By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s plan to shield millions of immigrants from deportation received another setback Tuesday after a judge refused to lift a temporary hold on the executive action. The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville declined the administration’s request to lift the preliminary injunction issued on Feb….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service had a recent mishap behind the wheel at the White House, but that hasn’t stopped the agency from teaching President Obama’s oldest daughter how to drive, The New York Daily News reports. “The Secret Service (taught her) actually, because they wouldn’t let me in the car with her,”…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Senate Republicans want to know whether Border Patrol agents or Homeland Security officials were disciplined for refusing to follow President Obama’s immigration policies. Fox News reports that Republicans are investigating claims that federal managers are retaliating against employees who don’t follow the president’s order. “We are aware of multiple allegations of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s crime statistics on mass shootings are “politically biased” to make the incidents appear more common and deadly than they actually are, according to a criminologist. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News that the information is misleading and not substantiated by facts. “The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Justice Department attorneys are under scrutiny after a federal judge said they may have misled him about when President Obama’s immigration plans were implemented. The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who has blocked President Obama‘s immigration executive action, hinted that sanctions could be forthcoming if he was…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama and the first family were just about to leave for Selma, Alabama, this weekend when a fire broke out outside the White House, prompting a lock-down by Secret Service agents, WHAS 11 ABC reports. The fire was at a vendor cart east of the North Lawn, causing no injuries….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The long standoff between Republicans and President Obama ended with a fully funded Homeland Security bill that prevents a partial shutdown. The USA Today reports that the president signed the Homeland Security funding bill Wednesday after Republicans couldn’t come up with the votes to pass an alternative measure. Republicans had hoped…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Secret Service agent and sheriff’s deputy were allegedly assaulted while investigating threatening tweets against President Obama. WHIO.com reports that a 19-year-old Clark County, Ohio, man was arrested at his home after being alerted to online threats against Obama, police and other politicians. When the deputy and agent approached Ronald E….
