Egypt’s new prime minister planned further talks Sunday on forming a cabinet, as prosecutors looked at criminal complaints against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and members of his Muslim Brotherhood. Hazem al-Beblawi held talks Saturday with candidates for ministerial posts
The Department of Justice released new guidelines on Friday designed to prevent investigations like the ones into the Associated Press and Fox reporter James Rosen. The six-page document (PDF courtesy of the the New York Times) released late Friday is,
The Obama administration reminded Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the U.S. considers Edward Snowden “an accused criminal, not a whistle-blower.” According to The Hill, a U.S. Embassy staffer called HRW’s Russian program director Tanya Lokshina to say “that Ambassador [Michael]
On Saturday, President Obama used his weekly radio address to tout the economic benefits of passing the Senate immigration reform bill. On Wednesday, the White House issued a report saying the the immigration reform bill would both trim the deficit
(AP) Immigration mired, early Term II wins elude ObamaBy JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONA dramatic tax-raising deal last New Year’s looked like it might be a breakthrough, signaling improved second-term relations between newly re-elected President Barack Obama and a divided Congress. At
President Barack Obama golfed on Saturday with “Pardon the Interruption” hosts Tony Korneisher and Mike Wilbon, who is a Chicago native and sports fan. According to a pool report, Wilbon and Kornheiser joined Obama at Fort Belvoir in Virginia shortly
Until this week, President Obama had largely stayed out of the immigration debate. While the White House was active behind the scenes, Obama himself largely avoided address the issue in public. On Saturday, however, Obama devoted his weekly radio address
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has uncovered evidence that radical Muslim cleric Sheik Abdullah Bin Bayyah, who met with top White House officials last month, personally urged Muslim nations to aid the Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza militarily. “Muslim rulers are required
A rally outside the White House Friday offered a clear example of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Grand Deception” in action in America. To a casual observer, it appeared that a few dozen people came out to support ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Protesters
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responds to a question regarding Obama’s hypocrisy on the so called “nuclear option” of filibuster reform in the Senate…
(AP) Rising again: Bush family returns to public stageBy MICHAEL J. MISHAKAssociated PressMIAMIReturning from the margins of American politics, the Bush family is reasserting itself. This week, former President George W. Bush surfaced from a self-imposed political exile to prod
On Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano shocked Washington with news that she was immediately resigning her cabinet position. Her departure leaves vacant an office at the heart of the current immigration reform debate. If Congress proceeds with immigration reform
House Judiciary Chair Bod Goodlatte and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, both from Virginia, are drafting legislation to enact something similar to the DREAM Act, which would allow illegal immigrants who entered the country as children to become citizens. It is
Former President George W. Bush announced at a naturalization ceremony on Wednesday that he does not plan to get involved in the specifics of the immigration reform debate happening in Washington right now but is glad the conversation is taking
On Thursday afternoon, House GOP Leadership engineered final passage of a stripped-down Farm Bill. Getting there wasn’t pretty. First, the Leadership removed all provisions related to the food stamp program, which comprises the overwhelming majority of spending in the bill.
Lions on the web, and lambs on the street. So last week some conservative website posted a photo of a beloved conservative. When some readers saw that the picture was doctored, they tweeted an angry alarm (which is what you
As the Muslim sacred month of Ramadan began on Monday, President Obama extended a statement of greeting to the Muslim community: With the start of the sacred month of Ramadan, Michelle and I extend our best wishes to Muslim communities here
On Wednesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney became irritated when he was pressed about whether it was legal for the Obama administration to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate, which requires businesses that employ 50 or more people to provide health coverage or
In response to Thor’s Latest Thriller Tackles Secretive World Of The Federal Reserve: This would also have been a great plot for the upcoming sequel to the Marvel super hero Thor movie. Imagine the Hammer of the Gods smashing through
The newest Obama scandal is seventeen months old. Welcome to Trayvongate, where the President of the United States used both the bully pulpit, the Department of Justice and sly media manipulation to gin up charges of racism in the George
A former FISA court judge said yesterday that the FISA court was not a “rubber stamp” but that it needs to be changed to protect the public’s concern about civil liberties. Judge James Robertson also said that court needs to
(AP) Bush promotes benefits of immigration reformBy JAMIE STENGLE and KEN THOMASAssociated PressDALLASMaking a rare return to the political arena, former President George W. Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to reach a “positive resolution” on immigration reform, an issue that
The back-scratching relationship between President Barack Obama and the entertainment industry continued this week, months after Hollywood did all it could to assure the president’s re-election. President Obama nominated Crystal Nix-Hines to be the U.S.’s Permament Representative to the UN’s
Monday Salon published a “full accounting” of “how the media outrageously blew the IRS scandal.” This is the latest attempt by the left to dismiss an actual scandal as unfounded. But the claims of media overreach are couched in some
