Immediately after President Obama announced his support this week for same-sex marriage, attention turned to politics. The outcome of this year’s election will be determined by a handful of states — one of them is Iowa, where the politics of same-sex marriage are complicated. Same-sex is legal here, but three of the state Supreme Court [...]
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On the same day that President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage, the House Armed Services Committee backed measures prohibiting the practice on U.S. military bases. The panel stepped into the gays in the military issue as it considered a sweeping, $642 billion defense bill for next year that buys new weapons, ships [...]
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“If Scott Brown has a question about my qualifications about my job he can talk to the people who hired me,” said Elizabeth Warren. Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is on Day 11 of answering questions about her Native American ancestry as her opponent, incumbent Scott Brown, demanded she release her law school applications and [...]
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The House Wednesday evening voted overwhelmingly to prevent the Justice Department from using taxpayer funds to lie to Congress. The vote came in a Wednesday evening series of amendments to a bill, H.R. 5326, funding the Justice Department for 2013. Members approved the language in a 381-41 vote; all 41 “no” votes came from Democrats, [...]
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This report reveals the Left’s vote fraud strategy for the 2012 elections. Like a KGB operation, it is thorough, multi-faceted and redundant. It has overt and covert, illegal and legal elements, the latter of which are designed, at least in part, to facilitate illegal activities later. It is a deliberate, premeditated, comprehensive plan to win [...]
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There’s suddenly a lot of talk about possible tension between President Obama and Vice President Biden. When Biden seemed to break with the president and endorse gay marriage Sunday, he set off Washington’s talking heads. Was it a deliberate signal to the gay community? Or was it just Biden in yet another unscripted moment? In [...]
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Indiana Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that he supports the House oversight committee’s efforts to enforce the congressional subpoena of Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious. “One of the duties of Congress is to provide oversight of the Executive Branch,” Donnelly told TheDC. “There has been a [...]
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Sunday that he was “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriages and was heartened by their growing acceptance across the country, a position that moves well beyond the “evolving” views that President Obama has said he holds on the issue. The comments, which aides described as the off-the-cuff views of a vice president not known [...]
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How bad is the post-bubble economy? The economy is so bad that even con artists are giving up on real-estate scams, Tom Perez, a top Justice Department official, told an audience of progressives on Friday. “Equity stripping is largely a thing of the past because there’s no equity to strip,” said Perez. “Equity stripping” is [...]
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OSU’s Urban Meyer, Aaron Craft participate on National Day of Prayer At the call of a woman dressed in white, dozens of people knelt and bowed their heads yesterday on the stone tiles that pave the west side of the Statehouse Downtown. “All that can and all that will, let’s kneel before the Lord our [...]
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Whether Barack Obama should run a populist campaign or not hinges on two questions. The first is fairly obvious: Can he win that way? But there’s a more important question that should decide Obama’s rhetorical approach, one that looks beyond just November: What kind of party do the Democrats want to be? There are both [...]
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Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has circulated a lengthy pair of documents making the case for holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his “refusal” to cooperate in an investigation of the ill-fated Fast and Furious operation. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Thursday sent to every member [...]
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Thank you. It’s an honor to be here today and I’m glad to see that there’s so many of you with your video cameras, because after the mainstream media gets hold of this, it will be “an all-white crowd showed up to protest Eric Holder”. So I’m glad we’ll have a little bit of somebody [...]
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Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News reports that Republicans on the House Oversight Committee will take the first formal step toward contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious. The draft consists of a briefing paper and 48 pages that will be distributed to Democrats and Republicans. According to the documents the [...]
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Sit down to contain your shock before reading Politico’s bombshell report that Barack Obama has been caught lying in his own autobiography: One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama’s 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but [...]
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