Five months after the Obama administration unveiled a sweeping initiative designed to reach 9 million struggling homeowners, home foreclosures continue to rise at an alarming rate. Foreclosure filings were reported on more than 1.5 million properties in the first six months of the year, a 15 percent increase over the same period of last year, [...]
CNN host Lou Dobbs interviewed birther attorney Orly Taitz and perennial presidential candidate Alan Keyes on the July 15 episode of his radio show, asking his two discredited guests some shockingly credulous questions about the citizenship of President Obama. Dobbs explained to Taitz and Keyes that his researchers had looked for proof of the president’s [...]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please read these claims very carefully and then do the research yourself – try to find these documents on the Internet. You may also want to search for similar documents from former presidents just to make the comparison.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews got into a heated exchange with a congressman on his [...]
President Barack Obama sought Wednesday to cast the intensifying health care debate in terms that matter to ordinary people, promising to offer more savings, security and treatment to millions. Assailing his critics, he declared, “This debate is not a game.”
In remarks prepared for the start of his prime-time news conference, Obama said he was determined [...]
The Treasury Department took a bipartisan beating on Tuesday from lawmakers who claim the agency has failed to live up to its promises of transparency in handling the federal rescue of the financial system.
“The taxpayers now have a $700 billion spending program that’s being run under the philosophy of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ ” Rep. [...]
EDITOR’S NOTE: With a presidency so focused on public relations , where the opening of an envelope is reason for a news conference or a photo op; where the President openly criticizes the CIA and has no problems exposing our national secrets, why are these meetings being kept under wraps?
Reporting from Washington – [...]
Suicide attackers stormed government buildings in two eastern Afghan cities Tuesday, killing at least seven people, the latest in a series of complex assaults that mark a shift in the Taliban’s tactics this year.
The incidents come as U.S. and Afghan government forces push to secure major cities and highways ahead of the August presidential polls.
While [...]
Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A “Planetary Regime” with the power of life and death over American citizens.
The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both?
These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom [...]
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Tuesday said the outlook for the long-suffering U.S. economy was improving, but supportive policies would be needed for some time to prevent rising unemployment from undercutting recovery.
Delivering the Fed’s semiannual report on the economy to Congress, Bernanke also sought to dispel concerns the U.S. central bank’s aggressive monetary easing could [...]
House Democrats put their divisions on display over the details and timing of health care legislation Tuesday despite fresh attempts by President Barack Obama to hasten a compromise on the issue that looms increasingly as a major test of his clout.
With a self-imposed deadline for action in jeopardy, the Democratic leadership juggled complaints from conservatives [...]