Aaron Schock, a House Republican from Illinois, has resigned effective March 31 after an investigation into his requests for federal reimbursement uncovered multiple discrepancies, especially concerning his mileage expenses: Schock billed the federal government and his campaign for logging roughly 170,000 miles on his personal car from January 2010 through July 2014. But when he […]
Continue reading →In the wake of the email scandal that Hillary Clinton went through, the White House is taking steps to ensure that Obama never has to go through a similar scandal. By releasing all non-classified emails, ramping up transparency, and going above and beyond to operate within the law? No. Unfortunately, the White House is taking […]
Continue reading →Why would Democrats agree to protect the Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, from his opponents in the GOP? That’s a really good question. Perhaps this explains it a little: A number of right-wing Republicans, long wary of Boehner’s commitment to GOP efforts attacking President Obama’s policy priorities, have openly considered a coup in […]
Continue reading →It recently came out that Hillary Clinton was conducting all of her state business through a personal email account (and even her own server) while she was Secretary of State, apparently breaking the rules for state correspondence: Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides […]
Continue reading →In an attempt to be “transparent,” Jeb Bush released a bunch of emails he has received in the course of his tenure as governor of Florida. The problem is he didn’t redact some SSNs, home addresses, and other personal information. So now some of his constituents could become the victims of identity theft. Oops. When […]
Continue reading →In a recent poll, 77% of millennials were unable to name one of the elected Senators from their state. At the same time, the vast majority of them, about the same number actually, said they planned to vote for the next president: More than three-quarters [of] millennials say they are at least “very likely” to […]
Continue reading →Much has been made of the recent “economic recovery,” especially by Democrats touting the effectiveness of Obama’s policies, both here and abroad. But one pundit doesn’t see it that way, and his voice is vastly under-represented in this discussion: He [William White, the economic analyst who correctly predicted the Great Recession] deplores the rush to […]
Continue reading →I think it is hilarious that the people most adamantly opposed to the free market are often enormously benefitted by its machinery. Think Hollywood. Or Hillary Clinton. A story surfaced recently that her speaking fee at colleges is higher than Mitt Romney’s. Much higher, in fact: Mitt Romney will charge Mississippi State University $50,000 to […]
Continue reading →Obama has made it clear that the net neutrality question could be settled without Congress. By executive order, you say? Nope. Even worse—by bureaucratic regulations: The White House on Thursday said legislation was not necessary to settle so-called net neutrality rules because the Federal Communications Commission had the authority to write them. Republicans in Congress […]
Continue reading →If we had any question at all about whether the new GOP majority would result in a change to business as usual, we have our answer in no uncertain terms: NO! No, the GOP, led again by John Boehner, will continue its middling, compromising, petty, self-serving policies and punish true conservatives. Want evidence? Fine. John […]
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