Speaker John Boehner slammed on the immigration reform breaks Thursday, reports The Hill. “There’s widespread doubt that this administration can be trusted to enforce our laws, and it’s going to be difficult to move any immigration legislation until that changes,” Boehner explained. NYT: Big Time Hedge Fund Exec Found Guilty of Insider Trading CBS: Treasury […]

Retiring U.S. Senator Tom Coburn chronicles the ten most outrageous government boondoggles in his tenure in Congress. See where the Bridge for Nowhere ranks. WaPo: New Surveillance Tech Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time E!: Google Glass App Allows User to ID You Just By Looking at You The […]

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a report Tuesday concluding that ObamaCare would reduce by more than 2 million the number of workers in the American economy, reports the Washington Post. The White House immediately disputed the findings. But, as liberal columnist Dana Milbank explains, in highly-partisan Washington, the CBO is one of the few […]

Senator Ted Cruz made quite the splash last fall in leading an ill-fated charge against funding for ObamaCare that his Republican colleagues called reckless. Now, Politico reports, he’s trying to play the insider’s game– building relationships and staying away from being a lightning rod. DailyBeast: How Goldman Sachs Brought Down Qaddafi Free Beacon: Obama Admin. […]

Embattled NJ Gov. Chris Christie turned the tables on the New York Times and a former aide who claimed the bull-in-a-china-shop governor knew about the Traffic-gate scandal, reports Politico. “5 Things You Should Know About the Bombshell That’s Not a Bombshell,” is Team Christie’s explanation of why his former aide turned against him. NBC: NJ […]