Jason Collins, the former NBA player who came out of the closet last year and became the first openly gay professional athlete in a major American sport to do so and be recognized by the media, will be First Lady
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) —U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Sunday congressional Republicans may demand concessions in return for raising the federal debt ceiling. During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” McConnell said there is nothing wrong or
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing and an openly gay NBA player are among the guests who will sit with first lady Michelle Obama Tuesday when President Barack Obama delivers the annual State of the Union
January 16 was Religious Freedom Day. Despite the fact that religious liberty is the fundamental right that led to the permanent colonizing of America for people looking for a new country to live out their faiths, most Americans did not
The White House conceded that 2013 was a year of defeats that have left President Barack Obama damaged and lessened his credibility with the American public. According to the Washington Post, “an internal White House assessment concludes” that Obama was
ABC News White House correspondent Jonathan Karl questioned White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on President Barack Obama’s low approval and the impact of ObamaCare on the upcoming U.S. Senate elections: KARL: You already lost the House because of ObamaCare,
On Sunday’s CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Candy Crowley grilled White House Adviser Dan Pfeiffer on how President Barack Obama can ]accomplish anything on his agenda with his struggling approval numbers…
Afghan President Hamid Karzai told reporters on Saturday that unless the U.S. restarts peace talks with the Taliban, he will not sign the pending security pact between Kabul and Washington. The pact, known as the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), would
Transcript as follows: Hi, everybody. This week, I called members of my Cabinet to the White House to deal with a challenge that affects so many families and communities – the crime, the outrage, of sexual violence. Sexual assault is
After the 2012 president election, it was clear that the Republican Party needed to take steps to give our presidential nominees a better chance at winning the White House. One of those steps is a shorter primary process. It’s my goal
More immigrants facing deportation in immigration courts across the nation are having their court cases closed because of Obama’s prosecutorial discretion policy, researchers at Syracuse University found. Meanwhile, the number of removal proceedings initiated in immigration courts by the U.S.
With the news that America’s largest liberal fundraising group is to back a Hillary Clinton presidential bid in 2016, a growing sense of inevitability is building around her prospective candidacy. The former secretary of state who once occupied the White
On Friday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Today,” 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney made an appearance to promote the documentary “Mitt” that premiered last week’s Sundance Film Festival and is out on Netflix today. In his discussion
“When America Becomes Number Two.” That was the January 21 headline in The World Post, a new lefty offshoot of The Huffington Post. The author was Kishore Mahbubani, a Singaporean diplomat and academic who has emerged as a prominent intellectual
The second-ranking U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said on January 23 that Afghan forces overmatched the insurgency during the last fighting season, adding that the Taliban is on the “edge of strategic defeat.” However, speaking live from Afghanistan, U.S. Army
Citing an unnamed Obama administration official, Israel Radio reported Thursday that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry blame the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for encouraging American Jews to criticize the White House for its
Contrary to the claims of the White House–which, as the Weekly Standard notes, refuses to release the text of the nuclear deal with Iran–the Iranian regime has not agreed to dismantle any part of its nuclear program, according to Foreign
On Wednesday, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew said that America would once again hit the debt ceiling by late February, despite Congress’ temporary debt limit increase back in October 2013. That agreement suspended the debt ceiling and funded the
U.S. military leaders have submitted a proposal to the Obama White House that would leave behind a 10,000-strong military force in Afghanistan after 2014 when the combat mission ends. The Wall Street Journal first reported the plan, and Fox News confirmed it.
The federal government’s shutdown over an impending storm before snowflakes even speckled the sidewalks of the nation’s capital prompted Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) to tweet, “DC Fed Gov shut down by snow… What a bunch of wimps.” The government’s packing its
In response to Wendy Davis’ Ex Had A Judge Issue a Restraining Order Against Her In 2003: Far be it for me to interrupt Wendy Davis while she’s chowing down on her own pink sneakers, but it’s somewhat interesting that
Former Virginia governor and Republican presidential hopeful Bob McDonnell tried to argue, in response to a fourteen-count federal felony indictment Tuesday, that he had done no worse than President Barack Obama in helping his donors. Yet McDonnell’s real model is
On Tuesday’s “The Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel, host Megyn Kelly interviewed one of her former FNC colleagues, Glenn Beck. Beck talked about his time at the cable news channel and voiced his regrets. Partial transcript as follows:
Isaac Chotiner has penned a worthy deconstruction of David Remnick’s interview of President Barack Obama for the New Yorker. He notes that Obama condescends to Americans, speaking to us like children: “Remnick’s piece, in fact, doesn’t show Obama’s complexity; it
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, now facing 14 felony counts on corruption charges, offered up what may be called the “Obama defense” in his response: “If it were applied as the law of the land, then nearly every elected official,
