On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney labeled a Senate Republican effort to filibuster gun control “shameful.” On Thursday, Brian Phillips, communications director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), one of the potential filibusterers, said: It is shameful that the
CBS News: Discussing the struggle many parents face in balancing work and home life, the first lady reached for an empathetic tone, beginning, “Believe me, as a busy single mother…or, I shouldn’t say ‘single’ – as a busy mother…” She
ObamaCare provides millions of dollars in grants to hire community activists and others as “navigators” to assist individuals enroll in health insurance provided by state or federal exchanges and, according to recent reports, register people to vote. In a new
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said it was “shameful” for Republican legislators to filibuster gun control in the Senate. “It would be shameful to not allow any one of these measures to come up to a vote,”
Wednesday morning, senior White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer ripped into the Drudge Report and sent a signal to the media as a whole that they should stop following the well-trafficked site’s editorial lead. That same day, talk radio titan Rush
In response to To Ta-Nehisi Coates, Dr. Carson is Just Another Sambo Doll: You only have to read the last paragraph to understand the goal of what Ta-Nehisi writes in the NY Times. It’s all about color of skin for
The Obama Administration is angling to allow people with questionable credit to receive home loans, encouraging lenders to use more subjective judgment, and pushing banks to utilize programs through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)–an executive branch agency that sticks taxpayers
(AFP) – Activist hackers appeared Thursday to have infiltrated North Korea’s official news website and its accompanying Twitter and Flickr feeds, posting unflattering images of leader Kim Jong-Un. The China-based website of Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda from the
(AP) PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama’s IOUs start coming dueBy CALVIN WOODWARDAssociated PressWASHINGTONAmericans are a forward-looking people, which is to say they can have the attention span of a gnat. So presidential campaigns seem like distant history almost from the moment someone
In today’s New York Times, guest columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates launches what is only the latest and most pretentious attack against Dr. Ben Carson, arguing that he is a fraud–not because of what he is saying, but because white conservatives seem
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Hugo Chavez returns to Venezuela reincarnated as a singing bird U.S. moves defense missiles to Guam for North Korean threats North Korea closes border to factory workers from South IMF begins loan talks with
In an article for Slate, scientist Patrica Brennan defended her government-funded research into duck genitalia, paid for by the National Science Foundation. She lamented the fact that 88.7 percent of respondents to a Fox News online poll were against the government funding
On Wednesday, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer explained that President Obama has serious problems with the Drudge Report, the powerhouse website that drives much of talk radio and the news cycle. Drudge, said Pfeiffer, “hurts” the Obama message –
Good catch at Newsbusters Wednesday. The anti-science Al Roker, who obviously hasn’t bothered to read the latest edition of The Economist, responds the news that 37% of people polled have figured out global Warming is a hoax with a “Whoa”
Even as the Obama White House prepares for a star-studded White House concert featuring Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, and Justin Timberlake, figures from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that roughly 50 million Americans–one in six–now live below the poverty line.
This is what a White House Press Corps is supposed to do: aggressively hold every White House and president — regardless of party — accountable for their words and actions: — — Partial transcript via Fox News: ED HENRY: Can
We’re living in an age of sequestration, a time when we all need to tighten our belts. For President Barack Obama, it’s still business as usual. That means while ordinary Americans can no longer take a stroll through the White
President Barack Obama praised Singapore on Tuesday as an example to the world and a key source of advice for his diplomatic pivot to Asia, as he met Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The meeting was expected to focus on
There was a heated exchange today between White House press secretary Jay Carney and Fox News’ Ed Henry about Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s claims that America was going to be less safe because of the Administrations claims the sequester
President Barack Obama’s White House appears to be meddling in the writing of specific legislation with regard to immigration reform, a sign that the so-called bipartisan “Gang of Eight” is not developing ideas on its own. “The president will continue
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has made a new pronouncement, this time that Hillary Clinton is in the most “commanding position” to be anointed president since the general of all the U.S. Armies in WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower, ran for President in
Subsidized Stafford student loan interest rates will double on July 1st for loans taken out by new students entering college. President Barack Obama used the issue to rally younger voters during the last election as he advocated keeping the rates lower,
A new Forbes article by Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Co-founder Peter Schweizer reveals that former Obama Administration officials and fundraisers are now leveraging their access and influence to bag big billings from Wall Street investment firms as part
First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a special screening at the White House last night of 42, the new movie recalling baseball’s first black ballplayer, Jackie Robinson. Harrison Ford, who plays Brooklyn Dodgers’ GM Branch Rickey in the film, co-star Chadwick
The Hill buries its own lede in a Tuesday piece titled “Sequester axe falls in Washington — but not on lawmaker salaries.” Here is the opener: One small group is curiously immune from the sequester and the related furloughs that
