In 54 days, $7 trillion in tax hikes and spending cuts over the next decade will automatically go into effect. If America goes over this “fiscal cliff,” experts say the already rickety U.S. economy could implode. To avert the economic
Citizen watchdog group True the Vote’s mission is to help maintain free and fair elections by protecting “the rights of legitimate voters, regardless of their political party affiliation.” Guarding against voter fraud, rooting our voter registration scams, ensuring that polling stations not
The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals the chasm between the jobs promises President Barack Obama made in 2008 and the employment crisis 23 million Americans are trapped in today. In 2008, Mr. Obama promised voters
The government’s bailout of the automobile industry was rife with cronyism that bagged Obama bundlers and Administration insiders millions and left taxpayers holding the bill. That’s the conclusion Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer reached when he investigated little-known details
Democrats and Republicans alike agree that jobs and the economy are the dominant issues that will drive Tuesday’s presidential outcome. Here, then, is a look at nine economic facts facing Americans as they head to the polls: 1. Every fifth
In the last several weeks, Mitt Romney’s foreign policy poll numbers have skyrocketed. If Mr. Romney sustains his present momentum and surges to a presidential victory next Tuesday, campaign historians and election chroniclers will laser in on the moment when
The Obama campaign accepted two online donations from “Osama bin Laden” made from a Pakistani Internet Protocol (IP) address using a disposable credit card and a phony address. Staff members at World Net Daily say they made the fake donations
Newly uncovered internal documents between the Treasury Department and the federal agency in charge of private-sector pension benefits reveal that the Obama Administration was directly involved in the elimination of pension benefits for 20,000 retired salaried workers of GM supplier
Obama National Field Director Jeremy Bird released a memo on Thursday designed to calm nervous Democrats by advancing the Obama campaign’s meme that it is dominating early voting in the battleground state of Ohio. But as former Republican National
UBS plans to cut 10,000 of the bank’s 63,250 employees. High overhead and weak demand have prompted Switzerland’s largest bank to reduce its workforce to compensate for sluggish trading. It’s all part of Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti’s plan to
On Friday, the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General issued an auditshowing that the $500 million the Obama Administration spent to createfigure just 16% of original projections. The Labor Department said it disagreed with the findings of its own
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recoups $702 in taxes for every hour it spends auditing small businesses, versus $9,173 an hour for auditing large corporations. But under Barack Obama, audits of small and medium-sized businesses have skyrocketed. So says Peter
The Chinese government has suddenly blocked access to Obama.com throughout mainland China, and the Obama campaign website now shows error messages to Chinese visitors. The startling developments come just days after the New York Post and Breitbart News ran extensive reports on Obama.com owner Robert Roche, an expatriate
The Democratic National Committee has $4.6 million in its coffers and $20.5 million in total debt at the end of September. By contrast, the Republican National Committee raised $48.4 million in September to bring its cash war chest up to
CNBC’s Larry Kudlow is asking publicly what many voters have pondered privately: is President Barack Obama exploding welfare to buy votes? The facts Kudlow cites are alarming: According to Jeff Sessions, the rankingRepublican on the Senate Budget Committee, means-tested welfare
In September, the Obama campaign collected $2,199,204.38 in donations with non-existent or invalid ZIP codes. The Romney campaign’s September total: just $29,620. The revelation comes from a Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report to be issued tomorrow that combed the Federal
Polls decisively show that Americans say they are not better off now than they were four years ago. The same, however, cannot be said for Chinese citizens. A recent poll by the Pew Research Center finds that 70% of Chinese
Understaffed food stamp fraud prevention units and lax anti-fraud security on Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards have created a thriving underground market where food stamp recipients illegally sell and trade their taxpayer-funded benefits, often using online websites like Backpage.com, Craigslist,
The Florida State Board of Education recently announced that its K-12 academic achievement goals for math and reading will vary depending on a student’s race. By 2018, the Florida BOE hopes to see the following reading outcomes: 90% of Asian-American
The Dow lost 2% last week to mark the sharpest weekly decline in four months. These losses occurred despite the Obama Administration’s best efforts to tout the highly controversial surprise drop in unemployment to 7.8%. At least three factors
With a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report highlighting the threat of foreign online campaign donations making a buzz throughout the Beltway, Breitbart News has discovered blog entries on President Obama’s official website that highlight the pervasiveness of the problem.
A startling report by the Government Accountability Institute finds that almost half (47.3%) of congressional campaign donation websites lack basic anti-fraud credit card security systems common on most e-commerce websites. That, says Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer, leaves federal House and
Minutes after Newsweek published a story on the threat of illegal foreign and fraudulent online campaign donations late Monday afternoon, the Obama campaign struck back hard with a response smearing one of the article’s authors and offered an anemic defense
Just hours after the release of the Government Accountability Institute’s blockbuster 108-page exposé on the threat of illegal foreign online campaign donations, GAI says the tip box on its new website, www.CampaignFundingRisks.com, has been flooded with new research leads and
In an explosive report set to send shockwaves through official Washington, the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released a 108-page GAI investigation into the threat of foreign and fraudulent Internet campaign donations in U.S. federal elections (visit campaignfundingrisks.com to download the
A new report by the Government Accountability Institute finds that JP Morgan has made at least $560,492,596 since 2004 processing the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards of 18 of the 24 states it has under contract for the food stamp
On Friday, Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher said the U.S. is “drowning in unemployment” and that the Fed’s monetary easing was not the solution; certainty on taxes and regulation are what’s needed to jump start hiring. Mr. Fisher’s comments,
Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post “Fact-Checker” gave three Pinocchios Monday to the claim that President Obama has attended less than half (43.8 percent) of his Presidential Daily Briefs (PDB) on intelligence, a claim Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen made
A 50-year-old fuel truck delivery man has allegedly run fake Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee donation websites that have raked in thousands of dollars over several years. Tonight on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, investigative journalist Brian
An investigation by the Government Accountability Institute found that more than half of the most politically active 50 campaign bundlers for President Obama were either appointed to a presidential council, committee, board, or other White House post. Many bundlers’ businesses or relatives’ businesses also
Iranian oil minister Rostam Qasemi said that crude oil should be $150 a barrel on Sunday. “During the winter, oil prices always climb,”Qasemi said. “So it’s natural that this year as well we will have a risein oil prices in
A simple three-page report by the Government Accountability Institute tallying up the number of days President Barack Obama has attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) on intelligence has ignited a firestorm of controversy that places the attacks on the U.S.
The turmoil in the Middle East, the Federal Reserve’s decision tofurther devalue the U.S. dollar through a third round of “quantitativeeasing” (QE3), and rising oil prices are combining to create a toxiceconomic brew that could send the global economy into
According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing–known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)–in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and
With a nation still at war and facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, one would think President Barack Obama would be “focused like a laser” on America’s national security and economic rebuilding. But as two investigations by the
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report finding that President Obama has missed over half of his daily intelligence briefings “hilarious.” “It’s revealing that Mr. Carney did not dispute the Government Accountability Institute’s
To hear the mainstream media tell it, former President Bill Clinton’s speech last week at the Democratic Convention was a rousing, clarion call for President Barack Obama’s reelection. But GOP insiders like former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and
Beneath the surface of Friday’s jobs report lies the reality of just how disastrous the Obama economy truly is. Consider the following 11 economic facts: 1. When you include the underutilized labor figure with the eight million Americans who have
The federal government has withdrawn nearly three times as much money from the U.S. Treasury as it will spend in 2012. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the government will spend $3.56 trillion this fiscal year, despite the fact
