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Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, writes in POLITICO: Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime. With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama is doing more than

During testimony before the House Oversight Committee Thursday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Marilyn Tavenner admitted that the White House’s original number of eight million Obamacare enrollments was inflated. The real number, Tavenner now claims, is 7.3 million.  Oversight

Financial advisor Suze Orman accused private banks of “financially raping” students at a Politico event with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday. “The kids today, they don’t have money and they have not been educated about how important it is

The White House Press Secretary praised DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz after a Politico article detailed a history of Democrats bristling at her behavior as the leader of the Democratic party. Earnest admitted that he had read the article which

Any whiff of scandal from any American institution and you can bet CNN and The Washington Post will demand accountability, an investigation and full transparency. The ongoing NFL scandal, for example. In-between calling for his head, both the Post and

Politico reports that “long-simmering doubts” and a renewed lack of confidence in Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the White House, congressional Dems and other Washington Democrats has Schultz struggling to try and hold onto her job. They’ve lost faith in

You would think that the mainstream media would either defend Fareed Zakaria, or out him as a serial plagiarist. Instead, despite a drip-drip-drip of allegations from two anonymous writers at Our Bad Media charging Zakaria with serial plagiarism, the elite

Billionaire Warren Buffett is scheduled to speak on a conference call to a California fundraiser on Wednesday for Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes. Grimes, who currently serves as Secretary of State for Kentucky, has fallen behind  the incumbent Senator

Sushi prices nationwide could rise dramatically in the coming months, as rice production in drought-ravaged California is expected to fall by 25% this year. According to Politico, California’s 2,500 rice growers planted just 420,000 acres of the high-quality rice used

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters Monday afternoon that debate on the the authorization to train and arm Syrian rebels could begin Tuesday and described the legislative language as providing “much more accountability.” Reports have indicated

House Republicans plan to unveil legislation to provide the Obama administration a limited authority to arm and train the Free Syrian Army, in a proposal that will require that Congress is kept in the loop, according to reports.  According to

A strong plurality–and a near majority–of Americans in battleground states support deporting the illegal immigrant juveniles who have flooded across the border from Central America.  In a poll conducted by Politico, an outlet that has given favorable treatment to pro-amnesty

Voters in battleground states overwhelmingly disapprove of how President Barack Obama is handling immigration, which explains why Obama delayed his executive amnesty until after the midterms.  A poll Politico commissioned found that 64 percent of voters in states that have

DALLAS, Texas — The ideological battle over the Texas Social Studies textbook adoption process is inching towards a showdown as the State Board of Education (SBOE) convenes to hear public comment on the classroom learning materials followed by reviewer reports and

Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) is defying the skeptics by making the New Hampshire race against incumbent Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen a real contest.  Though he voted as a centrist in Washington, D.C.–even casting a critical vote for the Dodd-Frank

While in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday, former Reagan Secretary of Education Bill Bennett put out what was described as the “Conservative Case for Common Core,” he admitted he is paid by a lobbying firm for his continued

Hours after the Republican National Committee released a report Friday that claims Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) took nine more charter flights between 2000 and 2008 to campaign events that cost taxpayers an additional $130,527, Landrieu released her own report in which

After pressuring President Barack Obama to delay his executive amnesty until after the midterms, panicked Senate Democrats are now reportedly pushing him for an indefinite delay to preserve their political lives.  But if Senate Democrats were more serious about blocking

In keeping with its new campaign that urges its readers to vote for candidates who share their top concerns – abortion and free contraception – Cosmopolitan has announced its first political picks of the electoral season, and they are Alison

Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) detailed 20 “special interests meeting held in secret at the White House” that the administration had with immigration and CEO lobbyists to craft the president’s executive action granting amnesty to upwards of 5 million illegal

President Obama personally called the House Appropriations Committee Chairman at 5:00pm Tuesday to request congressional authorization to arm Syrian rebels, prompting a scramble on Capitol Hill to digest the proposed policy change and decide how to bring it up for

For years, a handful of national security experts, NGOs, and members of Congress have been trying to raise a red flag over what they suspected were active influence operations by the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.  (The RAND Corporation defines influence

Alan Benyak, an unknown actor who appeared in an ad for Tom Wolf, a Democrat running for governor of Pennsylvania, is being held up for public ridicule by BuzzFeed. His sin, according to BuzzFeed, is appearing in a direct-to-video film

Trailing in the polls, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is going to Hollywood to fund her lagging campaign to defeat incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Bluegrass State. Both the Hollywood Reporter and Politico are reporting that liberal Hollywood film

Proponents of the Common Core standards are hailing educational theorist E.D. “Don” Hirsch as a founding father of the education initiative and one who laid the intellectual groundwork for the controversial reform. The problem is that Hirsch himself says, “I

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions slammed Senate Democrats in a Friday statement for calling on Obama to move forward with executive amnesty after the midterm elections.  According to Sessions, a recent Politico report that Senate Democrats are urging Obama to

Radio’s Laura Ingraham, a tireless champion of anti-amnesty efforts, blasted the Republican National Committee in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News, slamming the RNC’s apparent support of President Barack Obama’s plans to grant executive amnesty for millions of illegal

As the Ebola outbreak continues to grow in Africa, President Obama is now asking for federal funds to fight the virus. The White House is asking for $88 million to fund drugs and to cover the costs of sending personnel

The editor of Cosmopolitan says that the magazine will begin endorsing political candidates because she wants women to have control over having a child, “not a bunch of old white guys sitting in D.C.” As Politico reports, Cosmo editor-in-chief Joanna