January 17, 2014 – 12:50 pm
Not so much on Americans (AFP) In a long-awaited speech outlining changes to programs exposed by Edward Snowden, Obama also said he had halted National Security Agency (NSA) spy taps targeting friendly world leaders. He also proposed new protections for foreigners caught in US data collection programs, which harvest hundreds of millions of pages of […]
January 16, 2014 – 8:15 am
Investigating Republicans, of course. How cute. A nominal Republican is having a bit of an issue, so now she’s all for hardcore investigative journalism. Locally. Democracy demands it Democracy needs dogged local journalism (Multiple paragraphs regarding “lane closures” to start) It’s one thing for public officials to subject one another to that kind of low-level, […]
January 15, 2014 – 7:06 am
Which has caused the United Way and other groups to hit Washington (Daily Caller) Leaders of the charitable coalition the United Way swarmed Capitol Hill Tuesday to lobby against the Obama administration’s proposed cap on the charitable deduction in the federal tax code. Lowering the charitable deduction has long been an Obama policy objective. United […]
January 14, 2014 – 11:13 am
Well, hey, why should the illegals be spared the pain of O-care? (Fox Latino) A California state lawmaker plans to introduce legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to have access to government health insurance plans. The lawmaker, state Sen. Ricardo Lara, a Democrat, said if the current focus of healthcare reform is make sure everyone […]
January 14, 2014 – 6:52 am
You don’t say (Fox News) Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation’s top civilian and uniformed defense officials — headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama — were informed that the event was a “terrorist attack,” declassified documents show. The new evidence […]
January 13, 2014 – 8:36 am
John Podhoretz discusses at the NY Post Why Bridgegate made headlines but Obama’s IRS scandal didn’t Most government scandals involve the manipulation of the system in obscure ways by people no one has ever heard of. That is why George Washington Bridgegate is nearly a perfect scandal — because it is comprehensible and (as they […]
January 12, 2014 – 8:23 am
Say, I wonder whether the problems and negligence surrounding the Maryland Exchange website will be a national story, where media dig into just who knew and when they knew, and what Governor Martin O’Malley (D) knew, and publish breathless reports, where we see crazy op-eds about the end of his career. Or will this just […]
January 11, 2014 – 11:48 am
This probably isn’t the dumbest and hyper-partisan piece written over “lane closures”, but it certainly rises pretty high up New Jersey narcissist Things we learned about Chris Christie during his 108-minute apologia: “I’m a very loyal guy.†“I am not a focus-group-tested, blow-dried candidate.†“I’ve worked for the last 12 years in public life developing […]
January 11, 2014 – 6:45 am
And Udall apparently knew about it. Fortunately, most of the media has applied a collective yawn over this abuse of power. Lane closures are more important cause Republican governor (Fox News) Democratic Colorado Sen. Mark Udall is under fire following reports that his staff pressured the Colorado Division of Insurance to walk back its claims […]
January 10, 2014 – 9:21 am
Here’s the headline of the article Firing of Stepien deprives Christie of a key counselor Like many of you, I’ve watched and been involved in politics for a long time. I’ve watched the media let their biases loose. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact time. Some say it was when Walter Cronkite declared the Vietnam […]
