Newsmax: Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Tuesday fired back at President Barack Obama's aggressive push for extended unemployment benefits, saying that like "most liberals," he makes "big-hearted, small-brained policy statements." "They can make all these emotional arguments, but their policies haven't worked and unemployment is still a horrific p

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: That last statement was made about a meeting that occurred on the 3rd of March, 2010. That's three months after Obama announced the surge in Afghanistan, so think about this. You're the Secretary of Defense. Here's a president, he's sending 30,000 more troops into battle, and three months later, the Secretary of Defense realize

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now, two weeks ago Congress went home for the holidays and let this lifeline expire for 1.3 million Americans. If this doesn't get fixed, it will hurt about 14 million Americans over the course of this year -- 5 million workers along with 9 million of their family members, their spouses, their kids. Now, I've heard the argument

SEN. RAND PAUL: I rise today in opposition to secrecy, in opposition to the veil of secrecy that cloaks the money changing that takes place in the temple of the Federal Reserve. While the money changes hands, the moneyed class gets richer and the middle class gets shortchanged. It is more than time to put the curtain -- to part the curtain that hid

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: A few weeks ago I said that 2014 could be a breakthrough year for America. Think about it. Five years ago this month, our economy was shedding 800,000 jobs, just in one month. But as Americans buckled down and worked hard and sacrificed, we began to come back. And our businesses have created more than 8 million new jobs sinc

BRIT HUME: The administration's appeal for a further extension of unemployment benefits may succeed in putting Congressional Republicans in a tight spot, if they resist. In that sense, it may be a shrewd political move, yet embedded in it is an extraordinary acknowledgment of failure by the president and his party. We're now four-and-a-half years i

A Chicago judge rules that the city's gun sales ban is unconstitutional. RCP executive editor and co-founder Tom Bevan explains the details.

NEIL CAVUTO: You ever ask yourself, who punishes the punisher? Who punishes the government? The same government that's very good at pointing fingers but amazingly, never fingers itself? The same government that just now added two billion bucks in penalties for JPMorgan Chase over how it ignored Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. But never sa

HUGH HEWITT: I want to get, you’re always show prep for me, Jake. You’re on in the background here, and so you had A.B. Stoddard, Van Jones, and Kevin Madden on today. And you were talking about Hillary. And I think that whenever Hillary comes up, and a partisan like Van, and I’m a partisan for the Republicans, so it’s okay to be a partisan

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the administration’s need to focus on meaningful job creation: “Over the past several days we’ve seen a number of stories about how Democrats plan to spend the year gearing up for the November elections by making an issue out

The Colbert Report: As Colorado embraces recreational marijuana, columnists David Brooks and Ruth Marcus take a confusing stand against it.

Bret Baier hosts Steve Hayes, Mara Liasson, and Charles Krauthammer in a discussion about income inequality and the extension of long-term unemployment benefits.

Congressman Peter King goes after Senator Rand Paul over NSA revelations and a truly substantive debate emerges.

Bill O'Reilly suggests that marijuana legalization and the "epidemic" of texting will lead to national decline by corrupting the hardworking spirit of young Americans.

Greta van Susteren points out that it would be inappropriate for the first family not to reimburse the taxpayers for the cost of Michelle Obama's extended holiday vacation in Hawaii.