Politics

Obama Rejects Age Increase for Medicare Eligibility

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney revealed Monday that President Barack Obama will not consider raising the Medicare eligibility age to help balance the entitlement program’s books. “The president’s made clear that we don’t believe that’s the right policy to

Obama Rejects Age Increase for Medicare Eligibility

Daily Beast: Breitbart News Going 'Hammer and Tongs' at Rove

Lloyd Green, who writes for the Daily Beast, noted how ferociously Breitbart News has gone after Karl Rove for trying to anoint Establishment candidates in Republican primaries who may hold values antithetical to those held by the “Jacksonian” conservatives who make

Daily Beast: Breitbart News Going 'Hammer and Tongs' at Rove

Police Arrest Nevada Lawmaker for Second Time Since New Year

Police have arrested Nevada Democratic Assemblyman Steven Brooks, 40, with suspicion of domestic battery against a yet-unnamed family member. Authorities reportedly arrested Brooks Monday outside his Las Vegas home after getting combative with officers. Officials say that they had “determined Brooks

Police Arrest Nevada Lawmaker for Second Time Since New Year

Homeowners Use Guns to Defend Homes, Lives

Over the weekend, two citizens defended their lives and homes from intruders threatening them in Washington and Tennessee.  A 51-year old man broke into a couple’s home in Chehalis, WA early Sunday morning. The husband called 911 and armed himself

Homeowners Use Guns to Defend Homes, Lives

Freakout Over Sequester Shows Economy's Weakness

In just over two weeks, the “sequester”, automatic spending cuts first proposed by the White House in the debt ceiling talks in 2011, will take effect. Unless Congress and the President agree to alternative spending cuts, which seems unlikely, discretionary

Freakout Over Sequester Shows Economy's Weakness

Menendez under Fire

In January, Judicial Watch announced that Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) had made its list of Washington’s “Ten Most Corrupt” politicians for 2012. And what were the senator’s transgressions? You can read his entry for yourself, but here’s the Reader’s Digest

Menendez under Fire

Prager University: How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools

On Monday, Prager University released its latest stellar video, “How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools,” narrated by Stanford Professor Terry Moe. Moe explains how the Obama administration’s admissions that the education system is broken contradict their pro-union stance. “Union power has

Prager University: How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools

IL Town Runs Out of Gas Money for Police Cars

Dixmoor, Illinois, has a government spending problem. After years of taxing its inhabitants into leaving, resulting in a loss of $600,000 in tax revenue last year, the city has run out of cash to pay for the gas for the

IL Town Runs Out of Gas Money for Police Cars

Obama Gun Control Tour to Hit Chicago Friday

President Obama announced on Monday that he’d be visiting crime-ridden Chicago – his hometown, and the domain of his former chief of staff Mayor Rahm Emanuel – to talk about gun violence. Tomorrow, President Obama is slated to give his

Obama Gun Control Tour to Hit Chicago Friday

Post Office: Teach Us How to Deliver Packages

Last month, the US Postal Service quietly posted a “request for information” on a government website asking for help in designing a more efficient package delivery system. Its chief competitors, UPS and FedEx, have been using a system called “dynamic

Post Office: Teach Us How to Deliver Packages

Senate Panel Plans Vote on Hagel for Tuesday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, plans to seek a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as President Barack Obama’s new secretary of defense during a meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the committee said

Senate Panel Plans Vote on Hagel for Tuesday

Obama Begins 2nd Term with Wave of Regulations

(AP) How Obama is wielding executive power in 2nd termBy CALVIN WOODWARD and RICHARD LARDNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThis is what “Forward” looks like. Fast forward, even. President Barack Obama’s campaign slogan is springing to life in a surge of executive directives and

Obama Begins 2nd Term with Wave of Regulations

SOTU 2013: Will Obama Go Even Harder Left on the Internet?

Since reelection, the Obama Administration has been more strident and extreme than “advertised” before reelection. Why would Tuesday’s State of the Union address be any different? The President’s Inaugural address was a Leftist manifesto – that sounded nothing at all

SOTU 2013: Will Obama Go Even Harder Left on the Internet?

Report: Dorner 'Preoccupied' with Race, Saw LAPD as Racist

Christopher Dorner, the former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer who is on the loose after murdering a Riverside police officer and two others, saw the LAPD as a racist organization and was “preoccupied” with race. According to LAPD internal

Report: Dorner 'Preoccupied' with Race, Saw LAPD as Racist