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Are any non-Gosnell abortions inside the womb, not gruesome?
To hear liberals in the media express shock, however belatedly, at how “gruesome” and “grisly” were the murders of newborns by “Doctor” Kermit Gosnell following botched, third-trimester abortions, one would think that your average run of the mill abortion more resembled the merciful deaths of convicted murderers by lethal injection, if not a manicure. But then, Gosnell was also acquitted on one ...
How much could you (and everyone else) pay for health care in the years ahead thanks to the president’s health care law? According to the nation’s insurers, a lot more — in the individual market an average of double what we pay now with some rates soaring by more than 400 percent. That’s what the nation’s 17 largest insurers told the House Energy & Commerce Committee. You can see the whole report here.
“Internal cost estimates from 17 of the nation’...
The Benghazi Four were betrayed. They called for help on September 11 but were left to die instead. Since then, Obama’s craven political appointees have tried to cover their backsides, and his, by lying about the time and resources needed to respond.
In the 3-minute May 11 clip below, former Navy Seal Christopher Mark Heben and Col. David Hunt (Ret.) explain how Alert-30 and Alert-60 forces could have been on-site in Benghazi within about 3 hours. Those forces train for missions like Bengh...
With the IRS admitting to inappropriately targeting conservative groups – beginning back in 2011 – it’s worth taking another look at how the culture in Washington has been driven by politics even before this latest scandal. Just a few weeks ago, serious questions were being raised about how federal agencies were implementing the sequester. The White House repeatedly warned of the dire consequences of a 3 percent spending cut, and some have suggested that the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar’s, D.D.S (AZ-04) Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2013 (H.R. 687) passed the House Natural Resources Committee with bi-partisan support. This legislation would facilitate a land exchange that will protect environmentally sensitive lands while opening up the largest undeveloped copper mine in North America and creating nearly 4,000 jobs.
Following the committee’s successful passage of this bill, Rep. Gosar issued...
As the Gang of Eight and their cohorts on the Senate Judiciary Committee railroad the immigration reform bill through the Senate panel, one senator stands out as the guardian of the rule of law and the sovereignty of the United States: Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
Other Republicans on the committee have stood firm, including Senators Grassley, Hatch, Cornyn, Lee, and Cruz. But Sessions has been the strongest advocate of measures to make the bill tougher.
IRS Acting Commissioner Resigns, But Scandal Far From Over
The Associated Press reports, “Don’t look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service’s improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency’s acting commissioner. Three congressional committees are investigating and the FBI is looking into potential civil rights violations at the IRS, Attorney General Eric Holder said. … President Barack Obama said Trea...
From Cathy McMorris Rodgers and the House Republican Conference:
CHARGE: “You should know that once we have fully implemented, you’re going to be able to buy insurance through a pool so that you can get the same good rates as a group that if you’re an employee at a big company you can get right now — which means your premiums will go down.”(President Obama, speech in Cincinnati, Ohio July 16, 2012)
RESPONSE: Nothing could be further from the tru...
Yesterday, the Defense Department announced it would have to furlough over 600,000 workers come July, claiming it “has no choice” because of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester. Yet, other agencies have been able to find ways to make the required spending cuts without furloughing any employees. Did the Pentagon really try “everything they could” to avoid furloughing workers? A recent GAO report showing that millions were wasted on new camouflage patterns i...
“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” Harry S Truman
Bo, the First Dog, may be President Obama’s best and last friend in Washington now that he has offended the entire press establishment. He is on his own.
While other Obama scandals festered, the news broke that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press. The AP’s top executive called it a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how the or...
After $1 trillion in new taxes and more than $2 trillion in new spending, three years later the Democrats’ law has failed to deliver on the promise of affordable health care for Americans.
Instead, American families and businesses are facing the tough and costly realities of ObamaCare: higher health insurance premiums, the loss of the health plan you have and like, lower wages, and less hiring and business expansion. Now, on the eve of the 37th vote in the House to repeal all or some of t...
“The IRS admitted to targeting conservatives, even if the White House continues to be stuck on the word ‘if.’ My question isn’t about who is going to resign. My question is who’s going to ja...
The Obama administration’s tax policies have been an attack on farm and ranch families. The tax and spenders fail to understand that taxes punish the very things we want more of: productive work, risk-taking and success. In essence, this administration wants to see less productive work, fewer goods and services provided, fewer jobs created, and ultimately less success in our country.
Beginning this year, Obamacare or what I sometimes refer to as the Un-affordable Care Act, will impose enormous...
As the weather continues to warm up, so are the markets. These gains have proven valuable to our Permanent State Land Endowment Trust Fund, which helps fund K-12 education.
The February closing market value for the trust fund was $4,010,564,397, marking the first time in state history that it has ended a month above the $4 billion mark. It took 88.5 years for the endowment to reach its first $1 billion in August 2000, a little more than 6.5 yea...
Alexander Burns and John F. Harris write in POLITICO, “No contemporary American politician has benefited more from the power of good storytelling than Barack Obama. He vaulted from obscurity to the presidency on the power of narrative — invoking his biography and personal values to make a larger point about how he would lead the nation. So presumably no one understands more vividly than Obama and his close aides just ...
Now that Congress and the president have released their budgets, the question in Washington becomes: “Now what?” It seems we have reached another impasse on how to move forward and actually pass one.
President Barack Obama’s hand-picked Treasury secretary, Jacob J. Lew, once described budgets a “tapestry” that reflects the “hopes and dreams of a nation....
