Congressman Blames Ronald Reagan for Obama Presidency – The Hill

05/24/2013 By Leave a Comment

Ronald ReaganArticle authored by Pete Kasperowicz and appeared on The Hill.  Article is courtesy of thehill.com

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Thursday that President Obama would not be president if it weren’t for the 1986 amnesty bill that Ronald Reagan signed into law.

King is a leading GOP critic of efforts to pass an immigration reform bill, and has often said on the House floor that Republicans are overreacting to the 2012 election, which some Republicans saw as a sign that the GOP needs to get behind a reform bill. [Read more...]

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Obama Claims ‘No Large-Scale Attacks on the United States’ since 9/11

05/24/2013 By

Boston Marathon Bombing-1In a long-awaited speech at the National Defense University, Barack Obama claimed that the nature of international terror attacks threatening the United States has changed since Sept. 11, 2001, with ‘no large-scale attacks’ on America occurring since then.

But his definition of ‘large-scale attacks,’ his speech made clear, doesn’t include the 2013 Boston Marathon attack that wounded hundreds, the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that injured dozens and killed four, and the 2009 attack at Fort Hood that killed 13 and injured 30. [Read more...]

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Obama Blames the Internet for Domestic Terrorism – Washington Examiner

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Obama blames internet for terrorismArticle authored by Charlie Spiering and appeared in The Washington Examiner.  Article is courtesy of washingtonexaminer.com

During his foreign policy speech Thursday afternoon, President Obama warned that domestic terrorism would increase in the modern age of the Internet.

“This threat is not new,” Obama said. “But technology and the Internet increase its frequency and lethality.” [Read more...]

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The Real Voter Suppression of 2012 – National Review Online

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VoteArticle was authored by John Fund and appeared on National Review Online.  Article is courtesy of nationalreview.com

The 2012 election season was filled with angry cries of “voter suppression,” almost all of them regarding attempts by states to require voter ID and otherwise improve ballot integrity. Bill Clinton warned that “there has never been — in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the other Jim Crow burdens on voting — the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today.” Democratic-party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said “photo-ID laws, we think, are very similar to a poll tax.” [Read more...]

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Boehner: House Won’t Pass Senate Immigration Bill – Washington Times

05/23/2013 By Leave a Comment

John Boehner-4Article authored by Stephen Dinan and appeared in The Washington Times.  Article is courtesy of washingtontimes.com

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 Senaate bill, which emerged from a Senate committee on a bipartisan 13-5 vote earlier this week, and to stake out a House GOP position. [Read more...]

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Another Enormous ObamaCare ‘Oops’ – NYPOST.com

05/23/2013 By Leave a Comment

Obamacare-24Article authored by Michael Barone and appeared in The New York Post.  Article is courtesy of nypost.com

Would you like to have a “skinny” health insurance policy? Probably not. But if you’re employed by a large company, you may get one, thanks to ObamaCare.

That’s the conclusion of Wall Street Journal reporters Christopher Weaver and Anna Wilde Mathews, who report that insurance brokers are pitching and selling “low-benefit” policies across the country. [Read more...]

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IRS Official Who Refused to Testify, Faces More Scrutiny Over Other Scandals – Fox News

05/23/2013 By

Lois Lerner-2Article authored by Doug McKelway and appeared on Fox News.  Article is courtesy of foxnews.com

The IRS official who refused to testify at a House hearing Wednesday has become a key focus of the congressional investigations into the IRS practice of singling out conservative groups.

Now under the protection of her lawyers and the Fifth Amendment, Lois Lerner is facing a maelstrom of controversy. [Read more...]

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How Hope and Change Gave Way to Spying on the Press – The Daily Beast

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Freedom of the PressArticle authored by Kirsten Powers and appeared on The Daily Beast.  Article is courtesy of thedailybeast.com

Much of the Fourth Estate shrugged when the Obama administration attacked Fox News, writes Kirsten Powers. But now it’s coming for them, too.

First they came for Fox News, and they did not speak out—because they were not Fox News. Then they came for government whistleblowers, and they did not speak out—because they were not government whistleblowers. Then they came for the maker of a YouTube video, and—okay, we know how this story ends. But how did we get here? [Read more...]

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U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes – NYTimes.com

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Obama and Eric Holder - Drone Strikes on AmericansArticle authored by Charlie Savage and appeared in The New York Times.  Article is courtesy of nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.

In a letter to Congressional leaders obtained by The New York Times, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. disclosed that the administration had deliberately killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen. [Read more...]

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