Former Clinton White House counsel Lanny Davis told Larry O’Connor and Brian Wilson on WMAL this morning that Senator Ted Cruz was “absolutely correct” in asking for more transparency from Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel. Davis said that Senator Cruz’s
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he will block John Brennan’s confirmation for CIA Director until the White House releases the drone surveillance footage of the Benghazi attack and the “emails on talking points that falsely claimed the attack was a
On his MSNBC show this morning, NBC’s senior White House correspondent, Chuck Todd, reported that Republican senator Lindsey Graham had been successful in his quest to see White House emails concerning Libya. As leverage, Graham threatened to hold up the
President Obama has launched a campaign to push his tax hikes by granting interviews to local TV news programs in eight states whose viewers will likely be affected by budget cuts as a result of sequestration. The goal of Obama’s
In response to Hearing From Romney Will Be Good, But Big Boi Would Be Better: Big Boi sounds like an excellent idea for a guest speaker. Along the lines of pop-culture outreach, I’ve often wondered why we don’t hear from
The acrimony surrounding Chuck Hagel’s confirmation to lead the Defense Department has caused a handful of Senators to formally ask the White House to withdraw his nomination. The almost unprecedented step has capped weeks of debate over Hagel’s fitness for
In the first installment of this series, we noted the considerable public opposition to big government, as well as a palpable hostility to the status quo, suggesting the possibility of new political ferment–inside of, or outside of, the two party system. In part
The former campaign apparatus of Barack Obama, Organizing for Action, sent out an email requesting recipients send back stories of gun violence which they have experienced. Sami Rahamim, the author of the email, encourages readers to share their stories to
The White House now claims President Barack Obama called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at approximately 10 PM on the night of the Benghazi attacks, September 11, 2012. This is “about the same time” Clinton released a statement condemning a
LARRY KUDLOW, CNBC HOST: Welcome back, Joel. Are they the footstool? Is he the puppet master? Why is that Politico, which is the heart of the media establishment, all of a sudden complaining? What’s going on here? JOEL POLLAK, BREITBART
Pew Research released a poll today that should give the White House cause for concern as the days tick by before Senator Chuck Hagel’s senate confirmation vote to become Defense Secretary. The more the public gets to know Hagel, the
Late night talker Conan O’Brien will be charged with mocking President Barack Obama during this spring’s annual White House Correspondents Dinner. “Thrilled to reveal @ConanObrien has agreed to headline White House Correspondents Association’s scholarship dinner April 27 @TeamCoco,” WHCA president
During the 2012 election campaign, Democrats denied that ObamaCare made $716 billion in cuts to Medicare in order to provide funding toward $1.9 trillion in new entitlement spending over the next ten years. In an announcement on Friday, however, the
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey helps to clear up the Washington Post’s confusion over the startling 45 cent rise in gas prices in a single month. What’s also of interest, though, is a word found nowhere in the Post’s 750-worder; and
Dan Friedman of the New York Daily News wrote a piece today suggesting that he was the inadvertent source of Breitbart News’ story on “Friends of Hamas” in early February. There’s only one problem. That’s false, and Friedman knew it
The campaign for an Oscar is taking on a new meaning, as stops in D.C. are becoming the norm. The Hill is reporting that “stars and directors from at least four Oscar-nominated films have stopped in the nation’s capital to
When the sequester occurs on March 1st and the attendant spending cuts totaling $85 billion take effect, either the White House or Congressional Republicans will get blamed for the resulting chaos; both sides are betting the other will be held responsible. The
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com New report reveals massive cyber war attack by China’s army China continues war preparations Revisiting Huawei and ZTE China rejects Philippines arbitration application New report reveals massive cyber war attack by China’s army The
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing on February 14th, The White House’s top Obamacare regulator found himself dodging bullets from an unexpected source: the very Democrats who passed President Obama’s signature healthcare law. During this little-publicized hearing, Democrats grilled Gary Cohen,
On Tuesday, a day before the start of the Match Play Championship in Arizona, Tiger Woods spoke to golf reporters about his weekend golfing outing with President Barack Obama. White House reporters did not have the opportunity to ask Obama
In November of 2011 the President told the press that there would be no “easy off ramps” to get out of the sequester. The White House explained the speech in very partisan terms: “Republicans continue to insist on protecting tax
In response to Nice Scoop Politico: I have so much admiration for John Sexton and John Hayward for wading through that BS. I got through maybe two paragraphs, earlier today, and had to stop because it was making my head
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste… And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” This is what former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
In response to White House: We’re pushing Hagel through: Steve Clemons of the Atlantic reports that a White House source has declared that President Obama will push Hagel through… Last Thursday, The Washington Free Beacon reported on a contemporaneous account
In response to Nice Scoop Politico: I love the refrain scattered throughout Politico’s apologetic that Team Obama has somehow dazzled them with fabulous new technologies. Too bad there was no way for George Bush’s White House to create photo and
