
“Kids start going to private schools, kids start working out at private clubs instead of the public parks, an anti-government ideology then disinvests from those common goods and those things that draw us together,” President Obama said at Georgetown University. His daughters attend Sidwell Friends, an expensive private school.
by Charlie Spiering12 May 2015, 12:53 PM PST0

“I would urge you to withhold judgement about the president’s persuasion ability, until we’ve had an opportunity to advance this legislation,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said cryptically.
by Charlie Spiering12 May 2015, 11:42 AM PST0

In the latest episode of the American Enterprise Institute’s “Banter” podcast, Fox News regular Kirsten Powers, author of the new book, “The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech,” took aim at the Obama White House for the efforts
by Jeff Poor12 May 2015, 11:30 AM PST0

President Obama argues that churches should spend more time pursuing “powerful” ideas such as helping those in poverty in order to attract more followers.
by Charlie Spiering12 May 2015, 10:37 AM PST0

Congress should impose tough conditions on President Obama’s request for authority to negotiate a free trade agreement with Pacific nations.
by Peter Morici12 May 2015, 10:07 AM PST0

Tuesday at Georgetown University President Barack Obama discussed poverty at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit and argued Fox News intentionally divides the country by highlighting poor people who make even him mad by asking for free “Obamaphones.” Obama argued if we are going to end poverty,
by Pam Key12 May 2015, 9:51 AM PST0

Tuesday at Georgetown University while discussing poverty at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit, President Barack Obama said, “It’s important for us to guard against cynicism and not buy the idea that the poor will always be with us.” “One of the
by Pam Key12 May 2015, 9:47 AM PST0

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell discussed President Barack Obama’s upcoming Camp David summit of Persian Gulf states that the leaders from four of the six invited nations are skipping, including Saudi King
by Pam Key12 May 2015, 7:00 AM PST0

For defenders of President Obama, Seymour Hersh’s report is particularly annoying because it questions the first account of the operation revealed to the world by the commander-in-chief. That forced administration officials to launch a hasty effort to back up the details released by the president.
by Charlie Spiering12 May 2015, 5:07 AM PST0

On Monday’s broadcast of “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, conservative commentator Ann Coulter reacted to first lady Michelle Obama’s remarks at Tuskegee University in Alabama over the weekend, which Obama said as being the first black first lady she
by Jeff Poor11 May 2015, 10:51 PM PST0

The Obama administration has, once again, complained to the United Nations about alleged American human rights violations–and boasted about liberal policies like Obamacare as the solution. The State Department report, released Monday as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council, reads less like an accounting of human rights issues and more like the platform of the Democratic Party–and invites the world to judge America harshly.
by Joel B. Pollak11 May 2015, 10:36 PM PST0

On Monday, President Obama tweeted out a week-old Huffington Post opinion editorial that claimed that NASA budget cuts were made by “climate change deniers.”
by Warner Todd Huston11 May 2015, 6:26 PM PST0

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record With Greta Van Susteren,” senior political columnist and editorial director of National Journal, Ron Fournier said if President Barack Obama is wrong that Iran will live up to its side of any
by Pam Key11 May 2015, 5:44 PM PST0

Traces of sarin and VX nerve agent have been found in Syria, a finding that supports assertions by Western governments that Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad lied about his chemical weapons stockpile, diplomatic sources told Reuters.
by Edwin Mora11 May 2015, 4:28 PM PST0

Monday on Fox New Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Gen. Jack Keane discussed President Barack Obama’s upcoming Camp David summit of Persian Gulf states, which the leaders from four of the six
by Pam Key11 May 2015, 2:28 PM PST0

The leaders from four Persian Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saudi, are expected to skip President Obama’s meetings with Arab rulers from the Gulf Cooperation Council this week.
by Edwin Mora11 May 2015, 1:14 PM PST0

A White House spokesman declined to preview the specifics of John Kerry’s meeting with Vladimir Putin, but suggested that the Secretary of State would “not be shy” about the differences between the two countries — especially on Ukraine.
by Charlie Spiering11 May 2015, 12:40 PM PST0

On Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough warned if President Barack Obama remains steadfast in trying to get a nuclear deal with Iran regardless of the circumstances, his legacy could be tarnished because it led to a nuclear
by Jeff Poor11 May 2015, 6:06 AM PST0

With less than two years left in the White House, Michelle Obama is taking time to respond to her critics, accusing them of treating her differently because she is the first African-American First Lady.
by Charlie Spiering11 May 2015, 5:33 AM PST0

During his commencement address at Liberty University on Saturday, presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush blistered the Obama administration for its “use of coercive federal power” to restrict religious freedom.
by William Bigelow10 May 2015, 5:39 PM PST0

On Tuesday, a bill designed to confer trade promotion authority on President Obama, known as “fast-track,” will come before the Senate. Obama and his administration have been working overtime to convince recalcitrant Democrats loyal to labor unions not to abandon him in the House and Senate and work with the GOP to defeat the bill
by William Bigelow10 May 2015, 2:58 PM PST0

President Obama marked the 70th anniversary of V-E Day in his weekly address released on Friday. Transcript as Follows: “Hello, everybody. Today marks an historic anniversary—70 years since the Allied victory in Europe during World War II. On V-E Day
by Ian Hanchett9 May 2015, 3:07 AM PST0

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson for comments he made about President Obama, who is “a centrist president” on Friday. Maher said, “Ben Carson got in today. Ben Carson has said, today he said Obama ‘reminds
by Ian Hanchett8 May 2015, 10:34 PM PST0

President Obama visited Nike headquarters in Oregon today to promote his Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, in spite of receiving opposition from some of his staunch liberal supporters.
by Charlie Spiering8 May 2015, 11:15 AM PST0

In December, a romantic biopic about the life of President Barack Obama prior to his life in national politics was announced, with a note that a search for a suitable actor to play a young future president was underway. According to Deadline, the search is over.
by Kipp Jones7 May 2015, 11:41 AM PST0