“Valerie Jarrett” on The Daily Caller

Valerie Jarrett’s partisan speech at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church may have violated the IRS tax rules for churches’ political activities, said a prominent free speech attorney. (more)

Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tells the author of a new book on President Obama’s family that he “stopped taking” presidential aide Valerie Jarrett “at all seriously as an adviser to the president” after she made up complaints from first lady Michelle Obama about his work. (more)

In his numerous fund-raising and policy speeches around the country these days, President Obama often bemoans the difficult economic times and uncertainties afflicting millions of Americans, including the nearly 14 million still seeking work unsuccessfully. (more)

In celebration of the first day of Women’s History Month, the White House Tuesday cheered the release of the “first comprehensive federal report on the status of American women in almost 50 years.” (more)

From Egypt to Libya to Yemen, Bahrain, Morocco, Jordan and Iran: “change” is in the air. But what kind of change? (more)

In Washington, bigwigs can misspeak and misstep a million times without drawing attention. And then there are the seemingly harmless moments that stick to a person like super glue: Joe Wilson barking “You lie!”; Jesse Jackson mumbling into a hot mic that he wants to castrate Barack Obama; Dan Quayle trying to spell things. (more)

I wondered yesterday whether Robert Gibbs jumped or was pushed and noted that President Barack Obama’s words indicated that it was “not an entirely voluntary departure”. (more)

1.) Big business still Obama’s Achilles heel — When John Engler, the former Republican governor of Michigan, was named to the head of the Business Roundtable, “one of the first people to call” him was Valerie Jarrett, a personal advisor to Pres. Obama. Jarrett no doubt wished to communicate that Pres. Obama was game to work with the BRT (“We go play hoop!”), a gesture that the White House hasn’t made toward the professional left in ages now! Engler’s not here to play, however. According to The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward, “much of the group’s work on health care over the next two years will be looking for how Obama’s health care overhaul might ‘threaten’ the ability of employers to continue providing insurance.” Maybe the BRT should do what Waffle House and a number of unions did, which is lobby for exemptions from some of obamacare’s requirements? That leaves the issue of the mandate, and prices popping through the roof when healthy people decline insurance while sick people buy it up. Also: the totally unenforceable nature of it all. Back to the drawing board! (more)

The incoming president of The Business Roundtable, which was once President Obama’s strongest ally in the private sector, said Monday that much of the group’s work on health care over the next two years will be looking for how Obama’s health care overhaul might “threaten” the ability of employers to continue providing insurance. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring is anemic but corporate profits are up, and President Barack Obama is having 20 CEOs over to talk about how to tap that cash to boost jobs. (more)

Liberal activists angry about President Barack Obama’s concession on tax cuts for upper-income Americans crashed two phone lines at the White House and are gearing up for another onslaught of calls to Senate Democratic leaders in an eleventh-hour push to kill the deal. (more)

The Agenda Project, the group behind the “Patriotic Millionaires” campaign to raise taxes on the rich, is going after the Obama administration, leading protests against a White House they believe is “caving” to Republicans on tax cuts. (more)

Well, it didn’t take long. The Republican Party was handed an historic opportunity with women. For the first time since the advent of exit polling data in 1982, women voters favored the GOP in the 2010 election. A rather shocking occurrence given that just two short years ago, President Obama had a 14-point advantage with women. What does the GOP do with this historic opportunity? Blow it! (more)

A week ago, minutes before Juan Williams and I went on “The O’Reilly Factor” to tape the segment that got him fired by NPR, we had a rather prescient conversation. (more)

Changes to a president’s inner circle often move him in one direction, away from the team that surrounded him through the election and toward a more diverse mix of advisers. (more)

On September 7, Mayor Daley told Chicagoans he wouldn’t be seeking re-election. Since then, we’ve all been wondering, “Is Rahm Emanuel running or isn’t he?” (more)

Late Wednesday afternoon, news leaked that the White House finally made a decision on the appointment of Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard law professor-turned super regulator. And Warren got her wish. Sort of. (more)

So, things didn’t work out quite like they were supposed to for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.  His status as the right-hand man to the philosopher-king destined to save the United States largely resulted in “Rahm-ing” through both a stimulus package and a health care “reform” bill that proved wildly unpopular with the American people (including one quite memorable scene involving Rahm in the Congressional gym shower).  Moreover, Rahm’s generally moderate and pragmatic thinking never meshed well with the West Wing FDR ideologues surrounding Obama.  These are the same individuals who believe the stimulus, health care and financial reform didn’t go far enough. (more)

*The following is the second in a series of three excerpts from David Limbaugh’s new book Crimes Against Liberty, which was released on Aug. 23. You can read the first excerpt here and the third excerpt here. (more)

Earthquake strikes epicenter of government-sponsored vice–a sign from God? — Prosecution rests in case of Blago v. The World — Google is laying the groundwork for a royal screw-job — Cat lovers attack Pres. Obama’s fiscal commission — Democrats continue to deny benefits to poors — Goldman Sachs up  (more)