By KASIE HUNT and STEVE PEOPLESAssociated PressWASHINGTONAlready scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Republican Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that almost half of all Americans “believe they are victims”
An investigation by the Government Accountability Institute found that more than half of the most politically active 50 campaign bundlers for President Obama were either appointed to a presidential council, committee, board, or other White House post. Many bundlers’ businesses or relatives’ businesses also
The person behind the anti-Muslim movie being blamed by the White House for causing the current crush of violence across the Middle East will never hobnob with Hollywood elite. Nor will he get much support from them, apparently. Not only
Few people are more qualified to talk about free speech than author Salman Rushdie. The release of his 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” generated a fatwa for his death, forcing him to hire security and lead a protected existence for
CHICAGO – When the White House chose to remain neutral in the the Chicago teachers’ strike, EAGnews wanted to know what the union activists thought. After all, most of the striking teachers are huge Obama supporters, and probably assumed they
This morning on CNN, the identity and past of scapegoated filmmaker Nikoula Nikoula was revealed to American audiences despite the private citizen’s extraordinary attempts to conceal his identity. During his late night frog march with Los Angeles County Deputies
Politico has abandoned any attempt to pose as an objective news source and is now functioning as the unofficial outlet for the Obama campaign, trading pieces they write that promulgate the Obama campaign’s narrative for scoops they get from the
The Obama administration this morning sent out Ambassador Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, to flack for the administration’s utterly feckless Middle Eastern foreign policy. Her task was difficult: she somehow had to spin the administration’s cowardly
Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan made the case that President Barack Obama’s agenda is hostile to the unified interests of economic conservatives and social conservatives at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit (VVS). Thousands of socially-conservative voters gather every fall
NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro doesn’t stand for our national anthem and won’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Why? Because he places his position as a “journalist” above love of county. But, one wonders, does Shapiro understand that without
A simple three-page report by the Government Accountability Institute tallying up the number of days President Barack Obama has attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) on intelligence has ignited a firestorm of controversy that places the attacks on the U.S.
By KEN THOMASAssociated PressNEW YORKWho would Mitt Romney like to see play him in a movie? (Gene Hackman) What’s Romney’s guilty pleasure (peanut butter sandwiches and chocolate milk). And what exactly, does the Republican presidential hopeful wear to bed? Romney
“If they’ll protect a scumbag like me, then they’ll protect all of you.” Larry Flynt’s infamous quote summarizes Hollywood’s self-congratulatory celebration of free speech in its Academy Award-nominated film “The People vs. Larry Flynt.” Critic Roger Ebert said the film
Now that the White House and State Department have made clear that they believe movies compel terrorists to terrorize, it’s time for them to get ahead of this problem. And one thing the White House can do immediately is to
The State Department has announced it will answer no more questions on the deaths of four Americans at a Libya consulate until the Justice Department completes an investigation of the September 11th incident. Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland passed responsibility to the
Barely more than three years ago, President Obama traveled to Cairo, speaking to students and offering a “new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.” Now, in the wake of the storming of the US Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday,
Google stood up for artistic expression and to White House pressure today when it rejected a request from the Obama administration to remove an online video that mocked Muhammed. Anti-American Islamists have used the video as an excuse to attack
The White House said Friday President Barack Obama asked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to speak out against anti-American attacks in Arab countries and the YouTube movie that sparked them. Erdogan followed through on Obama’s request, saying in Ukraine
Yesterday, the White House asked YouTube to review the video that supposedly sparked riots across the Muslim world and led to the storming of multiple US and European embassies and consulates. Blatantly ignoring the free speech implications of intervening with
Even while White House spokesman Jay Carney reiterated that the attack against the US Embassy in Libya was a reaction to a film “m,any Muslims found offensive” and that there was no advance warning of the attacks, Democrat Senators briefed
Today, President Obama released the long-awaited “sequestration report,” detailing the cuts the White House would make to the budget under last year’s Budget Control Act if no deal is reached in Congress. And there, buried on page 136, is the
Suddenly, President Obama cares about notifying Congress of troop movements under the War Powers Resolution. This afternoon, after moving military personnel to Libya and Yemen, President Obama issued a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Senate President Pro Tempore
Ambassador Chris Stevens did not have a Marine detail in Benghazi, Libya. But White House Senior Advisor and Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett has a full Secret Service detail on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, according to Democratic pollster Pat Caddell. That’s
This morning on CNN’s “Starting Point,” Obama’s incredibly revealing admissionWednesday night that he might have lost Egypt as our biggest and most important (besides Israel) ally in the Middle East, was treated as a brilliant tactical move to get the Egyptians
While the world is engulfed in Islamist ragefests, including the storming of Western embassies across the Middle East and the evacuation of the University of Texas at Austin due to bomb threats, President Obama is doing what he does best.
