Total federal and state “welfare” spending topped $1 trillion last year, marking a nearly 30 percent increase since the start of the Obama administration — according to a new congressional report which documented spending...
As Chicago struggles to quell gang violence that has contributed to a jump in homicides, a top elected official wants to tax the sale of every bullet and firearm — an effort even she...
Neither President Barack Obama nor Republican Mitt Romney has had much to say about gun laws this campaign season. The AP’s Nancy Benac explains why their positions matter.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, in her first public comments on Libya since her controversial account days after the attack, blamed intelligence community talking points for the faulty narrative. The light-on-details explanation...
In a move that has stunned many, Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi dismissed the Mubarak era general prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud and appointed him as Egypt’s envoy to the Vatican. Shortly after...
The Huffington Post, ever eager to curry favor with anti-American pundits and racists posing as free-thinkers, has published a screed by Marc Lamont Hill, who is a black professor at Columbia University, titled “The 15 Most...
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies are seeing an increase in cyber threats that could become as devastating as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks if they aren’t stopped. “A cyber...
I didn’t buy into the idea last week that the Labor Department “cooked the books” on the September jobs report. If you were going to go to the trouble of fixing the numbers, wouldn’t...
Many had thought the award would go to human rights activists in Russia this year. But on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the European Union with this year’s peace prize for its contribution...
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz told a stunned Piers Morgan on Wednesday that although the White House made incorrect statements about the Libya attack, it didn’t mean “they were false” because the White House didn’t...
