Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is set to meet U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House today, amidst low expectations for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process that has stalled despite strenuous U.S. efforts. Abbas arrives having rejected major American proposals, including
In what appears to be a distraction strategy by Nebraska Senate candidate Shane Osborn, his campaign or someone close to it is recycling a tenuous story about his opponent Ben Sasse, a former Health and Human Services official in the
The Associated Press and the National Journal have corrected erroneous stories they ran about Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), misquoting a remark that he made at an anti-abortion rally. On Wednesday at the Susan B. Anthony List “Campaign for Life Gala
The U.S. government is going to surrender its oversight role over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sometime in late 2015, according to an announcement on Friday evening. ICANN is the organization that sets up Web addresses,
Bill Gates, whose private foundation has spent upward of $170 million for the development and implementation of the Common Core State Standards, is asking teachers to help parents understand the standards, hoping this effort will defeat critics of the centralized
In an appearance on the syndicated radio program, “On Air with Ryan Seacrest” Friday morning, the president defended himself against the ridicule and barbs he’s received for years for wearing what some have called, “mom jeans.” Obama protested that he’s
A state legislator in Hawaii has filed an ethics complaint with the State Department of Education alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center is bribing elementary teachers to take an SPLC course called Teaching Tolerance. State Representative Bob McDermott also
At a news conference on Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron Machen presented compelling evidence against a “senior advisor” to a 2008 presidential campaign as the originator of a $600,000 scheme of illegal campaign donations in which two
In a wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine, Five-Thirty-Eight’s Nate Silver mocked New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as a “hedgehog” who “only knows one thing.” When asked to describe what a hedgehog is, Silver pointed to Friedman specifically and
Eleanor Clift, the former Newsweek reporter whose bias was once made legendary by the Media Research Center when it invented the Eleanor Clift Award “for Clinton Worshipping,” has taken to the Daily Beast to fiercely defend her idol, Hillary Clinton, as ethical
Dan Calabrese at the Detroit News lays into the media organs that helped Democrats paint cancer patient Julie Boonstra as a liar for complaining about ObamaCare, recalling an earlier age when the media afflicted the powerful with tough questions, rather
On Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnists Charles Krauthammer and George Will and Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers reacted to a report that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had worked in a loophole
On the Wednesday broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to remarks President Barack Obama had made in town hall for Spanish-language media in which he had suggested a better use of money would be
TEXAS–Despite large-scale efforts by leftist groups such as Enroll America to push Obamacare in the Lone Star State, new statistics confirm that uninsured Texans are not accepting health care mandates. According to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of
The Chinese Foreign Ministry is not happy with the work Malaysian authorities have done in locating missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Spokesman Qin Gang has had his hands full answering the media’s questions, calling working with Malaysian authorities “pretty chaotic”
Relatives of the missing passengers of the Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared over the ocean last week are becoming angry over the failure of the Chinese government to give them any answers about what happened to their loved ones. And
On “The O’Reilly Factor” on Tuesday night, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama for his foreign policy but downplayed the effects of Obama’s interview with Zach Galifianakis in a Funny or Die video on Russian President Vladimir
On Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s address to SXSW. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor
Only a few months ago, Matt Yglesias slammed General Electric as “evil.” Now, three months later as he prepares to launch a new website with former Washington Post writer Ezra Klein, he is thrilled to announce that GE is funding
At CPAC on Saturday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah warned the GOP establishment that amnesty is a losing issue for the party along with increased taxes and more debt. Palin said that the “Democrats agenda is a lost cause” and President
A new poll suggests Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will have problems with Republican primary voters should he choose to run for president in 2016, while Jeb Bush will face steep barriers in a potential general election. A Washington
TEXAS–National unemployment numbers took yet another jump in data released today by the federal government. While adding 175,000 jobs, the unemployment rate moved upwards to 6.7 percent. Not so in Texas, where unemployment dropped to well below the six percent
A new national poll has found that a plurality of registered voters would be less likely to vote for a candidate for U.S. Congress who supports amnesty. The poll found that 27% of registered voters were more likely to vote
Nearly 10,000 Las Vegas casino workers say they are considering going on strike over what the unpopular Obamacare program has done to their health care insurance. If contract negotiations to keep their existing benefits go unsettled by March 20, Nevada’s
Contrary to what many in the mainstream media have claimed, the conservative Christian group that backed and drafted Arizona’s Religious Freedom Law has not been pouting since Gov. Jan Brewer (R) vetoed the measure. In fact, the organization is actually
