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(John Hinderaker) Last week, the Democratic Party sent out a fundraising email that accused House Republicans of voting to double the interest rates on student loans. The scare tactic apparently succeeded, as earlier today the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent out this email
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A new bulletin from scholar K. William Watson reviews the Cato Institute’s congressional trade votes database for the 112th Congress and reveals how its individual members voted on major trade bills and amendments. Watson includes an explanation of each major trade vote during the 112th Congress as well as analysis
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Explosion, Injuries Reported At West Fertilizer Plant WACO (April 17, 2013)—Emergency crews were responding Wednesday night after a report of a major explosion at a burning fertilizer plant in West north of Waco. West firefighters were dispatched to the plant earlier in the evening after an earlier fire rekindled. The
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April 17, 2013: A Prince George’s County, Md. firefighter dressed in a protective suit walks out of a government mail screening facility in Hyattsville, Md. Police swept across the U.S. Capitol complex to chase a flurry of reports of suspicious packages and envelopes Wednesday after
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After Senate defeat of Toomey/Manchin bill, Democrats will not be able to use gun votes in next year’s House races
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President Obama officially released his overdue budget last week. And while it is not exactly the compromise the media has portrayed it to be, Cato scholar Michael D. Tanner acknowledges that the president’s budget is a serious proposal that takes
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(Scott Johnson) Edward Jay Epstein’s new book is The Annals of Unsolved Crime, just published by Melville House. Ed is incapable of writing a dull book, and this one lacks a dull page. Michael Wolff’s USA Today review is in the nature of an appreciation
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. has taken its first real swipe at China following accusations that the Beijing government is behind a widespread and systemic hacking campaign targeting U.S. businesses.Buried in a spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday is a provision that effectively bars
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The Internal Revenue Service may have warned about agency cutbacks due to sequestration, but in the end, taxes from Obamacare appear as if they’re going forth, on target and on schedule. More than 40 tax changes stem from the Affordable Care Act. And both
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(Washington Examiner) During a discussion about President Obama’s lack of transparency about the drone program, former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs explained on MSNBC this morning that he was ordered to never acknowledge the existence of the drone program.
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Sen. Tom Coburn said Sunday that President Obama was “absolutely” exaggerating the potential adverse effects that $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts scheduled to kick in Friday would have on the country. Mr. Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, told “Fox News Sunday” that while
From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com
Presidents’ State of the Union addresses are delivered in the chamber of the House of Representatives in the Capitol. The classical majesty of this building where laws are made symbolizes the idea that we live under the rule of law.
From Conservative News Source- blog.heritage.org
With current funding for government operations scheduled to run out March 27, the House is beginning work on another Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year. As they do this, they must take firm steps toward
From Conservative News Source- reason.com
When the Obama administration launched the We the People petition initiative—which lets anyone start a petition on the White House website—it set the response threshold at 5,000 signatures. In the digital era you can collect that many signatures for a petition to
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Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) is leading the charge to privatize the state’s liquor store system. In opposition stands the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776, which counts about 3,000 state liquor store employees among its members. Reporting from Pennsylvania, Eric Boehm looks at how
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(John Hinderaker) Byron York passes on what he is hearing from Senate Republicans on the fiscal negotiations in DC. What he is hearing isn’t good: The word among some Senate Republicans is that a fiscal cliff deal is likely to be struck by Sunday, or Monday at the latest.
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
Gen. David Petraeus was CIA director when terrorists attacked the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The special Accountability Review Board set up by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to investigate the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya,
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FILE – In this April 11, 2011, file photo, then U.S. envoy Chris Stevens attends meetings at the Tibesty Hotel where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya. An independent review board is set to reveal its findings on the Sept. 11 attack in Libya that
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The mandatory State Department internal inquiry into the deadly Sept. 11 terror attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya slams bureaucrats for “grossly inadequate” security but says that poor leadership could not be punished under department regulations. The report blames inadequate
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DEVELOPING: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accepted 29 suggestions to improve embassy security issued as part of a review board’s report that faults Clinton’s department for security failures and confirms no protest preceded the deadly attack on the U.S.
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Congress is daring President Obama to veto the annual defense policy bill after negotiators struck a deal Tuesday that would continue to prohibit him from transferring suspected terrorist detainees out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for another year. The bill also imposes sanctions on Iran’s energy and shipping industries
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As if the country didn’t have enough to worry about with the looming “fiscal cliff,” the price of a gallon of milk is at risk of doubling in early 2013 if Congress doesn’t pass a long-delayed farm bill. The 2008 farm bill expired at
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As the State Department began Tuesday to circulate a highly anticipated report into what happened in the Sept. 11 Libya consulate attack, a separate analysis found that the first reference to the anti-Islam film that was initially blamed for sparking the attack was not detected on
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The State Department on Tuesday dismissed another assertion that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has faked an illness and an injury to avoid testifying this week about the Libya terror attacks – this one from former U.S. diplomat John Bolton.Bolton said Monday that
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At several critical moments over his first term, President Obama pledged to use the power of his office to curb shooting rampages in this country, as well as gun-related cross-border violence, but exerted little to no muscle to follow through on his
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
Neighborhood residents talk amid crime-scene tape at the scene of an apparent murder-suicide, which officials say left four dead inside a home, according to officials, in Longmont, Colo., Tuesday Dec. 18, 2012. Weld County sheriff’s spokesman Tim Schwartz says dispatchers heard
From Conservative News Source- reason.com
House Speaker John Boehner’s proposal for a “back-up” tax bill got a thumbs-down from the White House even as the president defended his proposal to raise the threshold on those supposedly necessary tax hikes. Honestly, they’re just screwing around, now. House
From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com
The White House is talking to Kenneth Chenault, chief executive officer at American Express, about a variety of top administration jobs, including Treasury secretary, a senior adviser to President Obama told Fox News on Tuesday.Among the other jobs for which Chenault is purportedly being
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
House Speaker John Boehner has decided to develop a backup plan to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, a strategy for averting a year-end tax increase if his negotiations with President Barack Obama break down.
