Barack Obama, in an attempt to appear sympathetic to gun owners’ concerns as he pursues a gun-banning agenda in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, recently bragged that he goes skeet shooting at Camp David “all the time.”
According to the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s, the Obama Department of Justice will be suing it over their mortgage bond rating practices in the run-up to the 2008 financial collapse. As the news of the lawsuit broke, stock
February 4 is here, and surprise of surprises, Barack Obama, for the fourth time in five years, has missed the deadline for submitting a budget. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who is in the middle of submitting a budget of his
An analysis by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) figures has found that audits of tax-exempt charities have increased 79% under President Barack Obama. GAI President Peter Schweizer reports that from 2001 to 2008, the IRS
In response to More Work Remains To Be Done!: Debra, isn’t this also the same canned statement that always includes a line cautioning us against “reading too much into a single unemployment report?” I guess it’s important not to read
Last October, Joe Biden slammed Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan for their shameful lack of consistency on the issues. “The only thing consistent about the way they talk about policy, is that they are inconsistent,” he charged. Well,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) — The Boy Scouts of America should end its ban on gays, President Barack Obama said as the Scouts’ board was to mull lifting the ban at a meeting to begin Monday. “Yes,” Obama said in
(AP) Obama to campaign for gun proposals in MinnesotaBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONThe fate of his gun proposals on Capitol Hill uncertain, President Barack Obama is seeking to rally support from the public and law enforcement community for his
(AP) Boehner steadies GOP team, reframes deficit debateBy CHARLES BABINGTONAssociated PressWASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner has shored up his political clout after a shaky month, persuading his Republican caucus to pick its fights with Democrats more strategically. His impressive rebound, aided
“Why shouldn’t Iran have Nuclear weapons?” Those were the disconcerting words from Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) during a 2011 GOP debate in Iowa as the perennial presidential candidate gave Americans reason number one to not take him seriously as a candidate
Why is the stock market up when the economy is in a shambles? It’s a question many Americans are asking. On Friday, the Dow eclipsed 14,000 last week for the first time since October 2007, even as news hit that
Jesse Jackson, a resident of Chicago, joined other Chicagoans who have lost relatives to gunfire in stating that in order for the deadly rate of shootings in Chicago to be abated, Barack Obama needs to pay a visit to his hometown.
Hollywood just finished celebrating President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, but the industry is already looking ahead to 2016. A new film based on the early days of Hillary Clinton’s political career is slowly making its way through the pre-production stages.
UPI_ “Fiscal cliff” averted (sort of). Check. Debt ceiling postponed. Check. Credit rating reduction avoided. Check. Economy apparently stabilized for now. Check. Deficit reduction? Hmmmm. The partisan arguments that characterized discussions related to averting the fiscal cliff and vanished when
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, will use children in an anti-gun ad the group will run in the Washington, D.C. market in the second half of Sunday’s Super Bowl. According to CNN, the “ad features
Today, the White House released a photo of President Obama “skeet shooting” in response to doubts raised to his claim that he “does skeet shooting” regularly at Camp David. In the picture, Obama is wearing sunglasses. Shooters wear glasses for
Some of you younger folks might not remember this, but there was a time when the media questioned Power. No, really, once upon a time, the media saw it as its duty to be forever questioning and skeptical of Power,
In response to No Photoshopping? What a bunch of whiny little spoilsports: I am frankly shocked to see Conversation colleagues like John Hayward and Larry O’Connor encouraging the juvenile and insolent manipulation of official government photos against the expressed wishes
In response to White House Warns: Don’t Photoshop Obama Gun Pic: It figures they’d release their big skeet-shooting photo with a snotty demand that Internet bullies may not steal their lunch money. Does anyone know if George Bush ever successfully
Following Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel’s inability to explain whether the Iranian regime is legitimate during his Thursday confirmation hearing, White House Spokesman Jay Carney refused to answer the same question. Carney would only say that “the behavior” of
By ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTONSecret Service Director Mark Sullivan announced his retirement Friday, bringing to a close a turbulent period for the law enforcement agency that included a South American prostitution scandal and a pair of White House gate-crashers. In
What a week for an American economy that is supposed to be in a recovery. The Gross Domestic Product shrank for the first time in more than three years; the unemployment rate rose to an anemic 7.9 percent; and President
How bad was Chuck Hagel’s performance at his confirmation hearing for the post of Secretary of Defense? So bad that even White House officials are willing to admit glumly to the New York Times that it was “somewhere between baffling and
White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer has predicted confidently that former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) will be confirmed as Secretary of Defense next week. “We’re very confident of that. There’s no question that there will be more than 50 votes
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the Administration is pleased with their nominee for Secretary of Defense after yesterday’s hearing. Carney said that Chuck Hagel did “just fine” in answering questions and that the Republican Senators “badgered” the
