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President Barack Obama wanted to play his favorite sport on the greens of one of the private golf clubs recently, but clubs including: Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., and Willow Ridge

In response to Justice Dept. Watchdog Says DOJ Is Impeding Investigations: The DOJ inspector general complaining about the stonewalls littering his department makes a lovely companion piece to the black comedy of Attorney General Eric Holder’s aide Brian Fallon trying

The Republican Governors Association (RGA) Chairman Chris Christie finally made a positive statement about GOPer running against Governor Andrew Cuomo. In a statement sent out by the RGA on Tuesday night, the organization congratulates New York Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob

According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the growing unpopularity of Barack Obama and concern for the nation’s future are crushing any hope Democrats may have had to hold onto the Senate in November’s midterm elections. The poll

Citing “numerous complaints about voter applications” submitted by the Democrat-aligned New Georgia Project, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp “is investigating allegations of forged voter registration applications and demanding records from a voter registration group with ties to one of the state’s

During a House Judiciary hearing, Tuesday, the chief watchdog for the Department of Justice claimed that senior officials at the DOJ have impeded or delayed him from gaining access to important documents crucial to his investigations. “The FBI and some

Poor Planned Parenthood. America’s largest abortion provider is having a very bad year and thanks to a Republican proposal to make birth control available over the counter, it could be getting even worse. Despite the President himself siding with no

Don’t blame us, the headline is right out of Bloomberg News: “Democrats See South as No Country for White Men in Senate.” Talk about your southern strategy … Bloomberg explains why we are seeing mostly female Democrat candidates in the

With Barack Obama now publicly backing away from executive action, or perhaps an amnesty for illegal immigrants until after November, anyone watching the mid-term elections closely has to admit that the border crisis and the amnesty issue is now a

A Twitter account associated with ISIS issued a direct call, Monday, for attacks on Twitter employees in San Francisco. The disturbing tweets were apparently in retaliation to Twitter’s policy of suspending ISIS and ISIS -sympathizing Twitter accounts which use the social

And my friends make fun of me because I don’t dare venture more than a couple of yards out into the ocean, or submerge myself in more than 3 feet of water, whenever I go to the beach. A 50-year-old

It looks like we’ve got a full-blown outbreak on our hands, spreading out from the Midwest, particularly Kansas City and Chicago. Ten states have now requested assistance from the Centers for Disease Control for dealing with a surge in rare

Obama’s State Department has gotten into the movie business with a new graphic web video aimed at derecruiting “moderate” muslims from joining the ranks of radical Islamic terror groups. This is exactly what the Islamists want. By putting out this

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus were not going to let last month’s unfortunate shooting in Ferguson, Mo. go by without their best efforts of exploiting the incident on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Because the incident

Kris “Tanto” Paronto, one of the special operators who was in Benghazi during the September 11, 2012 consulate attack told Sirius XM’s David Webb on Monday night he gave closed door testimony to Congress about his account of what happened

When not sitting behind closed door at a big dollar Democrat fundraiser, First Lady Michelle Obama told Georgia Democrats – and school children – it was time to “step up” during her recent visit to the state. It was unclear

What with the on going rise in Islamic extremism, including ISIS and as new information conties to break regarding past events in Benghazi, the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has decided to take up something extremely important to fulfill a

In response to Scott Brown Supporter Aghast, Claims Time Duped Her For Hit Piece: A favorite left-wing election year tactic is to pretend that Republicans are abandoning the GOP in droves into the arms of the more reasonable, compassionate and

Many in media seem to have spent the first week of September trying to tamp down talk of a big GOP wave in November. Not Stu Rothenberg of Roll Call, who has been watching Washington politics forever. While the current

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Janice Leahy, the primary source for what clearly amounts to a Time hit piece on Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown, claims she was “duped” and “taken advantage of” by Time journalist Jay Newton-Small. Leahy

USA Today has a lengthy article about a report from the Democrat-controlled Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that’s supposed to dissipate the IRS scandal by demonstrating that “mismanagement, not political bias, was responsible for the targeting.” It does nothing of

When pro-amnesty for illegal aliens supporters, or in this case, “Dreamers” heckled Senator Marco Rubio during a recent speech he gave in South Carolina, little did they know that their stunt may have really, really backfired on them. Rubio’s support

In response to GOP Pulling Away in Key Senate Races: This was expected from the GOP, but give them time to foul up their momentum with some dumb statement or political move. It’s nice to see Cotton pulling away from

In response to Raw Video: Black Memphis Teen Gang Brutally Beats 3 in Kroger Lot: Maybe the police chief and mayor assumed that the video spoke for itself, identifying the criminal thugs for what they were, young black men. Nah.

I was ten years old the first time I paid attention to Joan Rivers. I was sitting in my grandparents’ apartment stuffing my face with pasta marinara at the kitchen table. I heard a woman’s voice on the television behind

In New Hampshire, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig’s Mayday PAC has endorsed Scott Brown’s Republican primary challenger and recently sent out a mailer calling Scott Brown a “Washington lobbyist,” prompting an angry response from the Brown campaign — calling it a “flat-out lie.” “This

A new NBC News/Marist poll has Republican Tom Cotton leading incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Pryor by five in Arkansas, while Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has taken an eight point lead over his Democrat challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes. Meanwhile, “in

In 2008, when then candidate Barack Obama was caught up in a plagiarism scandal for using the words of Deval Patrick, his opponent Hillary Clinton’s chief criticism of him at the time was that he was “just words.” His critics,

Democrat Jesse T. Smith is running for Congress in Alabama. On Monday Smith Tweeted: “The greatest country on earth is being bullied from within. Actions of Republicans in Congress are worse than #ISIL,” ISIL is the Obama administration’s preferred name for

I guess Obama’s “pen and phone” don’t work when it comes to blindingly obvious no-brainer decisions that would protect Americans from terrorists. This should be one of the biggest “well, duh!” initiatives in history – you’re on a no-fly, no-entry

Depending on who you talk to, anywhere from twelve to hundreds of American citizens have joined ISIS to fight in the Jihad against the West. The State Department maintains that there are only “maybe a dozen” Americans in ISIS. Secretary