The Daily Caller: Illinois Republican Rep. Joe Walsh, one of the first members of Congress to demand Attorney General Eric Holder resign over the ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking program, told The Daily Caller that Holder’s recent use of racial politics to attack his critics appears to be something President Barack Obama “orchestrated.” Walsh [...]
Beltway Confidential: By a party-line vote of 229-193, the House of Representatives has blocked the Senate-passed bill to extend the payroll tax cut, and called instead for a conference between the two chambers to hash out their differences and reach a compromise. Republican leaders structured the vote in a way so as to avoid its [...]
CNBC: It’s been 30 years since gasoline took such a big bite out of the family budget. When the gifts from Grandma are unloaded and holiday travel is over, the typical American household will have spent $4,155 filling up this year, a record. That is 8.4 percent of what the median family takes in, the [...]
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal road accidents and shuttered highways in five states, crawled deeper into the Great Plains early Tuesday, with forecasters warning that pre-holiday travel would be difficult if not impossible across the region. Hotels were filling up quickly along major roadways from eastern New Mexico to [...]
Washington Post: Two weeks before Iowans cast the first votes of the 2012 election cycle, Republicans nationally are sharply divided over whom their party’s presidential nominee should be, with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich locked in a dead-even race, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Gingrich and Romney are each favored by 30 [...]
Health Watch: The claim that House Republicans’ budget would end Medicare is the “lie of the year,” according to the fact-checking website Politifact. According to Politifact’s analysis, saying the Ryan plan “ends Medicare” overlooks the fact that its changes would not affect people 55 and older. Politifact also said Medicare would remain in existence, but [...]
Atlantic Wire: The latest Occupy Wall Street encampment to fall to a city police force was in Denver overnight, where retreating protesters left cops a set of burning shelters to deal with as they made their way out of the camp. The shelters were a key element of that encampment’s wrangling with the city, which [...]
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – The 63-foot Sierra White Fir lighted at the U.S. Capitol Grounds on Dec. 6 as the official 2011 Capitol Christmas Tree includes a prominently displayed ornament paying homage to President Barack Obama, but includes no ornament readily visible to a person standing near the tree’s base that uses the word “Christmas,” [...]
New York Times: BAGHDAD — The political crisis in Iraq deepened on Tuesday, as the Sunni vice president angrily rebutted charges that he had ordered his security guards to assassinate government officials, saying that Shiite-backed security forces had induced the guards into false confessions. In a nationally televised news conference, the vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, [...]
The Daily Caller: Rep. Joe Walsh, an Illinois Republican, and Rep. Mike Ross, an Arkansas Democrat, are trying to overturn a rule that forbids the use of “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Hanukkah” in taxpayer-funded congressional correspondence. Congressional rules state that mail containing holiday greetings cannot be “franked” — Hill lingo for receiving taxpayer reimbursement for [...]
The Daily Caller: It didn’t take very long for Jimmy Moncrief to put together his new 200-page book, “Everything Obama Knows About The Economy.” Every page of the book is blank. The 30-year-old banker from Chattanooga, Tenn., told The Daily Caller in an interview that he’s sold hundreds of copies of his gag gift to [...]
