Facing mid-term elections and burdened with persistently high unemployment, President Obama is playing the race, gender, and class cards. Fabricating fear and injustice, such tactics keep the economy in slow gear and make worse the very people the President professes
WASHINGTON (AP) — A report released Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says President Barack Obama’s budget request would mean significantly larger budget deficits than the White House claims. CBO says the budget plan proposed last month by Obama
If anyone had doubts as to just how much contempt Attorney General Eric Holder has for the institution of Congress (pun intended), those doubts dissipated when Holder became unhinged during a heated exchange with Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) in his
Sean Trende, RealClearPolitic’s astute political analyst, conjured up a nightmare scenario for staff at the National Republican Senatorial Committee in his column today. Trende argues that, if a series of hypotheticals come to pass, not only could the GOP fail
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave her first speech on monetary policy since she took office from retiring Chairman Ben Bernanke. Yellen made it clear she is focused on moving Federal Reserve (Fed) policy back to the “Taylor Rule”
Just before President Barack Obama went to a community college in Pennsylvania to tout plans to help blue-collar Americans struggling in this economy to gain employment, he urged House Republicans to pass the Senate’s amnesty bill that would make it
If Congress… may establish teachers in every State, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public Treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union… I would
The financial press went all “rainbows, butterflies and unicorns” with headlines like “Retail Sales Sizzle in March” over the supposedly strong retail sales report just released. Unfortunately for average Americans, their spending growth after inflation has been declining at a
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) introduced a bill Tuesday that would cut off pay to federal officials like Attorney General Eric Holder as long as they’re being held in contempt of Congress. Holder was held in contempt of Congress in June
Congressman Justin Amash, (R-MI) is a big fan of the new Captain America movie, pointing out that the message of the movie aligned very well with his own views on politics. Amash said that the movie directed a strong warning
Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, has introduced a bill that would officially stop paying any federal employee who was currently held in contempt of Congress. Farenthold specifically mentioned Attorney General Eric Holder after introducing the legislation in the House of Representatives,
On April 15th, Attorney General Eric Holder asked Congress to approve $15 million that can be used to prepare for shooting incidents, which he claims are increasing. According to The Hill, Holder made the request via a “weekly video message”
On Tuesday in the Justice Department’s weekly video message, Attorney General Eric Holder urged Congress to approve $15 million for active-shooter training for police officers. Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
According to Dr. Ben Carson in his new book, One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America’s Future, the White House wanted him to apologize for “offending” the president after he delivered a bold and powerful conservative message at
By now, it’s a cliche that the Internet of Things is going to change everything. That’s right: Americans have barely had time to digest all the effects of the Internet, and now comes along the Internet of Things (IoT). If the Internet
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and arguably the leading intellectual force against amnesty in Congress, is coming out hard against a proposal backed by Majority Leader Eric Cantor to grant amnesty to illegal
You can put the U.S. Census Bureau on the shelf right next to the Justice Department (which, on top of everything else, is now accused of blocking corporate mergers for political reasons), the IRS, the Department of Health and Human
Protesters at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada faced off with federal agents this past weekend, sending the message that overreaching government power can be resisted. You’ve seen the news: A video showing the protestors at the Bundy ranch taking on federal
At the Washington Post op-ed writer Marc A. Thiessen wants the President’s next nominee for Health and Human Services to explain how Obamacare became the “lie of the year,” and he has a good point. The nominee was previously responsible
The Social Security Administration has suspended a program which allowed to to seize thousadns of tax refunds in an effort to recoup previous over-payments made. They had previously identified about 400,000 individuals with old debts of approximately $714 million. A 2008
Listen to rocker Krist Novoselic speak about the late, not so great Occupy Wall Street movement, and one gets the sense he had a soft spot for those unwashed radicals. To a point. Novoselic, the former bassist for Nirvana, has
The White House has been concurrently running two campaigns dealing with wages. The first is an effort to raise the minimum wage. There’s a dedicated page on the White House site for that effort headlined “Raise the Wage.” The White
The top Democrat who is leading the effort to help the party elect more members to Congress said he cares more about amnesty than the midterm elections. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley on Sunday, Rep. Steve Israel
“They [the White House] need to focus on executive action given that they are facing a second term against a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of Congress.” So spoke John Podesta in an interview
Democrat operatives are openly touting a medical marijuana ballot initiative in Florida as a means of helping Democrats win elections in 2014, saying the move, which will likely help bring young voters to the poll, is necessary for the greater
