On Tuesday night, President Obama gave what will go down as one of the most partisan State of the Union Addresses in American history. In consonance with his favorite tactic – citing widespread but nonexistent consensus in order to press
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address included few new or unexpected proposals, but many factually incorrect or misleading assertions. Here are the lowlights. “Corporate profits have rocketed to all-time highs – but for more than a decade, wages
In the modern political era, the party not controlling the White House gives an official “response” to the President’s State of the Union address. This year, FL Sen. Marco Rubio will present the “official” GOP response to Obama’s speech. In
Ahead of the President’s State of the Union speech, taxpayer funded National Public Radio (NPR) tried to help the White House push the false notion that the sequestration budget cuts was conceived by Republicans. In truth, it was initiated by
Valerie Jarrett admitted today that Obama has not talked to congressional leaders about the Sequester on NBC’s “Today” show…
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) will be attending Tuesday’s State of the Union address with Gabino Sanchez, an illegal immigrant who has received, according to Gutierrez’s office, “multiple misdemeanor charges for driving without a license by local police over the past
The University of Toledo (UT) Student Government held “a secret vote on Feb. 5” to shut down a resolution to allow concealed carry weapons on campus. Reports indicate that this resolution was shut down even though a poll of 5,000
Gun control is still en vogue. And it seems that former Congressman Gabby Giffords has cemented herself as the face of the campaign. Giffords’ new gun control ad come just ahead of the president’s State of the Union Address, where
Former Illinois Republican Rep. Joe Walsh plans to sue the Chicago Sun-Times for printing what he said “is a deliberate attempt to defame” him. Sun-Times reporter Natasha Korecki on Monday authored an article alleging Walsh, who lost his bid for
In his latest column, Thaddeus McCotter wrote: [M]any lament President Woodrow Wilson’s creation of the Federal Reserve Board and rampant internationalism. But these historical indictments pale before his presidency’s most notorious “unforeseen consequence”: He preempted Tuesday night’s episode of “Vegas.”
The U.S. military is warning that sequester cuts will reduce our armed forces to a state they haven’t been since Jimmy Carter was president. In memos sent to Congress, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) warned that, “Army brigades
The University of Toledo Student Government held a secret vote on February 5th which shut down a resolution brought by a group of students to repeal the concealed carry ban on campus and restore their Second Amendment rights. The resolution
(AP) How Obama is wielding executive power in 2nd termBy CALVIN WOODWARD and RICHARD LARDNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThis is what “Forward” looks like. Fast forward, even. President Barack Obama’s campaign slogan is springing to life in a surge of executive directives and
The saga of the Dominician port security deal that has embroiled Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and his friend and major donor Dr. Salomon Melgen began in December 2000 when retired Major General Javier Juan Rene Beauchamp, Commander of the Dominican Armed Forces
If you tally up all of the total receipts from all of the Republican candidates who ran for Congress in the 2012 Republican primary election, and then the total receipts of those candidates who then went on to run in
In a preview of his re-election campaign, President Barack Obama used his 2012 State of the Union address to describe a horrific past to which he would not let the nation return. “No, we will not go back to an
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced Friday that she will bring a fourth-grade girl from Newtown, CT to be her guest at the coming State of the Union Address. The mother of the fourth-grader will also attend. This particular
From The White House: President Obama urges Congress to act to avoid a series of harmful and automatic cuts–called a sequester–from going into effect that would hurt our economy and the middle class and threaten thousands of American jobs.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Hong Kong’s poor people live in metal cages Panetta: A cyber attack may be the next Pearl Harbor Comments and questions on the Libor-rigging scandal Generation-Xers versus Boomers Egypt’s PM warns women to clean
Reports surfaced Thursday that Jesse Jackson Jr., who resigned from Congress last year over an investigation into campaign fund misuse, was negotiating a plea deal that would include significant jail time. NBC Chicago is now confirming the deal is signed. From
In response to 420 For the GOP: Iowahawk, I totally agree. And in the famous words of Andre 3,000, “Marijuana illegal but cigarettes cool, I might look kinda funny but I ain’t no fool.” The GOP should take Cuccinelli’s lead.
A Washington, D.C. reverend suggested Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III was a “high price” slave – or commodity – in a country that has always treated “people of color” as “trophies.” Speaking on a Smithsonian panel on Thursday in
On Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said it could be “difficult” for the Senate to confirm Barack Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, if Congress did not receive documents from the
A new poll released today by Quinnipiac University bears ominous news for Republicans in Congress. For the first time, a majority of Republicans, 51%, disapprove of the job the GOP is doing in Congress. Just 41% of Republicans approve of
