After attacking Mitt Romney and Bain Capital last week for their dealings with a Missouri steel company, the Obama campaign today is turning to the tale of a closed Indiana office supply company that then-Senator Edward M. Kennedy used to repel Romney in their 1994 race. The saga of SCM Office Supplies Inc. in Marion, [...]
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After the opening day of the NATO summit in Chicago President Obama is still working on solidifying a strategy for ending combat operations in Afghanistan, but it seems his secondary goal of opening up supply lines in Pakistan has already fallen apart. President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan was invited to Chicago at the last [...]
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The violence in northern Nigeria is mistakenly viewed as a religious conflict rather than simply a tribal dispute over land, according to the Obama administration. Despite the ongoing Muslim destruction of churches and the slaughter of Christians – including many murdered during worship services – the U.S. Agency for International Development claims that the misunderstandings [...]
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose “God damn America” sermon set off a firestorm during the 2008 campaign, agreed not to publish an account of the episode until after President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, according to an interview Wright conducted with the author of a new book on Obama. Wright said he made the decision at the [...]
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A federal court on Friday rejected an Alabama county’s argument that a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights act is outdated. That could set the stage for a Supreme Court hearing. A divided federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld Congress’s 2006 extension of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, setting [...]
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Camp David, in the Maryland hills outside Washington, is usually a place for the president and his family to get away from work, a wooded refuge with a swimming pool, tennis courts and a putting green. This weekend, though, President Obama is bringing work with him to camp — along with the leaders from most [...]
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Of the two major-party presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, who is better at solving problems? And what sort of problems should the candidates be seeking to solve, anyway? In the first part of this series, we noted the remarkably even-steven division of power between the two parties, a phenomenon commonly described as “gridlock,” or “polarization.” [...]
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she stands with the White House in opposing a provision in the House defense authorization bill that would prohibit anyone in the military from ordering a chaplain to act against his or her “conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs” or against the religious beliefs of the denomination to [...]
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I have learned that Florida election officials are set to announce that the secretary of state has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida. How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Simple. Because Florida hadn’t been using the best available data revealing [...]
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What we’re learning today is the way in which the corrupt media intends to work with the Obama campaign to silence political free speech through the form of super PACs, and that’s sheer intimidation. As of right now, all of the MSM is in full passive-aggressive outrage mode over this New York Times’ story about [...]
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Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other [...]
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When asked what he planned to talk to President Barack Obama about at private lunch at the White House with other congressional leaders, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he would ask the president where is his plan to deal with the debt, impending tax increases, and cuts in the miiltary. “We’ve spent enough time playing small ball,” Boehner said [...]
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Mitt Romney swung through Florida on Wednesday, picking up more than $2 million in political contributions while bashing President Barack Obama as an ineffective leader. Romney pointed out that, earlier in the day, the Senate scuttled the president’s budget. “The number of Senators who voted for the Obama budget was zero. He has shown a [...]
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This could get awfully interesting. Edward Klein, author of the yet-to-be-released unauthorized biography of President Obama, titled “The Amateur,” has now specifically named the man who allegedly bribed Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor, with a $150,000 payment to stop speaking publicly. Klein, making an appearance on Sean Hannity’s radio show (via the Daily Caller), [...]
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President Barack Obama’s April fundraising total dropped almost 20 percent from the $53 million scored in March, falling to only $43.6 million. That jarring drop helps explain why Obama has curbed his criticism of Wall Street donors, and increased his efforts to spur donations from gay supporters. On May 9, he announced his support for [...]
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