Paul Bedard

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

Internal cost estimates from 17 of the nation's largest insurance companies indicate that health insurance premiums will grow an average of 100 percent under Obamacare, and that some will soar more than 400 percent, crushing the administration's goal of affordability. New regulations,...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller is unlikely to ever be confirmed for the job, the result of a broadening political scandal decried by Democrats and Republicans, according to several Senate sources. "Confirmation of any nominee will be premature until there is a complete investigation...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

As if begging to be audited, the conservative public watchdog Judicial Watch Tuesday stepped up its assault on the the luxury vacations of the first family by suing the U.S. Secret Service to reveal the cost of the Obama's last Christmas vacation in Hawaii, estimated at over $4 million. The...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

Steven T. Miller, the acting IRS commissioner who managed the division that has admitted targeting anti-Obama Tea Party groups, was one of several agents who investigated anti-Clinton organizations including Judicial Watch during that Democrat's administration, according to court documents and...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Mon, May 13, 2013

Soledad O'Brien, recently yanked from her morning show "Starting Point" on CNN, plans to continue her focus on racial issues and is charging that whites are afraid of dealing with the nation's black-white division. O'Brien, just named a distinguished visiting fellow at Harvard's Graduate...

Paul Bedard

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

This week's Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC host Chris Hayes on "All In" delighting in how the Cleveland kidnappings and the Jodi Arias murder conviction overshadowed the Benghazi hearings: "Today was set up to be a big day, a very big day for Roger Ailes, the Fox Network, Drudge Report...

Paul Bedard

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Tea Party and conservative constitutional groups may be the new targets of the Internal Revenue Service, but former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld reveals in his new book out this week that outspoken businesses critical of the federal government are also singled out by the IRS and Securities and...

Paul Bedard

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama is taking fire but holding on in approval ratings. "The president drew a line in the sand on chemical weapons in Syria but the line keeps moving further back and it is not clear which side used them. Israel...

Paul Bedard

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

President Obama's grassroots campaign group has opened a campaign to belittle House Speaker John Boehner and GOP global warming critics, describing the climate change "deniers" as crazy, tin foil hat wearing believers in unicorns. In three successive emails to supporters, Jim Messina, Obama's...

Paul Bedard

Published: Fri, May 10, 2013

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose lifelong fight with heart disease hobbled his movements before his 2012 transplant, has fully recovered and is back on the speaking and social circuit with a robustness friends haven't seen since he was in the White House. "He's in great shape, I can...