The elites often strain to find some sort of ethnic or racial or gender edge over the competition.

Joe Biden took personal credit on behalf of the Obama Administration for a liberated Iraq – with no mention that had President Obama's wishes won the day back when the Iraq invasion took place in 2003, the oppressive Saddam Hussein would still be in power

The mainstream media 'can no longer control the narrative' of American culture, contends counter-media mogul Andrew Breitbart in a fiery speech to Tea Party Conventioneers

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has apologized for referring to liberals as "retarded" during a strategy session last summer.

A bipartisan revolt is brewing in the Senate over the Obama administration's handling of accused Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

How did Barack Obama manage to kick off his presidency by making exactly the same disastrous mistake Bill Clinton made 16 years earlier? If Rep. Marion Berry is right, the answer may be as simple as "sheer hubris".

After criticizing "special interest money" influence, Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland has accepted more than $300,000 in contributions from just five special interest groupings

Obama will appear with politically embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in Las Vegas next month, according to a White House official.

For a while, it seemed the nomination and confirmation of Erroll Southers to head the Transportation Security Administration would be a routine affair. Wrong.

Brian Lamb has put President Obama on the spot. Lamb is the CEO of C-Span, and today he wrote a letter to the leaders of Congress asking them to allow cameras in the room for the final negotiations on the health care bill

C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote to leaders in the House and Senate Dec. 30 urging them to open "all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings," to televised coverage on his network.

We don't hear all that much about Iraq these days, do we? The war at one point almost tore apart this country in that public anger sent Bush's approval ratings plummeting. Why now the silence?

The White House responded forcefully Thursday to former Democratic Party Chairman and presidential candidate Howard Dean's call for the defeat of the health care reform bill, which is now struggling to make it through the Senate.

Conan O'Brien had Shatner on to do one of his periodic readings, this time from Palin's bestseller Going Rogue. Then to the delighted screams of the audience, Palin came out and read excerpts from one of Shatner's autobiographies, Up Till Now:

To hear Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tell it, what people think regarding what the president and Congress do is irrelevant — or worse, immoral.

An amendment to a bill currently being considered by the Senate would deny ordinary citizens doing vital investigations in the public interest the same legal protections as professional journalists.

Sarah Palin's poll numbers are strengthening. And President Obama's are sliding. Guess what? They're about to meet in the 40s.

A flurry of new polls makes clear that Democrats are facing deeper problems with independents—the swing voters who swung dramatically toward the party in 2006 and 2008 but who now are registering deep unease with the amount of spending and debt called for under Obama's agenda  …

Obama's antipathy towards America should come as no surprise. Although he has lived a rich and varied life, there has been one constant — exposure to the left's disparaging narrative about America.

The House ethics committee said Thursday it's investigating whether California Rep. Maxine Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock — and whether the couple benefited as a result.

Whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or no. Both answers are wrong, because the assumption that there exists some predetermined inevitable trajectory, the result of uncontrollable external forces, is wrong. Decline is a "choice."

The White House's stance also gave extra lift to the network at a time when it is on track to record its best ratings year ever.

Half of it will come from massive cuts in Medicare Advantage, while the other half will be generated by new taxes on high-end insurance, higher income taxes, and new levies on drugs and innovative medical devices.

There was his failure to disclose at least a half-million dollars in investment accounts and the ownership of New Jersey real estate, assets that doubled his stated net worth.

Rangel's lapses include allegations of evading taxes on $1.3 million in income derived from multiple properties and failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars of assets and income.

The left detests him, and some conservatives say he's undermining the cause. The truth is, he must be doing something right.

Just two days after HarperCollins announced that the release of Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, had been moved up from the spring to Nov 17, preorders for the former Alaska governor's book have made it No 1 on Barnes & Noble on Wednesday and at No 2 on Amazon trailing only Dan Brown …

A federal appeals court overturned hard-fought campaign finance reform regulations in a ruling on Friday. The court's decision could provide a boom to groups tapping into the fervor of anti-Obama activity and "tea party" events.

The Shawn Hannity Show On Foxnews goes live to Fresno, California to hear complaints and pleas for help from local farmers that overly stringent environmental regulations are aggravating water shortages in the region and driving many into bankruptcy.

In a troubling sign for President Obama, his popularity is dipping -- in New York of all places -- as he tries to get a handle of the bad economy, the ongoing war in Afghanistan , while trying to push through a controversial health care bill.

Attention to the issue has prompted negotiators to revisit the issue to make sure there are provisions in place so illegal immigrants do not get taxpayer supported medical coverage.

Astonishingly, Obama claimed he can finance universal health care without adding "one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period," in large part by pumping money out of Medicare.

Independent analysis indicates — contrary to Obama's claim — that the House health bill could well result in coverage being extended to illegal immigrants.

Did the government really get Medicare right? Here are the top 10 reasons this program should not be a model for reform, and why it would be dangerous for the federal government to be put in charge of any more of our health sector.

What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?

Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel Gave Campaign Contributions To 3 Democrats On The Ethics Committee Charged With Investigating Him.

During a time of severe economic decline and massive budget deficits, Attorney General Eric Holder is hiring 50 more civil rights lawyers now to ferret out "racism" in society which shows that there Is no getting past race in Obama's "post-racial" America.

President Obama's poll numbers continued plummeting today with two pollsters independently confirming the precipitous drop in support the president has seen over the past few months.

Last year Congressman Charles Rangel didn't report -- and didn't pay taxes on -- income from a villa in the Caribbean and the Internal Revenue Service gave him sweetheart treatment which required that Rangel pay about $10,000 in back taxes without any penalty or interest.

It's the same old story for Congressman Rangel, who last year reluctantly acknowledged what he described as an inadvertent failure to report $75,000 in rental income for a beachfront property in the Dominican Republic.

Former Homeland Security Secretary warns that national security will suffer if counter-terrorism warriors fear that bosses will second-guess their front-line actions after the fact.

Obama would cut $622 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, with a big chunk coming from Medicare Advantage, to pay for overhauling health care.

New financial disclosure reports filed by Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) show that the veteran lawmaker failed to report more than $660,000 in assets during 2007, a potential violation of House ethics rules.

The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration's practice of sending terrorism suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but pledges to closely monitor their treatment to ensure that they are not tortured, administration officials said Monday.

Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise.

When you include "Death Counseling" in a health-care reform whose major objective is to bend the cost curve downward, you have to be a fool or a knave to deny that it's intended to gently point you in a certain direction, toward the corner of the sick room where stands a ghostl …

A wave of anger over a threatened San Francisco Bay Area BART transit strike, averted hours before a Monday walkout, carried a sobering message to employee unions and politicians: In hard economic times, voters in the liberal Bay Area can run out of patience over the demands of o …

Against a backdrop of deep fiscal distress, several California lawmakers rewarded their employees with pay hikes during the first half of the year, an Associated Press review of legislative pay records showed.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells citizens at a congressional town hall meeting in 2006 that she is a "fan" of "disruptors".

As the GOP in Congress claws its way back, politically, President Obama's "opportunity in crisis" agenda has been the best thing that has happened to Republicans since 1994, when they won a historic victory, gaining control of Congress for the first time in decades.

His whole methodology, so widely-hailed by whole generations of leftists, could have been devised by any 12 year-old gang-style bully with half a brain and an ounce of charisma.

The president's approval rating has dropped close to 50% from just over 60%. It's early in a presidency to be dropping fast toward 50. Part of this is health care, but something else is going on here.

The FAA has a built-in conflict, because it has two different missions. Nearly all Western nations have separated air-safety regulation from air traffic control.

Current polls show more Americans are against than in favor of his version of health-care reform. Nearly seven in 10 are wary of government takeovers of the economy, like the bank and car bailouts. Over half do not want more borrowing and higher deficits.

When it happens to Democrats, it's something different: A threat to democracy, a sign of incipient fascism, and an opportunity to set up a (possibly illegal) White House "snitch line" where people are encouraged to report "fishy" statements to the authorities.

Payments of $30,000 each to former L.A. Unified Board of Education members David Tokofsky and Jose Huizar, now an L.A. city councilman, are the focus of the federal probe.

In the parlance of fundraising pros, it's known as "donor maintenance," a "thank you" from Pelosi to those who have given generously to her and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

By having a child way too young and with few to no parenting skills themselves — and with daddy likely on his way to doing a lengthy stretch in prison — they've more or less assured that their child will grow up poor and disadvantaged.

The "Cash for Clunkers" program just puts Americans deeper in debt and perpetuates our fake consumption based economy.

And the madness continues: When General Electric settled SEC securities fraud charges yesterday by paying a fine of $50 million, it was chump change in the context of the volume of federal assistance the company has already received.

If you see anybody publicly opposing President Obama's plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the health care system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP.

After years of losing, gun control advocates say this week's vote on confirming Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court will be their long-awaited win that shatters conventional wisdom and proves that the Second Amendment is no longer the unstoppable force.

Nearly every American's coverage might have to change because of this bill and every employer and every individual will be affected.

In the incident involving the Cambridge police and Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama's mask slipped for a moment last week but he quickly recovered, with the help of the media.

President Obama campaigned as someone who wouldn't use signing statements to get around provisions of new laws. But this morning, four top Democratic lawmakers accused him of doing exactly that.

A USA Today/Gallup survey suggested that six months into his presidency, his popularity was lower than George W Bush's at the same stage of his tenure.

How good can any product be if Congress compels me to purchase it? Politicians and interest groups have been trying virtually all my life to foist medical insurance on me. But their proposals rest on mistaken and even insulting assumptions.

The pundits are wrong. Conventional wisdom is wrong. Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor was a brilliant move.

We live in an age without rules only to reinvent them at a whim. A complete lack of emotional and rational restraint, no moderation whatever in living, all of these things are destructive.

