Rachel Stoltzfoos Unemployment hit 5 percent in October and the economy added 270,000 jobs in an unexpectedly strong showing that is good news for the White House. But wages are stagnant, more than 95 million Americans are not working, and the federal debt is soaring. President Barack Obama recently boasted he and his Democrat allies have “pulled the United States…
Rachel Stoltzfoos Judicial Watch is suing the Obama administration for records related to a current U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services push to get as many immigrants as possible to apply for citizenship. USCIS acknowledged it received a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch in May for the records, but did not produce the…
Richard Pollock Doctors without Borders confirm that their hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, did not display any internationally recognized markings showing it was a hospital when a U.S. gunship attacked the facility on Oct. 3, killing 22 and injuring hundreds, according to the group’s interim report released Thursday. The report may also open the group to…
The Government Took Orwell as a Guide, Not a Warning [dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hen George Orwell wrote 1984, he told of totalitarian regimes, poor living conditions, and disregard for human rights. Unfortunately, some members of our government have interpreted Orwell’s books as more of a step-by-step instruction manual instead of a warning. At this point, people are…
Guy Bentley Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro is preparing to sue the United States for declaring his country an extraordinary threat and imposing sanctions on government officials. On March 9, President Barack Obama signed an order sanctioning seven Venezuelan officials for gross human rights violations. Maduro claimed his government had gathered 11 million signatures in…
Jonah Bennett President Barack Obama has insisted that the U.S. military will not head back to combat in Iraq, but the Pentagon just reluctantly admitted that American troops are definitely in combat. While the mission was supposed to be restricted to training Iraqi forces to combat the Islamic State, American forces were sucked in to…
Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency finally published a regulation that will be the backbone of President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming: a sweeping rule called the Clean Power Plan. Attorneys general from 26 states and numerous business groups, however, aren’t going to stand idly by while EPA regulations threaten the closure of hundreds…
Jonah Bennett House Republicans have picked Nov. 5 as the date to override President Barack Obama’s veto of the annual defense budget bill, but Democrats think they can hold the line. With the original House vote clocking in at 270-156, Republicans only need 20 more lawmakers to defect in order to successfully fight Obama’s veto,…
Steve Birr The Environmental Protection Agency will publish Friday the long awaited Clean Power Plan, opening the climate rules up to legal challenges from the states. Anticipating a wave of lawsuits including a group of 16 states that have organized to sue, EPA Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe released a statement Thursday reiterating the administration’s belief…
The White House is backing away from comments made by president Obama this week after he declared in an interview that Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server does not pose a national security threat. “I don’t think it posed a national security problem,” asserted Obama in a recent interview with 60 Minutes. When asked…