The Senate on Monday passed a five-year farm bill that promises to cut “$24 billion from farm spending over 10 years, including a $4 billion reduction to food stamps.” The legislation, S. 954, the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013
Chris Cillizza, the author of the Washington Post’s “The Fix” political blog of record for those seeking conventional D.C. thought, thinks the Washington Nationals had the worst week in Washington last week even even after there were more revelations about the
At least 436 Department of Health and Human Services employees–and possibly more at the White House Office of Management and Budget–received advance notice of an $8 billion Medicare decision that sent private health insurers’ stocks soaring. The Department of Justice
When The Washington Post carried Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) claim that NSA surveillance programs had successfully thwarted a terror attack by Najibullah Zazi, the paper also highlighted the counter claim that Zazi’s plans were actually thwarted by good police work.
It has to be a beautiful thing being an approved member of the left-wing mainstream media. No matter how boring and unimaginative you are, no matter how many facts you get wrong — all your cronies are always right there
On Friday, President Barack Obama defended secret programs to monitor Americans’ phone calls, emails, and other internet activities, labeling them “modest encroachments” on privacy. “In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother, and how this is a potential program
Speaking in northern California on Friday to address Obamacare, President Obama instead launched into a tirade about recent reports regarding government surveillance of everything from phone records to credit card statements to internet chats. Obama noted that Congress had been
When the UK Guardian reported on Wednesday that the Obama National Security Administration had been issued a blanket surveillance order allowing it to seize millions of Americans’ phone records, Obama defenders quickly assured Americans that the request seizures did not
Politico Executive Editor Jim VandeHei says the Bloomberg News is the media entity that is poised to make the biggest splash in Beltway coverage in the coming years. In a Q & A with paidContent, VandeHei discussed his move from The
While the rest of DC is tracking down information on numerous scandals engulfing the Obama Administration, The Washington Post would like to turn your attention to a mini-revolt within the GOP Caucus that happened six months ago. “House Republicans Broken
Countries that are seeing strong job growth are not seeing an increase in the number of quality jobs, while nations that are facing higher levels of unemployment are seeing an increase in quality jobs at the upper end of the
On June 2, thousands of Hezbollah fighters were gathered around the Syrian city of Aleppo, preparing to attack. Syrian rebels have held Aleppo since the summer of 2012, but Hezbollah fighters, standing beside Syrian forces, seemed prepared to take it
Except for the not-believing-in-God part, being a Democrat has got to be a beautiful thing. What a joy it must be to have the entire media-complex standing at the ready to leap on any talking point you want leapt upon.
One month ago the Pentagon assured the public it was not being advised by anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein. Yet two days ago Weinstein called the Pentagon demanding that a Christian painting be removed from a dining hall in an Idaho
Former Obama aides are cashing in on their high-powered connections and access to President Barack Obama, reports the Washington Post. Despite Obama’s promises to slow down Washington’s whirling revolving door, DC cronyism and influence peddling are alive and well. Take,
Triumphalist progressive claims that early California figures prove Obamacare will reduce health insurance costs are coming to a screeching halt as closer analyses reveal Californians will actually experience a staggering 64% to 146% increase in individual health insurance premiums come
The Washington Post was one of the few news organizations in Washington DC to attend the off the record briefing by the Department of Justice to address the recent concerns over the DOJ’s heavy-handed use of search warrants on reporters. According to
Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder pledged to protect the first amendment rights of the media at a closed door, off-the-record meeting. The meeting took place with the media after it was revealed that the DOJ subpoenaed thousands of pages of AP
In the midst of the widening Internal Revenue Service (IRS) conservative targeting scandal, the Obama Administration and Democrats are scrambling to downplay the IRS’s role in implementing Obamacare. That will be difficult to do, says the Washington Post. “The IRS
As Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares to meet with President Barack Obama next week in California to discuss what Jinping calls “a new type of great power relationship,” the Washington Post is reporting that Chinese hackers have accessed designs for
The Washington D.C. metro area’s unemployment rate dipped to 5.0 percent in April according to statistics released today by the Labor Department. The areas immediately surrounding the U.S. Capitol including Washington, Arlington, VA, and Alexandria, VA saw unemployment drop from 5.2 percent
The Senate Judiciary Committee has increased the already-sizable length of the “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill to more than a thousand pages during the markup process, Breitbart News has learned. The final length of the bill remained a mystery
According to reports on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder wasn’t all gumdrops and rainbows about the Department of Justice grabbing the email and phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen. The Daily Beast reports that Holder felt bad after
In response to Report: Holder Felt ‘Remorse’ over FNC James Rosen Subpoena: After his Justice Department fought so hard to keep the search warrant for James Rosen’s private e-mail account secret, going over the heads of two judges in the process,
According to an interview with the Daily Beast, Attorney General Eric Holder felt a sense of “remorse” when the Washington Post ran a story about “how agents had tracked Rosen’s movements in and out of the State Department, perused his
