The St. Louis Dispatch is reporting Chicago resident Derrick Dawon Burns, 21, was arrested Monday on eight federal charges alleging that Burns made a series of bomb and violence threats toward Southern Illinois University-Carbondale students and workers, prosecutors said. The
A flurry of new polls including in Iowa, North Carolina and Louisiana are good news for the GOP and some serious odds makers now view them favorably in terms of their taking over control of the U.S. Senate in November.
The New Georgia Project, a group run by Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn’s “ally and campaign confidante,” Stacy Abrams, has begun handing over documents in an ongoing voter fraud investigation. Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp launched the investigation of the New Georgia
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry hosted a roundtable discussion last week which eventually turned to the topic of the beheading of a woman in Moore, Oklahoma on Friday. Harris-Perry and her guests Dean Obeidallah and Negin Farsad argues that it was merely
I can’t take my eyes off the saga of White House fence-jumper Oscar Gonzalez for a minute, without the story running behind my back and breaking the furniture or piddling on the carpet. Today’s worsening of the story comes from
In response to Another One: Fired OK City Nursing Home Employee Threatened to Behead Co-Worker: If you can learn a lot about a person by looking at their social media, the Jacob Mugambi Muriithi story does not add up. Michael Bates
There aren’t many silver linings to the dark cloud of ISIS, but one of them is newfound Western appreciation for the Kurds, a remarkable people who got shoved off the stage of history during the 2000s, because American liberals were
Vox’s Max Fisher wrote a scolding piece critical of the media’s coverage of Major Mariam al-Mansouri, the first female fighter pilot for the U.A.E. In fact, Fisher’s criticism is mostly based on his own wishful thinking: about the status of
An Army Threat Integration Center (ARTIC) special assessment on potential threats by the ISLAMIC State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) says that the terrorist organization is urging its supporters to use seek out residences of U.S. service members and
In what the local media is calling “a bizarre coincidence,” police arrested a fired Oklahoma City nursing home worker on Friday after he allegedly threatened to cut off a co-worker’s head. Via The Oklahoman: Jacob Mugambi Muriithi, 30, is
It’s now being reported that up to seven shots hit the White House residence while some members of the first family were inside in November of 2011, yet the Secret Service supervisor’s order at the time was, “No shots have been
My family and I passed Mairav Zonszein’s awful New York Times op-ed around the Sabbath table yesterday afternoon, alternately outraged and bemused. (One family member suggested boycotting the newspaper in response: another shrugged, noting that an anti-Israel op-ed from the Times is
Teacups are rattling in the hands of Democrat consultants across the land, as another closely-watched neck-and-neck race suddenly turns into a big lead for the Republican candidate… and it’s the race to fill the seat left behind by left-wing dinosaur
In response to Report: Murder Suspect Alton Nolen Shouted Islamic Phrases During Beheading: Of course, the effort to disassociate Nolen from Islam proceeds full steam ahead. (“I can’t imagine any Muslim taking a Hebrew name,” mused Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR,
As Politico points out, “Though tax cuts have been a mainstay of their campaigns since at least Ronald Reagan, though the top marginal tax rate is now the highest since the 1980s, though the party could win control of both
It was fun watching the liberals who saddled America with Barack Obama – known for dismissing a deadly terrorist enemy as al-Qaeda’s junior varsity, blurting out that he has no strategy for defeating them, and blowing over a billion dollars
According to a new Bloomberg View item, “a new study out this week from Bloomberg Government threatens to bring the Affordable Care Act back to center stage — and in a way that will likely hurt the electoral chances of
The hometown newspaper of Alton Nolen – who now goes by Jah’Keem Yisrael – has new information about the suspect in the brutal Oklahoma murder. Via Truth Revolt: Nolen Yisrael is a graduate of Idabel High School in nearby Idabel, Oklahoma,
Has the so called ‘war on women’ battle cry finally turned into a tired old refrain? It’s possible given development in Colorado in the race between Democrat Mark Udall and Republican Rep. Cory Gardner. According to a state Democrat operative, “Gardner
In response to FBI Probing Whether ‘Islam Is Somehow Linked’ To Beheading In Oklahoma: A few more details via the NY Post about the – ahem – “workplace violence” incident in Moore, Oklahoma, Thursday. Alton Nolen, the “disgruntled, fired factory worker”
