WASHINGTON (AP) — The 19th-century orator and writer Frederick Douglass will once again stand tall in the U.S. Capitol. A 7-foot bronze likeness of Douglass is being unveiled Wednesday in a ceremony led by House Speaker John Boehner. The statue joins sculpted tributes to fellow black Americans Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Sojourner […]
This is Chris Paul from the TJMS running through the top stories in roughly sixty seconds with The Morning Minute. President Obama fired the acting commissioner of the IRS yesterday in the midst of a scandal that saw the IRS targeting conservative groups. And Republicans like John Boehner are barking loud and talking like they […]
While the ever-disagreeable House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is best-known for almost single-handedly forcing America over the infamous fiscal cliff, the Republican politician is about to be known for something else: his weed-toting son-in-law Dominic Lakhan (pictured), who has a colorful rap sheet to take with him to the altar, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. Boehner’s 35-year-old daughter, Lindsay Marie (pictured […]
Word on the Hill is those ‘Fiscal Cliff’ negotiations got real! Speaker of the House, John Boehner, (R-Ohio), and Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, (D-Nevada),…
We’ve seen this all before. And it’s hard to believe that, more than 50 years later, we’re seeing it again. We saw it in Virginia in 1958 when segregationist lawmakers opted to shut down the entire public school system of Prince Edward County, Va., rather than allow black students to attend school with white students. […]
House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that President Barack Obama “checked out” last Labor Day and has been running for reelection, rather than governing, ever since. “He’s spent the last six months campaigning from one end of the country to the other, instead of working with members of both political parties here in Washington to […]
