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Romney: Human Rights Before Trade

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he would only back a Russian trade bill if it came with new guarantees of human rights and blasted President Obama for refusing to do the same. Reports...

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President Obama Mimics President Shepherd

Internet message boards noted Friday that President Obama’s most memorable line from his speech to the Democratic National Convention last night, “I’m the president” may have been lifted from the 1995...

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Bag the Bird

In an apparent escalation in the war of words between the Obama and Romney campaigns over whether PBS should continue to receive government funding, the Washington Free Beacon has obtained an exclusive...

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Obama Was For Venture Capital Before He Was Against It

President Barack Obama has vilified Gov. Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, a venture capital firm, as predatory capitalism—but the president praised venture capital while in the Illinois Senate,...

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WHO Wants You—to Stop Smoking

The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing criticism for its cigarette and tobacco control proposals at an upcoming November conference. WHO is considering an excise tax of up to 70 percent on...

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Fayyad Wants Out

The Palestinian Authority’s most notable advocate of reform threatened to quit in protest over his government’s continued failure to increase transparency and crack down on rampant corruption,...

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Markets Not Too Happy About Obama Reelection

Wall Street opened today with the Dow Jones industrial average down 61 points at 12,480 as of 10:05 A.M. ET. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index was down five points at 1,348.73. The Nasdaq composite...

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New Report Details Benghazi Security Failures

A State Department review board investigating the Sept. 11 attacks on American facilities in Benghazi found leadership and management failures in the department for not providing adequate security...

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Treasury Prepares to Lose Big on GM Bailout

The Treasury Department announced Wednesday it will sell its remaining shares of Detroit-based automaker General Motors and the result will be a loss for taxpayers in the billions of dollars, Politico...

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Debt Hypocrisy Wins Obama Rare ‘Upside-Down Pinocchio’

President Barack Obama Monday attacked Republicans for attempting to use the debt ceiling as leverage to lower the deficit and America’s $16 trillion national debt. Obama’s remarks were in stark...

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Laffer: Sequester Threats ‘Oversold By A Huge Amount’

BILL HEMMER: Do you believe the sequester threats were oversold? ART LAFFER: Yes. HEMMER: Or do you believe they have not yet settled in? LAFFER: They are oversold by a huge amount, Bill. The sequester...

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20-Year-Old Matlock Movie Outdraws 1600 Penn

The dreams of Obama speechwriters looking to make it big in Hollywood sustained another crushing blow when an NBC-affliate in Kentucky displayed some critical acumen by dumping a new episode of 1600...

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Obama Admin Spends $21,000 on Basketball Equipment

Ever since the election of the Best Left-Handed Shameless Gunner-in-Chief, America’s relationship with basketball has strengthened. The sport has a mystique. America has been hypnotized into thinking...

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Obama Bard Embroiled in Yet Another Copyright Fight

Today President Obama’s personal bard, will.i.am, dropped another single from his long-delayed album, #willpower. And in what is becoming a regularly scheduled program, yet another lesser-known...

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Super Cut of Obama Blaming Benghazi on Video, Avoiding Term Terrorism

Fox News showed a collection of videos of the timeline of President Obama’s comments following the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in which the President blames the attacks on a video and...

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McConnell: Obama is Stifling Free Speech

President Barack Obama is at the vanguard of a coordinated effort to silence political opponents in an effort falsely sold as concern over good government, the Senate’s top Republican said on Friday....

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Obama: Republicans Will Stop Calling It Obamacare Once It Works

In an interview with New York’s WABC Tuesday, President Obama makes the claim that once the Affordable Care Act starts working, the Republican Party will no longer call it Obamacare: DIANA WILLIAMS: In...

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Jimmy Fallon: Does Obama Know Anything?

The NSA’s Angela Merkel spying scandal isn’t the only thing that Obama doesn’t know about. Comedian Jimmy Fallon spoofed Obama Tuesday night, joking that Obama’s ignorance extends further than...

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CNN: New Obama Poll Numbers Are ‘Brutal’

The poll numbers continue to worsen for President Obama. According to a new CNN poll released Monday, 53% of Americans now believe that Obama is not honest and trustworthy. In addition, only 40% say...

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Poll: Obama Worse Than Bush

Voters in battleground states think President Obama is worse at “managing the basic functions of the federal government” than his predecessor George W. Bush, according to a POLITICO poll released...

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