Last month, the Obama administration said it lacked “the statutory authority to extend the open enrollment period” for Obamacare. Moreover, when embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was asked by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) during testimony before the
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Secret Service agent found drunk by staff at a Dutch hotel was recalled to the U.S. along with two of his colleagues, the day before President Barack Obama was set to arrive in the Netherlands. Word
Spring has come to Washington, D.C., but keep the snow plows well fueled because the white stuff is still falling. The nation’s capital can expect another one to two inches of snow as the northern and southern jet streams clash,
Since the IRS admitted to targeting Tea Party Patriots, we have learned the importance of honoring and defending every word in the First Amendment. The First Amendment to the US Constitution is on trial today at the Supreme Court. On
Those who say that the United States government has grown too large and gotten out of control were handed one more fact to put in their quiver of criticism. A new report says that the U.S. has allowed 5.1 million
On Monday’s “Fox & Friends,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized the President Barack Obama’s attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin and called the levying of sanctions on Putin’s cronies “a speed bump on the highway to a return to
Americans are evenly split on whether college athletes should be able to unionize. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 47 percent support it and 47 percent oppose. The poll found that 66 percent of non-whites supported “the idea but
A new national poll finds Americans are overwhelmingly against paying college athletes. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted Feb. 27 to March 2, 33 percent support paying college athletes while 64 percent oppose. In addition, 47 percent are “strongly
Four years of Obamacare have produced health insurance for just 1.4% of uninsured Americans. According to CNBC, of the 5 million people the Obama administration claims have enrolled in Obamacare, just 715,000 are previously uninsured Americans who have chosen and
John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog took the Washington Post down, hard, on Thursday for foolishly accepting a false report from a left-wing activist group and running it as a “news” story. Hinderaker’s debunking of the article, an exercise in anti-Koch
On Friday’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnists Charles Krauthammer and George Will pointed out, at least historically, economic sanctions have deterred military action by some world powers and the Obama administration’s sanctions could provoke Russian President Vladimir Putin into further
While defending a female reporter under attack by the left-wing blog FireDogLake, the Washington Post’s Alyssa Rosenberg dismisses the criticism of the female reporter with the words, “The evidence? A single tweet.” Fair enough. But Rosenberg then proceeds to use
University of California-Santa Barbara Professor Mireille Miller-Young, who teaches “Pornography; Sex Work; Black Film, Popular Culture and Art,” among other topics, has been charged with vandalism, battery and robbery after stealing a pro-life poster from a demonstration on campus and
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ukraine capitulates to Russia in Crimea Russia’s annexation of Crimea splits the Russian Orthodox Church Ukraine capitulates to Russia in Crimea Ukraine’s interim government has announced that it will withdraw itstroops from Crimea. It
As the days mount, and the frustration builds, in the wake of the disappearance of Malaysian Air Flight 370, the Chinese are starting to react like Americans–with loud outrage. That is, ordinary Chinese, fearful about the fate of loved ones
Obamacare patients are discovering that many doctors, hospitals, and top cancer centers do not accept the plans they purchased. “It’s so frustrating,” Terri Durheim of Enid, Okla., told CNN. “It’s not doing me a lot of good.” Durheim is not
Kazakhstan’s foreign ministry has announced that the Crimea referendum and the subsequent Russian annexation of the region is the “free expression of will of the autonomous republic’s population”, invoking the United Nations Charter in support of its claims. In a statement
Team Clinton’s craving for cash and ethical myopia are again in the headlines. Yes, Clinton Inc. is a billion-dollar operation. Time reports that the Clintonites project spending $1.7 billion to elect her in 2016–but a chunk of that change may well
The White House top pastry chef is saying goodbye to the Obamas and is moving on to a new culinary endeavor. Bill Yosses said it will be a “bittersweet” departure, but it will provide an opportunity for him to form
According to Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post, there are now at least 11 Democratic-held seats in red or purple states that are in trouble – 12 if you count the Virginia seat held by Sen. Mark Warner. 14 if you
The Malaysian government has retracted a pivotal piece of evidence that narrowed the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: the times at which the plane’s transponder and communications devices were shut down. The Washington Post reports that the Malaysian
On Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to President Barack Obama announced sanctions, which he deemed to be very weak. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor
The biggest Obamacare story last week was belated attention given to a little noticed hardship exemption that seems broad enough to allow almost anyone to claim exemption from the law’s individual mandate. Rather than report on the exemption itself and
There have been a number of promising health care plans pitched by Republicans in the House and Senate in the past year as the ObamaCare debacle rolled out, but until now, there has been no unified vision to fix the
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is set to meet U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House today, amidst low expectations for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process that has stalled despite strenuous U.S. efforts. Abbas arrives having rejected major American proposals, including
In what appears to be a distraction strategy by Nebraska Senate candidate Shane Osborn, his campaign or someone close to it is recycling a tenuous story about his opponent Ben Sasse, a former Health and Human Services official in the
The Associated Press and the National Journal have corrected erroneous stories they ran about Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), misquoting a remark that he made at an anti-abortion rally. On Wednesday at the Susan B. Anthony List “Campaign for Life Gala
The U.S. government is going to surrender its oversight role over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sometime in late 2015, according to an announcement on Friday evening. ICANN is the organization that sets up Web addresses,
Bill Gates, whose private foundation has spent upward of $170 million for the development and implementation of the Common Core State Standards, is asking teachers to help parents understand the standards, hoping this effort will defeat critics of the centralized
In an appearance on the syndicated radio program, “On Air with Ryan Seacrest” Friday morning, the president defended himself against the ridicule and barbs he’s received for years for wearing what some have called, “mom jeans.” Obama protested that he’s
A state legislator in Hawaii has filed an ethics complaint with the State Department of Education alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center is bribing elementary teachers to take an SPLC course called Teaching Tolerance. State Representative Bob McDermott also
At a news conference on Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron Machen presented compelling evidence against a “senior advisor” to a 2008 presidential campaign as the originator of a $600,000 scheme of illegal campaign donations in which two
In a wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine, Five-Thirty-Eight’s Nate Silver mocked New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as a “hedgehog” who “only knows one thing.” When asked to describe what a hedgehog is, Silver pointed to Friedman specifically and
Eleanor Clift, the former Newsweek reporter whose bias was once made legendary by the Media Research Center when it invented the Eleanor Clift Award “for Clinton Worshipping,” has taken to the Daily Beast to fiercely defend her idol, Hillary Clinton, as ethical
Dan Calabrese at the Detroit News lays into the media organs that helped Democrats paint cancer patient Julie Boonstra as a liar for complaining about ObamaCare, recalling an earlier age when the media afflicted the powerful with tough questions, rather
On Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnists Charles Krauthammer and George Will and Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers reacted to a report that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had worked in a loophole
On the Wednesday broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to remarks President Barack Obama had made in town hall for Spanish-language media in which he had suggested a better use of money would be
TEXAS–Despite large-scale efforts by leftist groups such as Enroll America to push Obamacare in the Lone Star State, new statistics confirm that uninsured Texans are not accepting health care mandates. According to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of
The Chinese Foreign Ministry is not happy with the work Malaysian authorities have done in locating missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Spokesman Qin Gang has had his hands full answering the media’s questions, calling working with Malaysian authorities “pretty chaotic”
Relatives of the missing passengers of the Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared over the ocean last week are becoming angry over the failure of the Chinese government to give them any answers about what happened to their loved ones. And
