Enjoying his long Presidents Day vacation without the ball and chain, President Obama spent Sunday at The Floridian golf course in Palm Beach, Florida. There, Golf Digest got the scoop that one of his playing partners would be Tiger Woods.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough says the President was briefed “throughout the night” of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi which killed four Americans.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough explains the President’s approach to stopping the “draconian cuts” set to occur on March 1 if nothing is done to stop them.
On Sunday, President Barack Obama is playing a round of golf with Tiger Woods, a day after Obama received some lessons from Butch Harmon, Woods’s former swing coach who now coaches his nemesis Phil Mickelson and is regarded as the
President Barack Obama reversed course on Saturday, preparing an immigration reform bill that was leaked to USA Today and that would allow illegal immigrants to become full permanent residents within eight years. The White House had previously refrained from offering
(AP) Report: Bill would set an 8-year path to residencyBy ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to
Tony Kushner, the Israel-hating screenwriter who made his name with the wildly over-praised pail of pretentious crap known as Angels in America, is rewriting history again. This is Kushner’s specialty, after all. He rewrote the Reagan years in Angels, rewrote the
The House on Friday passed legislation to preserve, for an additional year, a pay freeze for non-military federal workers. The freeze has been in effect for the past three years. The action was necessary because President Obama recently announced that
By DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated PressABOARD AIR FORCE ONEThe White House says President Barack Obama wants to give Marine Gen. John Allen time to consider his next assignment before deciding whether to proceed with his nomination to lead U.S. and NATO forces
And this puts the President in a tight spot, because he has other powerful allies who are strongly in favor of the pipeline. Byron York of The Washington Examiner explains: A brief moment on Wednesday showed why President Obama can’t
An Obama administration initiative that claims to encourage public-private partnerships to help the poor is having problems getting private donors to get onboard. One of the reasons for the lack of private contributions is that the Social Innovation Fund (SIF)
The White House has endorsed a plan Senate Democrats proposed to offset the sequester with more tax revenues, insisting House Republicans adopt it as well. On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said President Barack Obama just wants “more stimulus spending
You’ll hear it all over cable news and the networks and in every lede paragraph from the Washington Post to the LA Times: Republicans are conducting an unprecedented filibuster of Chuck Hagel. Where did the media get this buzz word that’s
On Thursday, Obama faced the first set-back of his second term as the Senate blocked a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to head the Defense Department. Politico recalls today that Obama was warned by several advisors and Democrats on the
(Reuters) – The U.S. general nominated to oversee a vast region that includes Afghanistan on Thursday backed keeping Afghan forces at a peak strength of 352,000, contrary to current plans to shrink them after NATO declares the war over next
Senate Republicans delayed a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary on Thursday by mounting a filibuster causing the cloture to fall one vote shy of being successful. The cloture vote needed 60 votes to move on to Hagel’s
Last year’s documentary smash 2016: Obama’s America couldn’t convince enough voters to pull the lever for Mitt Romney. The powers behind the movie still think it can impact the next four years, and they’re willing to pay the postage to find
On Wednesday evening at an online “fireside hangout” at Google+, President Obama discussed his feelings regarding the Republican filibuster of anti-Israel Secretary of Defense nominee and former Senator Chuck Hagel. “What seems to be happening, and this has been growing
Counsel to the President Kathryn H. Ruemmler submitted a letter to the Senate which described a phone call former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton placed on the night of September 11, 2012 but reveals no phone calls were made by
President Obama’s reelection campaign was built on class warfare and resentment of the wealthy. He spoke broadly about the sins of Wall Street and the financial sector. He vilified his opponent, Mitt Romney, for making money on financial transactions and
Actress and activist Daryl Hannah explains why she was prepared to be arrested Wednesday in Washington while protesting the Keystone Pipeline in front of the White House.
(AP) AP Exclusive: Documents detail Nixon, Clinton tiesBy MICHAEL R. BLOODAP Political WriterYORBA LINDA, Calif.In the final months of his life, Richard Nixon quietly advised President Bill Clinton on navigating the post-Cold War world, even offering to serve as a
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is the first Republican supporter of a bill that would allow U.S. citizens to bring their foreign same-sex partners to the country for legal residency. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Collins (R-Maine) will
Looking back at a long political career, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday lamented an increasingly bitter atmosphere in Washington, saying there was “too much meanness” on display. His comments come amid a mounting budget crisis in a deeply divided
President Barack Obama promised Wednesday a “steadfast” commitment to defend Japan under the US nuclear umbrella in the wake of North Korea’s nuclear test, the White House said. In a telephone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Obama “reaffirmed
