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President Barack Obama has hired senior Democratic strategist John Podesta to try to get his troubled second term back on course, The Washington Post reported. Podesta, 64, served as chief of staff to Bill Clinton when he was president and

On Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” Monday, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer unleashed a scathing critique of the Obama administration as more and more of the flaws of ObamaCare are brought to the forefront. Krauthammer explained that as we learn

Kevin Kolbye, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Dallas, served as the on-scene commander for the Benghazi investigation but has not yet testified before Congress about what he knows. Republican Congressman Frank Wolf wants

In the days leading up to the controversial deal between the Obama administration and Iran, The Washington Post found that 64% supported the deal and only 30% opposed. Immediately after the deal was made, Reuters found that Americans backed the

On Sunday, a media reporter for the Washington Post said he believed that MSNBC had fired host Martin Bashir because conservatives were relentless and did not quit in hammering Bashir and MSNBC for Bashir’s suggestion that someone should urinate and

Though the bulk of criticism about the content of the Common Core academic standards has come from parents, many teachers are growing increasingly vocal about how the new standards are affecting their daily jobs in the classroom. These teachers complain

On Thursday, the Huffington Post reported that consumers who signed up for insurance on Healthcare.gov may in fact not be registered after all. The article, titled, “Nasty Surprise May Await People Who Thought They Enrolled in Obamacare,” strikes a much

The Internal Revenue Service quietly proposed new regulations aimed at 501(c)(4) organizations during the Thanksgiving recess that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, called “a crass political effort by the Administration to get what political advantage

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) —The likelihood of life on other planets is “very high,” a planetary scientist told a House committee in a hearing some Democrats chided as evading U.S. issues. Seager was one of three Ph.D.-credentialed witnesses prominent in

Late last month Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple pretty much caught Politico reporter Mike Allen in what is known as “payola” or “pay-for-play” or, if you want to be generous, “native advertising.” Either way, Wemple made a very convincing

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (UPI) —Newsweek magazine, which went digital-only a year ago, will revive its U.S. print edition as a subscription-dependent weekly, the magazine’s editor said. The magazine, started in February 1933 by a former Time magazine editor, expects

(AP) Guardian: We have published 1 pct of Snowden leakBy JILL LAWLESSAssociated PressLONDONThe editor of the Guardian said Tuesday that his newspaper has published just 1 percent of the material it received from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden,

The tiny U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is at least $70 billion in debt and has another $37 billion in unfunded pension obligations. Puerto Rico’s population, now down to just 3.7 million residents, also confronts a 15% jobless rate–a calamitous

The tech millionaire who represents the “new guard” in the “Boomtown” that is Washington, D.C. and is symbolically remodeling the famed Hickory Hill home of the Kennedy family that he bought, demonstrates the interconnected nature of the high-tech economy and

Max Fisher of the Washington Post has now taken on the elephant in the room with regard to Middle Eastern instability: why does Israel have nuclear weapons? While the rest of the world worries over an Islamist state with a

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank commenting on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir vile statements he apologized for about Sarah Palin. having her mouth defecated in because she compared debt to slavery Milbank: And another thing, which is really quite different. He was

Far-left Democrats who think President Barack Obama–and his Obamacare law–have not been liberal enough may push Democrats running for president in 2016 so far to the left that their chances in a general election may be hurt.  The Washington Post

Recently, a perfect example came to light of the propensity of the Common Core curriculum to teach to a test instead of teaching to comprehend.  It was revealed that a teaching unit on Lincoln’s famed Gettysburg Address instructs that students

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) —With his job approval rating hovering around 40 percent, U.S. President Barak Obama told Barbara Walters he’s confident of a comeback. An ABC-Washington Post poll released last week found the president’s approval rating at an all-time

The Washington Post reports that the White House will announce Sunday that it has met its self-imposed deadline to fix the federal ObamaCare exchange known as HealthCare.gov. The Post also reports that, like everything else surrounding ObamaCare, this announcement is

It only took five years for the American media to get tired of President Obama’s spoon-fed propaganda — well, at least one aspect of it. Earlier this month, 38 news organizations, including the Associated Press, ABC News, The Washington Post,

The Obama administration has been forced to admit that the nuclear deal to which Iran agreed last weekend in Geneva, Switzlerland has not actually been finalized. In the interim, Iran is continuing its enrichment of uranium, as well as continuing

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) —President Obama’s 41 percent approval rating is worse than former Presidents Clinton and Reagan at the same time during their terms, CNN said. In a CNN Poll of Polls — in which five non-partisan, live operator

When Crystal Mangum falsely accused several Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, there were 160 television news stories in the first five days after the players were arrested, but in 2013, when Mangum was convicted of murder and sentenced

When Anita Ingrao and I started to create Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, it was to be produced for local television and not a feature-length film. We never intended to take on the history of the 2nd Amendment and the debate on guns

Before the Washington Redskins played the San Francisco 49ers on Monday in Maryland, African American, Latino and Native American leaders reportedly “stood with their backs to the stadium” and protested the team’s name, with one radio host comparing Redskins fans to

The Dallas FBI’s Assistant Special Agent in Charge Kevin, F. Kolbye, served as the On-Scene Commander for the investigation into the deaths of the four Americans killed on September 11, 2012, following the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate and

A few days after Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he said ObamaCare was “working” in his state, he has sharply distanced himself from the White House, rebuked the Obama administration for

Although conspiracy theories abound as to who orchestrated President John F. Kennedy’s murder 50 years ago, there is little doubt regarding who actually pulled the trigger and shot the 35th president: left-wing radical Lee Harvey Oswald. This fact escapes most of

Hugo Chavez’s successor has essentially abolished his nation’s legislative process.  Nicolás Maduro, a former bus driver turned senior official appointed to succeed the late Chavez, has called for expansive governing powers to combat the countries impending economic breakdown, finally collecting enough

Politico and one of its star reporters, Mike Allen, now find themselves at the wrong end of a thorough evisceration courtesy of Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple. Allen and Politico appear to have been caught red-handed in what might

Newly available numbers from Kentucky show the majority of people who have enrolled on the state exchange are older than anticipated by the Obama administration. This could spell problems down the road for the Affordable Care Act if the ratios

The state Insurance Commissioner of Connecticut said on Monday that 27,000 health insurance policies have been cancelled in the state and that most of these will not be saved by President Obama’s sudden announcement last week that insurance companies would

A new ad produced by the left’s favorite bogeyman, Americans for Prosperity, which is heavily funded by the Koch brothers, will target Democrats in battleground states over their support for Obamacare. The group will spend $3.5 million dropping ads on