Acting IRS Chief Resigns

The acting director of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) resigned his post this week as the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama continued its damage control efforts in the face of a flood of scandals.
The resignation of IRS acting chief Steven Miller comes less than a week after the agency admitted it illegally targeted limited [...]

Benghazi, Finally

The Benghazi scandal has finally evolved from a “neo-conservative” obsession into a full-blown fiasco … many months (and one presidential election) after the fact. But will U.S. President Barack Obama’s failure to stop the September 11, 2012 attack on our diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya – and the ensuing coverup surrounding the attack – do [...]

Free Advice For Mark Sanford

As fate would have it I was in Charleston, S.C. on Tuesday afternoon for a series of meetings and – against my better judgment – decided to stick around to cover yesterday evening’s big first congressional district election.
As the entire country knows by now, what was supposed to be a close race in the Palmetto [...]

The Great Obamacare Hypocrisy

Remember the fantasy U.S. President Barack Obama sold the American people regarding his socialized medicine bill? You know the one in which “Obamacare” would lower the deficit, reduce health care costs and cut the size of your annual insurance premium?
Well guess what … in addition to further exploding the deficit, raising health care costs and [...]

The Boehner Rule

“Listen. It was never a rule to begin with.”
That was how U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner responded to a question about violating the so-called “Hastert rule” in order to pass Democrat-supported legislation on guns and the budget.
The rule itself, named after former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, states that bills will only be brought to the [...]

John Boehner Endorses Mark Sanford

File this one under “thanks, but no thanks.”
Former S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford – who is running as limited government, pro-taxpayer conservative in South Carolina’s first congressional district – received an endorsement this week from U.S. Speaker John Boehner, the Granddaddy of big government “Republicans” in Washington, D.C.
“This election offers the voters of South Carolina’s First [...]

John Boehner’s In Charge?

U.S. President Barack Obama is leaving the country this week to pay a visit to Israel. Meanwhile Vice President Joe Biden is returning to the “Land of the Free” after representing our country in the inaugural mass for Pope Francis in Rome.
(Hopefully he didn’t play grab ass at the Vatican).
Why does this matter? It doesn’t … [...]

So Much For The “Pledge To America”

When Republicans won the House of Representatives in 2010, largely thanks to the inspired efforts of grassroots conservatives and tea party activists, they made a so-called “Pledge to America” that this time would be different.
They pledged that this would not be the same majority that had lost power in 2006 after dramatically expanding Medicare, the Department of [...]

GOP Budgeting: Good, Bad And Ugly

“Republican” budget committee chairman Paul Ryan has unveiled his party’s spending blueprint for the coming decade … and it’s basically more of the same government growth that has landed this nation in its current predicament.
Here’s a quick “good, bad and ugly” from the rough outlines of Ryan’s proposal, which will be formally unveiled later this [...]

Chuck Hagel Wins

Former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel was confirmed as U.S. President Barack Obama’s second-term Secretary of Defense this week – ending a contentious standoff with “conservative” Republicans in the U.S. Senate.
Hagel’s nomination was initially blocked by neo-conservatives like John McCain (RINO-Arizona) and Lindsey Graham (RINO-S.C.) because they believed him to be insufficiently hawkish on Iran – [...]

Rand Paul Figures It Out

Way back in April 2011, this website criticized U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner for his piss poor negotiating skills on behalf of American taxpayers.
Specifically, we chided Boehner for caving on the 2011 shutdown debate … and for giving away the GOP’s negotiating position in regard what became the debt dereliction deal of August [...]

A Sequester Says What?

Despite weeks of mainstream media bombardment over its “devastating effects,” less than one in five Americans has a firm grasp on what the federal government’s “sequester” really is.
According to a new Washington Post/ Pew poll, only 18 percent of respondents said they understood “very well” what the sequester was. Meanwhile 21 percent said they understood [...]