A few weeks ago, I predicted that Penny Priztker would fail to be confirmed by the Senate. After all, she was such a weak candidate in 2009 that she withdrew her first nomination as Secretary of Commerce. But with Sen.
The Senate will finally confront one of the architects of the subprime mortgage crisis today, hauling a tax-dodging, union-busting, bank-breaking, billionaire member of the “one percent” before the Senate Commerce Committee… to consider her confirmation as Secretary of Commerce in
The Israeli Government has released a comprehensive report into the infamous Al-Dura incident of Sep. 30, 2000, declaring that the 12-year-old Palestinian boy was not killed by Israeli soldiers and that journalists had perpetrated a “misleading and mendacious” hoax that
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) honed in on evasive answers by former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing into the IRS scandal Wednesday. Shulman refused to answer “yes” or “no” when Gowdy asked him
Rep. John Mica (R-FL) literally waved the Constitution at former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman at a House Oversight Committee hearing on the IRS scandal Wednesday, arguing that the IRS had suppressed the freedom of speech of Americans. “You closed them
Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Elijah Cummings used carefully-chosen questions to former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman in an attempt to debunk the idea that the IRS had been used by the Obama administration to target its political
The Los Angeles teachers’ union, United Teachers Los Angeles, defeated a combined effort by several other labor unions, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and other public sector unions, in the city’s mayoral election Tuesday. The final tally of
The most offensive part of Anthony Weiner’s campaign for mayor isn’t the fact that he’s running. It’s the conceit that New York should become the “middle-class capital of the world”–that the melting pot should be divided into Marxist categories, that the Big
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post compared Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to Jim Crow-era segregationist (Democrat) Alabama governor George Wallace: “Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff
The media and the public are aghast at the way the Obama administration has treated Fox News reporter James Rosen like a criminal, merely for reporting on North Korea using State Department sources. The press gave White House spokesperson Jay
The Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart took some time out from defending the indefensible IRS today to accuse Matt Drudge and Breitbart News’ Matt Boyle of racism for their entirely non-racial reaction to President Barack Obama’s commencement address at the all-black, all-male
The White House press corps posed several angry questions to Obama administration spokesperson Jay Carney about the James Rosen case in his daily briefing Monday. The Washington Post revealed Sunday that Rosen, who works for the Fox News Channel, had been
Peter Beinart of the Daily Beast often takes positions that are merely liberal, but his stance on the IRS scandal is laughable. Sticking to the government’s debunked narrative that a lowly, understaffed Cincinnati office was to blame, Beinart argues that
In a commencement address in Atlanta on Sunday to graduating seniors at Morehouse College, President Barack Obama told graduates to fulfill the “special obligation I felt, as a black man like you.” The all-male, historically black liberal arts college was
In a crowded field, Chicago billionaire, bundler, sub-prime banker and union buster Penny Pritzker is clearly the worst nominee that President Barack Obama has chosen for his second term cabinet. Though the position for which she has been nominated, Secretary
John Kass of the Chicago Tribune has long explained that if you want to understand Obama’s confrontational style, you have to understand the lessons he learned in his adopted hometown of Chicago. Today he illustrates the point with a personal
White House aide Dan Pfeiffer may have pulled off the “full Ginsburg” on the Sunday shows, but his performance was more like the “full Monty”–Monty Python, that is. “Irrelevant” was Pfeiffer’s refrain: “The law is irrelevant” on the IRS scandal,
Nate Silver, the New York Times‘ political number-cruncher, has earned his bragging rights after schooling conservative pollsters in the 2012 presidential election. However, his attempted “debunking” of one aspect of the IRS scandal is nothing of the sort. There are two claims
Senior White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer is set to perform the ‘full Ginsburg’ on Sunday, appearing on all five major Sunday morning news shows in the latest sign that the Obama administration is determined to fight for control of the
North Korea fired three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan on Sunday that fell into the ocean east of the Korean Peninsula, news agencies and the Wall Street Journal report. South Korean defense experts cited by the Journal indicated the missiles
Today’s lead editorial in the New York Times, “The Republicans’ Scandal Machine,” attempts to dismiss two out of the three major scandals that have hit the Obama administration over the past week. Never has the so-called “paper of record” even been
