By ERICA WERNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is forming a new issues advocacy group to promote immigration reform, education and other policies aimed at growing the economy. Two people familiar with the discussions confirmed the effort, speaking on condition of
Despite continued protestations of doom over the sequestration cuts that have paralyzed all of Washington in the grips of terror over the past 25 days, President Obama somehow found it possible to commit the federal government to acquiring five new national monuments today. He
Captain Planet, the main title character of the 1990’s cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers will make an appearance at the annual White House Easter Egg roll, reports Charlie Spierling at the Washington Examiner. How fitting for this administration. The program
Our lead story this morning is being attacked by the usual miscreants. No one is disputing the facts; they are attacking us because the story involves the Obamas’ daughters, Sasha and Malia. The White House asks that the Obamas’ children be off limits “when
In its continuing bid to make the automatic sequester cuts as painful to the public as possible, Obama’s Pentagon has announced that it is suspending its aerial acrobatic flying teams, like the Air Force’s Thunderbirds and the Navy’s Blue Angels.
Contrary to ongoing media propaganda, the story of the current sequester cuts is not what’s being cut — be it the closing of White House tours or 149 airport control towers. The real story is that our federal government is
As spring break begins for schoolchildren across the country, thousands of students will travel to Washington, DC. The trips, funded by bake sales and other events throughout the year, will allow the students to take in Washington’s historic landmarks. One
Senator John Cornyn of Texas released a web video showing First Lady Michelle Obama calling the White House “The People’s House,” along with multiple reports on why the President decided to discontinue tours. The video ends with students asking the
Sasha and Malia Obama are quietly vacationing at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, Breitbart News has learned. A source tipped Breitbart News off to the First Daughters’ spring vacation, which was not publicly announced or reported.
On Sunday’s “This Week” George Stephanopoulos hosted a contentious roundtable including Jim Messina from the Obama Campaign White House, Fox News contributor Karl Rove and ABC News’ Terry Moran. Rove was the closest thing to a conservative on the panel and he
Environmentalists, terrified that Barack Obama may abandon them and approve the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would transport heavy crude oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, are threatening a massive act of civil disobedience with 50,000 people willing
President Barack Obama was once criticized for his “apology tour” around the globe, in which he bowed to Islamic leaders and admitted America’s faults. Now, he is making other western leaders apologize. In a surprise move before leaving Israel, President
MSNBC host and commentator Touré fired a clear and distinct shot at Dr. Ben Carson Friday, hammering the African-American Presidential Medal of Freedom winner for daring to challenge the Obamadoxy parroted by Touré and progressive journalists bent on supporting the
Vice President Joe Biden led the White House delegation to the Vatican last week for the inaugural Mass of newly elected Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires. Biden, a self-professed Catholic, told a gathering of Irish-Americans
The Senate, late Friday, gave important symbolic support for the construction of the Keystone Pipeline, delivering crude oil from Canada to US refineries. The vote on the amendment to the Senate budget draft won support from all Republicans and, importantly,
In the aftermath of President Obama’s goodwill speechifying in Israel, Obama reverted to anti-Israel form behind closed doors. Obama reportedly leveraged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into calling Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to apologize for Israeli action against
When President Barack Obama was heckled during a speech to Israeli students in Jerusalem on Thursday, the U.S. media reported that the heckler was a student calling for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer even devoted
Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center blamed conservatives for the Republican Party’s troubles in an op-ed for the Washington Post. Ironically, his own data show that the U.S. shifted in a more conservative direction in the years since President
Olympus Has Fallen wears its love for this country on its cinematic sleeve. American flags wave … and wave some more in slow motion splendor. The soundtrack hums with military drumming, the kind meant to inspire awe and respect. We
(Reuters) – The National Rifle Association’s affiliate in New York filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging the state’s new gun control measures, passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. The state Rifle &
When Olympus Has Fallen star Aaron Eckhart needed to know what if felt like to be physically attacked by a terrorist he didn’t have to use his imagination. The actor turned to on-set consultant Ricky Jones, who onced worked on
The Senate on Wednesday refused to divert federal funds from Elvis cruises, wine trains, and Ukrainian Easter egg workshops by rejecting an amendment that would have funded the White House tours that President Obama slashed as a part of the
Elements of the international hacktivist group Anonymous claim to have taken down the National Security Agency’s website. A tweet from the Twitter Account @AnontmousPress sent at 4:20 Eastern time said simply nsa.gov #DOWN | #Anonymous — Anonymous Press (@AnonymousPress) March 21,
Exactly three months ago, President Obama’s approval rating was a healthy 58%. Fresh off his successful reelection campaign, just 36% of Americans disapproved of the job Obama was doing. Despite daily fawning by the media, over the last three months,
Even as the Department of Education prepares to make cuts to federally-funded schools on Native American reservations, the DOE is also offering a new six-figure job to promote “Educational Excellence for African-Americans.” Worse, the job seems to be going to
