Tag: Syrian refugees

I always thought that the Obama campaign and White House stole many of their best riffs from The West Wing television series…but it appears that Dr. Carson’s campaign is stealing their material from the satirical website, The Onion! Dr. Carson: In an interview with Breitbart News Radio, Carson suggested the…

The stand tall GOP members in Congress can be proud of themselves again…instead of taking a real stand on Syrian refugees and debating it and passing a real bill that they know the president will veto…they decide to stuff it in the budget bill. Hoping the president will hold his…

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R – WI) thinks that the Obama administration should get tougher with Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and the Islamic State): WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives challenged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to get tougher with Islamic State…

In an interview with conservative radio talker Hugh Hewitt, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie hunkered down on refusing Syrian refugees. After being asked about orphans under five, here’s what the governor had to say : The fact is that we need appropriate vetting, and I don’t think orphans under 5…

Sometimes it pays to read the documents posted on the Wheeler Report, the long-time reporting service for state politics. That’s where I ran across this gem, a letter from the Assembly Republicans to the head of the Office of Refugee Settlement. In a self-satisfied and self-serving letter they ask that Wisconsin not…