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Hagel Firing Will Make Things Worse

I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but firing Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense is probably the wrong thing for President Barack Obama to do. Hagel should never have been appointed in the first place, much less confirmed. (That

5 Truths About Immigration Reform

In declaring his executive amnesty on Thursday evening, President Barack Obama made the case for seizing what he once described as imperial powers. He said he had been compelled to do so because of the “broken” state of the country’s

Suspect Arrested In Wichita Rape/Burning Case

In response to Horror: Woman Sexually Assaulted, Beaten, And Set on Fire In Wichita Park: With very little to go on, police in Wichita, Kansas have managed to track down and arrest a suspect in the horrific case of the woman

Hillary Clinton: Pipeline, What Pipeline?

With Senate Democrats defeating approval for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline by one vote, the issue may flow all the way over into the 2016 presidential election, with one’s position on it being at least noteworthy, if not

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Gruber Visited White House a Dozen Times

Economist Jonathan Gruber made at least a dozen trips to the White House including at least one meeting with the President. The Wall Street Journal reports that Gruber visited the White House six times in 2009 and several more times

Gruber Visited White House a Dozen Times

Will anyone in the media call Obama on his Gruber lies?

In response to Obama Claimed to Have ‘Stolen Ideas’ from Gruber in 2006: Allow me to toss a few more tidbits onto the fire as we burn whatever remains of Barack Obama’s credibility: former Administration official Steve Rattner testifying –

Another American Sympathetic to ISIS Arrested

 Another idiot American sympathetic to ISIS, or Islamic extremism, has been accused of pushing ISIS’ agenda and  conspiring to offer “to help an undercover agent get a friend into Syria to join the extremist group.” Heather Elizabeth Coffman made her

King To Launch Multi-Candidate Iowa Forum

“It’ll be an event that all the nation stops and looks at,” said Iowa’s Steve King in announcing “an annual multi-candidate forum for presidential hopefuls.” King made the announcement in a Monday telephone interview with The Des Moines Register. The move formally sets

Will Americans Forget About Obamacare's Rollout?

In response to Jonathan Gruber 1 Year Ago: ‘Short Attention Span Of American Public’ Will Help Them Forget About Disastrous ACA Rollout (Video): Actually, Gruber is correct in saying that the “short attention span of the American public works to

ObamaCare's Facebook page is a sham, too

I’ve long been fascinated with the business of manufactured popularity, in which various forms of sock puppetry are used to make a person or product seem much more popular than it actually is.  It’s amazingly easy to do on the

Possible hacker attack at the State Department

CBS News is careful to note that the State Department shut down its unclassified email system to repair “possible” damage from a “suspected” hacker attack, but those suspicions must run pretty deep to justify the measures that were taken: A

States: Show Me The Money For Climate Change

Supposedly, Obama is re-focusing his Climate Change efforts back toward the states after playing it up on the international stage. However, if one reads between the lines, it’s not hard to see that what this is actually about for many

Pipeline Activists Threaten Democrats

While having approximately 50 Keystone pipeline protesters camped out on her doorstep may almost be a positive for Democrat Mary Landrieu in her Louisiana run-off election against Republican Bill Cassidy, it can hardly be a welcome sight for national Democrats

Loose-Lipped Gruber Fuels GOP Obamacare Attacks

 A Democrat Party assassination squad has surely been put on  notice to take out Jonathan Gruber now that a fourth Obamacare snafu has surfaced. I’m kidding. Democrats are not going to go out and actually take Gruber out. Gruber is

Why Vox Should Be Illegal

While basically a First Amendment absolutist, there may be an argument for making Vox.com – the seemingly brainless brain child of Leftist Ezra Klein – illegal as an act of education, if not compassion, as the crew at Vox doesn’t