6:25 PM 05/10/2013
White House spokesman Jay Carney repeatedly said Friday that targeting of Tea Party political groups by the Internal Revenue Service was “inappropriate,” a mild characterization of the apparently illegal use of punitive audits.
5:01 PM 05/10/2013
White House spokesman Jay Carney doubled down on denial Friday, insisting that the extensive closed-door revisions of the CIA's Benghazi intelligence assessment were conducted by an intelligence official, not by administration officials.
3:54 PM 05/10/2013
White House spokesman Jay Carney postponed the daily briefing amid bombshell revelations about the administration's role in modifying CIA talking points on the Benghazi attack, and instead held a "deep background" briefing behind closed doors for selected reporters, according to Politico.
2:34 PM 05/10/2013
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says the Senate’s immigration rewrite will fail because it rejects the popular bipartisan demand for tougher border security.
1:33 PM 05/09/2013
A bloc of 12 pro-immigration senators blocked a GOP amendment to freeze the proposed legalization of 11 million illegals until the border is secured, highlighting a fundamental political divide on the first day of voting on the far-reaching Senate immigration bill.
12:02 AM 05/09/2013
President Barack Obama's Social Security Administration has given the Senate's immigration bill a boost by writing a letter saying the bill would help the Social Security trust fund.
2:28 PM 05/08/2013
White House spokesman Jay Carney today blamed the intelligence agencies for the administration’s effort to hide Al Qaeda’s role in the lethal jihadi attack last September on the U.S. diplomatic site in Benghazi, Libya.
10:08 AM 05/08/2013
Obama administration officials are finally letting the attorney for a Benghazi whistle-blower get a security clearance --- but the clearance is at such a low level that it will probably slow the congressional probe of how the administration handled last year's terrorist attack on the embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
10:09 PM 05/07/2013
President Barack Obama used a reporter’s May 7 question about recent claims of sexual assault in the military to weigh in on an ongoing military criminal investigation.
12:14 AM 05/07/2013
Advocates say the Senate’s pending immigration bill will give the economy a shot in the arm, but opponents counter that low-skill immigrants cost taxpayers more than they --- or their U.S.-born children --- can repay over many decades.
12:02 PM 05/06/2013
The Center for American Progress says the Senate's pending immigration bill will help legalize 32.5 million migrants over the next 10 years.
11:44 AM 05/06/2013
The Senate's pending immigration bill will trim taxpayer spending on illegal immigrants for a decade, but will explode deficit spending by roughly $1 trillion in each following decade, according to a new analysis by the Heritage Foundation, which opposes the sweeping measure.
1:56 AM 05/06/2013
President Barack Obama used a Sunday commencement speech at Ohio State University to emphasize the importance of government and collective action.
12:51 AM 05/06/2013
Head Start teachers and administrators told The Daily Caller that their most pressing concern is not budget impacts from sequestration but changes coming from President Barack Obama’s health-care law.
2:10 PM 05/02/2013
Three new polls show strong or increasing public skepticism towards immigration, even as majorities offer conditional support for a regulated amnesty for illegal immigrants.
9:30 AM 05/02/2013
Prez picks Penny Pritzker
8:06 AM 05/02/2013
The Senate's "Gang of Eight" has released a new version of the immigration bill that contains 999 references to waivers, exemptions and political discretion.
12:32 AM 05/01/2013
President Barack Obama spent most of his surprise April 30 press conference on the defensive, blaming the Senate, budget cuts, Republicans, Syria's dictator and much else for the shaky start to his second term.
12:16 PM 04/30/2013
President Barack Obama promised to renew his efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison amid a renewed public relations campaign by the jailed jihadis and their supporters, including a hunger strike.
12:08 PM 04/30/2013
President Barack Obama waved off a question Tuesday about whether his deputies are gagging government employees who are now willing to testify about administration shortcomings before and after the jihadi attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya.
