Protecting his signature domestic achievement, President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed legislation to repeal his health care law, saying the measure “would reverse the significant progress we have made in improving health care in America.” Republican lawmakers have pushed many repeal measures since 2010, when Obama signed the health care… Read More
Navy SEAL to Clinton: You’re an arrogant liar
It’s a scandal that cost TV news anchor Brian Williams a job and his reputation. Now could it cost Hillary Clinton the presidency? A former Navy Seal who has been dogging Hillary Clinton for years says he’s not going to let Americans forget how she lied about facing sniper fire… Read More
Trump: Gun-free zones are “bait” for killers
Keeping guns out of the hands of Americans doesn’t make us safer — it makes us sitting ducks. That was the message that billionaire GOP hopeful Donald Trump sent at a Vermont rally yesterday, as President Obama took to the airwaves to try to sell new gun-control measures. Last evening… Read More
Felon-turned-councilman: Pardon me so I can take office!
A man who says he should be sworn in as a city councilman in Pennsylvania because he’s paid his debt to society for a 1993 felony drug conviction really hasn’t. Court records show 45-year-old Corey Sanders still owes more than $36,000 in fines and restitution. The McKeesport councilman-elect is seeking… Read More
Supreme Court showdown? Judge says no gay marriage in Alabama
Alabama may be rocketing toward a confrontation with the U.S. Supreme Court after a state judge seemingly threw the brakes on gay marriage. Controversial Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Wednesday said state probate judges remain under a court order to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples even though a… Read More
Hillary pal faces 30 years for fraud, money laundering
A former union chief and backer of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may be spending the rest of his life behind bars. The trial of former Broward Teachers Union President Patrick Santeramo began in a Florida courtroom yesterday, and promises to be a major headache for the Clinton campaign. Santeramo, 68, is… Read More
Voters demand top Democrat be forced from office
Hillary Clinton crony and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has got to go. That’s the message that thousands of American voters are sending in a new online movement designed to force Wasserman Schultz out of office. An online petition on RootsAction, an grassroots political action website, has quickly… Read More
Rivals attack as Chris Christie rises in New Hampshire
Chris Christie is the Republican presidential candidate on the move in second-to-vote New Hampshire — so say the super PACs helping the New Jersey governor’s rivals. Marco Rubio’s backers recently put $1 million into anti-Christie advertising, according to filings with federal election regulators. That follows a Christie-themed mailing earlier this week… Read More
Trump drops Cruz bombshell: “He can’t be president.”
Billionaire Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who repeatedly questioned whether President Barack Obama was born in America, seems to be raising fresh questions about Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s eligibility to be president. And with that, conservatives’ dream of a Trump-Cruz ticket seems to have gone up in smoke. Deploying a… Read More
The crying game? Obama tears up over gun plan
A good, public cry may have cost Edmund Muskie his 1972 bid for the presidency and led to questions about his composure. But welcome to 2016 — and the new, softer side of American politics. Tears streaking his cheeks, President Barack Obama launched a final-year push Tuesday to tighten sales… Read More