Jake Tapper of ABC News cut a segment today for ABCNews.com in which he discussed Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Little America: The War Within The War In Afghanistan; Chandrasekaran showed up for an interview. Said Chandrasekaran: We squandered the troop surge, as
President Obama and his campaign team are apparently fibbing to donors. Virtually every day, the Obama team sends out desperate emails complaining that they’re running behind Mitt Romney in the money race. But according to OpenSecrets.org, that’s simply not the
This week, the House Ethics Committee is scheduled to decide on whether to proceed with the investigation of Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV), who is also running for Senate against Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV). The case against Berkley is one of
On a day when Americans found out that the economy is completely and utterly stagnant, as Americans worry about their financial futures, the Obama campaign has its head screwed on straight: they’re asking for more cash. Urgently. Here’s the email
In an interview with CBS News, Mitt Romney’s wife Ann said that the campaign had been looking at the possibility of picking a woman as Romney’s running mate. “We’ve been looking at that,” Ann said. “I’d love that option as
Today, Jay Carney fell into the unfortunate trap of attempting to explain President Obama’s view of Obamacare. If it’s a tax, President Obama’s signature plan is legal, but violates Obama’s campaign pledge not to raise taxes on those earning less
President Obama’s new campaign slogan – “Betting on America” – is slightly less atrocious than his prior attempts at bumper sticker politics, “Forward,” “Winning The Future,” “A Fair Shot,” “An America Built To Last,” and “We Can’t Wait.” It’s a
Several cities in California are reportedly seeking to utilize their eminent domain power to renegotiate mortgages. The plan is to seize private homes about to enter foreclosure from banks, pay the banks “just compensation” – which may or may not
Today, Vice President Joe Biden made Americans a generous offer: he’d buy us a cup of coffee. Joe with Joe! What else could a bankrupt American ask for? Here’s the email, titled “I want to buy you a cup of
Even on July 4, President Obama can’t stop campaigning. On the 236th anniversary of America’s declaration of independence from Great Britain, President Obama has decided to celebrate in a rather unusual way: by politicizing immigration. President Obama trotted out his
On July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail. The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding
When you visit Google.com this morning, you’ll be treated to a graphic with the words “This Land Was Made For You And Me” in honor of July 4. The words are clearly a reference to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is
This morning, WHAS 11 in Kentucky reported that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated regarding Obamacare’s repeal, “If you thought it was a good idea for the federal government to go in this direction, I’d say the odds are
For those wondering what came next after Obamacare, the answer is here: a national vacation policy. Yesterday, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic suggested that the United States was the “only advanced country without a national vacation policy”: In Germany, workers
This morning, Mitt Romney surrogate Eric Fehrnstrom announced that the Romney campaign construed Obamacare as an individual mandate rather than a tax: The Governor was clear on many different occasions since the passage of health care reforms in Massachusetts. What
In a conference call on Friday, conducted from Air Force One, a reportedly tired and weary President Obama pled with donors to send cash now. “The majority on this call maxed out to my campaign last time. I really need
The only legal peg on which Chief Justice Roberts was able to hang his hat in ruling Obamacare constitutional was a broad reading of the Taxing Clause. In order to do so, he had to deliberately misread the Obamacare law;
With Chief Justice John Roberts’ unthinkable decision to uphold Obamacare yesterday, all focus now shifts to repeal for conservatives. In order to repeal Obamacare, two things must happen: Republicans must retake the White House, and they must retake the Senate.
Apparently tiring of US soil as a source of campaign dollars, the Obama campaign is headed overseas — with its celebrity friends in tow. The European Obama campaign starts next week in Paris on July 4 with a reception organized
In their latest display of political ineptitude, House Republicans today held the contempt vote for Attorney General Eric Holder over his failure to turn over documents in the Fast and Furious scandal. They could not have picked a worse time
The focus on the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision today seems to center around Chief Justice Roberts’ decision to rewrite Obamacare’s individual mandate as a “tax” rather than a mandate. This, of course, is egregious – the Supreme Court does not
In July 2005, against the objections of many conservatives, I penned a column excoriating President Bush for selecting Judge John Roberts as his candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. “President Bush’s Roberts pick disappoints,” I wrote: On Tuesday
The myth is finished. The Constitutional order was shredded long ago by a Congress that does not care about upholding it; an executive branch interested only in growing federal power; and a Supreme Court that sees itself as a super-Congress,
The desperate Obama campaign e-mails are coming fast and furious these days. Today, Julianna Smoot, the Deputy Campaign Manager, drew the short straw. Mitt Romney, she warned, would win “If we’re drastically outspent”: Benjamin — If we’re drastically outspent in
