In the history of mankind, many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state. TR
10:00 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing 11:35 am || Meets wtih Ebola response supporters 12:30 pm || Lunch with Biden 1:20 pm || Delivers remarks about the Ebola response; South Court Auditorium 5:25 pm || Meets with Secretary of Defense Hagel All times Eastern Live stream of White House briefing at noon
In one of the most shameful and startling moments I’ve ever viewed in 17 years covering the White House, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest Tuesday casually acknowledged that President Obama had been lying all along when he said as a candidate in 2008 and as president that he opposed gay marriage. Obama, as you probably remember, publicly announced his support for gay marriage in 2012
Well this is kind of cute. I mean, I don’t expect you to watch all 28 minutes, but I thought you might want to have a look. It’s one of the nice things Mrs. Obama does – occasionally surprising guests by making herself part of the White House tour. In this case, they were being brought into the newly redecorated White House Old Family Dining Room, which is
Oh no. Are we going to start paying for him to campaign too? From the White House: On Thursday, February 12th, Vice President Biden will travel to Des Moines, Iowa. While in Des Moines, the Vice President will deliver remarks on the Administration’s economic policies at Drake University. The Vice President will also participate in a roundtable discussion at Des Moines Area Community College’s Ankeny
Updated February 11 at 11:00 am State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki today refused to say that terrorists who attacked a Jewish deli in Paris, killing four people, were targeting Jews, saying it was a matter for the French government to decide. “There were not all victims of one background or one nationality,” Psaki said. Actually, they were all Jewish. Asked if, aside from the individuals, the deli
Even as America’s Islamist enemies multiply in the Middle East, the White House today left little doubt that President Obama views global warming as a greater threat than terrorism, refusing to say this wasn’t the case and asserting that more people are affected by changes in the weather than by terror. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest would not deny that Obama’s comment to Vox that the media
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Vice President Biden and what is now more than a dozen Congressional Democrats are playing with political fire by refusing to attend the scheduled March 3 address by Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress. Their absence will give Republicans a chance to showcase that which has become undeniably true but which may still be poorly understood by many American Jews: The best friends Israel has in America today are
Feds won’t release IRS Tea Party targeting documents . . . The Obama administration is refusing to publicly release more than 500 documents on the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups. Twenty months after the IRS scandal broke, there are still many unanswered questions about who was spearheading the agency’s scrutiny of conservative-leaning organizations. The Hill sought access to government documents that might provide a glimpse