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Media
The loser of last night’s GOP presidential debate? The envelope, please
And the award goes to CNBC! It’s not uncommon for moderators of political debates to take flak for allowing their ideological biases…
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Law and Government
Liberal media try to intimidate Mitch McConnell over his ‘no shutdown’ pledge (Video)
Could you imagine playing poker and showing your opponent all your cards? That’s exactly the losing strategy Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell…
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Politics
Rep. Louie Gohmert challenging John Boehner as House Speaker (Video)
The the ever-irascible U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, conservative Republican from Texas, announced Sunday that he will challenge Rep. John Boehner…
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Law and Government
Amnesty and shutdown scares: Are the American people really more stupid than I am? (Video)
Stupid is as stupid argues.
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Law and Government
The 5 most outrageous things said by House Democrats at IRS hearings
Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein recently observed that House Democrats involved in investigating events surrounding the IRS scandal are not…
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Foreign Affairs
D-Day vet refuses Obama’s invitation to a private photo op at the White House
Will this come as another shock to the president? It seems fairly obvious that the commander-in-chief expected his announcement in the…
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Economy
Sequestration didn’t cost 1.6 million government jobs, or even 1.6 jobs
Let’s accept the demonstrably false premise that sequestration and the government shutdown brought on by it in 2013 were entirely…
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Law and Government
Obama is the new Trent Dilfer
Is Obama the Democratic Ronald Reagan? A liberal columnist raised the question over the weekend, and a conservative columnist answered. But those who…
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Law and Government
Feds tight-lipped in response to FOIA requests about government shutdown shenanigans
In the government shutdown that occurred last October, the Obama administration closed down, or blocked access to, many private businesses that had…
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Foreign Affairs
Joe Biden desperately wants to be president
There is a very revealing piece by Glenn Thrush at Politico this morning about the SCHMOTUS, Joe Biden. It was revealing in…
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Law and Government
Who is the president’s Bridget Kelly and why hasn’t she been fired?
The current media feeding frenzy involves New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose administration allegedly condoned or ordered the closing of…
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Media
The Cult of Obama continues to thrive
Ben Shapiro of KRLA in Los Angeles as well as the Editor-At-Large for Breitbart News penned further examples of what…
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Politics
The second part of the big lie: Defamation of adversaries
Attention is rightly focused on the Big Lie right now, the one the president told over and over again during…
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Law and Government
Obama lied, millions of insurance plans died
The lede paragraph in a blockbuster story reads as though it were the latest plot against the Obama administration by…
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Law and Government
A house divided: The GOP dialogue continues
I wrote a few days ago about the current division in the Republican Party, which is as profound as I…
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Law and Government
No double dipping for furloughed federal workers in Virginia
Federal workers who received $64,836 in Virginia unemployment benefits must return the money to Richmond … or else. Since Washington is…
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Politics
Report: Valerie Jarrett planned financial standoff as strategy to win the House in 2014
According to a report from Ed Klein, author of Obama biography, The Amateur, Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was the “architect”…
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Economy
Reid-McConnell deal to avert default included $3 billion kickback for McConnell’s home state of Kentucky (Update)
The Wall Street Journal ran an item yesterday about a small Alaskan town whose mayor over the past 16 years has…
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Politics
Main Street doesn’t blame Obama for shutdown, but you’ll never guess who is blamed
This is almost too funny not to be a spoof. Sadly and astonishingly, it’s real. MRCTV’s Dan Joseph conducted a man-on-the-street survey…
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Economy
Without government help, Michelle’s patch rotting, overrun by squirrels, weeds
“It’s always moose and squirrel.” – Boris Badenov, 1960 One of the cornerstones of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative has been to…
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Politics
GOP: Polls and hinge points of history
What does it mean that recent polls show 7 in 10 respondents think Republicans are putting their agenda ahead of…
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Economy
National Park Service losing $76 million a day in revenues during shutdown
How much is the government saving each day by shutting down national parks and monuments? Try –$76 million. In case…
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Education
HS principal orders students to forgo Pledge of Allegiance, citing shutdown
If “the foundation of every state is the education of its youth,” as Diogenes supposedly wrote, the threat of a…
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Law and Government
Online gov’t program for ferreting out illegal aliens applying for jobs ‘down’ during shutdown
Jobs pushing elevator buttons for members of Congress are not the only casualties of the partial government shutdown, now in…
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Law and Government
Vets return BarryCades to Spite House…feels right
Has America ever had a smaller Chief Executive? Yes, I know that James Madison stood only 5 feet, 4 inches…
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Unyielding
WH/DOJ laywers: Congress intended to prohibit the payment of death benefits?
Did the president at least tacitly approve the denial of death benefits to fallen soldiers’ families as part of an…
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Economy
Disaffected veterans dump barricades at White House
“Our awesome vets have taken back our monuments in Washington for the American people!” Veterans and their family members have…
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Law and Government
Patriotic Americans fed up with Obama antics storm Lincoln Memorial
Last Thursday, Barack Obama announced that his administration would allow some national parks to reopen … so long as they paid their…
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Law and Government
New low: National Park rangers remove handles from drinking fountains
You really have to hand it to Barack Obama. Who but this nasty, petty tyrant could turn as benign an…
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