Former UN Ambassador Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) admitted that the Obama administration broke what he called an “impractical” law by not notifying Congress of the planned prisoner swap to arrange the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Richardson was
Soldiers who served with Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the American soldier in Afghanistan released in exchange for five Taliban members held in Guantanamo Bay, regard him as a deserter — and some want to put him on trial. The Taliban held Bergdahl
I had a nasty feeling the good news about the imminent release of Christian woman Meriam Ibrahim by the Islamofascist regime in Sudan might not hold up. Sure enough, CNN reports today that what passes for a “government” in Sudan
Last Friday Breitbart Texas reported on Andrew Tahmooressi, a 25-year-old marine who was imprisoned in Mexico for having illegal guns in his car. Tahmooressi claims he was driving to San Ysidro, California to meet a fellow veteran and accidentally took a
On May 30 Brinker International, owner of Chili’s brand, asked that customers no longer openly carry firearms in their restaurants. At the same time, they said they “will continue to follow state and local laws on this issue.” Question: What
In a statement released by the White House, Saturday, the president announced the release of U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held captive in Afghanistan for nearly five years. Bergdahl was released in exchange for five Guantanamo prisoners, authorities said. “On
Great news, if the BBC report holds up: Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian woman sentenced to be whipped and hanged for “apostasy” because her father was Muslim, is going to escape the noose. As I mentioned on Friday, Ibrahim is
Turkish police detained me and my crew in the middle of a live report in Taksim Square. One officer kneed me in the butt. — Ivan Watson (@IvanCNN) May 31, 2014 After detaining the reporter and his crew for half
Friday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) discussed today’s release of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “Hard Choices” Benghazi chapter, which was obtained by Politico. Clinton’s sneak peak was roundly criticized as an attempt to move on
Los Angeles Times sports writer Bill Plaschke is scratching his head, wondering how the woefully mediocre Los Angeles Clippers managed to garner a staggering $2 billion dollar offer from former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer. According to the Times, the deal
When scandal breaks, President Obama usually claims he first read about it in the news. But in this case the President claims he missed news reports and more than a dozen GAO and OIG reports highlighting wait times as a
The University of Kentucky sports equipment staff announced that they just received the largest pair of basketball shoes they have ever ordered. The size-20 Nike sneakers are for 6’11” incoming freshman Wildcat Karl Anthony-Towns, who according to one kinesiologist could
On CNN’s “AC360” on Thursday, House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) warned that it will taking more than just relieving current embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shenseki to overcome the agency’s hospital woes. Miller told host Anderson
Google released a report on Wednesday outlining the demographic information about their employees, called “Getting to work on diversity at Google.” According to the report, 70% of Google’s employees are male, and 61% are white. Asian-Americans make up 30% of
When you brazenly cheat on your wife, make racist comments about African Americans, and oversee one of the most consistently pathetic franchises in sports, you’re not going to win any popularity contests. A new survey by E-Poll Market Research found
Nothing about the current VA scandal is new. Not the wait times, not the abuse of scheduling procedures, not even the deaths of veterans waiting for appointments. All of this has been previously reported as far back as 2001 in
Sen. Thad Cochran has been hard to access in the last stretch of his campaign against state Senator Chris McDaniel. For example, he played an elaborate game of “bait and switch” with a respected CNN reporter to avoid an interview.
May Ratings: 3 A.M. ‘RedEye’ Crushes Most Everything On CNN The cable news ratings are out for the month of May. For left-wing CNN, the news was especially bad. The sinking network continues its sink. Fox News is not only
CNN’s Drew Griffin, one of the first reporters who took on the Veterans Administration hospital waiting time scandal, stated that the VA scandal was a “political bomb” that both parties believed the Obama administration was handling poorly in an appearance
CNN’s left-wing bias appears to know no bounds. Even though the economy shrinking by a full 1% in the first quarter of 2014 means very real pain for very real people living in a very real economy that has remained
CNN’s obsessive exploitation of the tragic disappearance of 227 souls on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 did, for a time, manage to pull the left-wing network out of its ratings freefall, but that all ended in the month of May
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its revised assessment of the first quarter of 2014’s Gross Domestic Product and revised it down to -1%. The initial assessment said the economy had at least grown, but only by .01%. Real gross
A series of acoustic transmissions at the heart of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are no longer believed to have come from the plane’s black box, a US navy official said on Thursday. The Navy’s deputy director
OLIVE BRANCH, Mississippi — Et tu, Jeppie? Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s brother Jeppie Barbour, the father of powerful political operatives Henry and Austin Barbour, endorsed state Sen. Chris McDaniel in the GOP Senate primary over longtime incumbent Sen. Thad
The president was given what has been described as an “icy reception” before, during and after his speech in front of cadets at their graduation ceremony at the US Military Academy at West Point, Wednesday, causing some to question the wisdom of
