By Kathleen Kingsbury Boston Globe Last Friday, a man with a knife was able to jump the White House fence on Pennsylvania Avenue and make his way into the president’s residence. The intruder allegedly had more than 800 rounds of ammunition in his car, a federal prosecutor said on Monday. In response, the Secret Service…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A senior Justice Department lawyer who has been a key proponent of President Obama’s initiatives has been named to the department’s No. 3 post, becoming the highest-ranking openly gay official to ever serve the department, the New York Times reports. Stuart F. Delery is replacing Tony West, who announced his departure…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nearly a year before a flood of unaccompanied children from Central America created a crisis along the border, the Obama administration was warned that the U.S. was not adequately prepared for such a situation, the Washington Post reports. A team of Border Patrol agents was assigned to the Fort Brown patrol station…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gov. Rick Perry urged President Obama to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to southern Texas in a show of force designed to dissuade more Central Americans from crossing the Mexican border the American-Statesman reports. Perry said the solution should not be spending an additional $3.7 billion in taxes to address the crisis….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s unscheduled forays from the White House are causing some stress among the Secret Service, the Hill reports. Obama has been slipping from the safety of his office and taking impromptu walks. “I don’t get a chance to take walks very often,” he told a crowd in New York earlier this…
By Jackie Gingrich Cushman Townhall.com Based on this fiscal year’s eight-and-a-half months of activity so far, the number of unaccompanied alien children from Honduras apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol will increase 22 times from what it was in 2009. That’s a jump from fewer than 1,000 children five years ago to more than 21,000…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Michigan congresswoman is urging President Obama to dispatch the National Guard to address a growing humanitarian crisis involving tens of thousands of children illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Fox News reports. U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, a Republican, urged the president in a letter to address the overcrowding along the border. “I…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What seemed like a leisurely stroll outside of the secured confines of the White House for President Obama was anything but leisurely for the Secret Service who is responsible for protecting the president. The Washington Post reports that Obama surprised many by leaving his usual bubble to greet people on the streets…
