On September 10, 2013, President Obama went before news cameras to state firmly, "I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria." But he sent his press secretary Josh Earnest out to announce U.S. ground troops would be sent into Syria and they could indeed wind up in combat roles. Another broken promise from the Democratic administration.

 
Police in Pennsylvania shot down an Army blimp that had broken loose from its mooring in 
Maryland and floated for two hours, causing electrical outages when its dragging tether struck power lines. Surprisingly, President Obama did not make a Rose Garden appearance declaring: "America has witnessed another horrifying example of police brutality" and calling for more gun controls.

Some folks may think it's a "gotcha" question, but candidates running for president should be asked if they agree with President Obama's plan to fight global warming, which will cost Americans $73 billion a year and alleviate less than two-tenths of one degree of warming.

There's a lot of name-calling in politics and Daily Caller David Benkof pontificates on a current phase. "President Obama compared the 2016 Republican presidential candidates to the Internet's Grumpy Cat, calling them "gloomy" and asking why so many are so "down on America?" he writes, but adds: "It's a bizarre question from a politician who ran the original Grumpy Cat campaign seven years ago."

Political correctness has reared its ugly head again. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry scolded a guess for calling House Speaker-to-be Paul Ryan a "hard worker." She said the term was demeaning to slaves and working mothers.


Al Gore has fired a new weapon in his war against global warming. The former vice president cited a claim by scientists at Harvard that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide not only heat the planet but make people dumber. Skeptics think that's one of the dumbest things Gore ever said.

Hillary Clinton had a birthday. She's 68, and anyone watching the camera closeups of her
televised testimony before the Select Committee on Benghazi would say she looks every wrinkle of it.


"As a teenager, I would go after people with rocks and bricks and baseball bats." - Ben Carson, who wants to be commander-in-chief of America's armed forces.


Donald Trump said in a TV interview he knows "much more" about national security than Jeb Bush "and everybody else running." Isn't he the candidate who said in a debate he gets his information about national security from watching TV talk shows?

"I can do more than one thing at a time." - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Select Committee on Benghazi. And her emails prove it. She publicly blamed the attack which killed four Americans on reaction to an anti-Muslim video but on the night of the attack she told her daughter Chelsea and the Egyptian prime minister that an Al Qaida-like group planned and carried out the attack.

At an award ceremony, Attorney General Loretta Lynch praised inspectors general investigating waste, fraud and inefficiency in government. But at the same time her department is blocking their investigations by denying access to agency records.

A new poll shows Donald Trump trailing Ben Carson by 28-20 percent in Iowa, site of a caucus that serves as a key barometer in the race for president. Women, including those he calls "fat pigs" and "bimbos", made the difference.

"I have a lot of Republican friends. I actually like Dick Cheney." Who said that? Certainly not Hillary Clinton, who ranks "Iranians and Republicans" among her worst enemies. Those quotes are from Vice President Joe Biden, who disappointed his many followers by deciding not to run for president again.


Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said he is willing to serve as House Speaker if he can be assured of support from rival factions and the Republican majority can become unified. If he can accomplish that, he'll also acquire another title: Miracle Worker.

"Some of you might be on your way to Mars." - President Obama, to a group of students. Was that a warning of what might happen if they didn't do their homework?

"Shut up talking about things you don't know anything about." - Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, advising his Republican colleagues and friends on the eve of Hillary Clinton's appearance before the committee.Donald Trump should take that advice.


If Bernie Sanders needs a stand-in for his busy schedule as a Democratic candidate for president he can just call on Larry David. The star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" did a terrific impression of the combustible Socialist on "Saturday Night Live."

The private sector has been very good to big government champions Bill and Hillary Clinton. Forbes magazine reports they are now worth an estimated $230 million. An analyst assessed the couple's sources of income and said the former president brought in 80 percent of it as a public speaker, author and consultant.

Hillary Clinton has been caught lying again.  In the Democratic debate she said she flip-flopped on the Obama administration's Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal after reviewing it. An official White House statement said the final text of the deal has not been released.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is taking a page out of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's campaign playbook. Gingrich said he favored colonizing the moon and was ridiculed. Campaoigning in New Hampshire Bush said, "I think it's pretty cool."

