In the midst of a hilarious address to the 2013 graduating class at the University of Virginia, comedian Stephen Colbert had a serious message for the eager crowd: if you owe anything, it’s to the Chinese.
Not so funny: Stephen Colbert tells college graduates they owe the Chinese
By Erin Brown /// May 20, 2013
Sen. Ted Cruz’s solution to the IRS: Abolish it
The Internal Revenue Service was being dragged through the mud this week, after it came to light that agency had been targeting conservative groups. But Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a solution to make the scandal all go away: abolish the IRS.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 19, 2013
Pfeiffer: Obama won’t let IRS scandal “distract” him from “doing the people’s work”
President Obama isn’t going to let the Republicans ‘politicize’ the IRS scandal and keep him from doing his job, according to Senior Advisor to the President for Strategy and Communications Dan Pfeiffer.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 19, 2013
In commencement speech President Obama tells college grads that financial success should not be their goal in life
Hoping to start a small business that some day turns into a big business and rakes in lots of profits so you can buy a multimillion dollar home and take the vacations you always dreamed of? Well, President Barack Obama has a message for you: that’s selfish.
By Francesca Chambers /// May 19, 2013
Senior Obama Advisor Dan Pfeiffer: President’s location on night of Benghazi attack is “a largely irrelevant fact”
Does it matter where President Obama was during the night of the Benghazi attack? Not according to Dan Pfeiffer, Senior Advisor to the President for Strategy and Communications.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 19, 2013
Bloomberg talks gun control in commencement address
CNN – Diverging from the generally non-political college sendoff, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a gun-control advocate, Saturday tore into members of Congress for failing to pass background check legislation.
By Editorial Staff /// May 19, 2013
Michelle Obama Makes Light of President’s Failures in Graduation Speech
ABC – Delivering her only speech at a high school graduation this year, first lady Michelle Obama joked about the failures her husband, President Obama, has encountered in life as she told a graduating class of high school seniors in Nashville, Tenn. today that in order to achieve success in life, they must first experience failure.
By Editorial Staff /// May 19, 2013
Kathleen Sebelius dances on an ethical line
THE WASHINGTON POST – One of the biggest questions hanging over the health-care system is how many young Americans will sign up for coverage once the Affordable Care Act begins to phase in this October. If too few buy insurance on the markets that the government is creating, insurance companies would be stuck covering primarily the the old and the sick. They would have to pay out more per customer. Their customers, in turn, would have to pay more to those companies for coverage. The stakes for the Health and Human Services Department, which is overseeing the transition, are tremendous.
By Editorial Staff /// May 19, 2013
[WATCH] ‘SNL’ ridicules Al Sharpton in cold open
Al Sharpton really doesn’t understand why the Tea Party is so upset with the IRS — but that’s probably just because Sharpton doesn’t seem to understand much of anything.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 19, 2013
Bill Maher calls Obama administration scandals “bulls**t and nonsense”
You know those scandals everyone is talking about? Yeah, they’re just “bulls**t and nonsense” according to HBO‘s Bill Maher.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 18, 2013
One chart to demonstrate just how bad Obama’s week really was
Millions of words have been written about President Obama this week, and most of them have been negative. Don’t believe it? Just take a look at this chart.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 18, 2013
Listen to RAP Editor Francesca Chambers on TheBlazeTV and ‘The Michael Koolidge Show’
RAP Editor Francesca Chambers made two media appearances this week, joining “Real News from The Blaze” team and Michael Koolidge, host of “The Michael Koolidge Show.”
By Editorial Staff /// May 18, 2013
[WATCH] ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ spoofs Obama press conference during week of scandals
President Obama’s administration was rocked by a week of scandals, but the POTUS isn’t focusing on that. Instead, he’s apparently reading BuzzFeed.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 18, 2013
KFC smuggled into Gaza via underground tunnels
Turns out that the underground smuggling tunnels connecting the Gaza Strip to Egypt have been used to transport more than weapons lately.
By Arrianne Talma /// May 18, 2013
Pro wrestler Kane might fight for 2014 Senate seat
The 2014 Senate race in Tennessee might be quite the battle — if pro wrestler Kane gets into the ring.
College enrollment rate drops 2.3 percent as students opt for workforce instead
A National Student Clearinghouse study reveals that college enrollment has declined 2.3 percent this spring compared to last year, as more Americans skip the academic route and jump directly into the workforce.
By Arrianne Talma /// May 18, 2013
60 injured, five critically, as trains collide in Connecticut
NBC NEWS — Sixty people were injured, five of them critically, and rail traffic from New York to Boston was shut down after a Metro-North commuter train derailed and plowed into a second train Friday in Fairfield, Conn., Gov. Dan Malloy said.
Read more at NBC News.
By Editorial Staff /// May 18, 2013
What the Department of Education’s $51 billion profit really means
As many college graduates struggle to pay back their student loans, the United States government is raking in the cash — nearly $51 billion of it.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 17, 2013
Majority of Americans think it’d be bad if only the government had guns
Americans like their guns – and believe that they should have a right to own them.
By Meghan Keenan /// May 17, 2013
Jay Carney in denial that Obama Administration is partly responsible for scandals
Even with the media mocking his every impression, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is having a pretty good week – considering he’s completely unconvinced that the Obama Administration is in some part responsible for the three scandals that have engulfed Washington, D.C. over the past few weeks.
By Kaitlyn Schallhorn /// May 17, 2013
