Politics

DOJ subpoenas are ‘unconstitutional,’ hurt press, AP president says

Associated Press President Gary Pruitt said Sunday the Justice Department sent a strong – and negative- message to future sources that the government would go after them if they spoke to the press. It’s a move Pruitt called not only unconstitutional, but said it damaged the ideal of a free press in the country. “It will hurt,” he said ...Full Article

President Obama kept in dark on growing scandal?

WASHINGTON – White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told “Fox News Sunday” that President Obama learned about the Internal Revenue Service targeting Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status ...Full Article

Illegal immigrants easily step over a fallen barbed-wire fence between Mexico and the United States near the town of Sasabe, Mexico, in 2004. The number of apprehensions of illegal border-crossers is down while the number of deaths in the desert is high. (Associated Press)

Non-deportation rates for illegal immigrants at 99.2 percent

The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama’s new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to ...Full Article

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., stands with supporters as he waits to do a television interview at an election-night party in Augusta, Ga.

Democrat Senate campaigns struggle to recruit candidates

ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans aren’t the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year’s midterm elections. Two top-tier Democrat prospects recently bypassed running for ...Full Article

House Ways and Means Committee member Mike Kelly, R-Pa., on Friday questions the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller.(Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP)

Planted question gambit at ABA conference backfires on IRS officials

Top tax officials tried an unusual strategy to break the news of their 3-year-old policy of targeting Tea Party groups. WASHINGTON — It was an unusual way to deliver ...Full Article

Rep. Andy Harris questions IRS involvement with ObamaCare

WASHINGTON, May 18 — Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., said given the IRS’ recent scandal, the agency should not be in charge of enforcing ObamaCare regulations. Harris, in the weekly ...Full Article

HHS:’Telework’ Gives Gov’t Employees More Time for ‘Planning and Preparing Healthy Meals’

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it wants as many as 20 percent of its workers to “telework,” use an “alternative work schedule,” or do both, ...Full Article

Sequester cuts by Obama are meant to hurt the economy and country

“The whole design of these arbitrary cuts was to make them so unattractive and unappealing that Democrats and Republicans would actually get together and find a good compromise of ...Full Article

A woman walks out of the Internal Revenue Service building in New York

IRS official who oversaw unit targeting Tea Party now heads ObamaCare office

WASHINGTON – The IRS official who led the tax-exempt organizations unit when Tea Party groups were targeted is now in charge of the IRS office responsible for ObamaCare, two ...Full Article