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On Monday morning, Washington awoke to learn that Commerce Secretary John Bryson had been involved in a series of auto accidents in southern California on Saturday evening, and cited with a felony hit-and-run by responding police. This news was of course shocking. For several hours, the White House and the Commerce Department declined comment. In […]

There was a time when President Obama could have run for president of the world. He had sky high approval ratings just about everywhere but in Muslim countries. But three years of incompetence in foreign affairs has sapped his approval ratings until now, solid majorities in many countries overseas don’t think much of our Lightworker. […]

Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) on Tuesday said members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees are working closely to develop legislation aimed at reducing the incidence of security leaks, and said he has several questions about the contacts Obama administration officials have had with various media outlets, and whether those contacts led to the leaks. […]

Although President Obama declined to comment on the recall election between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett during last Friday’s news conference, he didn’t mind talking about it yesterday with a reporter from ABC’s Green Bay, Wis., affiliate WBAY. “I‘d like to ask you about Wisconsin’s recall election. There are a lot […]

While President Obama has been especially adroit at destroying the values and Religious underpinnings of Americans, and tearing down individual freedom’s funding apparatus, Capitalism, I never thought I would see him turn his purposely harmful tactics unto his own election campaign. Are we watching a political suicide in the making? Can anyone believe the smartest […]

Commerce Secretary John Bryson, who was cited in a felony hit-and-run case in southern California over the weekend, suffered a seizure in connection with a traffic accident, the Commerce Department announced Monday. “Secretary Bryson was involved in a traffic accident in Los Angeles over the weekend,” spokeswoman Jennifer Friedman said in a statement. “He suffered […]

Wiretap applications obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform prove Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant AG Lanny Breuer lied to Committee members when they claimed DOJ personnel knew nothing of the tactics used by the ATF during Operation Fast And Furious. Wiretap applications are forms that must be filled out and […]

They started with salt and transfat. Now they’re going after 16-ounce drinks, but it won’t stop there. You can count on it. Prohibition didn’t work, and neither does the “war on drugs.” So don’t expect banning certain foods or large portions will make a dent in the battle over obesity. This type of government intrusion […]

Barack Obama was, in fact, a member of the socialist New Party in the 1990s and sought its endorsement for the Illinois senate–contrary to the misrepresentations of Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008, and in spite of the efforts of Politico’s Ben Smith to quash the story. Stanley Kurtz, author of Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the […]

A number of conservative bloggers allege they have been targeted through the use of harassment tactics such as SWAT-ting (fooling 911 operators into sending emergency teams to their homes), in retaliation for posts they have written, and now Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., has stepped into the matter. He has sent a letter to Attorney General […]

A Puffington Host teaser headline this morning reads: “Bill Clinton Gives President Obama Another Headache.” (Politico‘s headline is: “Clinton Ditches Obama Message–Again.”) This time he says the Bush tax cuts should be extended: Says the PuffHo: “Clinton’s insistence that he would have “no problem” extending all of the tax cuts for some amount of time […]

The Department of Justice appears to be headed for a showdown with Florida over its effort to seek out and purge all noncitizens from state voter rolls, according to the Miami Herald. Federal authorities had given the state until today to respond to a letter demanding that the effort be stopped and informing the secretary […]