Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) will take their “Preserving America’s Strength” town hall to Colorado on Tuesday to speak out against the looming budget cuts that may cut nearly $500 billion from defense over
TIME’s MARK HALPERIN: “David – Social Security came up last night on ’60 Minutes.’ Let me ask you in a second term, what is the president proposing to do to reform Social Security, save it for future generations, and will
Following an investigation that has lasted for a year-and-a-half, the Office of Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) finally released its report last week on Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration’s gun-walking program that led to
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a Tea Party Republican, announced on Friday that Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode will remain on Virginia’s presidential ballot. After the Republican Party of Virginia challenged Goode’s ballot qualifications, Cuccinelli’s office said the attorney general
More than 3100 people have commented on Tuesday’s Big Government post “Time for Ron Paul Fans to Support the Constitution.” Many agreed with my thesis that libertarians should support Mitt Romney to avoid a second Obama term, but many did
1. Stimulus, Feb. 2009 In 2008, Barack Obama promised to pass a $50 billion stimulus to help the faltering U.S. economy. Instead, he passed a $862 billion spending spree that funneled cash to state governments, Solyndra-type cronies, and Democrat special
For a textbook lesson on the absurdity of the regulatory rabbit hole the Obama administration has created, look no further than the EPA. Of course, that’s an obvious statement, but when the likes of Mother Jones are even second-guessing their
Republican lawmakers are calling for drastic reform in the Department of Justice following the inspector general’s report on Operation Fast & Furious. Fast & Furious was the government gun walking scheme that is linked to the deaths of Border Patrol Agent Brian
Hi, everybody. Last week, without much fanfare, Members of the House of Representatives banged a gavel, turned out the lights, and rushed home, declaring their work finished for now.If that frustrates you, it should – because their work isn’t finished.See,
Ask President Obama or, really, any random liberal about the deficit and their answer will make heavy use of the words “Bush,” “rich,” and “tax cuts.” The left has constructed a narrative that our fiscal house is in disarray because,
House Republicans rode into the majority on a Tea Party wave in 2010. Americans were rightly unhappy with the crony corporatism of the Obama administration, the overweening redistributionism of a Democratic Congress, and a myopically narrow appeal to the far
A new poll released by the American Jewish Congress shows Barack Obama’s popularity among Jewish voters in Florida is beginning to dip. Obama received 74% of the Jewish vote there in 2008, and that number has dipped to 69%. In
Yesterday, on the huge Spanish-language television network Univision, co-host Jorge Ramos grilled Barack Obama regarding the Fast and Furious scandal: You told me during an interview that you and Mr. Holder did not authorize the Fast and Furious operation that
The U.S. manufacturing industry, once the wonder of the world, is gasping for breath and barely clinging on to life support. The manufacturing industry had its weakest quarter in three years the last three months. And under the Obama Administration,
The House voted 250-164 to block the Obama administration’s rule change to the Welfare Reform Act on Thursday. Nineteen Democrats voted for the resolution as well. After the Obama administration made changes to the Welfare Reform Act, Sen. Orrin
Nearly every Republican senator went to the Senate floor Thursday to engage in a near hour-long colloquy, criticizing President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats for what they deemed failures in leadership, especially concerning the budget and the debt, defense cuts
Q Mr. President, you told me during an interview that you — Eric Holder or you did not authorize the Fast and Furious operation that allowed 2,000 weapons from the United States to Mexico, and they were in drug-trafficking hands.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chair of the House Oversight Committee, has come out firing today after reports about collusion between the Department of Justice and far-left propaganda machine Media Matters for America. The reports showed that DOJ officials and Media
Whoa, hey, wait just a second … Did I just hear President Hope and CHANGE correctly? Did President Hope and CHANGE really just say, The most important lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t change Washington from the inside. You
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke met with Senators on the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday in a closed-door meeting and urged the lawmakers to avoid taking the country off the so-called fiscal cliff and into a recession. Bernanke stressed this
The Inspector General of the Department of Justice says during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee that AG Eric Holder should have given over the “Fast and Furious” documents to Congress (September 20, 2012).
The IG report on Operation Fast & Furious has been released, but the scandal is far from over. The report raised more questions that need to be answered. The White House did not produce any internal communications and a member
CBS News reports that in Benghazi there was never an Anti-American protest at the American Consulate, just an attack. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will brief members of Congress behind closed doors about the attack in Libya that killed the
(AP) Justice Dept faulted in gun-trafficking operationBy PETE YOSTAssociated PressWASHINGTON The Justice Department’s internal watchdog on Wednesday faulted the agency for misguided strategies, errors in judgment and management failures during a bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that resulted in hundreds
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi encouraged Americans after the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act to quit their jobs to pursue creative and artistic ventures, many of which do not pay, because Obamacare would not keep them “job locked.”
