January 22, 2014 – 4:12 pm
After watching Obama these past 5 years, color me skeptical that this is anything other than some sort of self-serving political move (The Hill) President Obama will create a new task force to examine how to better prevent sexual assault on college campuses, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The president is giving the panel three […]
January 21, 2014 – 8:27 am
The Talking Points Memo went out and Democrats yammered on about voter ID (Daily Caller) Martin Luther King Day is a day of service, quiet reflection — and implications that those supporting voter ID laws are akin to 1960s segregationists. Democratic politicians and their allies took to the airwaves Monday to campaign against state laws […]
January 20, 2014 – 8:24 am
Race card played (Bloomberg) President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine’s website today. “There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of […]
January 19, 2014 – 8:45 am
Another week, another part of Obamacare delayed by unilateral executive fiat (Fox News) The Obama administration is reportedly delaying enforcement of another aspect of ObamaCare, one that prohibits employers from providing better health benefits to top executives than those being offered to regular employees. According to The New York Times, tax officials said they would […]
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 […]
