Nancy Pelosi tells Fox News Sunday that the country doesn’t have a spending problem, twice.
With the sequester set to kick in on March 1, President Obama and his Democrat allies are hell-bent on shifting the conversation away from proper government cuts, and toward higher taxes. On Sunday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took to Fox News Sunday to explain that America does not have a spending problem. “It is almost a false argument to say that we have a spending problem. We have a budget deficit problem,” Pelosi insisted twice.
KRMG is reporting on a fired Tulsa police officer, Kendra Miller, says she has proof that FBI agents and members of the TPD Special Investigations Unit told her to lie on the stand and commit other crimes, that the city fired her without cause, and that both federal and local law enforcement have the proof in their hands, but continue to refuse her reinstatement.
On Thursday, Sen. Harry Coates sent a letter to Gov. Mary Fallin requesting a performance audit of the State Insurance Commission. The Republican senator feels that the information is necessary in determining if expenditures being made by the agency conform with state statutes as well as if they are being used for the manner intended by the Legislature and Ethics Commission.
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) made the following statement during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense’s response to the attacks on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya:
Influential political writer Andrew Sullivan is cutting ties with The Daily Beast in favor of asking readers to pay for access to his blog The Dish. In a post on The Daily Beast, Sullivan announced that starting on February 1st, he will no longer partner with larger media sites or host advertisements; instead, he will sell subscriptions to andrewsullivan.com for $19.99 a year and accept larger donations. “If this model works,” he writes, “we’ll have proof of principle that a small group of writers and editors can be paid directly by readers, and that an independent site, if tended to diligently, can grow an audience large enough to sustain it indefinitely.”