For “Outrageous Government Scam of 2014,” it’s hard to compete with the news of the supersized public employee pensions in California. If you haven’t already heard: In 2013, an assistant fire chief in Southern California collected a $983,319 pension. A police captain in Los Angeles received nearly $753,861. Talk about a golden parachute. And the […]
In a stunning political upset, two-term Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse lost Thursday’s election to a defector from his own party, Maithripala Sirisena. With Sirisena’s rise to power comes hope that he will revive the country’s parliamentary democracy and work more closely with ethnic minorities to encourage political reconciliation nearly six years after the civil […]
Twelve people were murdered Wednesday in a terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper headquarters in France. Today, French police raided two locations to save multiple hostages and eventually kill the two brothers suspected of the newspaper attack. We have raw footage of the events here: 1. Here’s a video of the scene at […]
(CNSNews.com) – Despite national headlines claiming former pitcher Curt Schilling believes “being a Republican kept him out of the Hall of Fame,” that’s not actually what he said. Schilling touched upon his politics on the Dennis and Callahan Morning Show on Boston’s WEEI radio Wednesday, and was asked if he thought he would have received more […]
A new opinion poll released Thursday shows Americans in continued support of the goal to “downgrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State (ISIS), as President Obama has articulated it. The poll, “American Public Attitudes Towards ISIS and Syria,” also reveals some reservations about the effectiveness of the Obama administration’s air-only campaign to keep ISIS from […]
Since Election Day, pundits have bombarded the incoming Republican majority with a common refrain, “Republicans must prove they can govern.” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, hopes to silence these critics with his new office as president pro tempore. Hatch told The Daily Signal that he’s frustrated the “foundations of the Senate’s unique character” have been sacrificed […]
If you thought the lame-duck Congress that met in December — in which House Speaker John Boehner cut a deal with President Barack Obama to fund almost all of Obama’s programs through the rest of the current fiscal year — was a bad deal for America, wait until the next lame-duck Congress convenes after the […]
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Hackers claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group hijacked the website and Twitter feed of a Maryland news station, and the Twitter feed of The Albuquerque Journal in New Mexico, according to the outlets and federal authorities. Hackers calling themselves CyberCaliphate took over the website and Twitter feed of WBOC-TV in […]
Today, John Boehner won the job as Speaker of the House for the new 114th Congress. He won the job despite being the most divisive speaker in over 100 years. According to a report by the Congressional Research Service looking at House Speaker races dating 1913-2013, no other speaker has experienced the level of disapproval […]
President Obama will have trouble appointing an ambassador to Cuba following his decision to normalize relations with the Communist government, predicts the outgoing Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. On Sunday, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., told CNN that past actions on the part of the Obama administration would make it “very difficult to […]
