"The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to."-President Obama paying homage to terrorist supporter Medea Benjamin. President Barack Obama was heckled Thursday by leftist terrorist ally Susan ‘Medea’ Benjamin while giving a speech on national...
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An official Internal Revenue Service (IRS) organizational chart of the Tax Exempt & Government Entities division from February 2011 offers a more complete picture of the authority Lois Lerner--the now-removed IRS director of the tax-exempt unit--and...
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Breitbart News reported on Jan. 25 that the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. declared President Barack Obama’s recess appointments unconstitutional. Now another federal appeals court has done so as well, all but guaranteeing the Supreme Court...
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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has changed in century-old policy to bring into membership open and avowed homosexual youths through age 17. However, the Scouts will maintain the ban on anyone ages 18+ who are homosexual, meaning that a 17 year-old...
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Japan’s key equity market indices fell more than 6 percent overnight, the most since the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake. Bloomberg reports that futures trading in Osaka was suspended. “Every Asian market outside Sri Lanka retreated after Federal...
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Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS tax-exempt division during the now infamous period of targeting conservatives, asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Then she pulled a political stunt before the cameras--but doing so might have...
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According to the New York Post, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg went crazy last Thursday, hurling invective at the owner of a taxi fleet who approached him the day after a court ruled against Bloomberg’s plan to replace city cabs with his “Taxi...
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The so-called "separation of Church and State" is invoked so often it might as well appear on the dollar bill. John Eastman, law professor at Chapman University, reminds us the phrase isn't in the Constitution as many people incorrectly believe. “It's...
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An investigation by Cincinnati Fox 19 reporter Ben Swann finds that Obama Administration claims that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting of conservative groups was the work of two “rogue” low-level employees in Cincinnati, Ohio, strain credulity...
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A top Los Angeles County official who uses a taxpayer-funded SUV for his 600 mile commute every week is unrepentant about it, as well as the bill he racks up by staying in a hotel five days a week before driving 300 miles home for the weekend. He has...
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According to Rasmussen Reports, although Barack Obama’s approval ratings are remaining steady, the scandals around the White House are beginning to shift the American public’s attitude toward the Obama Administration. Obama’s personal approval...
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With increased scrutiny of fraud allegations in the Pigford farmers' settlements, the lead Pigford co-counsel has enlisted the help of two lobbying firms. One of the lobbyists listed is Phil Fraas, an attorney who has been deeply involved in creating...
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New charts from Senate Budget Committee Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) show the dramatic rise in food stamp enrollments and welfare spending. Over the last decade, thirty million more individuals have signed up for food stamps. *** U.S. welfare spending...
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Blaming the sequester, the IRS is "furloughing" employees for a day on Friday. In an internal email sent out on Monday, the IRS's Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support, Beth Tucker, told all IRS employees that "the IRS as an organization and all...
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In their attempts to shift blame and evade clear answers to questions about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, disgraced former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and disgraced former Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller...
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Even as the Obama administration weathers the fallout from a politicized Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative non-profit organizations, President Obama is moving full-speed ahead on politicizing non-partisan agencies. His new nominee for the...
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As counterintuitive as it may sound for an organization with such a wholesome and all-American reputation, it seems that secrecy and heavy-handed tactics are the order of the day at the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) meeting that will decide whether the...
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Secretary of Commerce nominee Penny Pritzker coasted through her Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C. Thursday. Members of both parties on the committee largely ignored Pritzker’s questionable business practices, offshore...
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According to Eliana Johnson of National Review, an IRS source in Cincinnati has stated that Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service’s director of non-profit organizations, has been put on administrative leave. On Thursday, Lerner sent an email to...
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The George Zimmerman defense team in the case of Trayvon Martin, whom Zimmerman killed during an altercation in March 2012 in Sanford, Florida, is contending that evidence of Martin’s possible drug use and gun involvement should be admitted into court....
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Negotiators from both parties in the House are struggling to complete work on a comprehensive agreement to reform immigration. The House's own "gang" is made up of 4 members from each party. According to reports they have broad agreement on general reform...
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This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee completed its work on the "Gang of 8" Amnesty Bill. The full Senate is expected to take up the legislation the first week of June, when it returns from Memorial Day recess. On Thursday, House GOP leadership made...
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At the top of Anthony Weiner's campaign site is a logo that looks as though it includes one of New York City's iconic bridges and just as iconic cityscape. Which, of course, makes sense. After all, Weiner is running to be mayor of New York City. Have...
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Labor unions have made it clear that they are not fans of Obama campaign bundler Penny Pritzker or her family's Hyatt Hotel chain. Thursday morning, they flexed some muscle in opposition to Pritzker’s nomination to become Commerce Secretary at her...
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A new Fox News poll shows Obama's disapproval rating among registered voters has spiked to 51%, up from 45% last month. The poll shows an 8-point swing against Obama since April. Another shocking finding, undoubtedly linked to recent scandals, is that...
