The Washington Post has announced that it is adding Hilary Rosen, a long-time Democrat operative, attorney, and lobbyist, to its editorial pages. Rosen will join a parade of liberals and Democrat operatives, one Republican operative, and others as one of
With Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Sec. of Defense heading to a floor vote on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal has uncovered Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) dual standards for confirming cabinet nominees. For example, when President George W. Bush nominated John
In response to A tired speech for a tired nation: A day after the successful North Korean Nuclear bomb test, Obama will call for massive reductions in our nuclear arsenal. Via the Telegraph: Barack Obama is expected to propose sweeping
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) may have to borrow money from the U.S. Treasury in order to survive, which would be unprecedented. The FHA was created in 1934 and has always been solvent, but it guaranteed too many loans during
I often wonder if my mother has ever read any of the posts on the thousands of Mommyblogs out there. With germs and supposedly unsafe products around every corner, you’d think the only way to keep your kid alive is
According to the White House Office of Management and Budget, President Obama will push for a 1% salary increase for all federal employees in his 2014 budget proposal. This announcement comes on the heals of continuing bad economic news in
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Dept. of Justice announces civil lawsuit against S&P ratings Royal Bank of Scotland fined $612 million for Libor-rigging The moral bankruptcy of Libor-rigging traders Ron Baron, Baron Capital, doubles down on lying about stock
With Chuck Hagel’s chances for securing the position of Secretary of Defense decreasing more each passing day, Michele Flournoy may be the person Obama calls on next. Flournoy is 52 years old, the daughter of a World War II veteran,
Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has retained Washington power lawyer Robert Barnett to shop a tell-all memoir that could fetch as much as $500,000. The book will reportedly take Geithner’s critics to task and defend his controversial tenure at Treasury
Penny Pritzker, heiress to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, has been an important backer of Barack Obama’s political career. A fixture of Chicago Democrat politics, billionaire Pritzker has bundled tens of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama’s campaigns. She helped
President Barack Obama’s first-term job totals are now in, averaging at just 25,000 jobs per month. To put that in some historical perspective, President Ronald Reagan, who entered office amid severe economic decline, averaged 111,000 per month throughout his first
The Baltimore Ravens kicking coach is a Republican mayor of a New Jersey township and is eyeing a 2017 gubernatorial run in the state. Randy Brown is currently the mayor of Evesham Township, N.J., which is just outside of Philadelphia,
After doling out 80% of the Department of Energy (DOE) loan program’s $20.5 billion to President Barack Obama’s top donors, taking three months to plug a hole during the worst marine oil spill in American history, and failing to achieve
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese hackers repeatedly penetrated The New York Times’ computer systems over the past four months, stealing reporters’ passwords and hunting for files on an investigation into the wealth amassed by the family of a top Chinese leader,
Nancy Pelosi once said of the Affordable Care Act, “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” Nearly three years later it has finally dawned on some unions that the changes they publicly
On Wednesday, the White House suggested the threat of sequester during the fiscal cliff negotiations was responsible for the dismal GDP report that showed the economy contracted during the fourth quarter. White House press secretary Jay Carney tried to pin
Egyptian Defense Minister and military chief Gen. Abdel Fattah El Sissi has put President Mohamed Morsi on notice that the country could face an imminent collapse. According to Sissi, “The continuation of the conflict between different political forces and their differences
Yesterday, Breitbart News reported that consumer confidence had dropped to its lowest level in almost two years. Much of the media spun the number as the result of a payroll tax increase that hit millions who were repeatedly told by
The mainstream media bullied professional golfer Phil Mickelson into apologizing for criticizing California’s high taxes and threatening to leave the state because of California’s high income tax rate. But California’s high taxes have been forcing many athletes–including those far from the limelight
Border security is the only basis for Republican unity. Republicans are divided on all other particulars–path to citizenship, guest worker program, deportation, anchor babies, etc. As I’ve argued before, Republican strategy in the House should be to say “no” on
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is going to offer the British people a chance to vote on whether or not to remain within the European Union (EU). Cameron’s personal opinion appears to be that it’s best for Great Britain to
Have we, as a nation, reached the point at which we judge our leaders not “by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous words? We would wish it
There was much for urban, blue-state conservatives to enjoy in the left-wing freakout over Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s comparison of Obamacare to “fascism” earlier this week. It was almost too much for National Public Radio, where Mackey first made
After announcing 23 executive orders to broaden gun control in America earlier this week, President Obama pressed Congress to institute an “assault weapons” ban to end incidents of violence in our nation. The problem–“assault weapons” were tied to less than .012
Will the next President of Venezuela be Jewish? Hugo Chavez handily won reelection in October 2012 by a margin of 10 percentage points. However, just months later, Chavez languishes in a Cuban hospital, suffering from what is likely terminal cancer. Henrique Capriles, Chavez’s