I knew it wouldn't be long before the next chapter in audacity on the part white gays organizing for gay marriage here in California were back at it and up to their old tricks.

Suppose Kim Jong Il follows through on his threat to launch a missile at Hawaii on July Fourth? If he does and America shoots it down, what happens then?

Obama's unwillingness to provide wholehearted support for the objectives of those seeking to topple the murderous, America-hating regime in Iran has left some observers scratching their heads.

Are you confused by all that has changed since President Barack Obama took office in January? If so, you're not alone. Perhaps this handy guide to Age of Obama "logic" might be of some assistance.

President Barack Obama's nominees for ambassadorships to Belize, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Romania and Switzerland "brought in at least $1.1 million for Obama's presidential bid as bundlers, and at least another $500,000 as bundlers for his inauguration.

All this should disturb Democrats because it fuels a general and growing perception (cf.

The Supreme Court regularly shows up in polls as the most respected branch of government. But settling so many vexing controversies with 5-to-4 votes — effectively making Anthony Kennedy the nation's philosopher king — is an awfully poor way to run a republic.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has been linked to gay marriage ever since he directed city clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004.

Democrats often complained about President George W. Bush's frequent use of a rhetorical device as old as rhetoric itself: creating the illusion of refuting an opponent's argument by mischaracterizing it and then knocking down that mischaracterization.

U.S. Senator Kid Bond's reaction to House Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi's contention that she didn't know about the CIA's interrogation methods during CIA briefings given her.

Senator Arlen Specter, Republican-turned-Democrat of Pennsylvania, has rapidly discovered that switching parties is not as simple as checking a new box on a voter-registration card.

Some days you have to ask yourself, my God, what if these people were Republicans? For starters, the real corruption isn't what the media are ignoring or downplaying as isolated incidents. It's what the media are hailing as bold, inspirational leadership.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a "truth commission" to investigate the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding - until Republicans started shining the spotlight on Pelosi herself. Now she is not so adamant.

"Prosecution" of Justice Department officials would have a chilling effect on future U.S. government officials. Few would be brave or foolhardy enough to put forward daring proposals that one day could be judged illegal.

Nancy Pelosi is "pushing back" against charges that she was aware of -- and acquiesced in -- the CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees nearly from the moment the practice began, reports the Politico Web site. Maybe she's suffering from amnesia.

The federal raid on a high-flying firm of defense lobbyists has prompted a few brave Democrats to propose the ultimate reform — an outright ban on the practice of lawmakers' customizing budget goodies for contractors who requite with generous campaign donations.

U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd appears to have looked everywhere but his home state to fuel what pundits anticipate will be one of the most hotly contested races in the nation in 2010.

President Obama proclaims no more of George Bush's "war on terror," even as he silently keeps most of it in place. The result is as confusing as it soon will be dangerous.

Bloomberg News is reporting that Rep. Pete Stark, a California Democrat who is the second-ranking majority member of the Ways and Means Committee, has received tax breaks for declaring his $1.7 million waterfront home in Anne Arundel County as his primary residence.

In these days in which so many Americans are losing their jobs because of the economic crisis, it may be reassuring to know that one man holds on to his because of it. Roland Burris is still in the U.S. Senate.

The last president to promise such a grandiose break from the American past was Jimmy Carter. He lectured the world about human rights, promised an end to America 's inordinate fears of communism, and vowed to show more kindness.

As Air Force One was heading back to Washington, Obama and his teammates found themselves on the defensive, explaining another failed nomination and a misunderstanding about unemployed factory workers. A week to reboot had become yet another week to endure.

The Democrats have done an absolutely monumental job of screwing things up for President Obama. Lately, some of the president's nominees have been falling like dominoes that have been finger-flicked by a playful IRS agent. Others have just teetered.

The "Age of Obama" begins with perhaps the greatest frenzy of old-politics influence peddling ever seen in Washington. By the time the stimulus bill reached the Senate, pharmaceutical and high-tech companies were lobbying furiously for a new plan to repatriate overseas profits.

Despite a Latino coalition's pitch to Obama, amnesty and higher levels of immigration are NOT the top concerns of Latino voters.

President Obama is quickly discovering that many of those easy Bush-blew-it issues of the campaign really involved only bad and worse choices of governance. Most solutions now call for realism instead of doctrinaire left-wing bromides and catchy speechmaking.

President Obama has made his first tactical error of his young presidency: He called out conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. There is little question that the subtle backhand from Obama gave Limbaugh manna from heaven in talk radio terms.

There is nothing temporary about the trillion dollars in new spending being debated in Congress for this "Stimulus" bill in the House of Representatives and it will permanently increase the size of the federal government, with little or no benefit to the American taxpayer.

How many vice presidents does it take to shoot from the lip?

Why is it that Democrat Presidents Clinton and Obama compulsively compare themselves to more successful men who have held the Presidency?

No doubt the thought provokes apoplexy among the Daily Kos types.