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Monday night, the Boston Herald ran an editorial calling for President Obama to pull Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel: The fact Chuck Hagel’s nomination for defense secretary has dragged on so long and caused so much teeth-gnashing means it’s

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, eager to see his soda ban take flight across the nation, is starting small: he wants New York City’s ban to be applied statewide.  The city’s ban goes into effect March 12, but it

It is difficult to take government hysteria over the sequester seriously when federal agencies that are complaining over potential discretionary cuts to services are announcing new spending programs at virtually the same time. The blog Screwy Puppy noticed a typical

The wide ranging gun ban bill introduced by Senator Diane Feinstein (D, CA) could be voted out of committee and passed on to the full Senate as early as Thursday. A schedule posted for the upcoming February 28 executive business

On Monday, the Steering Committee of the Alabama Republican Party passed a resolution demanding that Sen. Richard Shelby retract his support of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to be Secretary of Defense, according to a report in the American Spectator. The

By MARTHA IRVINEAP National WriterCHICAGOTechnology is supposed to make us easier to reach, and often does. But the same modes of communication that have hooked us on the instant reply also can leave us feeling forgotten. We send an email,

No wonder Barack Obama may have proposed the sequester; with all the cuts that are due to take place, there is one cut he knew he didn’t have to worry about: his own salary.   The sequester, also known as the

The big winner of the fight over Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense is not President Barack Obama, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Democrats have called Paul’s views on Israel “deeply disturbing” because he wants to end foreign aid

Two weeks ago, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the National Archives And Records Administration (NARA) to unearth “assassination records” and other Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice documents housed at the John F. Kennedy

Beretta USA in Maryland is thinking of pulling up stakes and moving out of the state because of pending assault-weapons ban legislation. Beretta USA is a division of Beretta, the 500-year-old family owned company which won a contract in 1985

C. Everett Koop, who served as Surgeon General from 1981 to 1989 primarily under President Ronald Reagan, died at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire on Monday at the age of 96. A pediatric surgeon, Koop was perhaps best known

A leaked internal memo from the National Institute of Justice–the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice–shows that none of Obama’s gun proposals will work without registration and forced buybacks amounting to confiscation of Americans’ guns.

In the last month, we have been subjected to propaganda from the White House warning the American public that practically everything the federal government does will be shut down because of the impending 2.4% sequestration cuts.  President Obama has threatened

Absent a last-minute Congressional deal, sequestration cuts to the budget begin to take effect on Friday. The automatic, across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending are the result of the 2011 deal to lift the debt ceiling. If left in place for

In the first installment of this series, we asked about the prospects for a third party in the US, noting that the voters are mad as hell at everyone in Washington.  Some 73 percent of Americans, for example, trust the federal government

The office of Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), released a statement from the senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee last Friday criticizing the national Chamber of Commerce “for putting cheap foreign labor above the interests of taxpayers, American workers and

Republican strategist Karl Rove erroneously claimed Wednesday that Tea Party Express Chairwoman Amy Kremer was complicit in an emailed image that depicted him as a Nazi, deepening the conflictbetween Rove and the conservative grassroots. The image was actually sent out by

In what may be his George H.W. Bush moment, and much to the chagrin of Virginia’s conservatives, Republican Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, along with Republican VA House Speaker William Howell, endorsed the largest tax increase in the history of Virginia

At the beginning of the year, President Barack Obama’s new 501(c)4 political nonprofit, Organizing For Action, was launched with all the usual bells and whistles. But the tech wizards at OFA forgot one important rule in today’s Internet world: Register

An Inspector General’s report from the Department of Energy (DOE) recently revealed that the LG Chem auto battery plant in Holland, Michigan “inappropriately claimed and was reimbursed for labor costs that did not support the purpose/objective” of a government grant. According to

Thousands of people across the country stood up for the Second Amendment on Saturday at “Day of Resistance” rallies nationwide. As President Barack Obama and his administration attempt to restrict the American people’s rights to keep and bear arms, the

According to Pew Research, if you’re an American 35 or older, your assets have plummeted 22 percent since 2007. In 2007, assets for those 35 and older were estimated at an average of $293,968, but by 2010 that number had

Young Americans all across the country are getting what they voted for but not what they hoped for. While President Obama promised to cut health insurance premiums, rates are scheduled to nearly double for recent college graduates. Health insurance companies

Global warming, or climate change as environmentalists prefer to call it during colder seasons of the year, is now considered a root cause of Middle Eastern violence, according to liberals. The Washington D.C. based liberal think tank Center for American

President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has done something unique in Washington: he has united both left and right sensibilities in opposing or criticizing his nomination on the grounds of incompetence, dishonesty, and hypocrisy. Liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank

(AP) Cruz’s tactics boil Washington, but impress TexasBy PAUL J. WEBER and DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressHOUSTONTed Cruz glanced at his black cowboy boots, beneath a silver Texas belt buckle, waiting for the admirers to stop clapping. His arrival had turned a

Global financial groups battled Monday to control the lucrative future of “mobile money”, which will enable people to use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service PayPal struggled for a

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has launched a new campaign titled, “Equal Gun Rights.” The Foundation aims to show that gun rights are being unequally protected, and actually infringed, in different areas of our country–particularly in areas with a high

HACKENSACK, N.J, — A local citizen who lives near Teterboro airport in northern New Jersey said he saw Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and his friend Democratic Party mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen brunching together on Easter Sunday in 2012. The citizen,

While certain Americans cheer the establishment of Obamacare, many fear the ultimate economic impact of the legislation.  Certainly there is a way to solve the health care crisis in this country, and many say that Obamacare is better than nothing. 

For years, the left has claimed that they want marriage to be a state issue. But now the rubber has met the road on gay marriage, with the Obama administration issuing a request to the Supreme Court to strike down

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is widely rumored to be the next Democratic presidential nominee come 2016. But in the meantime, she won’t be skimping on her earnings. Clinton will reportedly be pocketing $200,000 per speech, a tidy sum

This weekend, President Obama deployed his entire team of lackeys to detail the parade of horribles that will supposedly inevitably follow the implementation of the sequester on March 1. The sequester, a package of $1.2 trillion in cuts to future

On Friday, barring some last-minute, extraordinary action by Congress, the government’s sequestration takes effect. The sequester, approved during the debt ceiling talks in 2011, would require the federal government to trim about 1% of its spending over the next seven

(AP) Glance: GOP bills aimed to offset spending cutsBy The Associated PressThe Republican-led House last year twice passed bills to replace automatic spending cuts now scheduled to go into effect March 1. The bills, first passed on May 10 and

Chris Chocola, the president of the Club for Growth, told Breitbart News this weekend that establishment Republicans who have no qualms about growing the size of government and benefit from it find the fiscally conservative group to be a nuisance