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National Journal Senior Political Columnist and Editorial Director Ron Fournier said that the White House was caught trying to “BS” the American public, who they believed was “too dumb to realize it” on the swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on Wednesday’s “Special Report”

Friday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest repeatedly told reporters the Obama administration was not OK with the divisiveness of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s Election Day statement saying he did not think there would be a Palestinian

NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd reported that officials inside the White House “are very much calling” for “any sort of UN  action that might recognize an independent Palestine, or that might try to attempt to jump start and

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) unveiled a plan Wednesday that purports to eliminate the Common Core standards from his state.

A year after the Obama administration issued new school discipline policies based on the concern that students of color are “disproportionately impacted” by suspensions and expulsions, a journalist proposes the liberal policies–based in social justice ideology–are making schools less safe.

Monday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said when the administration is saying Congress has a role in the Iran nuclear negotiations, what they are talking about is their consultations with Congress through hundreds of “meetings,

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Breitbart News’ National Security Editor and Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University, sat down with radio host Lars Larson at the 2015 CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) to discuss a range of foreign policy and

Wall Street Journal Middle East Correspondent Matt Bradley said that there has been “very little evidence” to back the Obama administration’s claims of success against ISIS on Sunday’s “This Week” on ABC. “The administration has been flogging this idea that they’re

The New York Times has a depressing article headlined “Mutual Suspicion Mars Tech Trade With China,” whose title buries the lede. The story is more about tech companies suspicious of both China and the Obama Administration. There is a serious information-technology trade war underway, and China is eating Team Obama’s lunch, in part due to continuing fallout from Edward Snowden’s revelations of Obama’s digital surveillance state.

Wednesday at the White House press briefing, several members of the press grilled press secretary Josh Earnest over recent examples of the administration “tip-toeing” around naming Christian or Jewish victims but rushing to the defense of Muslims. It started with

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” in discussing  Vice President Joe Biden’s comments this weekend in Munich, which he said the Ukrainian people “have a right to defend themselves,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) charged no one in the room listening to Biden’s

Confirmation hearings in progress for crucial cabinet posts such as Defense Secretary and Attorney General miss an important reality in the Obama administration–the official chain of command apparently operates, when it does operate, only for show.

European officials have reportedly relayed a message to Israeli officials about the Obama administration’s plans concerning the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. The U.S. and Iran are reportedly closing in on a deal that would allow the Ayatollah’s regime to keep the vast majority of its centrifuges running, while also allowing for Iran to be in charge of stabilizing its surrounding region.

The Obama administration is reportedly looking to enlist the Walt Disney Co. to inform children about the dangers of climate change by using the popular animated film franchise, Frozen.

The Obama administration has officially linked the North Korean government to the Sony Pictures hack, perpetrated by a group calling itself the “Guardians of Peace” in retaliation for a film that mocks North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

The United States Consulate in Jerusalem, Israel has been arming a group of thirty-five Palestinians from East Jerusalem communities, supposedly for the purpose of providing security for U.S. consular trips into the West Bank, according to reports.

It is common for White House spokespeople to spin the facts–to find the interpretation that best flatters the president. It is rare, but not unheard of, for White House spokespeople to lie about facts that are not yet fully known to the public. It is extraordinary for White House spokespeople to lie about facts that everyone already knows. Yet that is exactly what Josh Earnest did on Tuesday, when trying to explain why the Obama administration strains to avoid mentioning radical Islam.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is explaining what he thinks the Republican Party position on immigration should be in a 25-page document delivered to all Republican members of Congress and all their key staffers on Capitol Hill. “‘Immigration reform’ may be the single most abused phrase in the English language. It has become a legislative honorific almost exclusively reserved for proposals which benefit everyone but actual American citizens,” Sessions writes in the introduction.

For the Obama administration, skipping the Paris unity march was the lesser of two evils. Attending would surely have garnered some praise from the media but it also would have been hard to explain on the domestic and international front.

Attorney General Eric Holder will be representing the United States at Sunday afternoon’s rally against terrorism in Paris, France, according to news reports. President Barack Obama has no public events scheduled, and Secretary of State John Kerry is on a trip to India.

On Wednesday, the Obama administration released new guidelines specifically emphasizing “the civil rights of students learning English as a second language.” According to the Washington Post, “the new guidance is the first in 24 years to address the rights of

Sharyl Attkisson filed a $35 million lawsuit against the Obama administration, specifically the Justice Department and the Postal Service.

Breitbart Texas obtained internal federal government photos depicting the conditions of foreign children warehoused by authorities on U.S. soil on Wednesday night. Thousands of illegal immigrants have overrun U.S. border security and their processing centers in Texas along the U.S./Mexico border. Unaccompanied minors, including young girls under the age of 12, are making the dangerous journey from Central America and Mexico, through cartel-controlled territories, and across the porous border onto U.S. soil.