Last Thursday President Obama claimed before a large audience that the government had recovered “every dime” of the financial bailout. But according to a CBO report issued this month, Obama is off by at least $24 billion and as much
Trinity Church in Manhattan has an annual Halloween celebration which includes a safe spot for kids to trick-or-treat and watch movies. But the church is cancelling the event this year because it can’t guarantee safety for those who attend. An
Mitt Romney has made a few honest gaffes during this campaign, as has the President. But Romney’s actual gaffes are surely outnumbered by the number of invented, bogus gaffes pushed out by the professional left. Here’s a list of ten
New polling released Monday by USAToday/Gallup shows Governor Romney taking a four point lead over the President in 12 swing states, including the crucial state of Florida. The poll also shows that the gender gap has closed, with Romney and
Just a few weeks ago, conservatives (including some at this site) called out pollsters for releasing polls with impossibly huge sampling discrepancies as wide as D+11. For their trouble they were labeled “poll truthers” by folks on the left. Now,
Broken windows at four banks and a drug store appear to be the work of a few dozen Occupy Portland members. The vandalism spree took place Thursday night. Police were called and some suspects were detained but no arrests have
Was there an embarrassing gaffe in Thursday night’s debate? Vice President Biden gave a bungled and misleading answer about the situation in Benghazi in which he stated that “we” did not know security requests had been made. Biden’s statement is
Monday, a Wisconsin bus driver irritated by a Romney yard sign initiated a political conversation with a middle school student she was transporting. A brief conversation ended when the driver suggested the boy should have been aborted by his mother.
There was a nice human interest story on the campaign trail yesterday, but the AP found a way to muss it up. You rarely see media bias as blatant as you do in a comparison of the following two photos.
Stanley Kurtz, author of the new book Spreading the Wealth, has written a case study of recent efforts to implement regionalism in Ohio. This plan would raid suburban tax money for the benefit of urban areas while also intentionally limiting
About 200 Occupy Oakland activists held a march which turned into a roving vandalism spree through downtown. Billed as a protest against the war in Afghanistan, protesters smashed the windows of banks, businesses and BMW’s along their route. Marchers also
Have you noticed that we’ve seen a lot less of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz recently? Since getting caught misrepresenting her own statements caught on tape in early September, she seems to have been relegated to the back bench. Wednesday
During the debate Wednesday night, President Obama repeatedly claimed Governor Romney’s tax plan arithmetic did not add up. But Wednesday, the author of the study Obama relied on admitted Romney’s plan could add up using different assumptions. William G. Gale
Everytime you think the administration’s failure in Benghazi couldn’t get worse, it gets worse. Eli Lake reports that in the six months leading up to the September 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, security was not only not
With the release of a 2007 speech in which candidate Obama made some unusually strong statements about race, now is as good a time as any to reveal another long lost Obama video. This clip from a January, 21 2002
Update: Asked about claims that requests for additional security in Benghazi were denied, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney refused to comment, citing an ongoing investigation by the FBI. Nearly three weeks after the attack, FBI agents sent to Libya to
A little seen video shows a group associated with Al Qaeda attacking the Red Cross outpost in Benghazi with a rocket propelled grenade. The Red Cross attack took place in May and the group responsible delivered an IED to the
The Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program has already had two significant failures in the solar industry, the best known being Solyndra. Now a third company, San Jose’s SoloPower, seems to be following in Solyndra’s footsteps and threatening to leave
The Washington Post‘s fact checker has weighed in on the story of Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage. Rather than fact-check Warren’s evolving and demonstrably false claims, the Post decides to fact check Scott Brown and awards him two Pinocchios. The
The Obama campaign released a two-minute ad Wednesday which lays out a four point plan for his second term. The ad may sound good to those not paying much attention, but all it really does is rehash old promises and
Matt Damon’s new anti-fracking film is called “Promised Land,” but it doesn’t look as if the film will ever get there. In fact, Damon’s revised script seems to be wandering in the desert with hopes of receiving manna from Oscar-heaven
Twice this week, progressive media outlets have embarrassed themselves by jumping on stories that looked like promising anti-Republican material only to discover hours later they’d been fooled. In one case, the mistake was a piece of satire, the other a
The President’s approach to the Middle East over the last three years suggests Obama has a bi-polar foreign policy. He alternates between moments of laying low, as in Iran, and manic energy for change, as in Egypt. The result is
In Obama’s speech at the UN, he asked less of Muslims than he asks of members of his own faith and,critically, less than he himself has said is required of those embarkingon a path to real democracy. That’s not just
British patients depending on the National Health Service are increasingly asking their doctors about private treatment options. The shift is the result of public rationing by the NHS which makes many patients ineligible for “free” care. Doctors in the UK
Remaining Occupiers in San Francisco have decided to abandon their camp and let it collapse under its own weight. They’ve grown tired of being overwhelmed by vagrants who take up space but don’t contribute anything to the movement. A camper
A letter from auditors at Price Waterhouse Cooper states unequivocally that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid taxes every year between 1990 and 2009. This puts an end, once and for all, to irresponsible left-wing media speculation started by Sen.
First Romney, then the You Tube clip, now the Marines are to blame?The Obama administration’s shifting claims on what took place inBenghazi, Libya on 9/11 became more defiant yesterday when unnamedofficials suggested that no amount of security would have mattered
On Wednesday, the House passed a new bill which would allow wealthy Americans to pay more than they actually owe in taxes. The bill was mischievously titled the “Buffett Rule Act,” a reference to the Buffett Rule which the president
Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno had some harsh words for Chick-fil-A two months ago. Now he has changed his mind and says he welcomes the company to set up a new restaurant because of a change in their corporate policy toward
An article published in the early morning of September 12th by NBC News confused events taking place in Libya and Egypt. The article, which was reproduced over 1,200 times on the web, may have led to confusion about what happened
The U.S. State Dept. issued a travel warning telling Americans to avoid Libya two weeks before the deadly attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others. In addition, a recently updated threat assessment for Libya demonstrates the State Department
The skit that opened “Saturday Night Live” this weekend featured impressions of President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Strangely absent was Vice President Joe Biden who, of the four top candidates, seems the most ripe for humor. But
On the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, dozens of protesters were arrested as they attempted to block streets in New York’s financial district. Police have reported 146 arrests so far. As many as 1,000 protesters came to
The collective bargaining law passed under Gov. Walker in Wisconsin has been struck down. Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled the law was unconstitutional Friday afternoon. The law in question restricted collective bargaining by public sector employees. At one
Police in New York are searching for a man who raped a 56-year-old woman and then tossed her over a 2nd story railing. The woman knew the man from his involvement in the Occupy movement. The NYPD put out the
Prior to the deadly attack on a US consulate in Benghazi this week, there were two other attacks on visiting dignitaries within the last five months. In addition two western outposts were targeted including a bomb attack at the same
The Cairo Embassy’s controversial statement about “abuse” of free speech was written by a senior public affairs officer and approved by the Chargé d’affaires. A draft of the statement was sent to the State Department; officials there recommended against it
A timeline of yesterday’s events shows that it took the Obama administration 16 hours to disavow a statement posted on the US Embassy in Cairo website. It appears that the administration’s failure to correct the embassy and the doubling down
Protesters turned out in Tunisia, Morocco, and Sudan today as US embassies in at least seven countries warned of possible attacks sparked by outrage over an anti-Islamic film. In Tunisia, some 200 protesters turned up at the US embassy and
