Outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General John Dempsey offered their support to former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) this morning after Hagel endured a difficult confirmation hearing last week in the Senate. Separately, Senate
UPI_ “Fiscal cliff” averted (sort of). Check. Debt ceiling postponed. Check. Credit rating reduction avoided. Check. Economy apparently stabilized for now. Check. Deficit reduction? Hmmmm. The partisan arguments that characterized discussions related to averting the fiscal cliff and vanished when
During the Jan. 30 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said pointedly, “I have an AR-15 at home and I haven’t hurt anybody.” He said this after explaining that he supports private ownership of magazines
The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce hosted their 76th annual gathering at Washington, DC’s Wardman Marriott on Thursday night. Known as the “Walk To Washington,” the evening focused around the state’s disaster recovery efforts post-Super Storm Sandy. Media listened intently
On Friday, former Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) told the Boston Herald that he will not be running in the Massachusetts special election that will be held on June 25th to replace John Kerry in the Senate. Brown’s announcement followed a
What a week for an American economy that is supposed to be in a recovery. The Gross Domestic Product shrank for the first time in more than three years; the unemployment rate rose to an anemic 7.9 percent; and President
ABC News’ Cynthia McFadden Wednesday compared former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to founding father and former President Thomas Jefferson during a one-on-one interview. On the January 30 broadcast of Nightline, McFadden spoke to Clinton in what was billed as
Our allies must now realize they are alone in the world. Senator John “Jane Fonda” Kerry (D-MA) ascends to his next throne as U.S. Secretary of State / SoS. Our allies should be raising their own S.O.S. alarm. Video from
How bad was Chuck Hagel’s performance at his confirmation hearing for the post of Secretary of Defense? So bad that even White House officials are willing to admit glumly to the New York Times that it was “somewhere between baffling and
With the economy on the rocks, unemployment up to 7.9 percent again, 8.5 million more Americans outside the labor force now than there were in January 2009, and gas prices set to jump, the US Senate is placing its laserlike
So a United States Senator slated to become Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee strong-arms the U.S. State Department to approve a 20-year, $1 billion federal contract for Dominican port security with a firm owned by a Florida opthamologist
The exodus of Obama’s cabinet continued this afternoon with the resignation of Energy Secretary, Steven Chu. The Nobel laureate physicist announced his departure this afternoon in a letter to President Obama. He plans to step down at the end of
White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer has predicted confidently that former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) will be confirmed as Secretary of Defense next week. “We’re very confident of that. There’s no question that there will be more than 50 votes
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who is an expert on economics, said Thursday the American economy is “in a recovery.” Reid’s comment was a response to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) remarks blaming the White House for the
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the White House believes their nominee for Secretary of Defense will be confirmed by the Senate. Although multiple reports from news organizations pointed out the pitfalls of the committee hearing, Carney brushed
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell “I was disappointed in the inaugural speech, which was very much on the far left, I hope that the president will use the State of the Union to move back to the political center so
When New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez decided this month to reimburse–after two years–his campaign donor and longtime friend Dr. Salomon Melgen for two 2010 flights to the Dominican Republic on his private jet, he took a huge chunk out
Senator Rand Paul to Breitbart News’ Ben Shapiro: “I think they’re gonna have trouble and I think they know — they count votes, they know just as well as anybody — they’ll have trouble passing that in the House and
MARK LEVIN, RADIO HOST: What the hell’s happening? Now we’ve backed the Muslim Brotherhood? And then of course, our dear friend Michele Bachmann and Louie Gohmert and three other brave members of the House of Representatives asked questions about the
Ophthalmologist and Democratic political donor Dr. Salomon Melgen may have tried to buy cover from the IRS for the $11.1 million he owes in back taxes from 2006 to present, Breitbart News has learned. Melgen may have intended to court
It was not the most sensational gaffe of the day, but the most consequential. Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, under questioning by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) in his confirmation hearing for the post of Secretary of Defense, did not know that
(AP) Congress sends Obama bill to raise debt ceilingBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONCongress passed must-do legislation Thursday to permit the government to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars more to meet its obligations, averting a first-ever government default that had loomed
Kansas is the latest state to seek to curb union power; on Wednesday, a preliminary vote in the Kansas legislature approved the Paycheck Protection Act aimed at eliminating automatic dues collection for unions. The measure was passed on Thursday by
Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera announced on his radio show that he is “truly contemplating” a Republican run for the Senate in New Jersey. “I mention this only briefly, fasten your seatbelt,” Rivera said on his Thursday’s broadcast. “I mentioned
