Newsmax RSS FeedSat, 18 May 2013 23:55:54 EDTSen. Rand Paul said on Saturday that “it’s so tragic that it’s almost humorous” that the former head of the Internal Revenue Service department involved in the targeting of conservative groups is now running the agency’s unit charged with implementing Obamacare.Sat, 18 May 2013 22:37:10 EDTColumnist and actor Ben Stein, who worked for the Nixon administration during the Watergate scandal on Saturday said that President Obama’s administration is guilty of more than incompetence. Sat, 18 May 2013 20:15:52 EDTThe Pentagon spends more than $150 million a year running the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba — and the military could spend as much as $170 million more upgrading it.Sat, 18 May 2013 19:37:27 EDTNorth Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, reports The New York Times and Newsmax wire services.Sat, 18 May 2013 18:14:15 EDTMitt Romney told Jay Leno that the Obama administration’s controversial talking points on the attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi last Sept. 11 did not cost him the White House.Sat, 18 May 2013 13:06:41 EDTIRS officials who tagged conservative political organizations should be sent to prison, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says.Sat, 18 May 2013 12:18:02 EDTHigher-than-expected premiums and the scandal-ridden IRS are casting a shadow over Obamacare, with House Republicans vowing to keep up the fight against President Barack Obama's key agenda item.Sat, 18 May 2013 10:14:56 EDTSenior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general.Sat, 18 May 2013 10:05:52 EDTThe fallout from the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal is going to be felt in many other federal agencies and programs, including Obamacare and immigration reform, Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker says.Sat, 18 May 2013 09:51:57 EDTMore than a year before the recent revelation by the Internal Revenue Service that it had targeted conservative and Tea Party organizations, a group of Democratic senators headed up by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer asked the agency to do that very thing.Fri, 17 May 2013 22:16:08 EDTPresident Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that country.Fri, 17 May 2013 21:59:03 EDTThe Republican chairman of a congressional oversight committee on Friday ordered the leader of the investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks to sit for a private interview next week.Fri, 17 May 2013 21:22:38 EDTSheriffs of 54 Colorado counties sued Governor John Hickenlooper, challenging recently enacted state laws that ban ammunition magazines holding more than 15 rounds and require background checks for gun sales and loans.Fri, 17 May 2013 20:56:12 EDTRep. Mike Kelly said that Friday s questioning of the ousted head of the IRS on the targeting of conservative groups left him "even more concerned because things are coming to light."Fri, 17 May 2013 18:32:57 EDTThe former head of the San Antonio Tea Party in Texas says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of his organization terrified so many members that nearly 50 percent quit the group.Fri, 17 May 2013 17:35:39 EDTSen. Bob Corker says he is awaiting an explanation from the White House over reports that the United States has made millions of dollars in secret cash payments to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.Fri, 17 May 2013 14:32:31 EDTRep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tells Newsmax she is very worried about President Barack Obama's plan to drastically reduce the size of America's nuclear arsenal.