On April 8th, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney assured the press corps that Obama “will not focus on gun control in his remarks at [the] Fort Hood memorial service” on April 9th. According to The Hill, Carney made it
BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango, who was denied asylum in the United States but stayed illegally for years, died Tuesday at age 61. Onyango, whose immigration status was reported by The Associated Press days before Obama’s
Former White House communications director Anita Dunn, who once claimed the White House was a “hostile workplace” for woman on audio tape for the book “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President,” by journalist Ron Suskind,
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Geno Auriemma and Connecticut stand alone in women’s college basketball, and they reached the top in unprecedented fashion. The Huskies routed Notre Dame 79-58 in the first championship game featuring undefeated teams, winning their record ninth
Many prominent GOP establishment figures with deep ties and loyalties to the Bush family trekked to College Station, Texas last weekend not only to celebrate the 25th anniversary of George H.W. Bush’s presidency but also to convince former Florida Governor
On Tuesday’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama’s justification for the push against gender pay discrimination, which if true his own administration would be guilty of such discrimination. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The United States notified Iran’s government on Tuesday that Tehran’s pick for a new U.N. envoy is “not viable,” a day after the U.S. Senate voted against letting the diplomat enter the country. American officials objected
With President Obama under fire for paying his women staff less than his male staff despite a drive for “paycheck equality,” White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri pushed back by noting the front row of the press corps in the
Paul Krugman published a blog post yesterday titled “Asymmetric Stupidity” which argues that it’s primarily conservatives who suffer from epistemic closure. Here’s the core of Krugman’s thin argument: Here’s the thing: the lived experience is that this effect is not,
After spending nearly 5 minutes struggling to explain the White House’s misleading gender gap stats, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney engaged in the Obama Regime’s tried and true (but despicable) tactic of impugning the motives of Republicans. In response to
President Obama seems to be under the mistaken impression that he’s a one-man Congress who can simply ignore the law to comport with his political interests. JW filed a lawsuit on behalf of Kawa Orthodontics, owned by Florida orthodontist Dr.
An elite Washington education policy group has conducted an anonymous survey of influential education insiders to provide strategic support to stakeholders in the current Common Core debate. Whiteboard Advisors state their April 2014 survey contains the views of unidentified education
White House press secretary Jay Carney and Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason had back-and-forth dialogue over the validity of the White House’s claim women are paid less than men… (h/t RNC Research)
At National Review, Matthew Continetti lays out the numbers that look at how communications giant Comcast has spent the last few years purchasing the Democrat Party, especially Barack Obama. Now that Comcast is looking to merge with Time Warner and
The public school lunches mandated by Michelle Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act are making news, and not in a good way. Students have taken to social media to complain that the lunches are leaving them hungry and dissatisfied, posting photos
It’s an election year, so Democrats are resurrecting the Republican War on Women rhetoric they think worked so well for them in 2012. But even as they push “Equal Pay Day” with their #GOPPayGap hashtag on Twitter, today, the White House
A “Promise Zone” for Los Angeles that President Barack Obama announced in January would be the beneficiary of federal funds for economic development is under fire for bypassing poorer residents in greater need of aid, and directly benefiting a nonprofit
The White House warned Moscow not to act on the protests in east Ukraine and Secretary of State John Kerry said he will meet with top diplomats from Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union. Early Monday morning, protesters in Donetsk
On Monday, November 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan delivered an election-eve speech in which he sought to clinch his relationship with the voters. As he said of Americans, “They seek a vision of a better America, a vision of society that
President Obama is scheduled to visit Fort Hood on Wednesday to attend a memorial service for the shooting victims. “The president and first lady send their thoughts and prayers out to the victims and families and everyone on the base,
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said President Barack Obama may no longer participate in selfies at the White House after David Ortiz’s sponsored stunt last week. “Well, he obviously didn’t know anything about Samsung’s connection to this,” Pfeiffer said
Stoked by a few recent media appearances and a proposed reunion dinner with his 2012 campaign staff, the rumor mill is wondering if Mitt Romney may try for another run for the White House. Romney has been making the media
With Democrats needing to turn out their base in November and women comprising a significant part of it, Barack Obama is going the extra measure to keep the so-called War on Women meme alive with two new pay-based executive actions,
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attacked former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs for his suggestion earlier in the week that the employer mandate of ObamaCare will not take effect. Pelosi said
The New York Times recently reported on how modern epidemiology may be changing a nearly two-century-old diagnosis of the first president to die in office. Though most American’s could not pick the ninth president out of a lineup, William Henry
