If the Republican presidential nomination was a card game, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seems confident the establishment’s ace in the sleeve can keep frontrunner Donald Trump from winning. McConnell says he is “increasingly optimistic” that voting at the Republican National Convention in July will go to a second ballot,… Read More
Busted! Feds caught shredding veterans’ health claims
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) launched surprise raids of 10 Veterans Affairs Regional Offices (VARO) last summer after receiving a tip from a whistleblower. And what they found was disturbing. According to the recently released report, the VA has been methodically destroying hundreds of veterans’ benefits and claim documents… Read More
[Pics] Houston slammed by deadly floods
At least 5 people have died after massive flooding from more than a foot of rain engulfed the nation’s fourth-largest city, inundating homes and shutting down major highways, with Houston’s mayor saying there was no immediate solution. Heavy flooding has become nearly an annual rite of passage in the practically sea-level… Read More
[Report] Obama being blackmailed over 9/11
Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has personally delivered a threatening message to President Barack Obama and key members of Congress. The Saudis are prepared to sell off $750 billion in United States assets if a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be sued over 9/11 passes Congress, according to The New York… Read More
Cash for votes? Trump says Cruz bribed delegates
Despite trailing in national polls, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was handed all 14 delegates up for grabs at the Republican Party convention in Wyoming this weekend. And billionaire Donald Trump is claiming it was the result of payoffs, plain and simple. Wyoming delegates are awarded through a convention process featuring… Read More
Olympics in danger as Brazil plunges into turmoil
Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies voted overwhelmingly yesterday to open impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff, a move that plunges the country into deeper chaos just months before the summer Olympic games. The 367-137 vote was well over the 342 votes needed for the proceedings to move ahead to the Senate, where… Read More
Benghazi hammer set to drop on Clinton
Nearly two years after it was created, the House Benghazi Committee is nearly done with its work, according to a top Republican lawmaker. And the timing of it couldn’t be worse for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential hopes. “We’re getting close to wrapping it up,” Kansas Rep…. Read More
ObamaCare entering billion-dollar death spiral
New federal reports show that the ObamaCare state co-ops have entered their “death spiral” and all but a handful may cease to exist by the end of the year. And it has cost taxpayers a fortune. When they passed the health care law in 2010, Democrats insisted on creating the… Read More
Clinton set to lose in California?
If Bernie Sanders can pull off an upset in California over former sercretary of State Hillary Clinton, it will be a story that got its start on Hollywood Boulevard. In a building that saw the likes of film stars and movie moguls and later was damaged in the 1994 Northridge… Read More
North Korea ramping up nuclear stockpile
As North Korea intensifies testing of its ballistic missile technology, a U.S. website said Friday it also sees further signs from satellite imagery that North Korea is looking to produce more plutonium for nuclear weapons. The website 38 North, which monitors sites in North Korea associated with its weapons programs,… Read More