President Obama has nominated Thomas E. Perez for Secretary of Labor. Perez is a radical progressive who is currently the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in President Obama’s Justice Department. Perez has amassed a record demonstrating contempt for the
In response to Do Gosnell’s Victims Matter, Mr. President?: Since we’re talking about how the media shapes public perception with the stories it chooses not to tell, (which not coincidentally happen to be the same stories Obama chooses not to
The White House and their allies are not going to give up on an assault weapons ban, even though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cut the assault weapons ban out of the gun control bill that the Senate will consider.
President Barack Obama is not the only United States president New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s Democratic Party mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen has approached. Melgen attended an “intimate” coffee date with President Bill Clinton back in 1995 or 1996 at
In its last legislative business before the Easter recess, the House of Representatives approved its budget plan, drafted by Rep. Paul Ryan. The House also passed a Continuing Resolution, authorizing government spending through the end of the fiscal year in
In response to Violence a Small Problem in Chicago?: This aspect of the gun-control debate fascinates me, Sonnie. It’s a powerful example of how the media shapes public perception with both what it says, and what it does not say;
In another video from Talk Radio Network chief investigative reporter Jason Mattera, Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager and director of Organizing for Action Jim Messina denies that Obama has ever attacked Fox News or Rush Limbaugh–a funny claim, considering the wealth of evidence
Twenty-four of Guantanamo Bay’s 166 inmates are on a hunger strike to protest President Barack Obama’s broken promise to close the detention facility. “They had great optimism that Guantanamo would be closed. They were devastated apparently…when the president backed off,
Former prominent lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who spent several years in prison convicted of corruption-related crimes, told Breitbart News that Democratic Party mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen and New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez have followed the corruption playbook with which he
In response to Poll: Plurality Favor Sequester, Think President Used Scare Tactics: This afternoon, Senate Democrats voted down a Republican-led effort to reopen the White House to public tours. There is some good news, however: Senators nibbled away what they
President Barack Obama’s dire warnings that the across-the-board sequester cuts would spawn massive unemployment–losses of up to 750,000 jobs–were exaggerated, say top economists. UBS projects federal payrolls will decline 100,000 annually. “The major flaw in sequester-related government job loss estimates
Amid reports that chemical weapons may have been used in Syria, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is calling for the U.S. to do whatever is necessary to secure remaining chemical weapons in that country–even if that means putting boots on the
Russia Today has posted the complete set of e-mails reportedly sent from former Clinton White House aide Sidney Blumenthal to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The e-mails were initially obtained last week from a hacker who goes by the
While President Obama’s administration has suggested that the Secret Service is to blame for the closure of White House tours, the onus now falls on the Democrat-controlled Senate. On Wednesday, Democrats rejected a Republican attempt to reopen the White House
President Barack Obama has submitted more brackets than budgets while he has been president, having filled out a bracket for ESPN every year he has been in office. Since Obama does not have to campaign for reelection, he could have
President Barack Obama has arrived in Israel at the start of a four-day trip to the region that will include stops in the West Bank and in Jordan. It is the first visit by a U.S. president since George W.
The White House is still acting confident about passing an assault weapons ban despite Senate Democrats cutting the idea out of their proposed gun control legislation. White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said, “We’re going to work on this.
“With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed” The above quote, from Abraham Lincoln, is Governor Hickenlooper’s favorite quote, per his own website: That largely describes John’s governing approach as he tackles difficult problems in a
On Tuesday, House Republicans quizzed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton on why he hadn’t tried to direct sequestration cuts toward areas other than release of illegal immigrant detainees. Morton attempted to blame “career agency officials” rather than
The Obama administration has no evidence to back up a claim by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime that the U.S.-backed Syrian rebels used chemical weapons, the White House said Tuesday. (March 19)
White House Press Secretary Carney said that “credit is due” to President Bush for sending American troops into Iraq in 2003 which led to the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
President Obama has blamed sequestration for everything from cutting White House tours to the possibility of first responders being laid off. But on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) did Obama one better: he blamed sequestration for the accidental
Last week White House Press Secretary Jay Carney appeared on Fox News with Jenna Lee and faced questions over the cancellations of the White House tours that had been blamed on sequestration cuts. When Lee asked why the Easter Egg
Something has happened to President Obama’s approval rating since 2013 started: it’s plummeted. The newest example comes from a CNN/ORC International poll showing Obama’s approval rating down 8 points and his disapproval rating up 7 points. 50 percent of those
(AP) China’s leader Xi meets US treasury secretaryBy JOE McDONALDAP Business WriterBEIJINGChina’s new leader, Xi Jinping, told the U.S. Treasury secretary on Tuesday he wants strong ties with Washington as the two sides resumed high-level interaction following a months-long hiatus
