afternoon drive home

Harry Reid blames military deaths on sequester. Dad gets in "trouble" over picture of his son with a gun. Jay Leno calls NBC execs "snakes." Pope Francis officially installed. Thieves steal copper roof...from a church. Feds want to decrease human-elephant conflict...

After sequester, there are still White House staffers making six figure salaries. Five Guys Burgers and Fries, another business touched by Obamacare. Only 3 in 10 actually trust the government. Is North Korea spoiling for a fight? The soda ban in New York is "arbitrary and capricious" according to a judge...

The church that looks like a chicken...really. White House admits that sequester was really their idea after all. There is no set price to see the President, according to Jay Carney. Top 20 percent will pay 72 percent of taxes to the federal government in 2013...

Joe Biden strikes again with this gem.  Suddenly, you begin to wonder why you are worried. Fiscal cliff fatigue for President Obama? Media types are even feeling Obama fatigue. Jindal wants to delay Obamacare. Employer finds loyal employee while helping them get to a job interview...

Why have gas prices risen so much? Reader's Digest having some tough times. John Williams and the new Star Wars movies.  Will he do the score for them? Washington's stern warnings for America. Is Obama manipulating the media? Also, he seems to be loosening up in his second term...

Did you know that Louisiana is the Nation's fourth most religious state? But, Louisiana also has some of the highest sales taxes in the nation. Fact-checking the State of the Union. Republicans filibuster Hagel nomination. Democrat in Congress tweets then deletes messages to college coed...

You thought parking was bad here, just look what happened to this woman in Israel. Marco Rubio will deliver this year's Republican response to the State of the Union.  Also, Time Magazine is labeling him as the savior of the GOP. Congress is now planning on a look at relief for Hurricane Isaac...

A Sandy Hook Victim's Father says, "The problem is not gun laws." Boys at this high school have to sign out toilet paper when they go to the bathroom. Cat ownership in Louisiana is down...way down. This columnist has a problem with Bobby Jindal's ideas...

Harry Reid, the small, the large and the downright embarrassing. Obama appears to be helping Biden build a case for 2016...for right now anyway. Obama Phone Lady is back and gives an interesting interview. Jerry Lewis is set to star in a movie again...

Obama tells Boehner, "We don't have a spending problem." Social Security is worse than anyone realizes. Senator Lindsey Graham says that Congress should all be fired if they can't solve the deficit problem. Democrats could be looking for $1 Trillion in new taxes...

John Boehner wins over New York Representative with an obscene reference and a smile. Speaker of the House will continue to be John Boehner, but the vote was very close. Chris Christie was not a happy person after Congress put off the vote on Sandy relief...

Who is responsible for creating mass shooters?  Roger Ebert says it is the media. It is possible that we have not seen the last of former Democratic Candidate for President, Michael Dukakis. Pelosi says Hillary in 2016. Time's Person of the Year could have ended up being "Undocumented Americans...

Choose Life plates in North Carolina banned by a judge. Fiscal cliff forces lottery winner to take money early. Bed, Bath & Beyond employee decides on unique way to quit. RFK, Jr. says that media is controlled by the GOP. According to GE's CEO, Communism works. ...

Men Working sign at Ohio college was offensive to some women. Gas prices could show us something rather troubling. Fiscal conservatives are leaving leadership roles in the house. You can't even eat behind the wheel in this town. GOP losing blame game on the fiscal cliff...

Lots to cover and a lot we couldn't.  Check out the things Jeremy ran out of time to tell you about. You could call it the Granny Shed. Jeb Bush calls a meeting with his former aides in a venue close to the White House.  He refused to say if he had any Presidential aspirations...

It was a short week, but it was not short of the news that we couldn't get to on the show.  Check out what Jeremy just ran out of time to cover. Marco Rubio positions himself for 2016. Joe Biden is your homeboy? Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says that there shouldn't be a debt ceiling...

As always, the news is out there, but our time is limited.  Based on that, check out what we wanted to get to this week, but couldn't on your Afternoon Drive Home. Al Gore wants to use the Firenado in his next climate change project, but the guy that took the video is skeptical...

There was a lot to cover, particularly with the election on Tuesday, so we only got so far.  But, we'd love to share with you the things that we missed this week on your Afternoon Drive Home. Fox Business reports on workers turned away from helping Sandy victims because the workers were not union employees...

It was a rare honor to have in our studio 4 members of Congress to talk about the way forward from the 2012 election.  Joining us on the Afternoon Drive Home were Jim Jordan of Ohio, Tom Graves of Georgia, and Mick Mulvaney and Jeff Duncan, both of South Carolina...

There was a lot to cover, from the Congressional Debate to other items coming out of New York and New Jersey.  There was no way to get to it all, so read on and enjoy the material that we just couldn't get to. More coming out about Libya here, and here...