If Vice President Biden’s weekend comments are any indication, the White House isn’t taking Iran’s recent claim to be a nuclear state very seriously. In a report by the New York Times, Biden said of Iran, “It is not a nuclear power.” Biden went on to explain that, in his opinion, Ahmadinejad is exaggerating. Biden is correct in a narrow sense: Iran is not yet a nuclear weapons power. But it is well on its way to becoming one. And the Obama Administration must take much stronger action to prevent …
While two brutal snowstorms pounded the Washington, DC, area, the government was busy wasting money to the tune of $100 million a day. Extreme weather conditions forced the government to close for four and a half days straight, costing tax payers $450 million in lost productivity, according to a Fox News report. Wondering how much $100 million really is for the government? Last spring, when President Barack Obama ordered his cabinet secretaries to cut $100 million in spending, Heritage’s Ken McIntyre took a look at what $100 million really means. …
