Dan Calabrese

Obama hosts illegal aliens in Oval Office

Theoretically, they could have been detained on the spot and held for deportation. There were surely lots of federal agents around. But that's not how the Obama Administration does things, CNS News reports:

Apple: Latest target of Carl Levin’s outrageously outraged outrage

Editor's note: This column also appears in today's Detroit News.) If I wasn’t a nice guy, I might think it would be fun to have Senator Carl Levin’s job.

Obama team not exactly going all out to capture Benghazi attackers

Far from their insistence that they are pulling out all the stops to capture the Benghazi attackers, Fox News sources say they're actually dragging their feet because they are determined to try the attackers in civilian courts, and they don't have enough evidence as of now to get a conviction.

Don’t be fooled: So-called shrinking deficit means nothing

The Washington political class is mired in a troika of scandals, but they are pretty excited at the moment about one thing. The federal budget deficit, which has exceeded $1 trillion every year of Barack Obama's presidency, is now said to be "rapidly declining" and is projected by the none-too-prescient Congressional Budget Office to end up this year at "only" $675 billion.

Left trying pretty hard to pretend Benghazi isn’t a scandal

Left-wing supporters of the Obama Administration have been trying for months now - but especially hard for the past several weeks - to insist that there is nothing scandalous about Benghazi. Their basic premise is that no one can prove there was political interference directly from the White House in trying to change talking points so as to hide the truth about the Benghazi attack.

Media to Obama: Do whatever you want to the rest of the country, but leave us alone!

This is pretty sickening. The New York Times is outraged. The Washington Post is incensed. USA Today is scandalized. The Detroit Free Press is fit to be tied.

IRS got marching orders from at least two Democrat senators

If you think back, some of you might even remember this. Far from the claim that this was merely two rogue employees in the Cincinnati office gone off the rails, top Democrats on Capitol Hill made it very clear when the Tea Party was on the rise that they wanted the IRS to dog the conservative groups on the premise that they might be "abusing" the system.

Let Jay Carney make one thing perfectly clear: Obama is no Nixon

When you get to the point where you even have to deal with this question, you're in big trouble:

Obama vs. America

The multiple burgeoning scandals now emerging from the Obama Administration help to reveal an ugly reality about the president and the people who surround him.

Hey, schools: Rent a church building for your graduation, get hauled into court

First, let's review the text of the first section of the First Amendment, the one pertaining to religion: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

IRS: OK, we gave, er, special scrutiny to conservative groups

If you applied for tax-exempt status from the IRS, and your name included words or phrases like "tea party" or "patriot," the IRS now admits that it's been giving groups like yours a little, shall we say, extra special attention.

VIDEO: Democrats calling media looking for help undermining Gregory Hicks

The fact that Lisa Myers goes on Morning Joe and actually tells us about it, rather than just taking the marching orders, might be an indication that the media fears for its own credibility if it keeps whitewashing this thing.

Another Obama-subsidized company bites the dust

You never like to see a company close its doors – and you certainly don’t want to see 100 people lose their jobs – as happened with the demise of Vehicle Production Group. But can anyone have failed to see this coming? It’s the latest example of what happens when government, in all its business wisdom, decides to anoint a certain kind of industry as destined for success.

AP taunts GOP: You can’t make us turn on Hillary, suckers

I know how it seems. You watch these hearings - especially the devastating testimony of Gregory Hicks - and you think, "There's no way Hillary escapes this unscathed."

Gosh, wonder why the public doesn’t know gun violence is way down

You know, of course. Everyone knows except the people so deeply invested in the gun control narrative that they probably can't even admit it to themselves.

ObamaCare apologists to young, healthy Americans: Do your duty and buy health insurance

Remember when the Democrats had to pass ObamaCare because, they assured us, everyone was demanding access to health insurance?

Someone call John Hughes: AP blames ‘teen angst’ for Boston bombings

Your angst-ridden teen cuts, or dresses in black, or plays weird video games. The Tsarnaev brothers? Boom.

Eric Holder suddenly concerned about Constitution

I have to be honest and tell you I'm not as sold as some of you on the notion that states can simply nullify federal law by deciding that's what they want to do.

Why yes, California, they are coming to take your guns away

One of the biggest problems with gun control is that there are hundreds of millions of guns already out there, and even if the government somehow managed to ban the manufacture and sale of new ones, it's not like they could go out and confiscate the ones currently in circulation.

House Dems’ resolution: Global warming will push women into ‘transactional sex’

Here I am digging the fact that our 793-month winter seems to finally be coming to an end, and I was able to bike to work today and now I'm sitting outside perfectly comfortable in shorts and a t-shirt. When lo and behold, I discover that this very same warmth is going to turn your daughter into a ho!