House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, released a new report on Monday outlining why he believes the Obama administration’s Department of Justice “has become more partisan than ever.” The report details how President Barack Obama’s DOJ — led by Attorney General Eric Holder — has been “stalling” the congressional investigation into Operation [...]
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Anti-Islam advocates from across the U.S. gathered in Dearborn today for a conference to bring attention to what they say is a problem of Muslim honor killings. About 150 gathered at the Hyatt in Dearborn for the “Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference,” named after a 20-year-old Arab-American Muslim woman who was killed by her stepdad [...]
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Days before the one-year anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, top surrogates for President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took to the national stage to argue the politics of the attack. Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs defended the campaign’s use of the event in a recent Web [...]
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Every time you turn on the news, you see reports of government workers behaving badly. We’ve rounded up the top 10 — most recent — misconducts. 1. GSA parties Considering the lavish conferences, retreats, and bonuses paid for by the General Services Administration, it is disturbing to think this was the same agency in charge [...]
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A prominent Chinese human rights activist has called for an investigation into what he describes as corrupt and cruel officials who he says “violently assaulted” him and his family before he escaped from house arrest and fled to Beijing. Chen Guangcheng addressed the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, in a video posted on YouTube on Friday, [...]
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Brown, Warren spar as records released Elizabeth Warren said yesterday she is “proud” of her Native American heritage and indicated she had no problem with Harvard Law School using her roots to claim her as a diversity hire, but her campaign still could not produce documents proving her lineage. “I am very proud of my [...]
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A conservative Marine who started an armed forces tea party Web page has been given an “other than honorable” discharge for misconduct after declaring on Facebook, “Screw Obama. I will not follow all orders from him.” Sgt. Gary Stein later clarified his remarks to say he wouldn’t follow unlawful orders from the president and argued his [...]
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Capus is the President of NBC News and MSNBC. According to the NBC/Universal Website, Capus is also the network’s “arbiter of issues involving ethics, style, standards, safety and other matters that affect the Division’s journalistic bearing.” Which of course is pure nonsense. At NBC News there simply are no standards or ethics, only an environment fostered by [...]
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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio finds himself under increasing attack as he prepares to release new findings in his investigation of President Obama’s eligibility for the state’s 2012 election ballot. “I have no intention of resigning,” said Arpaio, who is running for his sixth term as sheriff of Maricopa County. “They forget I have a four-decades [...]
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Writing for Forbes Magazine, climate change alarmist Steve Zwick calls for skeptics of man-made global warming to be tracked, hunted down and have their homes burned to the ground, yet another shocking illustration of how eco-fascism is rife within the environmentalist lobby. Comparing climate change skeptics to residents in Tennessee who refused to pay a [...]
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I remember when I was a kid and watched Superman on televsion and wondered what it would be like to have his X-ray vision and see through walls. Then there were the cartoons where someone had x-ray glasses that could see someone’s skeleton. I remember the other boys in the neighborhood saying they wanted a [...]
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It’s really interesting when I talk to Obama supporters who are soft-core, meaning they are open to discussion and not completely closed-minded or ideologically set in granite. There are several themes that constantly recur in such conversations, though one rarely or never sees these points in print. Of course, these people get their information from [...]
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One of the biggest political stories of 2008 was the rise of the Millennials as an electoral force. As “Obamamania” swept the nation, college students across the country abandoned their usual political apathy and volunteered for the Obama campaign in droves, canvassing, phone banking and harnessing the power of social media. This youth enthusiasm paid [...]
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The scandal over allegations that Secret Service agents brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms in Colombia ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama keeps growing. And with it come awkward questions about whether a strong macho element in the culture of the U.S. Secret Service could pose a threat to security, and how [...]
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As the nation’s gas prices skyrocket, critics argue that President Obama’s recent rejection of the $7 billion, “shovel-ready” Keystone XL oil pipeline, followed by his continued vow to “double down” on green energy, is a clear sign the administration plans to do little of substance in terms of American oil exploration. The move has also [...]
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