GOP Governors Hit Obama Administration on Medicare Advantage Rates

Photo: Pete Souza Three Republican governors yesterday blasted President Barack Obama over changes to next year’s Medicare Advantage rates, writing in a letter that the Obama administration’s recent rate announcement was “little more than political theater.” While the administration says Medicare Advantage plans will get a slight pay bump next year, Govs. Rick Perry (Texas), […]

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Leftist Racism: Public university to lower number of white students on campus

WWU’s marketing department asks “How do we make sure that in future years ‘we are not as white as we are today?’” This question has been posed several times already by University President Bruce Shepard. President Shepard equates a “white” student body and faculty to “failure.”   A school-wide racist questionnaire at Western Washington University […]

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Rendering to God What Is God’s

Photo: Getty Images This year tax day falls on Tuesday of the Christian Holy Week—the day on which, according to the Gospel accounts, Jesus was asked about paying taxes to Caesar. Using an age-old political tactic, Jesus’ opponents posed a question that’s answer was sure to alienate some segment of the public. “Is it lawful […]

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Obama has Proposed 442 Tax Hikes Since Taking Office

Since taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama has formally proposed a total of 442 tax increases, according to an Americans for Tax Reform analysis of Obama administration budgets for fiscal years 2010 through 2015. The 442 total proposed tax increases does not include the 20 tax increases Obama signed into law as part of Obamacare. “History tells […]

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NY Times Editor: Obama Administration ‘Most Secretive White House’ in Recent Years

Newscom Jill Abramson, in her third year as the first female executive editor of The New York Times, describes President Obama’s administration as extremely secretive. “The Obama years are a benchmark for a new level of secrecy and control,” Abramson said in an interview with The Takeaway. “It’s created quite a challenging atmosphere for The […]

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IRS Scandal Continues: An IRS Employee Urged People to Reelect Obama

Photo: Getty Images The latest news from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) about illegal political activities at the IRS will certainly not help the administration’s (and Representative Elijah Cummings’) current narrative that there is not a “smidgen of corruption” at the IRS. OSC is an independent agency that investigates violations of the civil service […]

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Long Live the ‘Cuban Twitter’

Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Cubans have lived on an information desert island for more than 50 years. Ten million people, once a vibrant part of the world — in tune with it and contributing to it, receiving information and even immigrants — were cut off soon after Fidel Castro took over in 1959. That the […]

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Democrat: Maybe Committee Investigating IRS Scandal Should Hold Issa in Contempt

(CNSNews.com) – “The only reason we haven’t been able to get the truth from Lois Lerner is because of one person. And that is our chairman,” Rep. Steve Horsford (D-Nev.) told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday, as the panel considered a contempt of Congress resolution against the former IRS official. “So […]

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