Hillary Clinton emailed classified information post-stint as secretary of state

It’s not been a good news week for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who continued emailing state secrets even after she left the State Department. The New York Post has the scoop: On May 28, 2013, months after stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton sent an email to a group of diplomats and…Read More

IRS inspector general admits to not notifying taxpayers of stolen social-security numbers

President Obama’s IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is far from running a tight ship at the agency, his inspector general admitting this week after word leaked in April agency bureaucrats are not informing taxpayers when their social security numbers are stolen presumably by illegal immigrants. The Washington Examiner has the details: "The IRS has not established…Read More

Study: More women, minorities applying for concealed-carry permits

More and more people are applying for and being issued concealed-carry permits but especially women and minorities, according to a recent study from the Crime Prevention Research Center. The Daily Signal has the story: “In eight states where we have data by gender, since 2012 the number of permits has increased by 161 percent for…Read More

As Obamacare co-ops crumble, residents in five states have no choice in their Obamacare exchange

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Lawmakers nationwide gave speeches touting the Obamacare exchanges, saying the exchanges will create “competition” (though how this works when the exchanges are all hewn from the same rock and under the auspices of Obamacare apparently never occurred to these legislators) and thereby drive down health-insurance prices. They couldn’t have more wrong as the exchanges are…

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National debt to soar to 77 percent of U.S. gross domestic product by end of fiscal year

Spendthrifts in Washington, D.C. by the end of September will have sent our national debt soaring by three percentage points to 77 percent of gross domestic product, the greatest ratio of debt-to-GDP we’ve seen since 1950 when we were still paying down debt from World War II. The Washington Examiner has the scoop: The agency…

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Hillary Clinton lied, didn’t turn over all her emails, FBI finds

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Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered an additional 15,000 emails Hillary Clinton never turned over despite the former secretary of state’s insistence she had turned over every work-related email transmitted on her homebrew server when serving under President Obama. The Washington Times has the story: The Obama administration revealed the messages in a…

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