On Thursday, White House press secretary Jay Carney would not answer a reporter’s question regarding President Obama’s position on a bill the House will vote on next week that proposes to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The Weekly
For the second time in a week, The Washington Post has been caught editing a major story without noting publicly that the story has been changed. This is highly unethical, but apparently standard procedure at the once-legendary Post: The Washington
I’m on record in favor of intervening in Syria, in the form of a no-fly zone. (We should have intervened early, if at all.) But I’m against arming the Syrian rebels, who are dominated by radical Islamists and jihadists. In
Good lord…after all these years, they’re still pushing the cult of personality, “enlightened being” narrative, and not-so subtly. We can’t make higher education a luxury. Every American family should be able to afford it. #DontDoubleMyRate, pic.twitter.com/IdflDySkE1 — The White House (@whitehouse)
Former Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk said many of his former teammates congratulated him for declining an invite to see President Barack Obama at the White House last week to celebrate the Ravens’s Super Bowl championship. Appearing on Fox News’s
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Board, a low-profile panel about which we rarely hear, will meet next week to discuss the NSA’s PRISM program. I wrote about the PCLOB a few months ago, when the Senate was going to confirm
(AP) Iran’s leader jabs US as presidential vote beginsBy NASSER KARIMIAssociated PressTEHRAN, IranIran’s top leader gave a salty rebuke Friday to U.S. questions over the openness of the presidential contest in the Islamic Republic, telling Washington “the hell with you”
President Obama has authorized his administration to provide the Syrian rebels with arms in their fight against Bashar al-Assad. According to The Wall Street Journal, Obama did this through a classified order directing the CIA to provide arms to the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.S. escalates Syria crisis with confirmation of chemical weapons Bill Clinton slams Barack Obama for Syria leadership failures Qusair battle turns Sunni Arab people and nations against Hezbollah Congressmen whine because Obamacare applies to
You may not be able to tour the White House because of the spending increase slowdown from sequestration, but the Obama family can tour Africa for the small sum of $60 or $100 million. President Barack Obama will hold bilateral meetings
According to triumphant leftists in the media, Rep. Elijah Cummings check-mated Chairman Issa last weekend when he asserted that the IRS investigation was “solved”. Cummings was”calling Issa’s bluff” regarding witness testimony on the scandal, by demanding that Issa release the full transcripts
From the White House that brought you “man-caused disasters,” “shared prosperity,” and “kinetic military action,” check out this new entry in the public lexicon: “Founding Founders.” That phrase made its way into the headline of a White House blog post
By MATTHEW LEE and JULIE PACEAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe United States has conclusive evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons against opposition forces seeking to overthrow the government, crossing what President Barack Obama has called a “red line”
Until now, I thought Democrats were being overly defensive as they circled the wagons around the White House, assuring everyone who would listen that the president obviously wasn’t involved. Who in Congress had overtly pointed the finger at the president?
(AP) – It’s called the Affordable Care Act, but President Barack Obama’s health care law may turn out to be unaffordable for many low-wage workers, including employees at big chain restaurants, retail stores and hotels. That might seem strange since
The director of the new documentary Dirty Wars, a film detailing America’s secretive military tactics against Al Qaeda, says the country’s moral standing in the fight against terrorism is history. “We’ve lost every shred of credibility around the world, from
Let’s start by going through the Post’s article to create a list of journalists married to or closely related to officials within the Obama administration. The size and scope of this is bad enough. But what is most troubling is
President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke by phone, days after the US leader met over the weekend with the president of China, the White House said in a statement. The two leaders on Wednesday “discussed the
The Obama administration has an infamous history of questionable Islamist outreach, as noted here, here and here. These outreach efforts have been engaged by the highest levels of the Department of Justice (DOJ), resulting in decisions affecting potential prosecutions of Islamist leaders and closing ranks with other Islamist leaders
Breitbart News reported last week that Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) passed an amendment in the House Armed Services Committee protecting religious speech of service members in the military. President Barack Obama has now threatened to veto the bill if it
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), advocates for the environmental lobby, met with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough last week so they could coordinate efforts with the Obama administration in pushing their environmentalist agenda. The
The House’s version of the $638 billion Defense authorization bill is eliciting threats of a veto from the White House. The White House’s reasons are greatly derived from the Obama Administrations predilection for gutting defense, pleasing the Russians, and coddling
In an advertisement released Monday night, Bill Daley, former Chief of Staff to President Obama and brother of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, announced an exploratory committee to run for governor of Illinois. Daley has never held public office, but
Earlier today, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke on the Senate floor against the Motion to Proceed to immigration reform. He argued for major fixes to the proposal that would make it passable by both houses of Congress. As it stands,
The U.S. intelligence community is doing something about al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine; they’re sabotaging it. The magazine, which offers first-person accounts of terrorist acts, inspirational messages for jihadists, and do-it-yourself advice, which accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev confessed gave him