Federal taxes set a record in FY 2015: $3,248,723,000,000. That's $21,833 per worker. The federal government still runs a $438.9 billion deficit. The federal debt has more than doubled under President Obama.

The Obama administration has ordered pork removed from federal prison menus. A federal Bureau of Prisons official said, "Why keep pushing food that people don't want to eat?" Works for Michelle Obama and her school lunch mandate.

Forget about policy positions and campaign promises. The moment news media wants us to remember is Sen. Bernie Sanders saying disgustedly to rival candidate Hillary Clinton, "The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails."

Only in Washington
Bradley Podiska, the fired staffer who accused the Benghazi select committee of conducting an anti-Hillary Clinton witch-hunt, moonlights as a professional storyteller in the Washington, D. C. area.

Bill Clinton's bimbos are back. Hillary Clinton's run for president has led several women from her husband's past to  resurface in the news. Lucianne Goldberg, a pivotal figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal that erupted in Clinton's second term, is enjoying it. Referring to "these now middle-age bimbos", she said, "This is fun ... everything old is new again."


President Obama had a busy schedule on a four-day West Coast trip in which he did four fundraisers and a shameful politically motivated meeting with families of the Roseburg shooter's victims. But he managed to work in some time for golf in La Jolla.



Celebrity politician Donald Trump shoots off his mouth a lot and now it's revealed that he could go farther. In a CBS interview Trump admitted he's had a concealed weapons permit for years and he "sometimes" carries. "I'm a big second amendment guy," he said.

The surprise decision by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to withdraw as a candidate for retiring Speaker John Boehner's job left members stunned and confused. Has the majority party hit rock bottom? The Washington Examiner's Byron York writes, "Things could get worse." That's right. Because of GOP squabbling, Democrats could take back the House in the next election.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in suing the maker of an exercise resistance band, alleges the band broke or slipped out of his hand and caused "severe pain ... loss of vision in his right eye, a concussion, broken orbital bones, severe disfigurement and bruising to his face, hand injuries, facial lacerations, scarring and broken ribs." Next time Reid, a onetime boxer, will know not to take on an elastic band bigger than he is.

Throughout his presidency Barack Obama has made stump speeches about giving a better life to the middle class. All he has to do is give them government jobs. A new study by the Cato Institute shows that federal employees make 78 percent more than workers in the private sector, who earned an average of $52,688 less than those in the public sector. The trouble with offering this solution is that Obama just might do it.

After forcefully declaring that he was politicizing the latest mass shooting President Obama laid on a trip to, of all places, Rosedale, OR, scene of the murders. The local newspaper editor and several others in the rural community made it clear publicly that Obama was not welcome.

"Walking is good for our minds. Just a few minutes of physical activities each day not only makes your heart stronger, it can also make you even smarter." - Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on "Walk to School Day.

"It's time the Republican leadership of the House stops eating its young." - Pundit Dick Morris.

"I would rather jump off the Brooklyn Bridge than be in Congress." - Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., Republican candidate for president.

The way things are going after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's gaffe about the Benghazi investigation, there may be as many candidates for House Speaker John Boehner's job as there are Republicans running for president. Latest to jump into the race is Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.

Campaign contributors normally don't dictate how their money is spent but some of Hillary Clinton's donors might be raising their eyebrows at her paying $9,000 for music consultants -- supposedly to help her identify with young voters.

Before knowing anything about the Oregon junior college killer or how he got his weapons, President Obama delivered a rambling demand for more gun controls. At least he was honest enough to say he was politicizing a tragic incident.

Many politicians say something needs to be done about Medicare and other entitlement programs. Gene Dodaro, head of the Government Accountability Office, drove home the point. He told Congress "improper" entitlement disbursements made up 75 percent of all erroneous federal payments in fiscal year 2014. They cost taxpayers $124.7 billion last year.

In President Obama's last campaign he ridiculed his Republican opponent Mitt Romney for saying Russia was the most dangerous threat to the U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin's ordering of air strikes in Syria caught Obama by surprise, leading Romney to say, "Russia has out-gamed us once again."