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The Justice Department’s pardon attorney inaccurately advised the White House regarding the clemency bid of a first-time drug offender sentenced in 1993 to three life terms in a drug case in which he was not the buyer, seller or supplier and received the stiffest sentence of
From Conservative News Source- washingtontimes.com
Concerned that the “fiscal cliff” negotiations with President Obama will not bear any fruit, House Speaker John A. Boehner said Tuesday the House GOP is prepared with a “Plan B” option that calls for higher taxes on millionaires and locks in current
From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com
House Speaker John Boehner announced this morning that the Republican-controlled House will move forward with a plan of their own, in lieu of an agreement with President Barack Obama, to cancel out certain tax hikes taking effect on Jan. 1. Boehner (R-
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The White House on Tuesday rejected House Speaker John Boehner’s call for a fall-back option to avert the looming fiscal crisis, in a move the speaker’s office said “defies common sense.” ;The feisty exchange came as both sides crept toward
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The prospect of a renewed assault weapons ban in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre has set of a round of buying, as thousands of Americans head to their local gun store to secure the popular AR-15 — the model used
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EDITORIAL: Push Obama over the fiscal cliff House GOP needs to avoid political trap laid by tax-and-spend Democrats The Washington Times Unless the fiscal cliff dilemma is resolved within the next two weeks, everyone’s taxes go skyward. Rich and poor alike
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Kicking the can is the least repugnant remaining resolution to the fiscal cliff. The only alternatives appear to be the Republicans’ unconditional surrender on income tax rates (and conceding their principles) or simply going over the cliff. The story is now a familiar one. Congress and the
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Senate President Pro Tempore Daniel K. Inouye, the chamber’s senior member and a hero of World War II, died Monday of respiratory failure, leaving what his colleagues said is a giant hole in the fabric of the chamber. A Medal of Honor winner who served even
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent investigation into the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, is complete, and Congress will be briefed on its findings this week, the State Department said Monday.The classified report by the Accountability
From Conservative News Source- reason.com
After several weeks of back and forth, new reports suggest that John Boehner and President Obama may be closing in on a possible fiscal cliff deal. Here’s Ezra Klein, with the rumored ;details: Boehner offered to let tax rates rise for
From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com
Newt Gingrich has a simple plan for the House to deal with the so-called “fiscal cliff” that has Washington politicians twisting in the wind: pass one bill with tax cuts, and one bill without, send them to the Senate then go home. “It is very painful watching the negotiation,
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
In this Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, photo, Traders Patrick McKeon, left, and Joel Lucchese work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks rose modestly Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, on Wall Street. Investors were encouraged by signs of progress in talks to avoid the “fiscal cliff”
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Watch the latest video at FoxNews.com A Russian reporter lectured White House spokesman Jay Carney today about mass homicides in US saying it’s the only “major developed country” in the world with such “repeated” attacks. CARNEY: Andrei
From Conservative News Source- powerlineblog.com
(Paul Mirengoff) Speaker Boehner has offered to postpone for a year any new fight over the federal debt limit. The Washington Post says that this concession is “breathing new life into the stalled talks over the year-end ‘fiscal cliff’.” And, in fact, Obama
From Conservative News Source- washingtontimes.com
Looking to grind out a deal before the nation slides off the “fiscal cliff,” President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner met Monday at the White House, where they worked to find common ground on taxes and spending before the end of the
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Not long ago, the U.S. was facing the prospect of spending billions to import pricey natural gas from overseas to heat our homes, fuel electrical generation and run our city buses. ; The industry was furiously building terminals to handle what was sure to be enormous ship traffic
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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday named Rep. Tim Scott to replace the resigning Republican Sen. Jim DeMint. Mrs. Haley, who announced her decision at an early afternoon news conference at the state Capitol in Columbia, said Mr. Scott’s background as a entrepreneur will serve South …
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Morning Examiner: The costs of Obama’s $1.6 trillion tax hike By Conn Carroll, Senior Editorial Writer – The Washington Examiner House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, continued his slow motion cave in to President Obama this weekend, reportedly agreeing to not only raise marginal tax rates on individuals
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FILE – In this Feb. 23, 2011, file photo President Barack Obama, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at right, speaks about Libya in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)(CNSNews.com) – Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said President Barack
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A Chicago jury has awarded Markee Cooper Sr. $565,000 after cops broke into his home searching for drugs. The jury found that one of the officers was responsible for false information used to get the warrant to search the house. Cooper is himself a police officer.
From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com
Grover Norquist takes me to his bookcase, which is decorated with South Park toys and a Guy Fawkes mask. He strokes his beard as he scans his collection, then pulls out Taxation in Colonial America, by Alvin Rabushka. “There aren’t many histories