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If you think Republican victories in the midterm elections will actually change anything in Washington, D.C., Angelo Codevilla will disabuse you of that notion: “Far from marking the Republican Party’s rebirth, the elections of 2014 foretell the possibility that the law of supply and demand—which operates in politics as well as in economics—will kill it in 2016. That is because the Republican Establishment has no intention of meeting the American people’s pent-up demand, expressed so forcefully in the mid-term elections, to turn America away from the direction in which government, under both parties, has shoved it over the past generation.”
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Liberal media outlets are turning on Valerie Jarrett, with Politico calling for Jarrett's firing. The New Republic published an article intended to provide “texture” to Jarrett's role in the Obama White House, but it also confirms many people's fears about her influence over Obama.
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Exit polls from the midterm election pointed to the state of the economy as a major factor in people's votes. The mainstream media wonders why this concern doesn't square with economic statistics, and John Crudele answers with this: “Our nation’s economic statistics are nipped and tucked, massaged, managed, fabricated and dolled up. In short, our statistics are wrong and Main Street folks know it.”
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Video appeared of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber telling an audience on October 17, 2013, that, “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing [ObamaCare] to pass.”
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The Department of Health and Human Services reduced its projection of the number of people who will enroll in ObamaCare during this year's open enrollment period. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that 13 million people would be enrolled by this time, but HHS says it will be between 9 and 9.9 million.
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The Border Patrol is taking away its agents' M4 rifles for inspection, and is being very slow about replacing rifles found lacking. As a result, agents are sharing their rifles, which is problematic at best.
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The U.S. Navy removed an intelligence officer, Captain James Fanell, from his post as director of intelligence and information operations at U.S. Pacific Fleet: “Fanell warned during a February public appearance that a recent Chinese amphibious exercise led naval intelligence to assess that China's strategy was to be able to launch a 'short, sharp war' with Japan, an unusually frank assessment about a closely watched region.” Captain Fanell's assessment differed from the official Pentagon line, so he was cashiered.
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An all-star group of lawyers filed an amicus brief supporting dismissal of the charges against Texas Governor Rick Perry.
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Saudi Arabia has declared war on Texas by flooding the U.S. with cheap oil.
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The Innocence Project framed a man for a double murder in Chicago. Worse yet, it looks like the man they helped free from Death Row actually committed the crime.
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At least 48 students died in a suicide bombing at a high school in northeastern Nigeria. Around 2,000 students had gathered for a weekly assembly when the bomb went off. This happened in an area where Boko Haram has been active.
