Jonathan Strong

Faced with bracing evidence and the testimony of four ATF agents contradicting the Justice Department's initial blanket denials that assault weapons were knowingly allowed to escape into the clutches of Mexican drug cartels, Democrats tried a new approach at a hearing Wednesday. (more)

Top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa released emails at the outset of his hearing on the Justice Department’s “Operation Fast and Furious” showing two high-ranking officials were “briefed weekly” on the apparently reckless investigative strategy. (more)

Four Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents in transcribed interviews with top GOP oversight official Darrell Issa’s office are contradicting the Justice Department’s account of “Operation Fast and Furious,” saying hundreds of weapons -– including assault rifles and military-grade sniper weapons -– were allowed to escape into the clutches of Mexican drug cartels in an apparently reckless investigative strategy. (more)

A scathing new report from conservative group Club for Growth says former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, "flip-flopper," “should admit that Romneycare is a failure, and soon.” (more)

Experts say there are two paths to financial ruin for the U.S.: default on its debt, which could happen if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, or second, and more fundamentally, failure to address staggering deficits that are slated to overwhelm the economy in coming decades. (more)

Is investment giant Morgan Stanley trying to hide just how cozy its analysts were with top Education Department officials over strict new rules concerning for-profit colleges?  (more)

The news media matters so much to David Brock, he hired an army of petulant liberals to analyze every story, blog post and tweet, and every minute of radio and television, for even the slightest whiff of right wing bias. (more)

House conservatives are urging Republican House Speaker John Boehner to include institutional spending reforms, including a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, as part of the GOP’s demand to Democrats for raising the debt ceiling. (more)

Top GAO oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa of California continues to investigate the Government Accountability Office's undercover sting unit, including interviewing the team that produced an error-ridden report on for-profit colleges, staining the agency's normally unimpeachable reputation. (more)

Department of Education Sec. Arne Duncan is finalizing a controversial new regulation on for-profit, or “career,” colleges, issuing final rules Wednesday that condition federal aid to students of the schools to numeric thresholds on how much debt they incur or how quickly they repay the loans after attending. (more)

Elizabeth Warren, a top Obama aide and liberal darling, recently told the Republican chairman of a House subcommittee she needed to leave his hearing for another scheduled meeting. (more)

Senate Republicans on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee say they're boycotting an upcoming hearing announced by Chairman Tom Harkin, citing a growing list of issues with the far left Iowan's crusade against for-profit colleges. (more)

According to a recent Sachs/Mason-Dixon poll obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a large majority of the public backs an amendment to the Constitution requiring a balanced budget, a reform some lawmakers say is on the table in the debt ceiling debate. (more)

“Everybody's perfect!” says the poster for a gay film festival sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria. (more)

House Republicans are awaiting a request from President Obama on how much federal disaster aid will be needed to address the devastation in Joplin, Missouri after the Midwest town was hit huge tornado, leaving 125 dead by current count. (more)

The Congressional Budget Office said in a new report that President Obama's economic stimulus law will raise the federal deficit $830 billion over ten years, $43 billion more than the initially estimated cost of $787 billion. (more)

It started out as a hobby, a way for the Dollarhite family in Nixa, Mo., to teach a teenage son responsibility. Like a lemonade stand. (more)

The Daily Caller received a series of messages from a top aide to former Alaska Gov. and possible presidential aspirant Sarah Palin. (more)

A series of messages forwarded to The Daily Caller show a top aide to former Alaska Gov. and possible presidential candidate Sarah Palin mocking top political figures and even her boss's own daughter, Bristol Palin. (more)

Following the apparent demise of the vaunted “Gang of Six” budget negotiations in the Senate, Democratic Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said Thursday he still won't be proposing a budget for “weeks.” (more)