Paul Bedard

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

When President Obama gave his commencement address at Ohio State University last week and admonished Americans to stop listening to the voices of cynicism and criticism, the rest of the nation's top colleges must have been listening because only 17 of them have invited conservatives to speak,...

Paul Bedard

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

The unofficial Rand Paul presidential campaign is gaining steam, selling out speech venues through June as he nears a decision to act on his popularity and officially announce a 2016 bid for the White House. The Tea Party favorite and leader of the "liberty wing" of the Senate GOP is also...

Paul Bedard

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

Top representatives of the nation's Tea Party movement on Thursday lashed out at President Obama for using the IRS to shut down free speech and harass his enemies, claiming that the cost of fighting back hurt the movement. "The damage the IRS caused may be immeasurable. There are concrete...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

The thrill of President Obama's reelection is gone--and now so are his highest Gallup approval ratings since right after his first election in 2008. Obama, whose approval rating was 56 percent around Christmas, has sunk to 47 percent approve with an equal percentage disapproving of the...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

It was meant to be funny, but Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's humorous opening line at a meeting of conservatives Wednesday night packed a punch in highlighting the reality that in the escalating IRS scandal, no Obama pet project or supporting group was audited by the tax agency--only critics. In...

Paul Bedard

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

CNN correspondent Soledad O'Brien, known for her "Black in America" documentaries that sometimes irk viewers, is now turning her cameras on whites. She says in a statement to Secrets: "We're not just working on 'BIA,' but also developing a 'White in America.' Stay tuned for that one." Her...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

Secretary of State John Kerry is finally getting his team together in Foggy Bottom. And as he has scoured the halls of the State Department, other agencies and Congress in his search for top aides, Kerry has been looking at more than just jobs-packed resumes. Take Danny Russel, for example....

Paul Bedard

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

As all 45 GOP senators today united in a letter to President Obama demanding cooperation with congressional investigations into the IRS scandal, outspoken conservative Sen. Mike Lee said that the combined IRS and Benghazi affairs and the seizure of Associated Press source files prove the...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

The Treasury Inspector General's damaging report on the IRS-Tea Party scandal has destroyed the administration's claim that low-level workers in a Cincinnati, Ohio office are to blame, revealing that 10 of 12 agency offices referenced in the affair are in Washington. The report repeatedly...

Paul Bedard

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

It's been over 17 years since former first lady Hillary Clinton urged a new community spirit in her book "It Takes A Village." Now President Obama's administration is doing something even her husband didn't--turning it into a $600,000, three-year federal program. "It Takes A Village: Building...