The Wall Street Journal on February 25th published a story about December’s messy corporate divorce between Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian as Co-Chief Investment Officers at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), the world’s largest bond fund with almost $2 trillion
Harry Reid has a message for those five million + people who lost their healthcare plans after Obama promised them they could keep them. He wants them to know that their stories of skyrocketing premiums, loss of doctors, loss of
Congressman Randy Neugebauer (R-Lubbock, Big Spring, Abilene) recently proposed that Texas take part in a pilot program for food stamp reform in a letter to the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC). The program is part of a larger effort to help
In an emotional Sunday Wall Street Journal editorial, Ralston College President Stephen Blackwood wrote that Obamacare has made his mother’s cancer battle a nightmare that will “accelerate her disease and death.” He detailed how her Obamacare plan no longer covers the
When the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to send researchers to monitor newsrooms was brought to light in the WSJ, the MSM was mostly mum. But Fox News, and the conservative media have reacted with outraged disbelief that such a thing
Thursday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie held his first town hall since the revelation that senior members of his office had closed down part of the most trafficked bridge in the country for political retribution. The bridge incident never came up
The mainstream media’s relentless left-wing bias is maddening. This , however, is scary — not the idea that the Obama Administration is planning to place federal officials in newsrooms. Government wants to control things. That’s what they do. No, what
Last week, Reporters Without Borders dropped America in the World Press Freedom Index 2014 from 33rd to 46th. James Risen of The New York Times rightly explained, “I think 2013 will go down in history as the worst year for
The release of 27,000 emails by a state court in Wisconsin has sent Democrats into ecstasy. Finally, they hope, they will embarrass Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker. The “scandal” doesn’t quite stand up on its own, so they’ve taken to linking
Russia cared about one thing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia: the gold medal in men’s hockey. That will not happen because Finland beat them 3-1 on Wednesday. After the game the team faced a stunned and shocked
In his latest video release, investigative journalist James O’Keefe of Project Veritas calls Battleground Texas “the new ACORN.” O’Keefe and his team recorded Jennifer Longoria, a field organizer for Battleground Texas, apparently instructing volunteers to copy, unlawfully, the telephone numbers
Despite the many times the White House has pointed to the CBO as proof that Obama’s policies are working, the administration pushed back against this week’s report that claimed that a hike in the minimum wage would kill jobs. On
“I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.” “That’s the good thing about being President. I
Despite the national reputation as a reliably red state with a solidly conservative population, Texas’ legislative leadership in Austin does not necessarily share that conservative perspective. The Wall Street Journal recently noted that state government spending in Texas increased 25
It’s a conundrum for environmentalists: a solar power plant that is the largest of its type in the world and can supply power for 140,000 homes is also killing dozens of birds. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which uses
Covered California, the Golden State’s Obamacare exchange, was meant to be a model of how well the policy could work under the best conditions. “By proving it can work here, that will be a beacon to the nation,” said an
Wendy Davis has become a ticking time bomb for the Democratic Party. Raising a third of the funds her Republican opponent has and cornered into supporting stances unpopular to the left, Davis abandoned her pet issue–support for abortion–on the day The
A devastating nor’easter snowstorm that walloped the South on Wednesday and left at least 13 dead and hundreds of thousands without power is now pounding the northeast on Thursday, putting much of the region under a winter storm warning. Stay
On Tuesday, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) said the IRS targeted tax-exempt conservative groups for audits. The findings by Camp’s committee comes on top of last year’s revelation that the IRS had used “inappropriate criteria” to review applications from
A key early endorser and now member of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s transition team, Bishop Orlando Findlayter of New Hope Christian church in Queens was arrested on outstanding warrants, then in an unusual move, was promptly released after New York
The week that began with a newspaper that endorsed Chris Christie now calling him a “creep” is only getting worse for the embattled Governor. The New Jersey Legislature has issued 18 more “BridgeGate” subpoenas and is looking into whether Christie personally flew over the
Tennessee Republicans, who control a two-thirds supermajority in the state legislature and essentially govern alone, have warned Volkswagen that if the United Auto Workers (UAW) win an election this week to represent VW’s new plant in Chattanooga, the company cannot
From Forbes: America is a great land and lures immigrants worldwide, yet record numbers of U.S. citizens and permanent residents are giving up their citizenship or residency. For all the immigrant arrivals the trickle the other direction is increasing. The
The Wall Street Journal editorial board accused Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and the Heritage Foundation of being lockstep with the AFL-CIO and other labor unions because of their aggressive opposition to amnesty. “The populist wing of the [Republican] party has talked itself
How do you say “Kinsley gaffe” in Russian? Russia’s deputy prime minister revealed that hotel rooms in Sochi have surveillance cameras — even in the showers. Dmitry Kozak, who has been tasked with Olympic preparations, accidentally admitted what had been
