Pelosi: Spending problem false argument

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.

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Fired TPD officer says officers broke laws, lied

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.

Miller said she has audio recordings of FBI agents and SID officers breaking the law and/or telling her to break the law.  She claims termination proceedings against her were the result of her refusal to comply and because she can prove that officers were acting outside the law.

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Sen. Coates asks Governor for audit of Insurance Commission

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.

“I think the Insurance Commission’s recent questionable expenditures should be of interest to taxpayers and those paying insurance premiums.  This is their money and they need to know that it is being spent ethically and legally,” said Coates.

Coates said he was disappointed in his Republican colleagues’ lack of interest in the questionable spending of the Insurance Commission in the last couple of years.

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Sen. Inhofe statement at Benghazi Hearing

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:

“Thank you Mr. Chairman.  I join you in welcoming our witnesses.  Secretary Panetta, this may be one of your final times testifying before this committee—a joyous occasion, I’m sure.  You and I served in the House together and have been friends for many years now.  Thank you for your long and distinguished career of dedicated and effective service to our country.

“It is long overdue that this committee is holding a hearing to examine the facts surrounding the terrorist attacks in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 that left four Americans dead—Ambassador  Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty.  Deaths that I believe could have been prevented.

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Sullivan leaving The Daily Beast for ad-free, reader-supported blog

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.”

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