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In response to Obama’s Confusing, Expanding, Nonexistent ISIS Strategy: Confusing is right. Obama today: We don’t have a strategy yet.” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest at yesterday’s press briefing: “…that is a key component of the comprehensive strategy that the

For the past week, the left has had their own “viral” campaign to help fund what they consider a very worthy cause: abortion! It’s being dubbed as “an alternative to the Ice Bucket Challenge” – because why donate to help

The Heckler’s Veto is becoming one of the preferred instruments of cultural control and speech suppression in America. It’s fairly easy to pull off: you just have to convince the authorities – college administrators, the police, the hosts of a

In response to Report: Second American Killed Fighting for ISIS Identified: I’m afraid that the media reporting of all future American jihadists killed in Syria and Iraq will only continue to project U.S. foreign and domestic policy weakness to Islamists,

There’s a kind of time bomb built into the Obamacare exchanges. Next year an unknown but probably significant number of low income people are going to discover they owe the IRS money through no fault of their own. Those who

Azcentral.com bills itself as “the oldest and most-visited local site in Arizona, bringing together the state’s largest newspaper, The Arizona Republic; its most-watched television station, KPNX-TV Channel 12; and the Valley’s leading Spanish-language publication, La Voz.” Consequently, it seems more

FOX 9 has confirmed the second American killed fighting for ISIS is also a Minnesotan. Abdirahmaan Muhumed from Minneapolis. — Seth Kaplan (@Seth_Kaplan) August 28, 2014 The 2nd American killed fighting for ISIS was profiled by MPR just two months

Chicago’s crime rate dropped as concealed carry permits in the city have sky rocketed, The Washington Times reported. The number of robberies leading to arrests in Chicago declined 20 percent since last year’s police department statistics were released. Since July

Tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will appear at a rally in support of Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat, Charlie Crist. I can remember a couple of years back when ‘DWS’ was hating on Crist for being a “conservative Republican,” but

Following up on a Weekly Standard Report, Breitbart News has discovered a seemingly abandoned Twitter feed that may yet prove to be another major embarrassment for Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley. Trial lawyer Tom Bottaro is hosting the upcoming Braley event and

Aficionados of horror fiction must occasionally deal with the inherent flaw of the genre: a horror film or book can succeed so well at being frightening, disturbing, or repulsive that it fails as entertainment. The audience response is, “Wow, that

Faced with an increasingly unpopular president and finding themselves on the wrong side of the issues, most especially, immigration, Democrats are reaching back for what amounts to little more than a scare tactic that reeks of desperation that will likely

The stage is set for this November’s general election between liberal Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson and Republican Carol Platt. Grayson had an easy time of defeating his Democrat primary challenger Nick Ruiz, while Platt was able to defeat Jorge Bonilla

In response to Should the House and Senate Work Five Days a Week?: I tend to agree with Nolan that members should work more days, just not sure if extending the work week to 5 days makes sense. First of

Police in the town of Rotherham, England have admitted to a shameful response to a series of sex crimes against children stretching over a decade. According to a report released yesterday, one of the reasons police failed to act appropriately

I recently found myself at an upstate New York dinner table with a bunch of independent voters–a mom, a dad, an aunt, a grandpa, two college students, and two twenty-something cousins. The topic of conversation turned to politics and I

Media bias doesn’t consist entirely, or even primarily, of outright falsehoods. It’s expressed through the stories our media herd chooses not to tell, because they don’t fit easily into preferred narratives… and which stories they lavish saturation coverage upon, because

The same media outlets that couldn’t wait to hype the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri are tiptoeing very delicately around the beating of Iraq veteran Ralph Weems in Mississippi. Weems is a white man severely beaten last Saturday

The inability of the federal government to launch a website presented a big crisis for managerial liberalism. It’s also a spectacular example of how the government burns through money like there’s no tomorrow. The total cost of the crap ObamaCare

North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan found herself in the unfortunate position of being photographed with an unpopular President Obama at an American Legion event today and did her best to try and put some distance between them, despite the embrace.

Rep. Rick Nolan (D-Minn.) wants the House and Senate to work five days a week, as opposed to current practice. It also calls for the House to return to “regular order” and involves arcane processes likeyl never thought of by

During last night’s Emmys there were several jokes about the fact that while the award show took place on network TV, most of the nominations were for cable and Netflix shows. Also, this year marked a record number of nominations

Citing legislative issues on which it usually works, the Church of Scientology is expanding its efforts and holding a “first-of-its-kind breakfast for congressional staffers, giving workers at the Capitol a chance to check out its Washington digs”. “Of course we

Vocativ is a new media company that doesn’t consider itself part of the establishment media, but while videotaping on Martha’s Vineyard over the weekend to film “a piece about the African-American community on the island,” their film crew found themselves in a

In what’s now considered a “key Senate race”, one in which Republican Joni Ernst initially wasn’t even supposed to be competitive, Ernst and the Democrat’s new John Edwards, Bruce Braley are now all tied up. PPP’s newest Iowa Senate poll

In recent weeks, the general consensus among the political cognoscenti on the left and right alike has been that the president has “checked out.” As liberal MSNBC commentator Donny Deutsch noted last month, after his colleague Mika Brzezinski interviewed Obama on

There seems to be a grinch in Florida who is opposed to a 12-year-old’s lemonade stand, and has gone as far as to bring in the cops. What an idiot!? I remember my first lemonade stand when I was a

With potential U.S. airstrikes against ISIS in Syria looming, there is talk that Obama & friends are concerned that military action could prompt these cowardly jihadists to directly strike the U.S. Those concerned with poking the Islamist bear may need

Until now, the left-wing hyperventilating over corporate “inversions” has been out of proportion to the number and size of corporations actually doing it. This is partly because Democrats are looking forward to using the issue in a populist anti-corporate crusade.

I bet everyone reading this post will agree with the little foreign policy suggestion I offered to Presidente Obama during my recent NewsmaxTV appearance I think he should call President Bush, dust off that Blackberry of his, and ask him

Following up on several news reports, the organization Keep Louisiana Working (KLW) is hitting Mary Landrieu for using Senate funds for her campaign flights. According to KLW Executive Director Emily Cornell, “As Sen. Landrieu admits to more and more private flights billed

Businessman Donald Trump took to his Twitter account Tuesday to endorse Republican Scott Brown in the New Hampshire GOP primary election, citing what Trump claimed is Brown’s ability to win against incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. .@SenScottBrown is the most