburse his campaign, Friends of Harry Reid, the $17,000 they gave his granddaughter for “holiday gifts,” but the Federal Election Commission is not satisfied. A spokeswoman for the FEC acknowledged that Reid’s plan to reimburse
France’s supreme court ruled that women’s high heels can make their driving dangerous. The court decided that a woman driver who was wearing high heels when she crashed into another car, killing a three-year-old girl and injuring three others, was
An enormous rat measuring almost 16 inches, without counting its tail, terrified a Swedish family and its cat. In Solna, north of Stockholm, Signe Bengtsson told The Local that the family cat was too frightened to enter the kitchen. She stated: “We
Vladimir Putin’s popularity is cresting again in his native Russia, according to the independent Levada Center. His approval rating now stands at 80%, with only 18% of Russians disapproving. The last time Putin was so popular in Russia was in 2008,
Chris Evans, alias Captain America, who signed a six-movie deal in 2010 as mild-mannered Steve Rogers, has completed three films as the character, but now he wants to direct films. He just directed his first feature, a $3 million love
Forced by the Federal Election Commission to explain where $17,000 from his campaign went, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid acknowledged giving the money to his granddaughter for “holiday gifts” in late 2013, and finally reimbursed the money to his campaign.
The Environmental Protection Agency has come up with a way to execute one of the biggest land grabs by the federal government ever perpetrated on the American public. On Tuesday, the EPA proposed a change to the Clean Water Act
Fisker Automotive, the electric car manufacturer that received a $529 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration in 2009 and then went belly-up, forcing the government to lose $139 million on its loan, admitted Monday it had sold virtually all
The U.S. has scheduled 1,150 Marines to move to Darwin, Australia in April, as part of a “rebalancing” of the Asia-America axis. This move is adding to the 200 that are already there. The plan is to eventually have up to 2,500 US
Jimmy Carter, thinker extraordinaire, has weighed in on what causes the abuse of women and girls, and he has found the answer: religion. Appearing on Meet the Press with Andrea Mitchell, Carter decided to grace the western world with the
Bloomberg News editor Ben Richardson has left the company because one of his reporters, Michael Forsythe, wrote an investigative piece about higher-ups in China that was spiked by top editors for fear it would offend Chinese brass. Richardson, the editor-at-large
Michelle Obama’s China trip with her two daughters and her mother is going swimmingly except that there is one item she simply cannot find- a T-shirt with an image of Barack Obama wearing a Mao hat. The Weekly Standard reported
France’s far-right National Front party saw a resurgence on Sunday in the first round of local elections, damaging the chances of the ruling Socialist party in the process. The chief center-right UMP party took 47% of the vote; the Socialists
If your country is invaded by Russia, with thousands of its troops occupying your homeland, don’t expect much from the Obama administration, but if you pass anti-gay laws, the Obama Administration will act faster than you can say “Uganda.” After
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s office stated on Sunday that state agencies won’t immediately recognize the huge number of same-sex marriages that were performed Saturday just before a federal appeals court delayed overturning the state’s 2004 constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Colin Chisholm III and his wife Andrea, who received over $165,000 in public assistance from the state of Minnesota between 2005 and 2012 while living on a yacht in Florida, have been charged with fraud, and a manhunt is underway
The White House, joined by Democratic senators and congressmen, ismounting a three-part effortto push for Obamacare enrollment in the last week before open enrollment ends. Thepush will include using Facebook, Twitter, and other social media with thehashtag #healthcare4all; events at which
Tanisha Ross-Paige, a former St. Louis police officer, won a staggering $7.5 million judgment from the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners through a sexual harassment claim. Her settlement may be the largest payout for such a case in Missouri
A concerted effort to attack the Koch brothers is being mounted by the Democratic Party in their desperate attempt to keep control of the Senate in 2014. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the point man as the party has
The state of New York now has something else to brag about: the state has the highest percentage of cigarettes smuggled in illegally in the country, according to a study from the Tax Foundation. The foundation surmises that the reason
Apparently, the new Captain America: The Winter Soldier movie does a wonderful job of reducing the fictional forces for good in America to the same moral level as the evil forces confronting them. Alonso Duralde, The Wrap’s lead movie critic, pontificates:
Everybody poops; just ask Sesame Street, which now features a new muppet, Raya, whose mission appears to be alerting the world to its poop problems. The Sesame Workshop released a statement detailing the horrific problems around the planet. The Workshop stated
A Twitter page titled @LIPartyStories is devoted to Long Island teenagers from Nassau and Suffolk counties posting snapshots of themselves imbibing in alcohol and acting in vulgar ways. One photo showed a female high school student urinating in a sink while
Barack Obama, appearing on Monday’s edition of Ellen, with Ellen Degeneres, made a curious threat to his daughters if they ever get tattoos- he and wife Michelle will get tattoos in the same spot as their daughters. Obama said, “I
