Charlie Spiering

Updated: Sun, May 12, 2013

Pat Smith, the mother of one of the victims of the Benghazi consulate attacks, went on the Huckabee show yesterday to deliver a message to Hillary Clinton. "I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother's Day," she said. "She has her child. I don't have mine because of her." Huckabee...

Timothy P. Carney

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Facts emerging about Benghazi may not tell us anything new, but they remind us of two important truths: First, the upper levels of the Obama administration are peppered with partisans who play fast and loose with the truth for political gain. Second, regime change and military interventions,...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

The Senate will spend this week reshaping an immigration-reform bill in hopes of building bipartisan support for the measure. But that detailed scrutiny of the measure is scaring off the very lawmakers that its authors hoped to win over. By the time the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the...

Brian Hughes

Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

For months, President Obama and his top surrogates portrayed Republican attacks on their handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Libya as a political witch-hunt, a GOP obsession with little basis in fact. But newly released emails show that the White House struck any reference to...

Michael Barone

Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

What were President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thinking? Why did they keep pitching the line that the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans started as a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim video?...

Byron York

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican behind the bipartisan Gang of Eight immigration reform bill, has often said the legislation will require stronger border security measures if it is to become law. On Thursday, lawmakers got a glimpse of what that might mean. As the Senate Judiciary...

Charlie Spiering

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

“I gotta tell you, tonight I am angry, and for once that doesn’t make me happy,” comedian Stephen Colbert said during his show’s opening. “And I think you know why. My sister lost!” Colbert’s sister, Elizabeth Colbert-Busch lost in Tuesday’s election to disgraced former South...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Eyewitnesses to September's deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya told a congressional committee Wednesday that State Department officials had blocked efforts to aid Americans under fire and later tried to conceal al Qaeda's involvement. Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant...

Sean Higgins

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

Vice President Joe Biden reportedly told and activist with the Sierra Club that he personally opposes the $7 billion US-Canada pipeline project, but also indicated that others in the White House do not share his view. In a blog post yesterday at the Sierra Club’s website, activist Elaine...

Brian Hughes

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Remember the economy? President Obama on Thursday will kick off a series of day trips devoted to job creation with a trek to Austin, Texas, where he will refocus on his proposals to increase the minimum wage and raise cigarette taxes to fund expanded preschool, among other economic initiatives...