Tag: Barack Obama

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Termites at work on American history

Mona Charen · December 12, 2014 4:06 pm

Atlanta Police in riot gear form a line on Williams Streets as protesters make their way down it in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, after a night of protests over a grand jury's decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., a case that has inflamed racial tensions in the U.S. (AP Photo/John Amis)

United we distrust

Scott Rasmussen · December 12, 2014 3:25 pm

MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, left, huddles on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, while testifying before the House Oversight Committee health care hearing. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

I don’t care if Obama thinks we’re stupid; just repeal Obamacare

David Limbaugh · December 12, 2014 3:17 pm

300 Former Obama Staffers Urge Elizabeth Warren to Run for President

Daniel Halper · December 12, 2014 3:05 pm

CIA Director John Brennan is the man in the middle, and it's clearly an uncomfortable position. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

National Security

Dual loyalties stretch CIA chief

Susan Crabtree · December 12, 2014 2:36 pm

Congress can pull back the REINS on Washington

Cameron Smith · December 12, 2014 10:00 am

One effect of the last shutdown was the closing of many national parks and monuments -- another was the unwillingness of lawmakers to let it happen again. (Getty images/Mark Wilson)

WH prepares feds for shutdown

Brian Hughes · December 11, 2014 11:34 pm

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Obama opens fraud-ridden benefits programs to illegal immigrants

Byron York · December 11, 2014 11:11 pm

President Obama worked the phones late Thursday in an attempt to get Democrats to support a spending bill that has yet to receive enough support to avoid a government shutdown. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama working phones to build support for spending bill

Brian Hughes · December 11, 2014 10:22 pm

CIA Director John Brennan acknowledged that the agency made mistakes in carrying out a program of extreme interrogation techniques in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, but he denied that he or his colleagues systemically misled the public or Congress about the program's effectiveness. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

CIA chief: Some officers ‘failed to live up to standards’

Susan Crabtree · December 11, 2014 8:39 pm

President Obama thinks the Western news media, which presumably includes the U.S. media, gives Russian President Vladimir Putin more credit than he deserves. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)

Obama laments that Western media give Russia’s Putin too much credit

Eddie Scarry · December 11, 2014 7:37 pm

CIA Director John Brennan pauses as he speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

White House: Obama maintains ‘full confidence’ in CIA chief

Susan Crabtree · December 11, 2014 7:04 pm