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President Obama will stump for Terry McAuliffe, Democrat candidate for Virginia Governor, on Sunday, at a get-out-the-vote rally in Northern Virginia. It is Obama’s first campaign appearance for McAuliffe, who has held a slim, but steady, lead in all recent

On Friday, a top political adviser to left-wing billionaire George Soros met with leftist organizations to form a new group called the Latino Victory Project, the Washington Post’s Matea Gold reports. The group is connected to Hollywood actress Eva Longoria, a

The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward on CBS’s “Face The Nation.”

A new ad released October 24 by Fight For Tomorrow claims “Terry McAuliffe will say anything to get elected,” and highlights the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate’s tendency toward hypocrisy. Among McAuliffe’s claims featured in the ad are: He would provide

(AP) AP sources: foreign help to US could be exposedBy KIMBERLY DOZIERAP Intelligence WriterWASHINGTONTwo Western diplomats say U.S. officials have briefed them on documents obtained by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that might expose the intelligence operations of

Intrepid Washington Post health reporter Sarah Kliff noticed it when the Health & Human Services Deptartment [HHS] in charge of implementing the Affordable Care Act put out a new graphic today:  With the Web site still experiencing problems, the White

One of billionaire investor Warren Buffet’s conglomerates, Berkshure Hathaway, Inc., what the largest shareholder of the Washington Post Co. before it was sold to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Buffet said he thought about buying the beleaguered Washington Post but decided against

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein now admits that weeks before the disastrous ObamaCare launch, he heard “some very ugly things about how the system was performing[.]” We also now know that a few hundred people were involved in a test

Washington Post and MSNBC pundit Ezra Klein is stinging from fellow liberal Joan Walsh’s criticism of his harsh analysis of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rollout.  As John Nolte pointed out yesterday, Walsh did the White House’s heavy lifting and

Joan Walsh, of the extreme left-wing site Salon, lashed out at two fellow leftists for daring to tell the truth about the disastrous launch of ObamaCare. The obviously frustrated Walsh singled out the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza and The Washington

Because the media are as desperate as Obama to see ObamaCare succeed, the faulty federal website is getting all kinds of attention. One thing that isn’t, though, is that millions among the  working and middle class are losing insurance they

On Sunday, The New York Times ran a lengthy ode to the journalistic investments of technological entrepreneurs, who have been pumping cash into both established and start-up journalism enterprises. As the Times pointed out, Pierre M. Omidyar, founder of eBay,

On October 12, the editorial board of the Washington Post endorsed Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe for governor of Virginia. Calling the endorsement a clear choice between “pragmatic and moderate or polarizing and provocative,” the editorial board acknowledged that “many Virginia voters

In an apparent display of sudden objectivity, leftist media ranging from the Huffington Post to Ezra Klein of the Washington Post to the New York Times have been castigating the Obama administration’s rollout of the Healthcare.gov website. But is it

On Friday, in the aftermath of the government shutdown, the Washington Post ran a sob story about one furloughed federal employee, Sophia Casey, dealing with her backlog of emails. After over 200 stories lamenting the fate of victims of the

The bottom line with ObamaCare has nothing to do with its launch problems or even the problems the GOP are having in uniting around a tactic to kill it. The bottom line is enrollees. If enough people sign up for

Washington Redskins running back Alfred Morris earns $2.2 million a year, but he will not part with the 1991 Mazda 626 he bought for $2. He calls her the Bentley. ‘I didn’t grow up with a lot. This helps me

The mainstream media deserves credit for its coverage of the ObamaCare launch debacle. Even throughout the 16-day government shutdown, media coverage of the faulty ObamaCare website was brutally accurate. An area of media coverage, though, that has been as awful

A coalition group of parents and concerned citizens has called on New York State Education Commissioner John King to resign his position after he cancelled four upcoming forums on the state’s new Common Core standards.  King cancelled the Parent/Teacher forums

In a blog post titled “Obamacare Success,” progressive New York Times columnist Paul Krugman took a victory lap of sorts after finding and speaking to one person who signed up for Obamacare, now over two weeks into its unveiling.  “This

In a photograph, the girl looks back with casual curiosity, her face scrubbed, her hair pulled a bit untidily behind her ears, her collar crisp, her tie askew, a charming and timeless portrait of the young Catholic schoolgirl in her

TruthRevolt.org reports today that the media’s coverage of government shutdown victims was overwhelming during the October 1 through October 16 period, while the media’s coverage of victims of Obamacare was miniscule. “Since October 1, when the government shutdown began, the

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is supposedly one of President Barack Obama’s best foreign friends. He epitomizes Obama’s ideal of an Islamist leader who adapts his politics to the needs of the global economy and the modern state–a model

On Wednesday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) ripped into the GOP establishment for cutting a deal on the government shutdown and debt ceiling, stating, “The Washington establishment has cut a deal.” He added, “The focus is and should be on the

CGI Federal is the Canadian IT contractor responsible for creating most of the ObamaCare website. Tuesday, after describing the site as a “complete train wreck,” the Washington Post took an in-depth look at the company — its origins, track record,

Likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is currently racking up money and awards on a speaking tour that is so secretive, it has the media grousing. Not only have the media been barred from the speeches, but “Convention officials banned

ObamaCare’s number-one media cheerleader, the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, admitted yesterday that, weeks before the disastrous launch of the ObamaCare website, he was hearing “some very ugly things about how the system was performing[.]” Klein says he didn’t do any

In basic negotiation, there is an idea called a ZOPA–a Zone of Possible Agreement, describing the range of deals that might be acceptable to all sides. If there is no ZOPA, negotiation might be a waste of time.  Greg Sargent,

A New York Times investigative article based on two dozen interviews with industry insiders and confidential Obama Administration documents reveals that the catastrophic $500 million Obamacare rollout “has deeply embarrassed the White House” and has the technology companies involved “publicly

With the government shutdown now entering into its third week, the frustration and rage among the media elite is manifesting itself in ways above and beyond the usual-usual hostile coverage. Just two years after launching the New Tone-era, media elites

On the pages of The Washington Post, columnist Kathleen Parker (who poses as a Republican) compared the Republican Party to a fictional mafia crime family and refers to Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz as “Ted bin Laden,” an obvious reference