Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got testy on Capitol Hill Wednesday in response to a query from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who called into question her department’s accounting of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya. Facing expected scrutiny from Republicans during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton appeared to take exception [...]

“If you strip out the stimulus, discretionary spending over the last few years has been quite modest and is scheduled to go to levels we haven’t experienced in modern times.” ~Robert Reischauer, a former director of the CBO Trying to explain the federal deficit to conservatives is a challenge; very few people actually understand the [...]

In Pennsylvania, one local Republican Committee head has chosen to express his discontent with President Obama‘s reelection and second inauguration in a very public, and some would say controversial, way. Brent Kovac, leader of the local Republican Party chapter, hung an American flag upside down during the inauguration ceremony yesterday. The symbol usually indicates distress by soldiers [...]

“And what I see them doing is saying, ‘Okay, we know we’re never going to be popular again, so we’re going to have to rig it.” ~Chris Matthews   There is this purveying sense of false equivalency that “they’re all the same”.  In some ways – both the Democrats and Republicans are the same … [...]

A 14-year old boy accidentally shot and killed his 15-year old brother with his mother’s gun on Saturday n Henry County, Georgia, according to reports. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that charges may be brought against the teenager and his mother, who have not yet been named.  Though the mother left the handgun unloaded, the brothers were apparently still [...]

As much as Republicans would like to decry President Obama as the 2nd coming of Liberal Satan whose sole mission is to wreck the U.S. economy via some sort of socialist Jihad, the reality is that on some issues President Obama is actually more inline with that of a moderate Republican.  Granted moderate Republicans rarely [...]

 “Because access to information from other countries is critically important to the full and fair enforcement of U.S. tax laws, information exchange is a top priority for the United States’ tax treaty programs.” ~Manal Corwin, the deputy assistant Treasury secretary The Obama administration has been on a mission to prevent wealthy Americans and corporations from [...]

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) went on Meet the Press with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to talk with David Gregory.  At one point – he was asked if he supported the House Republican plan to extend the debt ceiling for 3 months.  He essentially gave a non-answer, then pushed blame to the Senate for failing to [...]

Though I would prefer it, we do not need a change to an elected parliamentary form of government to get rid of the overwhelming influence of money – and whose money it is – in our government. Simply limiting campaign time to the 60 days before an election, severely limiting the amount of money that [...]

The Republican strategy to grow the economy can be summed up very easily: tax cuts for the rich and cutting Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.  THAT is their plan.  For the longest time – they talked about “smaller government” and “cutting government spending” but what they really meant was the need to cut important safety [...]