April 29, 2012 By Trevor Thomas Never has there been a clearer manifestation of the addictiveness of our entitlement culture than what occurred recently in the state of Michigan — not once, but twice. For several months after winning a $1 million state lottery jackpot, 25-year-old Michigan resident, Amanda Clayton, collected thousands of dollars in [...]

By Paige Winfield Cunningham April 27, 2012, 04:41PM Three Republican senators say the Obama administration isn’t answering their questions about how it’s spending billions of dollars earmarked under the health care law to improve Medicare. Last November, Sens. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming asked Secretary [...]

Published April 29, 2012 Associated Press WASHINGTON –  A year after the U.S. raid that killed Usama bin Laden, Al Qaeda is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil. But the terrorist network dreams still of payback, and U.S. counterterrorist officials warn that, [...]

Apr 28, 2012 (AP) JERUSALEM – American aid officials said Saturday they will restore development programs for Palestinians after President Barack Obama ended a six-month funding freeze that shut down the local Sesame Street and other projects.  An official with the U.S. Agency for International Development confirmed that $147 million, which pays for infrastructure, education, [...]

Apr 27, 2012 By JEFF BARNARD GRANTS PASS — Oregon officials were successful in getting permission to kill sea lions that feed on protected salmon trying to swim upriver to spawn. Now they want federal approval to shoot a sea bird that eats millions of baby salmon trying to reach the ocean. In an April [...]

The slowest recovery plods along. Apr 27, 2012 WSJ The weakest recovery on record continued in 2012′s first quarter, with the Commerce Department’s Friday report of 2.2% growth. That’s down from 3% at the end of last year, but closer to the 1.7% for all of 2011. It’s enough to give the word recovery a [...]

Apr 28, 2012 – Bill O’Reilly Mitt Romney says he will not apologize for being a rich guy who lives large and can buy whatever he wants by writing checks from his offshore bank account in the Caymans. The former governor of Massachusetts believes that what he and his father before him accomplished — that [...]

Apr 28, 2012 – John Ransom Now that the advance GDP growth number for the first quarter has come in lower than expected, the White House is trotting out their favorite excuse for a slow economy: not enough government spending. Cue the soundtrack blaming the rich- and bin Laden. If Obama could only dispatch the [...]

By Lawrence Kudlow (Archive) · Saturday, April 28, 2012 Is Tim Geithner the most politically partisan treasury secretary in history? Certainly sounds like it these days. As the government’s chief financial officer, he’s spending a lot of time firing campaign barbs at various Republicans and their policies. Geithner has blasted Mitt Romney by name on [...]

Republicans will lose the youth vote without a better strategy By Emily Miller The Washington Times Friday, April 27, 2012 Congressional Republicans are once again getting outplayed by President Obama. Earlier in the week, they thought they had neutralized Mr. Obama’s political college tour by agreeing in principle to extend government-backed student-loan interest rates for [...]