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Politicians can survive sex scandals. Politicians can succeed with the last name "Weiner." But it remains to be seen if a politician can survive both. Disgraced former-Congressman Anthony Weiner is already seeing his hopes of becoming the next mayor...
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Senate Democrats are looking to paint a recent Republican fracas between Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) as further evidence of an obstructionist GOP whose recalcitrance is bogging down budget negotiations. When...
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U.S. stocks were down nearly 1% in early trading as the Nikkei experienced its largest drop in two years, closing 225 down, with news that Chinese factory figures shrank for the first time in seven months. Also worrying were Federal Reserve Chairman...
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After over 40 minutes of evasion in Penny Pritzker's confirmation hearing as Secretary of Commerce, the committee finally heard about the failure of Pritzker's Superior Bank in 2001 due to subprime lending. "What do you have to say to the depositors?"...
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Democrats are obviously not happy with the idea of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner running for mayor of New York City. In an editorial meeting with some local newspapers, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said "shame on us," if Weiner is elected....
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On Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke out at the Senate Judiciary Committee with regard to the so-called Gang of 8’s immigration bill. Cruz stated that the bill might do more harm than good: “Number one, it doesn’t stop illegal immigration....
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Senator Mark Kirk was “uncertain” about supporting Hyatt Hotel heiress and Obama campaign bundler Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary until a few days ago. Ahead of Thursday’s confirmation hearing, Kirk has announced he is joining his Illinois...
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Breitbart News has confirmed the biographical claim of E. W. Jackson, who won the Republican Party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor on Saturday and is only the second African-American to be nominated for a statewide office by the Republican Party...
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A new study may stimulate the old adage of respecting your elders; it says the general level of intelligence in the Western Hemisphere has declined since the Victorian Era. The study claims the IQ numbers are 14 points lower than from the 19th century....
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The Senate will finally confront one of the architects of the subprime mortgage crisis today, hauling a tax-dodging, union-busting, bank-breaking, billionaire member of the "one percent" before the Senate Commerce Committee... to consider her confirmation...
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Ernest Moniz, Barack Obama’s new Secretary of Energy, is making it clear there is no room for dissent regarding climate change. Speaking to his department’s employees after he was sworn in, Moniz said, “Let me make it very clear that there is no...
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he did not trust House and Senate Republicans in budget negotiations with Democrats. The conservative Senator said he would object to sending the Senate budget to conference unless the conferees promised not to raise the debt...
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In a comprehensive profile of outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, L.A. Weekly reveals that the former Democratic National Convention chairman has solicited Fox News host Bill O’Reilly for a job. According to the article: He had fervently...
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According to Taxpayer Advocate Services, the Internal Revenue Service has not just targeted conservative non-profits – it’s targeted adoptive parents. A full 90 percent of returns claiming an adoption tax credit were audited in 2012; 69 percent of...
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Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) said during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing that the Senate's immigration bill would make immigrants “indentured servants” to unscrupulous companies. Sensenbrenner’s comments came during an exchange...
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Texas lawmakers announced Monday that CSCOPE, a controversial online curriculum system used in 78 percent of school districts in the state, will be removed from the state’s education system. The curriculum program has been lambasted by parents, faculty,...
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is likely to run for governor of California after his term as mayor expires next month, has wasted the vast majority of his time as mayor, according to the L.A. Weekly. In 2012, Villaraigosa spent 42 percent...
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As the old saying goes, beware of Greeks bearing gifts; but as the new saying goes, beware even more of Republicans bearing bribes. In either case, one could get destroyed (or at least corrupted) from the inside by trusting the wrong people. Since 2006,...
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On Wednesday morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appeared on Fox News to discuss his decision to allow a floor debate on the immigration reform bill from the so-called Gang of 8. “I’m undecided about the bill but I’m not undecided...
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In his opening statement before Wednesday’s immigration hearing, House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte said the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill will not stop future waves of illegal immigration. “The drafters of S.744...
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On Wednesday, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) senior official Lois Lerner, the director of the division that singled out conservative groups for scrutiny, pleaded the 5th Amendment at congressional hearings. The lawyer by her side at the hearings, William...
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate for the 25 million foreign-born persons in the U.S. labor force dropped one percent from 9.1% in 2011 to 8.1% in 2012. Nationally, the U.S. unemployment rate stands...
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Outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller told the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday that the targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups by the IRS was the result of IRS employees trying to be "more efficient" and making "foolish mistakes." He denied...
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Illegal immigrants applying to receive temporary legal status under President Barack Obama's election-year Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are being approved more than 99% of the time at the final judgment stage. An agency tasked with...
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A man believed to have ties to Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed in Florida on May 22, after he allegedly attacked the FBI agent who was questioning him. According to NBC News, 27-year old Ibragim Todashev was being interviewed...
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