A woman on a Pentagon tour bus who began vomiting later informed officials she had recently been in Africa, prompting a hazmat team to be dispatched and a portion of the Pentagon parking lot to be sealed off. According to
The number of lawmakers backing a travel ban for incoming travel from Ebola “hot zone” countries has jumped from a bipartisan group of 26 members of Congress to 70, reports The Hill. The congressional coalition, made up mostly of Republicans,
Embattled Center for Disease Control Director Dr. Thomas Frieden told lawmakers on Thursday that Ebola is not a significant threat to America. “We remain confident that Ebola is not a significant public health threat to the United States,” Frieden said
A White House petition to halt travel from Ebola-stricken countries into the U.S. has jumped by over 15,000 signatures in just three days, bringing its total number of signatures to 37,062. The explosion in signatures comes as a second American,
The director of the University of Minnesota’s prestigious Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) tells CNN that the possibility of airborne Ebola is the sum of all fears. In a piece by CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) tells The Hill it will suspend buying ads to support Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes’ bid to unseat Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). “The DSCC has now spent more than $2 million in
On Tuesday, former Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Patrick Cannon will face sentencing after admitting to taking at least $50,000 in bribes from strip club mogul David “Slim” Baucom and federal agents. Cannon, a Democrat, will become the first chief executive
A German hospital confirmed on Tuesday that a United Nations worker has died from Ebola eight days after testing positive. St. Georg hospital in Leipzig says after undergoing “intensive medical procedures,” an unnamed 56-year-old man died from the Ebola infection
Democrats are yanking vital campaign advertising dollars from vulnerable Democratic candidates and shifting them to other races with better odds. The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that the Democratic Party has cut back $2.8 million in campaign spending in northern
A Gallup poll finds that 65% of Democratic voters remain confident their party will maintain control of the U.S. Senate–a position that may spell shock and disappointment if new statistical projections prove accurate. According to Gallup, Americans as a whole
A White House petition urging the Obama administration to change its position on allowing flights from Ebola-stricken countries into the United States has received 22,262 signatures in less than two weeks. The petition states: “Experts had stated it was ‘highly
On Sunday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blasted President Barack Obama for protecting big-money crony capitalists on Wall Street, instead of average families on Main Street. “He picked his economic team and when the going got tough, his economic team picked
The nation’s largest union and professional association of nurses said it will rise up in protest if hazardous-material suits are not in every hospital soon. “I’m angry about this,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United. “We want
A spate of new Senate projections shows Republicans widening the electoral map and increasing their chances of a GOP takeover. On Monday, the The Washington Post‘s Election Lab forecast showed Republicans with a 94% chance of winning the Senate and
Former Bill Clinton strategist Dick Morris says former Obama Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s latest book, Worthy Fights, is part of a coordinated strategy to set Hillary Clinton up for success come the 2016 presidential race. “I think Hillary put
A top Democratic strategist tells The Hill President Barack Obama “should take a flamethrower to his office,” clean house, and begin with new staff. Democrats have struggled to defend and explain Obama’s plunging popularity–a trend that stands to threaten vulnerable
According to the Washington Post, the embattled Centers for Disease Control (CDC) did not consider America’s second Ebola patient “high risk” and had followed all the CDC’s precautions “including a gown, gloves, mask and protective face shield.” “We’re very concerned,”
A Texas health care worker who helped the nation’s first Ebola victim, the now-deceased Thomas Eric Duncan, has tested positive for the deadly virus, health officials announced on Sunday. “We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme
Nearly 200 New York airline cabin cleaners walked off the job at LaGuardia Airport in protest over the Obama administration’s refusal to temporarily halt airline travel from West Africa into the U.S. “We are always with feces and near garbage,”
Thousands of Iowans are now facing double-digit health insurance premium hikes due to Obamacare. On Wednesday, the Des Moines Register reported that the state’s insurance commissioner has approved Des Moines-based Wellmark to hike its rates between 11.9% and 14.5%. The
Tens of thousands of Louisianans are bracing for double-digit health insurance premium hikes as high as 19.7% due to Obamacare. The Times-Picayune reported on Wednesday that Louisiana’s largest health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, plans to increase the rates
A pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC has launched a massive digital initiative designed to enlist three million Clinton supporters to scare off Democratic challengers from entering the 2016 presidential fray. According to The Hill, the Ready for Hillary super-PAC spent over a
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown told the New York Times that the best and only place for Democrats to deploy President Barack Obama heading into the midterm elections is with black voters. “I’d have Obama on an evangelistic schedule
Former President Jimmy Carter slammed President Barack Obama on Tuesday for his early inaction in combating the Islamic State (ISIS) terror network. “We waited too long,” Carter told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “We let the Islamic State build up its
A Gallup poll released Wednesday finds that the number of Democrats who say Obamacare has hurt them more than doubled in the last five months. In May, just 6% of Democrats said Obamacare hurt them. Now, 15% of Democrats polled
A dramatic new political advertisement underscoring the plight of unemployed Millennial voters is taking aim at vulnerable Democratic senators who aligned themselves with President Barack Obama’s economic policies. The ad, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, takes a striking new approach
Disgracedformer IRS official Lois Lerner attempted to barge into a neighbor’shome to dodge questions about her role in the targeting of conservativeand Tea Party groups and her infamous missing emails. Jason Mattera, author of the new book Crapitalism: Liberals Who
The New York Times reported on Saturday that Dublin, Ohio residents are so worried their town’s young people may “succumb to the Islamic State’s savvy social media appeal to join its fight on the battlefields in Iraq and Syria” that
The government’s newly released food stamp enrollment figures reveal that the number of individuals in America on food stamps has topped 46 million for 35 consecutive months. According to the Department of Agriculture, the number of individuals in July (the most
Pennsylvania seniors are expressing outrage as their health insurance premiums skyrocket and in some cases more than double due to Obamacare. “I was shocked,” Charles Stull, a 74-year-old retired teacher from Mt. Lebanon told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. “I’m thinking
America’s third largest wireless company announced on Friday a fresh round of firings that will cost the company $160 million in severance related expenses. The job firings come as President Barack Obama touted his economic policies last week in a
A new Associated Press poll finds that Americans lack confidence in the U.S. government’s ability to protect them across a wide range of issues ranging from economic instability to terrorist attacks. “I think what we’ve got going on here in
A new Gallup survey finds opposition to the President of the United States, now Barack Obama, at a 16-year high. When respondents were asked whether their vote in the upcoming midterm elections is meant to “send a message” that you
In an interview with NewsMax TV, former Bill Clinton strategist Dick Morris blasted President Barack Obama for not attending 58% of his daily intelligence briefings, a revelation from a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report. “It’s worth noting that Obama
On Tuesday, conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin called for an investigation into the contents of President Barack Obama’s daily intelligence briefings that warned of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) rise years ago–a claim substantiated by Obama’s own national security
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said on Wednesday that he was “dumbfounded” by the recent Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report that revealed President Barack Obama has attended just 42% of his daily intelligence briefings. “I am dumbfounded at that statistic,” said
The Obama administration found itself scrambling on Tuesday to defend President Barack Obama for his lackluster 42% attendance record on daily intelligence briefings, a finding from a new report issued by the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI). When asked about
A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.
California’s narrow Obamacare networks have many Obamacare customers experiencing buyer’s remorse over health care plans that are turning out to include far fewer doctors than they were led to believe, reports the Los Angeles Times. “Where was the state in
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll finds that, despite President Barack Obama’s promises to the contrary, 72% of Americans believe the United States will end up using combat troops in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS). Americans were
