Ohio’s heretofore conservative governor, John Kasich, has decided he will accept federal money to expand Medicaid benefits–a move that puts him on the side of ObamaCare. Conservatives are furious: Chris Littleton, the Ohio director for American Majority Action, said, “The
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican who campaigned as a budget hawk and rode the Tea Party wave to victory in 2010, has agreed to accept Obamacare funding to expand his state’s Medicaid program, breaking ranks with fellow Republican governors
Senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett Thanks for covering it, and thanks for everything,” Jarrett said. “It’s been a good four years with you all as well.”
If you can’t beat them, buy them. That has been the Obama Administration’s cronyism strategy with corporate America, showering bailouts, government grants, and other crony perks along the way. Employ Occupy Wall Street rhetoric publicly, but cut corporations into big
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton says that President Obama is willing to talk if Iran is “willing to engage.” This apparently means the negotiations Presidential Adviser Valerie Jarrett has held in Obama’s stead will be supplanted by talks with Obama
Iran’s nuclear energy chief Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani is on record saying Iran will go on enriching uranium “with intensity.” This means international demands that Iran halt enrichment “to the higher 20 percent fissile purity level, close down its Fordow enrichment plant,
Even as the media complains that Republican House officials have installed males at the top of their committees, it ignores the fact that President Obama’s senior advisors are almost entirely white males. The only top advisor who is a female
On Nov. 5, Israeli PM Netanyahu told Israeli TV he is ready to “press the button on Iran.” Speaking of upcoming Israeli elections, Netanyahu said, “I guarantee that if I’m reelected at prime minister I will not allow Iran to get a
Even as Obama and Ahmadinejad deny that any nuclear negotiations have been entered into by the U.S. and Iran, Senior Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett is reportedly negotiating with Tehran on Obama’s behalf. If true this claim could confirm the New
By disclosing to the media last year that he had “a B-plus” GPA at Occidental College and “a 3.7” GPA at Columbia College, President Obama has put himself in a situation comparable to then-Senator Biden during his 1987 campaign for
This is the latest in a series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, Cold War historian and professor of political science, on his blockbuster book, The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. The Communist
Barack Obama was warned that our Libyan Embassy faced an attack on 9/11 and did nothing. Zero. Zip. Four brave Americans died, including our Ambassador. The media says nothing. Before the attack, the Obama administration turned down a request from our
Pat Caddell, the former adviser to President Jimmy Carter, called the mainstream media an “enemy of the American people” at an Accuracy in Media conference on September 21st. A video of Caddell’s remarks were posted this weekend and has since
Ambassador Chris Stevens did not have a Marine detail in Benghazi, Libya. But White House Senior Advisor and Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett has a full Secret Service detail on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, according to Democratic pollster Pat Caddell. That’s
It’s hard to know which is worse: the arrogance of the Obama administration in assuming that its White House staffers can get away with anything, or the apathy of the media in not holding those staffers accountable. Actually, let’s scratch
This is the third in a series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, Cold War historian and professor of political science, on his blockbuster book, The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. The Communist is based on
During an interview with CBS News David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett were asked about the exclusion of naming Jerusalem the capital Israeli Valerie Jarrett “He just thought it was important to put back in what has been in the platform,
According to a new book, not only did Valerie Jarrett dissuade Obama from going after Osama bin Laden three times prior to the successful mission in May 2011, but the key figure in persuading Obama to authorize the mission was
Earlier today Media Matters’ Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert bashed the Navy SEALs as ‘gutless’ because they criticized Obama’s national security leaks. Considering the apparent coordination between the White House and Media Matters, many wonder if the White House shares Media
Singer Lady Gaga and her mum may be very serious about ending bullying as we know it. Too bad the singer’s ma is choosing to team up with a White House, known for bullying those who don’t ride the Hope
This is the second in a series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, Cold War historian and professor of political science, who has just released a major book, The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s
As I wrote yesterday, Richard Miniter’s new book “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisers Who Decide for Him,” contains the bombshell allegation that Valerie Jarrett talked President Obama out of okaying the mission to kill Osama bin
White House salaries and hiring increased in 2012, according to an annual report released Friday by the White House. The “Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff” reveals that White House staff salaries jumped from $37.1 million in 2011 to $37.8
President Barack Obama last month “dined and dashed,” eating lunch at a restaurant and then promptly leaving without paying the bill. Obama ended up paying the bill by the close of business, but the New Hampshire town in which he
Even as Chicago sent 100+ police officers to guard the wedding of Valerie Jarrett’s daughter, the city underwent a dramatic crime wave. According to local media, at least seven people were killed and 35 were injured over the weekend. One
Jeremy Segal of Breitbart News caught up with former White House chief of staff Bill Daley at Chicago’s O’Hare airport this morning and asked him to respond to sensational allegations made by Ed Klein in his #1 bestselling book, The Amateur:
On Tuesday, against the backdrop of the Wisconsin recall election, Breitbart News interviewed Ed Klein, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House. We discussed Klein’s own politics, his methods in researching
In a new book titled “Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency,” author Daniel Klaidman asserts that David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s top campaign adviser, and Attorney General Eric Holder got into a shoving
The number of liberal commencement speakers at America’s top colleges dwarfs the number of conservative speakers. The ratio, 7-1 this year, has never been higher, according to Young America’s Foundation (YAF), which made a list of speakers invited to the
Yesterday morning, Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama, spoke at the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention. There, she touted Obama’s record on youth violence in Chicago: As a mom, it just breaks my heart when I hear stories
Valerie Jarrett is not only one of President Barack Obama’s closest advisors; she also is one of the most radical, with close connections to the Chicago left that nurtured Obama in his early political career. The Iranian-born Jarrett (her parents
White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett said, “Let’s face it, even though we had a terrible economic crisis three years ago, throughout our country many people were suffering before the last three years, particularly in the black community…And so we
Everybody worried about the economy needs to chill, Valerie Jarrett’s got this… White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett spoke at the Student Summit at North Carolina Central University and claimedunemployment stimulates the economy. Her reasoning behind this is people take their unemployment checks and
Unless you are an inside-the-beltway campaign consultant or you have been living an oblivious life, you most likely stand with the rest of the American electorate in being increasingly disgusted with the negative tone that the Republican candidates for President
Obama’s Alinsky-Style Power Analysis New York Times columnist Jodi Kantor’s book, The Obamas, tries very, very hard to paint a sympathetic picture of her eponymous subject matter–she gets her digs in against the supposedly racist tea party everywhere she can–but every once and a
The Obamas have developed quite the reputation for wasting taxpayer dollars on unnecessary global trips. Michelle Obama’s family vacation to Africa is one very recent example. Another is the Obamas’ failed bid to bring the Olympics to Chicago back in
A little publicized political story, if played out to the satisfaction of California Democrats (read: Progressives), would not only set the stage for a politically motivated raid on the US Treasury, it would afford President Obama, his administration and political
Mike Allen tells MSNBC that in his interview with Valerie Jarrett, she expressed confidence about the upcoming election cycle and that President’s ability to connect with people would outweigh anything that the GOP candidate could bring to the table.
JOE BIDEN: [handing President phone] Axelrod calling from Chicago, Boss. He sounds pissed. OBAMA: Hey Axe! Whassup? No, I don’t know who leaked our decision to abandon blue collar whites. Soon’s we find the S.O.B., we’ll dress him up like