First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed a stylish entourage to the White House last week, a group which included Project Runway host Tim Gunn. A group of unusually well-dressed visitors lined up at the southeast gate of the White House Friday, when
The New York Times observed Sunday the Obama administration’s assertion that health insurance will cost less under Obamacare has a “catch”: insurers will severely limit the choices of physicians and hospitals available to American consumers who use the new exchanges.
I enjoy and admire Michael Medved, so it is with some reluctance that I attack his op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, which is both cringing and cringeworthy, and represents much that is wrong with the mentality of today’s GOP
As he did in 2011, President Barack Obama is accusing Republicans of “holding the whole country hostage.” This time, the issue is not just the debt ceiling, which comes due in mid-October, but the federal budget, which expires on Sep.
In an ironic twist, the White House is now joining health systems experts in warning that Americans who enroll in the ObamaCare insurance exchanges should expect that their personal, financial, and health information will be at risk and they could
That isn’t the explicit message of a new rule from the Labor Department, but it is its intended effect. On Tuesday, the Labor Department announced it was expanding federal minimum wage and overtime regulations to cover 2 million home health
With the House expected to vote this week on a Republican food stamp reform bill designed to reduce fraud and encourage self-sufficiency, Democrats have launched a full-scale effort to oppose the measure. “These cuts to SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]
The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday it will continue its unprecedented $85 billion a month bond-buying strategy despite earlier indications it would begin tapering its controversial quantitative easing policies. The announcement comes as the Fed has downgraded its outlook for the
Although Washington DC has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, the Navy Yard shooter proved once again that even this amount of gun control cannot stop a criminal intent on carrying out his crime. While Breitbart News
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll reveals Americans are unconvinced that Obamacare will improve the country’s healthcare system. Only 12% say the law will have a positive effect on their family and even the uninsured are skeptical Obamacare will do
Former Secretary of the Treasure Lawrence Summers has officially withdrawn his name from contention for the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, the Wall Street Journal reports. Summers called President Barack Obama on Sunday to inform him of his withdrawal, and
On September 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release part of their fifth assessment report on climate change. For the first time since 1990, this report will scale back the hysteria on global warming. Matt Ridley at
Officials in the Middle East claim Syria’s elite Unit 450 “has been moving stocks of poison gases and munitions to as many as 50 sites to make them harder for the U.S. to track.” This not only serves to hide
With the emphasis on a U.S. strike dissipating in the wake of Russia’s actions on Syria’s behalf, is it now possible that Bashar al-Assad will create “linkage” between Syria and Israel and emerge from the last two weeks stronger than
The revolving door between the field of journalism and the Obama administration spins again as Richard Stengel, Time Magazine’s managing editor, quits his journalism career to join Obama’s Department of State. If he is confirmed by the Senate, Stengel will
Wall Street Journal: Congress’s investigation into the IRS targeting of conservatives has been continuing out of the Syria headlines, and it’s turning up news. Emails unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee between former Director of Exempt Organizations Lois
A Wall Street Journal editorial on Thursday observed that Democrats are a bit touchy these days. Apparently, questions about the $67 million spent on ObamaCare “navigators” are a no-no. The “navigators” are non-government groups, like Planned Parenthood and Migrant Health Promotion,
Big Labor is reportedly building a huge campaign war chest which it says will help “build a firewall” around Senate Democrats who are believed to be vulnerable in the 2014 midterm elections. According to Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner,
Jen Rubin points out that Obama’s decision to go to Congress about Syria was made Friday afternoon after a long walk with his political chief of staff, Denis McDonough: He went with his political chief of staff, Denis McDonough, on a
This week, one is again reminded that America would be a better place if it its citizens assimilated into the melting pot as seamlessly as college football fans embrace their traditions. Technology, multiculturalism, and the breakdown of families and civic
America’s third largest health insurer, Aetna Inc., has announced it will not sell insurance on New York’s Obamacare health insurance exchange, the fifth state the company has pulled out of in the last few weeks. The other states Aetna has
WSJ: The National Football League and 4,500 former players suing the league over concussion-related issues reached an agreement on a settlement Thursday. The agreement, which came as a surprise, calls for the league to pay $765 million for medical benefits
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released soon after the George Zimmerman verdict showed that while a majority of Americans feel that their fellow citizens are judged by their character, black Americans felt strongly that race was a decisive factor.
While over 100,000 people were expected to show up at today’s ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, late estimates put the crowd numbers at 20,000. Mike Levine of ABC News reported
The terrorists who helped execute the Benghazi attacks that resulted in the deaths of four Americans are now training Syrian Islamist rebel groups. Veteran intelligence reporter Bill Gertz says earlier this month U.S. intelligence agencies uncovered new evidence that the
