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Chris Matthews earlier this week told Ora.TV's Larry King that there's pressure at news outlets such as Fox and MSNBC to be openly partisan. Matthews chose to use Greta Van Susteren as an example of this. Van Susteren struck back Friday in a way that only she knows how: I am stunned because, while no one has ever told me in 11 1/2 years what to say (I would walk out and those who know me know that to be true.) I have also not been weak to some amorphous “group pressure.” I now read that it DOES HAPPEN at...

In a statement delivered from the White House this morning, President Barack Obama said that now that Congress has enacted a continuing resolution to fund the government--that includes funding to implement Obamacare--he would like to negotiate with the House with the aim of enacting the immigration bill passed by the Senate earlier this year. The key provision in that Senate bill would allow illegal aliens currently in the United States to become legal residents here and get on a "path to citizenship...

Anti-war, civil rights movements a role model. It was the law. And liberals were determined to sabotage that law. To hold America hostage — in the middle of a war no less — until the law was repealed. Until the war was stopped. To do it, they used the Three C’s. Civil Disobedience. The Culture. The Congress. Let’s start with the law the Left was determined to overturn. That would be the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, passed by Congress on August 10,1964 at the request of a popular president, Lyndon B. Johnson. The resolution authorized the president “to take all...

A friend recently called and asked, “So when do you think Obama will declare martial law?” Until last week, I would have dismissed such speculation as conspiratorial. Now I’m not so sure. Before this phony government “shutdown,” if you had asked whether I believed that American military and law enforcement personnel would follow an order from Barack Obama, or any other president, to turn their guns on their own countrymen, I would have said no. However, after witnessing the behavior of armed National Park Service officers unnecessarily closing our national monuments, parks, and even our military cemeteries in Europe, while...

In this video commentary, I discuss the formula for Republican recovery.

A father and son who fled their village during the Vietnam War 40 years ago have apparently been discovered living in a treehouse deep in the jungle. Ho Van Lang, 42, and his 82-year-old father had reportedly shunned contact with the outside world after his wife and mother of his two children was killed by a landmine A local newspaper reported that they wore loincloths made of bark and used a homemade axe to chop down trees for firewood. They survived on corn that they had grown, plus fruits and cassava roots from the jungle. Inside their treehouse home, five...

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The dance we are watching this weekend is a very important moment in modern American history with big implications for how the executive and the legislative branches interact in the future. The House Republicans have staked out a position that they can use their constitutional power of the purse to force the President to negotiate over key issues. President Obama and Senate Democratic Leader Reid believe they can break the House Republicans and force them to reopen the government and pass a debt ceiling hike with no negotiations and no conditions. Senate Republicans are split between a majority who want...

First week of shutdown sends federal workers to unemployment offices. Nearly 34,000 federal workers applied for unemployment benefits in the first week of the shutdown, according to government agencies. A total of 16,078 furloughed workers in Maryland have applied for unemployment as of Sunday night, according to the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. The agency only receives 3,000 claims from federal workers all year on average

Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.) blasted the Obama administration's decision to allow an immigration reform rally on DC's National Mall - while it continues to block public access to the rest of the national park system...

Dennis Michael Lynch weighs in on the immigration reform rally in D.C. Megyn Kelly interviewed filmmaker Dennis Michael Lynch who got Nancy Pelosi on tape at the National Mall at the immigration rally. He confronted her on the closure of the mall to veterans but open to illegals. This administration not only opened the National Mall for illegals but also they staff it with many park police officers. All the while citizens are still looking at military memorials from behind barriers. The most important thing he said however is that the perfect storm is brewing between amnesty/immigration and Obamacare. He...

Republicans are remaining united amid Democratic attacks over the first federal government shutdown in nearly two decades because "there's enough conservatives that won't let them stray," Club for Growth President Chris Chocola told Newsmax on Friday. "It's a good sign," Chocola said in an exclusive interview. "It's an indication that the nature of the Republican Conference has changed. "There are more conservatives, more champions of economic freedom that are willing to stand up and fight. They understand that the future of our country is at stake, that people believe that the government is too big, too much in debt, and...

Shutdown overreach: More personnel sent to WWII memorial than Benghazi; Park Service closes park it doesn't run (Video at Link) The National Park Service is sending so many officials out to shut down federal parks from visiting Americans that at this rate it might have to suspend furloughs if the government closure continues. Two examples: -- At the World War II Memorial on The Mall in Washington, where veterans have been staging protests to keep it open...

Yuri Bezmenov defected to the United States to escape communism... http://youtu.be/_Iz3VjoHXLA

The public still hates the health care law, but maybe Walter White can help to sell it...

Domenico Quirico was freed on Sunday, after being held hostage for five month along with Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin da Prata. In the pages of his newspaper, La Stampa, the 62-year-old described being subjected to two mock executions. He said his captors were "mixed-up" men consumed by the pursuit of money. Mr Quirico entered Syria from Lebanon on 6 April. He disappeared four days later near the city of Qusair - probably betrayed, Mr Quirico said, by members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA)...

International pressure has been building for a military strike on Syria in the wake of an alleged chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb. The West has laid the blame at the feet of President Assad, as UN experts collected chemical samples on-site. Tuesday, September 10 19:14 GMT: The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Secretary of State John Kerry and Minister Sergey Lavrov have agreed on a possible bilateral meeting soon to discuss initiative on Syria’s chemical weapons. “The two have agreed to work together, including the possibility of holding a bilateral meeting in the coming days to discuss concrete...

Starting a widely unpopular war which will inevitably escalate and will likely involve Russia and China, not to mention all the countries that neighbor Syria, and at best, result in a regime dominated by Al-Qaeda? No problem. Here are the Senators who voted to push America into the latest middle eastern war...

Nearly two months after Egypt’s June 30 Revolution, it is interesting to note how the final dialogue between ousted President Morsi and General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi—full of threats and vows of determination on both sides—have all come to pass, including in the very details, specifically the U.S. government’s role. On July 5, the Arabic language, Egyptian newspaper El Watan published what it said were the final words between the two Egyptian men, as transcribed by an eyewitness, before the general put the president in prison. The relevant portions of the dialogue between Sisi and Morsi follow, interspersed with my retrospective...

Why did the Secretary of State, and not the Director of National Intelligence, present the findings of an unclassified memo released today that the Assad regime used chemical weapons on Aug. 21? An assessment this important should have been rolled out by an objective intelligence agency head and not a partisan Obama official like John Kerry...