Sean Higgins

Updated: Fri, May 24, 2013

Medea Benjamin, founder of the radical anti-war group Code Pink, has an article up at the liberal Nation’s website explaining why she heckled President Obama’s major speech this week on national security. She claims: “I kept waiting to hear an announcement about changes that...

Sean Higgins

Updated: Fri, May 24, 2013

Another epic showdown between a local government leader and a public-sector union? Looks like it will happen. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has vowed to take down Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The Chicago Sun-Times reports: The historic vote on Wednesday to shutter 50 schools has served...

Sean Higgins

Updated: Fri, May 24, 2013

President Obama made the nomination for a four-year term Thursday night. Solomon has been serving as the National Labor Relations Board’s acting general counsel since June 2010, following a long career as attorney for previous boardmembers. Solomon has never been formally approved as...

David M. Drucker

Published: Fri, May 24, 2013

The House minority has minimal power, but it is using the few parliamentary tools it can wield to force Republicans to demand a budget agreement with Senate Democrats as a condition for proceeding to a conference committee. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., acknowledged in an interview...

Conn Carroll

Updated: 2 hr ago

Shortly after the Heritage Foundation released its controversial cost-of-amnesty report, former National Economic Council Director Keith Hennessey wrote a highly critical response disputing Heritage’s final $6.3 trillion price tag. Thursday, Heritage’s Vice President, Domestic &...

Joel Gehrke

Published: Fri, May 24, 2013

President Obama called for Congress to end the “foolish” budget cuts required under sequestration, arguing that lawmakers should feel empowered because “deficits are falling at the fastest rate in decades.” “I’ll keep fighting to end those foolish across-the-board budget cuts known...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: 3 hr ago

Last night on “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart ridiculed President Obama for persecuting the press in the name of national security. “You see, they believe in the freedom of the press — just not freedom of speech for people who might talk to the press,” Stewart said, highlighting the...

Conn Carroll

Updated: 3 hr ago

After two weeks of amendments, S. 744, the bipartisan immigration reform bill voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday night, is now more than 1,000 pages long, according to a committee aide. When the bill was first submitted to the Senate, it was just 844 pages. And the vast...

Brian Hughes

Updated: 3 hr ago

The White House on Friday didn’t respond to a report that Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the seizure a Fox News reporter’s phone and email records — and with no daily press briefing scheduled Friday that could mean silence from the administration through the Memorial Day weekend....

Paul Bedard

Updated: 4 hr ago

Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama has partially crawled out of his scandal-filled hole. "This would be a perfect week for your humble pollster from Utica, N.Y. to take a vacation, since my grade will clearly anger half of D.C. As I suggested...