The city of Stockton, California, America’s 65th largest city, has filed for bankruptcy. While the media presents Stockton as a sad case of a city economy damaged by the real estate market and frivolous spending on various public works projects,
Another day, another desperate Obama campaign e-mail. Today’s missive of panic, following directly on the heels of news that the Democratic National Convention is downscaling due to fundraising concerns, comes directly from the President of the United States. Obama informed
In the ongoing merger between the Obama campaign and the Obama administration, the White House just sent out an e-mail to its supporters championing a new website that will tell you if you qualify for refinancing under President Obama’s new
While my colleague Joel Pollak suggests this morning that the Supreme Court “struck down the form – but not the substance” of Arizona’s immigration law, the truth seems to be the opposite: the Supreme Court defanged the Arizona law to
If, as widely forecast, the Supreme Court votes down Obamacare on Thursday with Anthony Kennedy as the deciding vote, President Obama will likely shift his campaign strategy directly against the Supreme Court – and Kennedy in particular. So far, President
The key vote in today’s Arizona immigration bill decision belonged not to Justice Anthony Kennedy – who, when it doubt, votes for what he perceives to be “personal freedom” considerations – but Chief Justice John Roberts, whom conservatives were told
According to USA Today, prices at the pump could soon drop dramatically – gas could average $3 or less per gallon by the fall. As of this weekend, regular gas was clocking in at $3.47 per gallon, which was already
Peter Orszag, former head of the Obama Office of Management and Budget, is desperate. With even Roll Call recognizing that President Obama is fighting an uphill battle for re-election, Orszag is floating a trial balloon: mandatory voting. His call for
With control of the US Senate up in the air, Democrats are targeting Maine as a possible firewall to preventing Republicans from seizing control. The Daily Beast is already asking whether “independent” Senate candidate and former Maine Governor Angus King
This week, Breitbart News reported that Obama-allied groups were paying protesters to stand outside Mitt Romney rallies and heckle. This sort of thing has a long history in the Democratic Party; Occupy, of course, was largely bankrolled by the unions.
President Obama’s improper exercise of executive privilege today to protect Attorney General Eric Holder on Fast and Furious is the latest frightening entry in a week-long pattern of presidential centralization of power. Remember when the left labeled George W. Bush
The Barack Obama re-election campaign is once again targeting conservative donors – and this time, they’re calling for restrictions on the First Amendment to do it. In an email titled, “Hell no,” Jim Messina wrote: Something big happened in Richmond
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Today, the Republican gay group GOProud endorsed Mitt Romney for the presidency, explaining that Romney was “light years better” than Obama, particularly on the economy. “Most gay Americans – like their straight counterparts – are not better off than they
HBO’s supposed faux pas in placing a model of George W. Bush’s head atop a spike in its hit series Game of Thrones may in fact have run afoul of the law. Back in 2006, ABC News reported on a faux documentary made about
A Los Angeles City Councilman is pushing for a motion that would ban sale of soda from city park and library vending machines. The Councilman, Mitchell Englander, said that he decided that the ban was a fantastic idea after his
President Obama’s latest job-creation gimmick is a self-serving one: Obama allies are reportedly paying protesters to stake out Mitt Romney’s rallies. Two Michigan protesters said that they were getting paid to do that arduous work. They’re clearly not unionized –
Today, the Obama administration leaker, who has been distributing information about American and Israeli security for weeks, struck again. This time, the leaker went to the Washington Post, prompting the Post to run a piece crediting Israel and the United
Rep. Ben Quayle (R-AZ) has introduced a bill in the House that would stop President Obama’s unilateral decision to prevent deportation of certain illegal immigrants. The “Prohibiting Back-door Amnesty Act of 2012” would stop the “outrageous edict” that Obama announced,
Today, Bloomberg released a poll showing that two-thirds of Americans believe in President Obama’s new immigration policy, in which he simply stops enforcing immigration law against certain illegal immigrants. According to the poll, a full 64% of likely voters said
Even as Chicago sent 100+ police officers to guard the wedding of Valerie Jarrett’s daughter, the city underwent a dramatic crime wave. According to local media, at least seven people were killed and 35 were injured over the weekend. One
Attorney General Eric Holder, who has come under heavy scrutiny for his involvement in matters ranging from Fast and Furious to the New Black Panther voter intimidation scandal, has not been getting proper defense from the White House, according to
Yesterday, Rodney King was found dead at the bottom of his pool at the age of 47. King’s fiancée reported that he had been drinking heavily and smoking pot prior to his death; he apparently banged on her window, fully
