Obamacare Co-Ops Cost Taxpayers $17,000 Per Enrollee
More than 500,000 people enrolled in health plans offered by nonprofit insurance companies created under the Affordable Care Act. And with the co-ops receiving an average of $108.7 million from the federal government, taxpayer-backed funding per enrollee topped $17,000. Twenty-three co-ops received a total of $2.5 billion from the federal government and enrolled more than […]
Obama in 2008: ‘I’m Just Not Very Good at Bulls***ting”
When President Obama was running for president in 2008, he quipped to a top aide that “I’m just not very good at bulls***ting” on gay marriage. Obama’s former chief strategist David Axelrod writes in his new book that his former boss “misled” the nation when he opposed gay marriage in 2008. Axelrod goes on to […]
Gary Haugen’s Congressional Testimony on Human Trafficking
In his recent testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Gary Haugen, President and CEO of International Justice Mission, shared practical steps that Congress could take to end human trafficking. Haugen emphasized that local law enforcement and a fair judicial system are the keys to defeating this global scourge. Without ending impunity, he says, human […]
Why Are Democrats Blocking Homeland Security Funding Bill?
We have heard this story before: A funding deadline is approaching and Congress must act quickly to pass a bill to address the issue. In a twist, the chamber continuously labeled by the left as filled with “obstructionists,” passes a bill that simply funds the program in question. All should be in agreement that this […]
Raw Account of Senator’s Weekend Trip to the Border
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. traveled to Texas this weekend for a first-hand look at the security at the U.S. border with Mexico. The trip comes as Congress wrestles with how to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The agency’s funding expires Feb. 27. Conservatives hope to use the funding measure as leverage to attack President […]
Obama Hijacks Christianity to Defend Islam
By Frank Turek President Obama has hijacked Christianity in an attempt to defend Islam. At the National Prayer breakfast Thursday, he said, “There is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency, that can pervert and distort our faith.” And that there will always be people willing to “hijack religion for their own murderous ends.” So we […]
Liberals Trying to Save Obama from “Crusade” Idiocy after Jindal Slapdown
by JOHN HAYWARD Dear liberals: Please stop trying to save President Obama from the idiotic remarks he made about the Crusades and moral equivalence at the National Prayer Breakfast. The Republican governor of Louisiana put it quite nicely in his response: “It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the […]
Brian Williams is not alone: Hillary Clinton, Stephen Glass and other famous fabrications
By Caitlin Dickson Brian Williams admitted this week that, contrary to previous claims, he was not aboard a helicopter that was grounded by rocket grenades during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But he’s not the first public figure who has been caught stretching the truth. The beloved anchor’s confession — that the harrowing story he […]
U.S. Should Join With These 3 Countries to Fight Back Against China
Face it. China is a problem. Nations across the Pacific and Asia are looking for constructive solutions. And that’s the promise of a Quad Dialogue—a forum for developing cooperative, synchronized policies among India, Australia, Japan and the United States. Start with the facts. China’s economic policies are increasingly mercantilist. It is developing military capabilities to […]
Canadian jihadists tell it like it is about Islam
By Arthur Weinreb The trial of Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser is currently underway in a Toronto courtroom this week. Esseghaier is from Tunsia and in Canada studying for a PhD while Jaser is a Palestinian who is a permanent resident of Canada. The two men were arrested on April 22, 2013. Esseghaier was arrested […]
Why Obama’s careless toward Islamic terror – he’s sympathetic
By A. Dru Kristenev Standing before a National Prayer Breakfast gathering, President Obama traveled the pitted road of selective memory in his address, choosing to focus on 1000-year-old misdeeds committed under the authority of the Holy Roman Church, a political entity. Unable to bring himself to identify the current perpetrators of horrific atrocities inflicted on […]
