Photo: AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM/Getty Images While some predicted a harsh referendum on the President’s health care law, Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s first confirmation hearing to lead the Health and Human Services Department was free of congressional fireworks. Burwell, currently the director for the Office of Management and Budget, testified today before the Senate Health, Education, […]
By Katy O’Donnell Former tax official Lois Lerner’s confrontation with Congress over a potential contempt citation may get emphatically more dramatic, depending on how far back into congressional history House Republicans want to reach. Deep in the recesses of congressional power — and in precedent stretching back to the 18th century — is the ability to […]
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz released a definitive list Wednesday of 76 “lawless” Obama administration actions and abuses of power. Cruz’s “The Legal Limit Report No. 4,” obtained by The Daily Caller, delves into little-known and little-reported details of President Obama’s executive actions. Cruz was set to discuss his report at the Federalist Society in […]
The upcoming House Select Committee on Benghazi will be the first step on the road to impeachment of President Obama: The story was the 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. Referring to that, on Fox, as “a story no one wants to talk about”. We have impeached a president for lying about sex […]
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C) who heads the select committee leading the probe into the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack is in a position to end run the lying Democrats heading for hide-y-holes by subpoenaing the man who likely knows the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That man is Mark Basseley […]
On Monday, news broke that ubiquitously idiotic Secretary of State John Kerry uttered these immortal lines at a talk with embassy staff in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: “This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people […]
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry today refused to comply with a subpoena to appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 21. Kerry’s refusal is a far cry from his fulsome promises to cooperate with Congress made as he was taking over from Hillary Clinton. Again, the […]
John Kerry repeats them ad nauseam. They come in country reports. They’re in press releases. They’re in daily briefings. May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. It reminds governments of their obligation to support it. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; […]
Photo: Arco Images G/Newscom Massachusetts is the latest state to walk away from its online health insurance exchange. Officials announced today that Massachusetts Health Connector — the agency in charge of the state’s health exchange under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act — plans to abandon its website, the Boston Globe reported. The agency will buy […]
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the Russian interception and leak of her now-infamous call to US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoff Pyatt. The call consisted of the two plotting to install a US puppet government in Ukraine after overthrowing the current, democratically elected government. The Obama Administration had been falsely blaming Russia to the moment the […]
