Hey, remember how a watchdog group called Cause of Action filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents pertaining to the investigation of taxpayer information handed over to the White House by the IRS, and the request went nowhere,
It’s not an unfamiliar sight: Oil prices go up, and influential U.S. politicians, sometimes even presidents, run to Saudi Arabia hat-in-hand, hoping that Middle Eastern royalty thousands of miles away will lower gas prices at the station on the corner and keep
The Obama administration has faced a larger threat of cyber attacks from foreign enemies than any administration before it, yet has demonstrated a continuing de facto policy in dealing with the onslaught of cyber attacks against our nation: doing nothing.
Even as the Obama White House was busy touting its Friday jobs report, CNBC’s Jeff Cox looked deeper inside the government’s data and discovered that the actual increase of working Americans numbers a paltry 4,000. Worse, reports Cox, “the jobs
The Republican leadership in the U.S. House decided to let the fight over President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty to slide until next year when there’s a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate to help the cause. That sounds reasonable in
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to announce his pick Friday to lead the Pentagon amid the threat from Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, the White House said. White House press secretary Josh Earnest would not say
AUSTIN, Texas — Outgoing Texas Governor Rick Perry invited several Austin area political reporters to the Capitol for coffee and a chance to reminisce about his time in office. Wrapping up his fourteenth year in office, Perry is the state’s
Thursday at the White House press briefing, Fox News Channel’s White House correspondent Ed Henry questioned press secretary Josh Earnest over why the Department Homeland Security website posted job openings for a thousand new permanent government workers, some making six
Thursday at the White House press briefing, Associated Press White House correspondent Julie Pace grilled press secretary Josh Earnest over President Barack Obama creating yet another task force to address the recent social unrest over the law enforcement involved deaths
Pop singer Katy Perry reached out to Hillary Clinton this summer on social media with an offer to write her a theme song for a possible run at the White House. In June, Perry posted this photo to her Instagram
The House passed legislation declaring President Obama’s executive amnesty “null and void” Thursday, in a vote that many call merely symbolic as the Democrat-led Senate is unlikely to take up the bill. The measure passed 219 to 197, with three
Immigration reform activists met with Obama administration officials at the White House today, as House Republicans voted to on a House bill to defund President Obama’s executive amnesty. Following the meeting, the activists challenged Republicans for trying to roll back
Wednesday, in reacting to the news that a grand jury declined to indict the New York City Police Officer involved in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, so-called civil rights leader Al Sharpton held a press conference at the National
Two weeks ago the Center for American Progress made a concerted effort to claim that Jonathan Gruber was wrong in some of his embarrassing statements caught on video. But it turned out it was CAP that had it wrong, not
In response to Media loses her collective mind over Lauten: Terry Bean is a gay-rights activist who co-founded the influential Human Rights Campaign and is a member of the board of the HRC Foundation which you can thank for the Common
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert made a strong appeal to defund President Obama’s “unconstitutional amnesty.” Speaking to a crowd on Wednesday, Gohmert said the the U.S. must learn from history. “History has happened, and we either learn from it or repeat it,” Gohmert
On December 1, Texas state representative Matthew Krause (R-Ft. Worth) introduced legislation barring the in-state enforcement of nearly any federal gun control measure “past, present or future.” The legislation, HB422, “requires the state to refuse to enforce” federal gun control measures
After a grand jury announced on Wednesday its decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner in New York City, protests mounted around the country. They included: Washington D.C.: Protesters marched around DuPont Circle, chanting, “I
This article was originally published in the Washington Post. The White House has defended President Obama’s unilateral decision to legalize the presence of nearly 4 million undocumented immigrants as consistent, even in scope, with the executive actions of previous presidents. In
President Obama will meet with incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this afternoon, according to the White House press office. The meeting will take place at the White House, as Republicans debate how to handle a funding fight over Obama’s
In his remarks Wednesday on the non-indictment of the New York police officer who allegedly choked Eric Garner to death during a routine arrest, President Barack Obama claimed that he does not involve himself in such controversies. “My tradition is not
Fox News Channel Media Analyst and “MediaBuzz” host Howard Kurtz argued that the media paid more attention to comments made by Congressional aide Elizabeth Lauten about the Obama daughters than comments made by Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber even though Lauten’s
Tuesday ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl grilled White House press secretary Josh Earnest over the qualifications of Colleen Bell, a former producer of the soap opera “The Bold and The Beautiful” and top bundler for President Obama’s
Former Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter appears to be considered the favorite to replace Chuck Hagel, the outgoing Pentagon chief, according to numerous reports surfacing today. As the new Defense Secretary, Carter would be taking charge of the U.S. operations
Recently Charlie Cook of Cook’s Political Report assessed the chances that Hillary Clinton will run for the White House in 2016 a 60 – 70% probability, while saying that it’s likely she’ll run. The Five-Thirty-Eight website has come behind that
