(ABC News) – President Obama is a little uneasy with the way journalists have been dragged into the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of national security leak investigations. In fact, he has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a 45-day review of the department’s guidelines on the issue. That bit of news was buried in [...]
(Weekly Standard) – As the investigation into the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi intensifies, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to conduct transcribed interviews with thirteen top State Department officials in the coming weeks in order to learn more. Those named in the letter include a wide range of [...]
(NBC News) – Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday. The disclosure of the attorney general’s role came [...]
(Washington Times) – House Speaker John A. Boehner on Thursday flatly ruled out chances of the House passing the Senate’s immigration bill, saying his chamber will debate its own bill instead. Mr. Boehner and his top GOP lieutenants issued a joint statement that seemed designed to tamp down some of the momentum behind the Senate [...]
Sen Al Franken (D-MN) was using such a circuitous “serpentine” walking pattern in an effort to avoid TRN’s Jason Mattera’s tough question that he inadvertently body checked one of his own staffers in the process. The absurd weaving to avoid the tough inquiry even brought the senator to laughter at one point as the beleaguered [...]
Do experts want all of us to lose our retirement savings and be on the government dole via Medicare? (Fox Business) – President Barack Obama’s bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform offered a new idea that would hurt 401(k) plans. The idea: Impose a so-called
Will Obama pay the world and burn U.S. Citizens? (CBS News) – President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. “I cannot guarantee that those checks [...]
The days of knocking on doors, walking precincts and direct mail campaigning to efficiently gather voters may soon be dwarfed if the vision of a handful of Patriots comes to fruition. An army of Conservative Smart Phone users are gathering across America. Many of them yet to discover the power they possess and how they [...]
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and top U.S. lawmakers fell short on Monday of finding enough spending cuts for a deal to avoid an Aug. 2 debt default and Republicans came under fresh pressure to agree to tax hikes. The two sides achieved no breakthrough in a roughly 90-minute meeting and scheduled a third [...]
Unions To Eat Their Own? (NewsMax) – Labor unions are riled about President Barack Obama
(CBSNEWS) – President Obama is still seeking the largest deficit reduction deal possible as part of a package deal to raise the debt ceiling, he said in a press conference today. “I continue to push congressional leaders for the largest possible deal,” he said from the White House. “It is possible for us to construct [...]
Will the Tea Party Back A Independent Candidate for President? (Dr. Roth, PhD) Dr. Laurie Roth of Elk WA, a national radio talk show host for over 10 years, has decided to seriously explore running for President of the United States. Of note, she is a survivor of a near fatal motorcycle wreck in August [...]
(The Washington Post) – Speaker John A. Boehner told President Obama on Saturday night he will not agree to the president
The government’s borrowing capacity is currently capped at $14.3 trillion and administration officials say the United States will go into default without action by Aug. 2 (FoxNews) – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News that he thinks a major deficit-reduction deal cutting $4 trillion over the next decade is off the table, claiming [...]
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