
Unemployment dropped to 7.8 percent in September and 114,000 jobs were created, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today. Much of the drop in the jobless rate was accounted for by revisions to past job numbers, not by
by Joel B. Pollak5 Oct 2012, 5:30 AM PST0

President Barack Obama’s supporters, incredulous at their candidate’s defeat in last night’s debate, and worried about the September jobs report, are reaching for phony economic arguments across the networks and social media today. Some are familiar arguments from Obama’s own
by Joel B. Pollak4 Oct 2012, 11:25 AM PST0

Gov. Mitt Romney defeated President Barack Obama soundly in the first presidential debate in Denver, and even Obama’s supporters knew it. The media quickly went to work spinning excuses for their candidate, claiming that “the deck was stacked against Obama”
by Joel B. Pollak4 Oct 2012, 4:41 AM PST0

Halfway through, they should have stopped the fight. Gov. Mitt Romney eviscerated a staggering and bewildered President Barack Obama tonight in one of the most lopsided presidential debates in American history. Throughout the debate, which focused on domestic policy, Obama
by Joel B. Pollak3 Oct 2012, 7:30 PM PST0

The Obama campaign and the media have overplayed their hand. By suggesting, for three weeks, that the election is over, they created consternation among Republicans and conservative critics that blunted the effectiveness of Mitt Romney’s message. Yet in so doing,
by Joel B. Pollak3 Oct 2012, 4:58 AM PST0

When you’re a Republican, your biggest debate opponent is not the one next to you on the stage but the one in front of you at the moderator’s table. The moderators help set the outcome for Democrats in three ways:
by Joel B. Pollak2 Oct 2012, 2:56 PM PST0

Mitt Romney’s strategy for Wednesday’s debate is clear: he will hold President Barack Obama accountable for his numerous lies–especially on Libya and the national debt–in a way that the mainstream media has failed to do. Republicans are uniting around their
by Joel B. Pollak30 Sep 2012, 12:15 PM PST0

The Greater St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church of Indianapolis, Indiana is using a stark reminder of the past to motivate congregants to vote, displaying a graphic photo of a lynching on the roadside in front of the church. In the
by Joel B. Pollak30 Sep 2012, 11:24 AM PST0

Mitt Romney is about as close to defeating President Barack Obama as any Republican could have hoped to be. The polls–if you believe them–show him slightly or significantly behind, but within striking distance. The challenge he faces is unique: he
by Joel B. Pollak30 Sep 2012, 6:14 AM PST0

Yesterday, Democrat Tammy Duckworth, who is challenging incumbent Republican Joe Walsh in the redrawn 8th district of Illinois, told a local television crew outside an event for veterans in Santa Monica, CA that she could not speak to them about her campaign
by Joel B. Pollak28 Sep 2012, 2:44 PM PST0

If President Barack Obama wins re-election in November, who will return with him to the White House? Mitt Romney has a transition team already in place, searching inside and outside the Beltway for the best talent a Republican administration can
by Joel B. Pollak28 Sep 2012, 12:31 PM PST0

Once again, the Democrat propaganda network known as MSNBC has been caught editing video to slander Mitt Romney. This morning on Morning Joe, co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough featured a video of a rally with Romney and running mate
by Joel B. Pollak28 Sep 2012, 10:40 AM PST0

The deadline for the $100,000 reward for the “Khalidi tape” is October 23rd, two weeks before Election Day, after which the reward will no longer be available. No one has yet come forward to claim the reward–though the Los Angeles
by Joel B. Pollak28 Sep 2012, 10:13 AM PST0

People died, Obama lied. That’s the best summary of what has happened since Sept. 11, when terrorists (yes, terrorists) attacked the U.S. consulate in Libya, killing four Americans and the U.S. Ambassador, while terrorist sympathizers swarmed the U.S. embassy in
by Joel B. Pollak28 Sep 2012, 9:09 AM PST0

It remains unclear whether President Barack Obama’s lies about attacks on U.S. embassies will cost him re-election. One thing is certain, however: whatever ambitions Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once held to run for president in 2016 have been damaged
by Joel B. Pollak28 Sep 2012, 7:45 AM PST0

Yesterday, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice skipped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly–a snub that underscores the Obama administration’s hostility towards the Israeli government. It was not the first time that Rice, under
by Joel B. Pollak28 Sep 2012, 6:18 AM PST0

On 9/11, as radical Islamic terrorists were attacking the U.S. consulate in Libya and their sympathizers were raising Al Qaeda banners above the U.S. embassy in Cairo–all, we were later told by the Obama administration, due to outrage at a
by Joel B. Pollak28 Sep 2012, 6:07 AM PST0

Tammy Duckworth, Iraq War veteran and Democratic nominee for Congress in the 8th district of Illinois, said today that U.S. Marines should have guarded the consulate in Benghazi, Libya–not private military contractors. Duckworth was asked about the issue while greeting
by Joel B. Pollak27 Sep 2012, 5:12 PM PST0

Members of a local television crew were frustrated when Tammy Duckworth, Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in the 8th district of Illinois, refused to answer their questions about her campaign in Los Angeles today. Duckworth’s finance director, Leah Israel, initially
by Joel B. Pollak27 Sep 2012, 5:01 PM PST0

Jewish education is all about profanity, bestiality, and dishonesty–if George Soros, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sarah Silverman are to be believed. The so-called “Jewish Council for Education and Research,” in reality a super PAC backed by Soros’s son Alexander, has
by Joel B. Pollak27 Sep 2012, 7:21 AM PST0

Former Navy SEALs are speaking out after President Barack Obama referred to recent events in the Middle East, including the deaths of two former Navy SEALs, as “bumps in the road.” Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty were providing
by Joel B. Pollak25 Sep 2012, 4:14 PM PST0

President Barack Obama told the United Nations today that the world should respond to the wave of anti-American attacks and outrage across the Middle East by looking at the “deeper causes,” not security, and fight anti-Islamic rhetoric. It was similar
by Joel B. Pollak25 Sep 2012, 11:05 AM PST0

Passing the buck in dramatic fashion on the world stage, President Barack Obama told the UN General Assembly this morning that the U.S. government was not responsible for the anti-Islam video that he once again blamed for recent attacks on
by Joel B. Pollak25 Sep 2012, 8:06 AM PST0

President Barack Obama promised that Obamacare would cut family health insurance premiums by $2,500 by the end of the first term–but instead they have risen by $3,000, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation study cited by Investor’s Business Daily.
by Joel B. Pollak25 Sep 2012, 5:18 AM PST0

President Barack Obama seems to have a new excuse for all the things that have gone wrong in his administration: they’re all just “bumps in the road.” That’s the phrase he used to describe an outbreak of violence in the
by Joel B. Pollak24 Sep 2012, 1:41 PM PST0