The Islamic Republic of Iran claimed it has fully replicated and reverse-engineered a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned spy plane. The UAV was downed in 2011 while it was surveilling Iran’s nuclear and military sites. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who
HBO’s Bill Maher isn’t right all that often, but on this one he nails just what the Donald Sterling scandal means once you get past your disgust over the horrible things he said about blacks. What about privacy? What about
On his Monday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh presented his theory as to why then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn’t declare Boko Haram a terrorist group back in President Barack Obama’s first term, which he declared to be based
On Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” on Monday, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume reacted to revelations from Tim Geithner’s memoir that White House communications staffers Dan Pfeiffer and Stephanie Cutter attempted to coerce the then-Treasury Secretary to make
Republican Senator Marco Rubio says he is ready to become the first Hispanic president of the United States, taking a swipe at potential Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Rubio, born in the United States to Cuban immigrants and a darling of
In a recent interview on Fox News, Josh Rogin, the senior correspondent for national security and politics for The Daily Beast, was unsparing in his criticism of Hillary Clinton’s record of negligence and incompetence during her tenure as Obama’s Secretary
The White House has 132 rooms, 32 bathrooms, 6 levels, 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 7 staircases, and 3 elevators. What’s more, there is now an arrangement of solar panels resting on its roof that is generating almost 44 kilowatt
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized gridlock in Washington, D.C. and labeled it America’s “biggest national security threat.” He said, “I think the greatest national secretary threat to this country at this point is
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is facing criticism after the Sun revealed that his new American election guru advised a mortgage company that ripped off its customers. The public relations firm owned David Axelrod, who previously advised U.S. President Barack Obama, was
After more than half a century, the nation’s oldest black bookstore, Marcus Books – named after Marcus Garvey, a man who is known as the father of black nationalism – is closing its San Francisco location on Fillmore Street following
As someone who has long advocated for the formation of a select committee on Benghazi, this week’s vote that it has become a reality was welcome and exciting news. Since learning about the upcoming committee probe, I have been thinking
The White House: In this week’s address, First Lady Michelle Obama honored all mothers on this upcoming Mother’s Day and offered her thoughts, prayers and support in the wake of the unconscionable terrorist kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls.
Ezra Klein’s latest online news venture, Vox.com, advertises itself as the place to go if you want the news explained to you. What we are already discovering, though, is that Vox is just a nicer-looking version of Media Matters: a
On his Friday broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Bill Maher insisted the original White House talking point, which was the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was inspired by an anti-Islamic YouTube video, is still
Former Clinton operative and one-time labor secretary Robert Reich slammed the Obama White House for working with retail giant Walmart on a new climate change campaign. Titling his post “DEPARTMENT OF ILL-ADVISED PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES,” Reich slammed Obama for working with
The white-marble Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington DC, looks like a giant courts building or a central bank, fully intimidating and imposing in its hulking stony blockiness. And the US Congress, of course, is an institution best known
After working with the National Restaurant Association to try to get amnesty and immigration reform legislation that would import more foreign workers, President Barack Obama claimed that the very workers whose wages the Congressional Budget Office determined would be lowered
Liberal blogger Ezra Klein loves to visit the White House, and the White House appears more than willing to open the door. Since 2009, Klein’s name appears in the White House visitor logs 27 times, according to a search of
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney criticized the new select committee formed to investigate the Benghazi attacks, calling it a “blatantly political and partisan effort.” House Speaker John Boehner announced the panel Friday afternoon following the House of Representatives vote,
Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Assad have used chemical weapons in over 30 cases since Syria joined the Chemical Weapons Convention last year and agreed to the destruction of its entire arsenal, reports The Times of Israel. “From
Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana is being courted by some establishment GOP leaders who believe he can take their party to the White House, and Pence himself seems to be warming to a bid for president in 2016. Pence and
Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Assad have used chemical weapons in over 30 attacks since Syria joined the Chemical Weapons Convention last year and agreed to the destruction of its entire chemical arsenal, reports The Times of Israel. “From
Democrats spent weeks before and months after the sequester last year claiming that Republicans were somehow laying waste to the federal government with the budget cuts contained in the deal. But despite the doomsday scenarios, it is now reported that
WASHINGTON (AP) — Timothy Geithner says in a new memoir that he considered stepping down as Treasury secretary in 2010 after the financial crisis and suggested Hillary Rodham Clinton as a possible successor. President Barack Obama rebuffed Geithner’s suggestion, and
US National Security Adviser Susan Rice assured Israel at high-level talks on Thursday that Washington remained determined to stop Iran developing nuclear arms, the White House said. Earlier, Netanyahu said the best defence against a nuclear Iran was to block
