On his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel joked about President Barack Obama’s wide-ranging interview with the New Yorker, which included the president’s thoughts on professional football and marijuana use.
After he and his wife were indicted on fourteen felony counts Tuesday, former Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell said that he was being charged based on a “misguided legal theory” that would implicate President Barack Obama and nearly every other
On Monday’s “Crossfire” on CNN, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, along with Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen and “Crossfire” hosts S.E. Cupp and Van Jones debated the political strength of embattled Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ). Partial transcript as follows: JONES: He’s
She’s not Whitney Houston. But she’s not chopped liver, either. The NFL and Fox announced the “Star-Spangled Banner” performer for Super Bowl 48 today. She is world-renowned opera singer Renee Fleming. Actress Amber Zion, and thankfully not that expressive man
The sorry state of our media can be measured and NewsBustsers has done just that with a study that shows the networks spent twice as much time gushing over the First Lady’s 50th birthday than they did a devastating bipartisan
As the media pours all of its resources into paving a path for Hillary Clinton’s White House ascension through a group-tackle political assassination of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, there are four major political stories damaging to Democrats that the
The Obama administration is expected to insist that the United Nations rescind its invitation to Iran to join talks over Syria’s future, the Wall Street Journal reports. Washington wants Iran to accept that dictator Bashar al-Assad will be replaced by a transitional
Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday party took place at the White House Saturday night and, as usual, was a star-studded affair. Beyoncé performed for her, and Jennifer Hudson was also scheduled to perform. But the party was quite a secret; as reported, “The
In what President Obama referred to as a “year of action,” he promises to make 2014 a time to rally the nation around his economic agenda. Lately, the White House has been emphasizing that Obama will combine executive action and
Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal that the disease endemic to Washington ravaging the country is selfishness. With slightly hyperbolic rhetorical flair, she calls politicians “the locus of selfishness in the modern world.” Noonan states succinctly, “Chris Christie’s
The White House condemned the Jan. 17 Taliban attack on a restaurant in Kabul that killed 21 people, including two American college workers. CNN reported earlier Saturday that two American University of Afghanistan workers were among the 13 foreigners killed in
On his way up to New Hampshire to speak next month, Congressman Darrell Issa should stop in Trenton, New Jersey, to witness what aggressive legislative branch oversight looks like. Now that I think about it, Speaker John Boehner should definitely
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), in an apparent effort to defuse revelations made by a Mexican newspaper’s investigation into the agency’s secret meetings with the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, announced that it is still going after the leadership of
On Jan. 17, President Barack Obama called for reforms in the ability of the federal government to gather information to protect national security. He gave neither side what they wanted and refused to reach final conclusions or order definitive actions.
Earlier this week Reuters claimed the big enrollment surge in December was continuing into 2014, much to the delight and relief of the White House. I looked at the numbers and, while it’s too soon to say for certain how
(AP) AP Source: NSA phone data control to come to endBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama on Friday will call for ending the government’s control of phone data from millions of Americans, a senior administration official said. The
This story begins with the first bailout the Tea Party ever stopped. In May 2010, I helped the Illinois Tea Party organize a demonstration on LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago outside the offices of Shorebank, which was about to be
President Barack Obama announced Friday that John Podesta, his new “counselor” and the political operative responsible for creating the institutional left in Washington, will be the appointed “to lead a comprehensive review of big data and privacy” in the aftermath
The Obama gang controlling the executive branch, back on its heels over President Obama’s lies about Obamacare, has doubled down on deception. As the destructive effects of Obamacare impact Americans of all political stripes, this Leftist command and control effort
(AP) Happy birthday for Michelle Obama, who turns 50By DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated PressWASHINGTONMichelle Obama is celebrating her 50th birthday Friday. The first lady is spending the day out of sight, with no public appearances after back-to-back White House events this week.
I’m not one to pick on the First Lady and the President on little things, but the event planner in me couldn’t be silenced. From The Washington Post: Guests attending Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday party at the White House later this
On her Thursday show “The Kelly File,” Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly reported on the White House’s “grossly misleading” numbers for ObamaCare-Medicaid signups…
Is Obamacare enrollment still surging or slowing down? The data available suggests the latter but Reuters says the former. Reuters reported yesterday that the December surge in Obamacare enrollment had continued into 2014, at least in “some states.”Author Sharon Begley
The CEOs of hotel chain Marriott International and telecom giant AT&T are calling on Congress to grant them immigration reform so they can hire more cheap labor from outside the United States – at a time when an unprecedentedly high number of
New polling data from Gallup shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans do not think handling immigration reform is even close to a top priority for 2014. Immigration places well behind other issues like healthcare, jobs, the economy, dissatisfaction with
