WASHINGTON (AP) – A National Public Radio executive was captured on hidden camera calling the tea party movement racist and xenophobic and said NPR would be better off without federal funding, in an embarrassment likely to fuel the latest round
The numbers being floated around by President Obama and Congressional Democrats during this year’s budget battle are all spin and sleight of hand. Not that this should surprise anyone – the President has a history of using smoke and mirrors
Freshman Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin accused President Obama of sitting on the sidelines Tuesday while Congress debates “wildly different” budget bills that are expected to fail. “Our president has failed to lead this debate or offer a serious proposal for
From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress
We have discussed quite a bit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s December 21 unauthorized, unilateral Internet power grab – instigated and rammed through by its Chairman Julius Genachowski so as to impose the ridiculous notion that is Network Neutrality. We
I’m sitting in my campaign office working on a policy statement (I’m running for U.S. Senate in Virginia as a Republican Tea Party candidate) when the following headline from the Washington Times comes across my computer, “Government posts biggest monthly
Two members of Congress, two men whose families were devastated by a relative’s radicalization and two civic leaders with opposing views on Muslim community support for law enforcement will testify Thursday at the first hearing on Islamic radicalization in America.
From Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit on March 7, 2011, against Florida Democrat Congressman Alcee Hastings on behalf of a female employee who was repeatedly subjected to “unwelcome sexual advances,” “unwelcome touching” and retaliation.
Cenk Uygur former vlogger and now MSNBC talking head tries to prove the country is center left/liberal. [youtube aRDCkeYtaj0] To do so he brings the results from a few polls where citizens were asked how they would fix the budget.
Jeff Abramson, deputy director of the Arms Control Association, recently told Fortune Magazine: “There’s an Obama arms bazaar going on.” And it’s no exaggeration. Obama has personally pushed for large weapons sales such as the $4 billion aircraft deal with
So Al Gore has come around on the policy cancer that is ethanol, even as Newt Gingrich decides that telling the truth on this would be politically inconvenient. Yet the great strategist Mr. Gingrich does not see that support for
South of the Border Jalisco Govenror Emilio Gonzalez is accusing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of collaborating with the drug cartels because they refuse to support a security-bill. He asked members of the State Congress: “What did you receive? Did
They screamed, they begged, cajoled but everyone called them liars. Ever since the outline of the Obamacare began to be circulated people pointed out that the $500 billion dollars of Medicare savings were being double counted in the cost estimates.
Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee that oversees the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Oklahoma) introduced legislation to stop taxpayer subsidies to public radio and television. CPB-funded
One of the leading experts on Saudi Arabia poured cold water on the idea of the Arab uprisings spreading to the Kingdom at a speech Thursday, and finished his presentation with a bizarre rant against the U.S.-Saudi relationship and the
Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee that oversees the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Oklahoma) introduced legislation to stop taxpayer subsidies to public radio and television. CPB-funded
If I tried to do at my job what Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers did at theirs, I’d be fired. Yet fourteen Democratic Senators from Wisconsin still have their jobs, even though they aren’t performing them and are being paid. This has
Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee that oversees the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Oklahoma) introduced legislation to stop taxpayer subsidies to public radio and television. CPB-funded
Today, the national flight attendants’ union released its latest attack on Delta airlines, filing a lawsuit on behalf of a group of disgruntled former Northwest Airlines flight attendants now working for Delta after the two airlines merged. The Association of
Perhaps when he was a child, MJ Rosenberg’s parents beat him with an Israeli flag, or maybe the first time he visited the Holy Land he was frightened by a lousy Elvis impersonator, or maybe an Israeli doctor unnecessarily removed
Some say the world will end in fire and some say in ice. But in Washington, a lot of people say it will end if we don’t continually raise the debt ceiling. The statutory debt limit, or debt ceiling, represents
From the Associated Press: The Senate on Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a Republican-drafted bill to trim $4 billion from the budget, completing hastily processed legislation aimed at keeping partisan budget divisions from causing a government shutdown. The Senate cleared
The American public is not satisfied that the major healthcare legislation that became law last year really does anything to improve the system. A majority of Americans surveyed in three recent polls — CNN, Fox News and Rasmussen – all
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), issued it first annual report on reducing or eliminating duplication, overlap, or fragmentation in government spending (embedded below). This particular report identifies areas where adjustments would generate tens of billions of savings, and the GAO
When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rammed through net neutrality regulations last December, Chairman Julius Genachowski may have been hoping Americans would be too busy with their Christmas shopping to notice and that the matter would die as other issues
