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On November 23 the White House focused on gun control as a means of shifting attention away from President Obama’s contentious push for Syrian refugees.

Two female suicide bombers launched a deadly attack that killed an estimated 15 people at a packed mobile phone market in Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday. Kano is the largest city in Northern Nigeria. The explosion ripped through Farm Centre market just after 4:00pm local time and comes only a day after a terrorist attack killed 32 and wounded 80 in the Northeast city of Yola.

CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama adviser David Axelrod said that the rise of ISIS “was not what was anticipated” by the Obama administration “And it is going to be an issue in the election” during CNN’s coverage of

WASHINGTON D.C.—Hillary Clinton’s unofficial political adviser Sidney Blumenthal walked Clinton through the Democratic strategy on how to prop up less-threatening Republican candidates in order to hurt the stronger Republicans.

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former senior adviser to President Barack Obama and political analyst David Axelrod said Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is not being realistic about having millions of people march on Washington D.C. demanding

Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” former Obama chief analyst David Axelrod said the biggest challenge for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in tonight’s debate is to make her recent policy shifts to the left on issues like the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Democratic strategist David Axelrod said to turn around her plummeting poll numbers, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton needs to “untether” her “absolutely calibrated language.” Axelrod said, “I think she needs to untether herself from

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s claim that “everyone” in the government that she talked to knew that she was using a private email server contradicts statements given by President Obama and top White House advisers.

Despite having previously denied the existence of a personal email account held by Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state, it was revealed in a document dump of those emails that had occurred on Tuesday that former Obama

Emails released by the State Department on Tuesday show former Obama Senior Adviser David Axelrod asking for and emailing Hillary Clinton’s email address, even though on the June 17, 2015 broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” he claimed that he didn’t know

President Obama has yet to react to the news that the Supreme Court upheld the legality of Obamacare subsidies, but many of his former staffers cheered as the the latest legal attempt against Obama’s signature healthcare law failed.

Axelrod was sought out by Romney to provide the gathered Republican crowd with the sort of winning advice he gave to President Obama in his successful 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Romney and Axelrod have apparently become friendly of late.

Former Obama Senior Adviser David Axelrod said that if he knew about Hillary Clinton’s private server at the time he “would have concerns about it” and “if the St. Louis Cardinals can poach the secrets of the Houston Astros, then,

Former Obama Senior Adviser David Axelrod stated that Hillary Clinton “owned” the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “to some degree” in 2012 on Monday’s “Hardball” on MSNBC. After watching a clip of Bill Clinton “finessing” NAFTA, Axelrod said, “It was a little

On Tuesday, former Obama advisor David Axelrod informed an Israeli television channel that President Obama considers himself “the closet thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office.” Obama’s deep and abiding connection to Jewish identity is obviously rooted in his ethnic background, connected to Jews via (?); his ideological ties to Jews, such as (?); and a profound connection with the state of Israel as evidenced by (?).

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” while discussing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unwillingness to take questions from the media while campaigning for president, David Axelrod, a former top political adviser for President Barack Obama, said, “It would be a

Several times I’ve written for The American Spectator on the person of David Axelrod, the figure most responsible for giving America two terms of Barack Obama. My first piece was a cover feature for the March 2012 print edition, titled, “David Axelrod, Lefty Lumberjack.”

On April 22 families of 11 Sandy Hook Elementary victims made clear that they are not affiliated with Sandy Hook Promise, the gun control group for whom Tim McGraw is raising money.

On April 20 David Axelrod praised country singer Tim McGraw’s commitment to play a gun control fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise on July 17.

Former Obama Senior Advisor David Axelrod predicted Hillary Clinton will face questions on the economy because “there’s a sense that work doesn’t pay” on Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “We have an economy that has recovered from the recession,

The Left appears increasingly flustered over events in the Middle East, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party’s declaration of victory in Tuesday’s elections isn’t likely to help matters much.

One of President Obama’s top former advisors doesn’t think the Hillary Clinton email scandal will have legs.

Former Obama Senior Advisor David Axelrod stated that “there’s no doubt that” Hillary Clinton has “given oxygen” to the controversy over her e-mails on Monday’s “MSNBC Live.” Axelrod said that while no one can determine what the long-term impact of

Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld said that David Axelrod’s belief that the Obama administration had “a major scandal” was one cultivated by media “fanboys” and “suck-ups” on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Five.” Gutfeld began by stating that Axelrod was

Former Obama Senior Advisor David Axelrod expressed pride that the Obama administration had not had “a major scandal” at a discussion at the University of Chicago on Monday. “The rule has basically been that there’s been a ban on the

Former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod took issue with Dr. Ben Carson’s perspective on race relations, saying “I suspect many, many African-Americans in this country wouldn’t agree with his analysis” on Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” “First of all, let

Former Obama Senior Advisor David Axelrod said that he doesn’t think Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) would beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary on Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” “I know Elizabeth Warren well, and my strong feeling is she’s

Former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod declared that President Obama feels “very much unrestrained” on the issue of Israel on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Lead” on CNN. After anchor Jake Tapper read a passage from Axelrod’s book that said

If there is no way to keep government honest, then it is incumbent upon us to keep it weak. Right now, the U.S. has the worst of both worlds: Strong, yet too often dishonest, government.

Barack Obama’s former adviser that says the president was lying about his position on gay marriage until he changed his public stance in 2012.

Former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod said that he believes President Obama “respects” Al Sharpton’s “leadership” on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “You don’t decide, and I don’t decide who leaders in a community are. Al

David Axelrod, former Senior Advisor to President Obama said that he likes both Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton and that “maybe” the two will have different solutions to income inequality in an interview on Monday’s “Today” on NBC. Asked about

A new book says former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel wanted to elbow Valerie Jarrett aside, perhaps to the U.S. Senate.

Was President Obama a sore winner? David Axelrod’s new book suggests the president was annoyed after taking Mitt Romney’s concession call in 2012.

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Now with Alex Wagner,” former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, David Axelrod, said it would be a “suicidal impulse” for the Republican party to try and stop the president’s executive amnesty. Wagner asked “David, here’s what I

Former Obama Senior Advisor David Axelrod said that President Obama’s thinking going into his last two years in officer is”I have a shot to do some things…and if Congress wants to help, that’s great. If they don’t, we’ll do what