Mark Vaughn, an off-duty officer who also serves as chief operating officer of Vaughan Foods processing center in Moore, Oklahoma, shot Alton Nolen after Nolen beheaded a staffer at the food distribution center and proceeded to stab another worker. According
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman has revealed that 70% of illegal immigrants released into the United States this year have failed to subsequently appear at immigration hearings. The AP repeatedly asked for figures about the number of immigrants
When contemplating the failure of the War on Poverty after 50 years and $22 trillion spent, I mentioned the outrageous government overhead, waste, and fraud that makes up a big part of that figure. It’s both absurd and immoral to
The western world was shocked and horrified by news out of Sydney Australia, last week: Australia Raids Foil Beheading Plots: Australian counterterrorism forces detained 15 people Thursday in a series of suburban raids after receiving intelligence that the Islamic State militant
In response to Clinton Minder Followed NY Times Reporter into the Bathroom: Matt Continetti has an inspired rant about Hillary’s bathroom minders and the willingness of the media to put up with this passive-aggressive crap, in which Hillary alternately poses
The topic of education has moved to the forefront of the political debate in North Carolina, a state seen as critical to GOP hopes of taking control of the Senate. Earlier that day in Greensboro, Tillis recalled his first
Just two weeks ago a poll had Republican Ed Gillespie down by 22 points to incumbent Mark Warner in Virginia. A new poll just out has him closing to within nine. The Gillespie team had been anticipating something of a surge
Per a new report by Politico, “JDC Manufacturing, a company co-owned by the Democratic senator’s husband, Chip, received nearly $390,000 in federal grants for energy projects and tax credits created by the 2009 stimulus law, according to public records and
Despite some claims to the contrary today, Eric Holder was a committed progressive who saw himself as fighting a battle for the “soul of the nation” in hopes that a “liberal renaissance” would took place. After word broke that Eric
I’ve been scratching my head over the degeneration of the Secret Service, which has been in trouble quite a few times in recent years. Ronald Kessler, a leading critic of the agency (but generally a supporter of the agents) has
In response to The 5 States That Could Decide Control of the Senate: This has got to be one of the most interesting election cycles for hard-core number-crunching poll-hungry wonks. It’s been all over the map, from predictions of a
Eric Holder, the most corrupt attorney general in our nation’s history, has finally decided to step down after six scandal-ridden years at the Department of Justice. With the Senate likely to change hands after the midterm elections, the president will want to
It sounds like a scene from North Korea. A NY Times reporter recounts her visit to the Clinton Global Initiative conference where she was assigned a minder who even followed her into the ladies room. Amy Chozick, who covers the
Every time I hear that there is a message from the office of the Surgeon General my first thought is “We still have a Surgeon General?” Then I hear about whatever silly issue the office is pushing and I wonder
It’s fair to say Roll Call’s Stuart Rothenberg hedges his bets, but he also sees control of the U.S. Senate coming down to just five states, four of which are held by Democrats. The GOP has to win just two
If this and the liberal Democrat crying jag on Twitter that followed it isn’t manufactured outrage, Democrats may be even more panicked about losing the Senate than they appear to be on the surface. Talk about there being no there there.
The Democrats edge in data collection and technology, especially in national elections, isn’t much of a secret these days. Now, the GOP is using the 2014 mid-terms to begin playing catch up. One has to wonder where the genius of
The patest tactic of Democrats cocnerrned about lsoing their Senate majority in November involves trying to motivate more seniors to turn out and vote for them, as opposed to the GOP in November. Per a National Journal report, this is
Even those who have a heaping helping of disapproval for Bill Clinton have to admit the old boy can make them laugh. After all the work President Obama and certain congressional Democrats have put into their dopey War on Corporate
The election rhetoric has met the reality and the ever growing threat of ISIS. At least President Obama spoke with Speaker Boehner. Will Congress tackle this issue before or after the election? There are many Democrats who cannot afford to