JPMorgan Chase’s embattled chief executive Jamie Dimon will be hauled before Congress on June 7 to explain recent huge trading losses, legislators announced Friday. Dimon will testify before the Senate Banking Committee as committee chair Tim Johnson vowed to “get
After getting caught with its pants down with a wholly dishonest fact-check backing up and attempting to legitimize the absurd claim that Obama is some sort of thrifty spender of historic proportions, Politifact’s public humiliation is now complete. Though the Associated Press
If Rex Nutting wants to embarrass himself shilling for the White House with the absurd claim “Obama’s spending binge never happened,” that’s a problem between him and Market Watch. It becomes a very serious problem, though, when left-wing mainstream media enablers like
(AP) Senate rejects GOP, Dem plans on student loansBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate rejected dueling Democratic and Republican plans on Thursday for averting a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for 7.4 million students, pushing back
In an appearance on Fox News this morning, Mitt Romney was asked ifhe agreed with Rush Limbaugh that Obama seemed ready to run a campaignagainst capitalism. Romney responded that it “certainly sounds likethat’s what he’s doing.” Romney has spent the
Judicial Watch says more information regarding the alliance between the White House and the makers of the upcoming Osama bin Laden film is still being held back from the public. “[The Obama administration] wanted to keep it all secret,” says
A Rex Nutting article in Marketwatch claiming the President has been a budget hawk has generated a lot of comment, much of it mistaken. Due to what I call The Lesser-Known Law of Large Numbers, most people’s brains go on
What’s the big deal about the chatter between Obama administration officials and the folks behind the upcoming movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden? After all, Hollywood routinely checks in with the U.S. military to share minutiae to make
After April’s nuclear talks with Iran produced nothing more than an agreement to talk again in May, Israeli Prime Minister said that the Obama administration and the other “six nations” (China, Germany, Britain, France, and Russia) had merely given Iran
Politifact is quite proud of its contextually-challenged fabrication built to ensure that whenever presumptive nominee Mitt Romney hits one of President Obama’s primary weak spots — his unprecedented, reckless, and failed federal spending binge — the White House Palace Guards
Kathryn Bigelow is an exceptionally talented director and, until she finally won the Best Director Oscar a couple of years ago (and became the first woman to do so), her obvious talents had gone unappreciated for almost two decades. The
(AP) Jurors in Edwards trial to deliberate for 5th dayBy MICHAEL BIESECKERAssociated PressGREENSBORO, N.C.As jurors in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial get set for a fifth day of deliberations, legal experts caution it’s still too early to read too
Hustler, a magazine known for its good taste and stolid prose (no,not really), has decided to turn its sights on conservative author andcommentator S.E. Cupp. The magazine just published a Photoshopped imageof Cupp performing oral sex along with the following
The stage is being set so that military Chaplains can and most likely will be ordered to perform same sex marriage in contradiction to their religious beliefs. WASHINGTON, May 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrat House leaders including Nancy Pelosi have
Rep. Peter King has been the most vocal politician regarding collaboration charges against the White House in connection to the upcoming film about the death of Osama bin Laden. Now, we’re learning King had every right to be worried. King
Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network is hemorrhaging money, and her popularity has yet to recover after her public embrace of then-Sen. Barack Obama’s race for the White House. Fellow Obama backer Arianna Huffington’s much-balleyhooed deal with AOL hasn’t worked out as
In October of 2011, in a nationally televised news conference, President Obama had nothing but positive things to say about the Occupy Wall Street movement. That same month, in an interview with ABC News, the President said of Occupy, “We
President Barack Obama might have won the Nobel Peace Prize a tad prematurely, but he may be making a bid for the Oscars. The Daily Caller reports that documents obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the White House “worked closely
Wendell Goler: “The President has voiced support for the Occupy folks in the past, or at least their goals, did their actions in Chicago sour his support?” Jay Carney: “Well I think you’re making broad comparisons between different groups, what
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported today that an agreement on nuclear inspections might be in the works with the Iranian regime–or, more precisely, that a “decision” had been made to reach an agreement. The White House welcomed the
Press secretary Jay Carney said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s business credentials and career at Bain Capital deserve “scrutiny” from voters in a White House press briefing on Tuesday.
Ryan Crocker, who was the top U.S. envoy in Iraq, Pakistan, and Syria before going to Afghanistan, is expected to step down in a few months. Erica Hill reports this news that comes from chief White House correspondent Norah O’Donnell.
The eminent presidential historian and Lyndon Johnson biographer Robert Caro has always said that “power reveals.” And it is becoming more evident that President Barack Obama is revealing himself more and more as a typical Chicago politician. When he was
An interactive and searchable database of White House visitor logs is turning up some interesting findings and reveals a “steady stream of lobbyists” visiting the Obama White House, reports the Washington Post. For example, AFL-CIO lobbyist Bill Samuel visited the
In the aftermath of Vice President Joe Biden’s “Howard Dean” moment in Ohio last week, I was struck by the sheer magnitude of the Progressive-Democrat Left’s hypocrisy when it comes to their political attacks on the so-called “rich.” As the
