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Oct 29 2013
News
Watch a Top Obamacare Official Deliver the Same Answer 8 Times in 5 Minutes
Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner delivered the same answer to a question eight times during a roughly five minute span at a Congressional hearing Tuesday and claimed that even she does not have numbers yet on how many people have successfully enrolled in President Barack Obama’s signature health care program.
The Blaze
Oct 24 2019
News
When Will the Democratic Presidential Primary Finally Slim Down?
The 2020 Democratic presidential primary features the largest field of candidates in modern electoral history. But the field is also narrowing faster than in previous campaigns. About a quarter of candidates who entered the race have already ended their campaigns. That is double the 1976-2016 median rate of 12% who had quit running at this point in the campaign, 100 days ahead of the Iowa
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jun 04 2019
News
Trump rips into British left-wing critics Khan, Corbyn in press conference
President Trump on Tuesday, in a press conference with outgoing U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, blasted his British left-wing critics as a "negative force" -- and confirmed that he snubbed the leader of the opposition Labour Party when he sought a sit-down.
"I don't know Jeremy Corbyn, never met him, never spoke to him -- he wanted to meet today or tomorrow and I decided I would not do
Fox News (Online News)
Jun 08 2012
News
Obama blames Congress for inaction on jobs while Romney calls president ‘out of touch’
President Obama on Friday sought to deploy the game- changing powers of his office against a grim political week during which the economy, the polls and even some of his Democratic allies seemed to conspire against him.
Washington Post
Apr 16 2019
Opinion
OPINION: The Progressive Revolution: From Democratic to Liberal to Progressive to Socialist
Obama kick-started a cycle that moves ever farther left — even he now seems passé.
Americans voted for Barack Obama in 2008 despite, not because of, his most partisan voting record in the Senate. They were once willing to look past his earlier dubious associations with abject anti-Semites such as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, former terrorists like Bill Ayers, and unhinged characters
Victor Hanson
Sep 23 2019
News
2020 Dems Love Obama, Hate Obama's Policies
For both good and ill, the Democratic field has moved so far to the left that 2012 Obama would have a hard time fitting in.
How does a political party replicate the electoral success of its most revered member even while repudiating a whole host of his policies? That's the riddle facing Democrats in 2020.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released last week put numbers on what has
Reason
Aug 12 2014
News
‘The Dude’ nixes Montana Senate bid
Don’t expect to see actor Jeff Bridges launching a bid for the Senate any time soon. During an appearance on Howard Stern’s radio program Monday, the actor quelled calls for him to throw his hat in the ring for the Montana Senate seat, which have grown since Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) withdrew following a plagiarism scandal.
Politico
Jan 23 2016
News
Obama: Affordable Care Act ‘Only Going to Get Better’
President Obama stated that Obamacare is “only going to get better” during Saturday’s Weekly Address.
Transcript as Follows:
“Hi, everybody. When I took office seven years ago this week, more than 15% of Americans went without health insurance. For folks who did have coverage, insurance companies could deny you coverage or charge you more just because you’d been sick. And too
Breitbart News
Aug 20 2019
News
Trump again appears to back away from gun background checks
President Trump appears to be backing away from potential support for gun background check legislation, according to White House aides, congressional leaders and gun advocates, dimming prospects that Washington will approve significant new gun measures in the wake of mass shootings that left 31 dead.
Immediately after the carnage in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, Trump said “there is a great
Washington Post
Dec 29 2014
News
The GOP's 2016 problem
The Republican establishment won big during this year's midterm elections, fending off far-right candidates in primary races who might have threatened the party's bid to retake full control of Congress. 2016 will be tougher. GOP leaders will have to keep an eye on a wide-open presidential primary, along with internal party fights at the House, Senate and gubernatorial levels. That c
CNN (Online News)