A true maverick for Colorado: Who's afraid of Tom Tancredo? by Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2014 Panicked liberals and crony Republican elitists agree: Tom Tancredo would be bad for their Big Government and Big Business rackets. That's exactly why I support him in Colorado's June 24 GOP primary election for governor. A fear-mongering ad campaign by the left-wing group “ProgressNow,” which is funded by billionaire George Soros, hyperventilated last week that “Tancredo believes Obam...

**Written by Doug Powers Joe Biden in 2010: Fast forward to today: Twitchy has the flashback video of Joe-stradams making his Iraq prediction here.**Written by Doug PowersTwitter @ThePowersThatBe     

**Written by Doug Powers In the GOP primary race for Virginia's 7th district, Dave Brat pledged to fight for term limits, and he's already delivered on that promise. Rep. Eric Cantor will be out after six terms, which caused “chaos in the marble halls” as the entrenched incumbency realizes that the “auto-renew” button for another term doesn't always work. Check out this comparison of campaign expenditures: One measure of the extraordinary defeat could be seen in the candidate's finances. Since t...

Military bases: Obama's new illegal alien dumping grounds by Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2014 A source tipped me off last week to a curious occurrence: It seems that two planeloads of illegal aliens were recently shipped to Massachusetts. The first reportedly landed at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford. According to my tipster, approximately 160 illegal immigrants arrived on that flight and stayed nearly a week before being transferred to a Department of Homeland Security site an...

**Written by Doug Powers Hey look at this — Team Obama is selflessly sharing credit for yet another popular decision. The humility of this White House never ceases to amaze. From ABC News: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel – not President Obama – executed the administration's final call to proceed with the prisoner exchange of five ranking Taliban detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, administration officials told Congress today in a classified briefing today. “They indicated [it was] Secretary Hagel...

**Written by Doug Powers Setting the stage for the “we know what it's like to be you” portion of a possible Hillary campaign launch next year is under way: “We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt,” Clinton said in an interview airing tonight on ABC. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea's education. You know, it was not easy.” “Bill has worked really hard — and it's been amaz...

**Written by Doug Powers “Did somebody say baloney?” The claim that U.S. troops could be at increased risk in Afghanistan because of Obama's “five Taliban leaders for Bergdahl” swap is “baloney” according to John Kerry, who then immediately confirmed that it might be true. This is an insta-flip-flop: Secretary of State John Kerry says it's “baloney” to argue that U.S. troops will be more at risk in Afghanistan after the prisoner swap of five Taliban commanders for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. “Our c...

**Written by Doug Powers Be a nice, polite select Benghazi committee with no interest in flipping over any more rocks that could makes waves for “Hillary 2016″ and maybe she'll comply with a subpoena to testify. Maybe: In the interview, Sawyer also asked about the new congressional committee that will examine the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. Clinton did not say definitively whether or not she will testify before the new committee if called to do so. “...

**Written by Doug Powers On Friday, President Obama put enemies of the United States on notice when he essentially told them, “If you dare take any of our people hostage, we will find you, and we will return some of your cohorts if that's what you want.” Intimidating rhetoric from POTUS: On criticism of the deal, the president pointed out that the war in Afghanistan is ending, and that, by definition, “you don't do prisoner exchanges with your friends, you do 'em with your enemies.” “It's also i...

**Written by Doug Powers Seventy years ago today, General Eisenhower spelled out what was at stake in advance of the largest amphibious assault in history: SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave ...

What happened to Marine deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun? by Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2014 Ten years ago this month, U.S. Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun disappeared from Camp Fallujah in Iraq. After a five-month military investigation, he was charged with desertion and theft, brought back to Virginia's Quantico Marine base and then transferred to North Carolina's Camp Lejeune for trial. Yet, a full decade later, Hassoun is as free as a bird. The accused deserter's whereabouts are unknow...

**Written by Doug Powers I think I've finally figured out how the Obama administration operates. They wait to see what Susan Rice says on Sunday shows, and then try to fashion reality around her claims. This past Sunday Rice said that Bowe Bergdahl served “with honor and distinction.” Former Veterans Affairs official Brandon Friedman, now with HUD's public affairs office — make it so: Here's the thing about Bergdahl and the Jump-to-Conclusions mats: What if his platoon was long on psychopaths an...

**Written by Doug Powers Chuck Schumer is joining Harry Reid in a desperate attempt to stop the formation of “Koch-topia” by re-defining the First Amendment. Schumer was helpful enough to prove his point by providing an example of how existing free speech rights can be used to push incorrect information (video from WFB): Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, stumbled Tuesday over basic American history, crediting Thomas Jefferson for authorship of the Bill of Rights during a debate over th...

**Written by Doug Powers Congressional Democrats such as Dianne Feinstein have expressed a measure of surprise because the Obama administration illegally failed to inform them before releasing five dangerous Taliban leaders from Gitmo. Obviously Dems decided not to be concerned about this administration's signature traits until they threatened to harm them politically: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein took at shot at the Obama administration on Tuesday for failing to giv...

Exclusive: The story you haven't yet heard about Bowe Bergdahl's desertion by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2014Five years ago, I publicly raised questions about Bowe Bergdahl's desertion from Blackfoot Company, 1-501 Infantry (Airborne), 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division. A few weeks after his so-called “capture” in late June 2009, three conflicting accounts had surfaced: U.S. officials told the Associated Press Bergdahl had “walked off” the base with th...

**Written by Doug Powers Yesterday, President Obama instructed the EPA to make energy prices necessarily skyrocket in order to save the planet from the ravages of global warming climate change global climate disruption climate challenges. Obama's move is supported by many Dems in Washington and elsewhere. Democrat Alison Grimes, who is running against incumbent Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, says that the environmental policies pushed by Democrats in Washington are bad for the state, so voter...

**Written by Doug Powers President Obama has said that the U.S. “leaves no man behind” to justify swapping five Taliban commanders for the return of Bowe Bergdahl, but apparently Bergdahl had no problem leaving his fellow soldiers behind: Sometime after midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life. He slipped off the remote mili...

**Written by Doug Powers The issue of the Benghazi attack was given a punk-ish dismissal Thursday by the Obama administration's former National Security Council spokesman, Tommy Vietor. On Fox News with Bret Baier (just call him “dude” from now on), Vietor acted like a campus senior being questioned by the Dean about a hazing incident that occurred his sophomore year: Baier pressed Vietor on his role in changing the talking points by adding a line about the administration warning the day before ...

**Written by Doug Powers Recently, an email Judicial Watch obtained an email showing that three days after the Benghazi attack, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes outlined a recommendation that the administration “underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.” The next day, then U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice was on the Sunday shows blaming the Benghazi attack on “the video.” Yesterday, Jay Carney tried to claim that the ema...

**Written by Doug Powers This struck me as funny… From January of 2012: Elizabeth Warren took home more than $700,000 in compensation from teaching and consulting fees from 2010 to 2011 http://t.co/zApEbJf4 — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) January 15, 2012 And this from just a few days ago: $2 trillion in student loan debt? That is obscene. http://t.co/DkqHJLjEws — Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) April 25, 2014 “Obscene”? Where did she think her big ol' Harvard salary came from? Warren doesn...