The federal government is bigger than ever, and also the most secretive in recent memory. President Obama famously promised his would be the most transparent administration in history, but federal agencies under his leadership are often black holes in terms of disclosure. I’ll be testifying to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee today, chaired by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), on the Obama transparency crisis.
President Obama asserted that no matter how long ago many of these wars were, it was more important than ever to recognize the heroic contributions of the soldiers who fought in them.
Barry Navidi—who produced the Al Pacino vehicles, “The Merchant of Venice,” “Salome,” and “Wild Salome,” and is touring with Pacino’s current one-man show—spoke with Variety in Tehran during the International Urban Cities Film Festival. He asserted his excitement about the rapprochement between the Obama administration and Iran because it will encourage fimmaking in Iran.
Every year since the passage of Obamacare, insurance premiums have risen, sometimes nearly 50 percent, quite despite that Obama claimed at least 19 times that he’d save every American $2,500 a year on their insurance.
Jenner did more than debut as a woman on Monday; she also broke President Obama’s Twitter record.
Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” host Jake Tapper asked former top Obama advisor and new CNN contributor Dan Pfeiffer if Americans don’t trust government because President Barack Obama didn’t hold the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper responsible for “lying”
“One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I’m trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion,” President Obama says. “That’s a core principle, that’s not something I would violate.”
“Maybe this will be the end of all selfies,” White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer warned on CBS’s Face the Nation after the event. “Someone who uses the President’s likeness to promote a product … that’s a problem with the White House.”
President Obama praised his foreign policy accomplishments, calling them an “important legacy” item and claiming that when he took office the United States ranked below China and barely above Russia. Under his administration, he boasted, the United States was again the “most respected country on Earth.”
Monday while President Barack Obama was answering questions at a town hall with YSEALI Fellows, an exchange program for community leaders from ASEAN, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, he said his administration has restored the Untied States as the
White House Senior advisor Valerie Jarrett is praising the man once known as Bruce Jenner for announcing via Vanity Fair that would now be known as Caitlyn Jenner.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest admitted that it was unlikely that Kerry would be traveling to Europe in the near future to meet with Iranian officials, but declined to name another representative from the Obama administration.
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Media Buzz,” retiring host of CBS’s “Face the Nation” Bob Schieffer said “maybe” the mainstream media was “not skeptical enough” about then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) when he ran for president in 2008. When host Howard
“On a matter as critical as our national security, individual Senators must put aside their partisan motivations and act swiftly,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement last night. “The American people deserve nothing less.”
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, former U.S. Navy SEAL Commander Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) confirmed that he was against TPA—and questions, given Obama’s controversial Iranian and Cuban negotiations, why any Republican who believes in a strong national defense would allow him more authority to negotiate with foreign leaders.
US News & World Report Chairman Mort Zuckerman argued President Obama’s “attempt to develop a relationship with Iran,” “has destroyed our entire relationship with all of our friends in that region” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Asked about President Obama’s legacy,
George Carlin’s classic critique of football and baseball strikes today as slightly yesterday. But his premise easily extrapolates to compare and contrast the good ol’ US of A and all our funny-sounding international neighbors, who seem to adore a kicky-kick sport (what we call “soccer”) managed by the honorable men of FIFA.
Friday from the White House, President Barack Obama made an announcement about the need for the Senate to pass the Patriot Act reform bill The Freedom Act, before the Sunday deadline comes. In an awkward moment after the announcement, the
The White House is signaling that President Obama wants to travel to Cuba during his presidency.
President Obama is not spending much of his time on Twitter, the White House assures reporters.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd argued that the president’s policy on ISIS “doesn’t match the rhetoric” on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Todd said, “The problem with the president’s policy is, the rhetoric — the policy doesn’t
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Friday formally removed Cuba from a U.S. terrorism blacklist as part of the process of normalizing relations between the Cold War foes.
“[T]he administration’s enforcement priorities, including our focus on deporting felons and not families, and many other executive actions on immigration continue to move forward,” a White House spokesman says.
In a move that ties into China’s ambition to rebuild the “Silk Road” trade route and assert maritime dominance, the Communist Party’s Global Times newspaper mused that war with the United States over disputed South China Sea islands was “inevitable” unless the U.S. backed down.
The artist—who, with his “Hope” posters, made himself famous and, at the same time, helped push Barack Obama over the finish line—has soured on the president and now says that Obama has failed to live up to the hype.
