Author: Richard Berkow

GOP ‘contempt’ bill would cut off Holder’s pay — yes, please!

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Fed up with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s arrogance, a Republican congressman sponsored a bill to hit him where it hurts – in the wallet. The measure, introduced Thursday by U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, would: withhold salary: payments to federal officials who are in: contempt: of Congress. “The American people should not be footing the bill for federal […]

 

Defiant Nevada rancher faces armed federal agents in escalating confiscation standoff

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Update: See video of protesters heated battle with police, below: A long-simmering dispute between a: Nevada cattle rancher: and the federalBureau of Land Management: has reached a boiling point, and participants have their fingers crossed it won’t erupt into violence. Since 1993, Cliven Bundy has been battling the agency, as well as the National Park Service, the Center […]

 

Unholy alliance: House leaders to team up with liberal Republicans to crush anti-establishment GOP candidates

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Leading Republicans: will raise money and strategize on defeating tea party and other conservative Republican challengers in a conclave at Amelia Island, Fla., on April’s first weekend, according to: Red State. Planning to attend the gathering, sponsored by lobbyist Steve LaTourette’s Main Street Advocacy organization, are: John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy: and 25 other top lawmakers, all apparently […]

 

Michelle Malkin flattens Jeb Bush’s assertion Common Core is ‘truth serum’

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Speaking before 900 people at the annual Broward County Workshop breakfast Friday, former Governor: Jeb Bush: decried the controversy surrounding: Common Core. “Let me tell you something,” he said. “In Asia today, they don’t care about children’s esteem. They care about math, whether they can read in English, whether they understand why science is important, whether they have […]

 

Support pours in for teen jailed for 13 days over a pocket knife kept in car EMT kit

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A patriotic high school senior who says he only wants to serve his country and his community has had his life thrown into shambles because of: Ashtabula County, Ohio: nervous Nellies. Jordan Wiser,: an 18-year-old graduate of numerous law enforcement courses and student at a vocational-technical school was arrested in December for having a 4-inch pocket knife in […]

 

Cover-Up: Obama Administration Now Hiding Massive Cost Of Vacations

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In the wake of President Obama’s 23rd: vacation,: Judicial Watch: estimated the first family has milked the public trough for more than $18 million in hotel and resort expenses, security costs, car rentals and airfare. And the “most transparent administration in history” has been anything but cooperative, the Washington Examiner reported last week. The Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group […]