In response to “Are You Smart Enough to be President of the United States?”: This reminds me of the running gag about the hapless Senator Bedfellow in the “Bloom County” comic strip, forever facing rigged “gotcha” questions from the satirical
It may not be a match made in heaven but then little of Washington, D.C. these days seems heavenly. Enter Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) calling on House Democrats “to use their leverage and reject a bipartisan spending bill to keep the
Donald Trump is adding his name to a list of Republicans who will be visiting Iowa next month. He’s slated to attend a dinner party “with Gov. Terry Branstad and Steve Bruere, the president of Peoples Company, a land brokerage firm”.
Barack Obama and Rick Perry both got into the news by quoting the Bible recently. In Obama’s case, the quote wasn’t even accurate, but of course he gets a total pass. Plumping for his illegal amnesty orders at a campaign
A supporter of Obamacare living in Orange County, California says her first year under the new system has been “more frustrating than I’d ever dreamed.” In a piece published by the Washington Post, 56-year-old freelance writer Catherine Keefe describes the
The latest Person of the Year award from Time Magazine is another one of those generic group deals where they salute a group or class of people, rather than a specific individual. Their rules have long allowed such citations, but
Economist Jonathan Gruber testified under oath before Congress this morning. When it came to his previously uncovered statements about subsidies and state exchanges–an issue now before the Supreme Court–Gruber offered the following excuse in his opening remarks [emphasis added]: I
If a Republican administration had to endure the headlines on this, a single day in the life of a presidency, the media would be pronouncing said administration and any further policy initiatives dead on arrival. Instead, the as usual Obama
Rep Gowdy (R-SC) made MIT economist Jonathan Gruber squirm in his seat during the House Oversight hearing, this morning, as he questioned him about the a series of statements he made about the tactics used to sell ObamaCare to the
Sony Pictures is still bleeding confidential data from the sucking server wound inflicted by hackers, leading executives to take some remarkable steps to reassure understandably nervous employees. From the New York Times: As hackers made public more Sony Pictures Entertainment
Given that rank and file federal workers may be best positioned to assess what type of leadership we have in government, that they are “increasingly dismayed by what they see as weak leadership across government” based upon a new survey
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According to a new Bloomberg poll, “a majority of Americans, 53 percent, say the interactions between the white and black communities have deteriorated” since Obama took office back in 2008. But can you blame them? In the six years since
Courtesy of Powerline blog it appears that Columbia Law School is allowing students the opportunity to petition for a delay in exam administration in cases where students are “claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments
The first take-away from a recent Politico Magazine item: Reinventing Jeb Bush How America misremembers the family’s true conservative, is that as is appropriately disclosed at bottom, the author is S.V. Dáte, the author of “Jeb: America’s Next Bush” and “an editor on
No big surprises in Louisiana on special election night; even the Democrat machine knew Mary Landrieu was toast, which was quite vexing to Mary Landrieu. It looks like she lost by about 13 points to Republican challenger Bill Cassidy. Landrieu
In response to Rolling Stone Editor Offers 2nd Apology Amid Intense Criticism: What a season of journalistic meltdowns we’ve had! From the grand jury demolition of Ferguson mythology, to the media’s bizarre obsession with the Facebook postings of an obscure
A 26-year-old white Bosnian woman was dragged out of her car early this morning and beaten by three black assailants in the same South St. Louis neighborhood that saw a Bosnian man bludgeoned to death with hammers earlier this week.
An explosive video discovered by the Conservative Treehouse shows Mike Brown’s step-dad Louis Head warning, “I’m going to start a riot” moments before he climbed on a car and repeatedly wailed, “Burn This Bitch Down” in reaction to the grand
Just the other day, Hillary Clinton told a half-empty auditorium in Georgetown that her vision of “smart power” included empathizing with America’s enemies and respecting them. Presumably that includes the murderers of Ambassador Chris Stevens and his defenders, whose
Reggie Love, known as the “body man” to Barack Obama is said to be writing a book on his experiences, “Power Forward: My Presidential Education,” detailing his time spent over the years with Obama. It’s currently slated for a Feb. 3
Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana offered a series of tweets Friday afternoon which seem to offer a more abject apology for the magazines failure to check the facts in a widely read story about an alleged gang-rape at UVA.
Former President George W. Bush recently said it was “hard to understand” a New York grand jury’s decision to not indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, a 300-plus pound black man whose death in New York during a
Hey, remember how a watchdog group called Cause of Action filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents pertaining to the investigation of taxpayer information handed over to the White House by the IRS, and the request went nowhere,
Per the Christian Science Monitor, “If Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana loses her runoff election on Saturday, there will be no more white Democrats from the Deep South in the Senate. Racial polarization of the two main parties has
Last week I posted a list of books I recommend as gifts for Christmas (or any occasion, really). Another awesome gift is “Davi Sings Sinatra,” a collection of Sinatra favorites sang by the very talented Robert Davi. Many will know
A long-standing injustice perpetrated by the Obama Administration is about to be overturned by Congress, as reported at the Washington Examiner: Congress is set to make victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings eligible for Purple Hearts and combat injury
Not since U2 gave its new album to every Apple iTunes user whether they wanted it or not has music felt this much like a threat. Produced by a group called Stand with Hillary, the country music video walks a
Both House and Senate Republican leadership appears poised to sell-out it’s base to both keep the government open, while giving Barack Obama complete freedom to move forward with his controversial executive orders. The “cromnibus” represents “a combination of a long-term
Iran turns out to be a big player on the Cyber War battlefield, as reported by ComputerWorldUK: For the past two years, a team of Iranian hackers has compromised computers and networks belonging to over 50 organizations from 16 countries,
Piling on to the racial fiasco known as Ferguson, AG Eric Holder has announced that he would be pressing forward with another federal civil rights case investigating the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, on July 17,
You know that Christmas jingle “Santa Clause is Coming to Town,” well, now you can say that Satan is coming to down, at least to Tallahassee, Florida. Florida’s Department of Management Services has approved The Satanic Temple’s Christmas season “diorama
Barack Obama reacted to the grand jury in New York opting to not to bring criminal charges in the case of Eric Garner with an extended statement. “It is incumbent upon all of us as Americans, regardless of race, region,
Within hours of a Staten Island grand jury deciding against indicting police officers in the death of Eric Garner, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a Justice Department civil rights investigation into the death. The quick response may suggest to some that Holder’s
University of Austin researchers had lost their minds (brains), but then realized that dozens of human brains they reported missing were actually disposed of 12 years ago. The university released a statement wednesday saying environmental workers disposed of between 40
Two weeks ago the Center for American Progress made a concerted effort to claim that Jonathan Gruber was wrong in some of his embarrassing statements caught on video. But it turned out it was CAP that had it wrong, not
In response to Media loses her collective mind over Lauten: Terry Bean is a gay-rights activist who co-founded the influential Human Rights Campaign and is a member of the board of the HRC Foundation which you can thank for the Common
In response to Fight Cancer by Watching Badass Cats: I am all for fighting cancer, even it is using those annoying and dirty little furballs. Yeah you guessed it, I don’t like cats, and really dislike all of those annoying
Sony Pictures was recently the victim of a huge computer hack. Many articles have focused on the movies that were published, but Fusion.net finds something the feminist beancounters might be interested in. The salary list is contained in a spreadsheet from the
An individual meeting the CDC definition of a “person under investigation” of having the ebola virus is being treated at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital according to Public Affairs Officer Noah Brown. Director Of Emergency Preparedness at MGH, Dr. Paul Biddinger confirmed the individual