U.S. taxpayers paid $37.8 million in salaries for President Obama’s 456 White House employees, according to a newly released administration report. With a median individual salary of $70,700 per year, White House workers make well above the median household income
During Sunday’s NBC peek inside the office of President Barack Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, TV cameras briefly caught an image of something on her desk, that at first glance, seemed a bit odd. WORSHIP AT THE THRONE OF VALERIE JARRETT:
Barack Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett dined with Rupert Murdoch this week, the key topic was immigration reform according to sources. The evening was “very enjoyable,” according to Jarrett, who also claimed to be “impressed by Murdoch’s passion for passing
Day 1,956 of his presidency was not too kind to President Obama. Having to announce within a four-hour span that he had lost both an embattled Cabinet secretary and his chief spokesman, Obama looked Friday like a man gamely trying
Anthony Scaramucci is described as a “fast-talking hedge fund manager who stands about 5 feet 8 inches on a good day.” Though he has only given “a little more than $16,000 to candidates since 2012” and just over “$130,000 to
HOUSTON, Texas–Texas Governor Rick Perry, in a scathing letter to President Barrack Obama, called for a job creating energy policy. Perry attacked the President stating, “Mr. President, your words promise an energy renaissance while your policies are strangling the energy
Garland ISD in North Texas has been in the news lately. First, a district controversy unraveled with Superintendent Gary Reeves being put on administrative leave over the H-1B visa program that was reported on by Fox 4 Dallas. It led
Valerie Jarrett aka “the Other Side of Obama’s brain” was in Hollywood, this week to ask television writers to write pro-ObamaCare themes into their scripts. We got a hint of what was coming last October when I reported on the $500,000
The Obama administration thinks Hollywood can do much more to promote its signature health care reform. Stars from Lady Gaga to Scandal’s Kerry Washington have been promoting ObamaCare via social media. The humor site Funny or Die has produced a
On Thursday’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Bill O’Reilly hosted his Fox News Channel program from Washington, D.C. and interview White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. O’Reilly had attended the unveiling of President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative and lobbied Jarrett
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with President Barack Obama and senior White House aides numerous times prior the rocky launch of HealthCare.gov, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Hill. The 750
***UPDATE: Media reports say that President Obama selected a health insurance ObamaCare plan Monday. This is a symbolic act. The president will continue to get his health care from the military. Via Twitter, April Ryan, White House Correspondent and Washington
Last week, I reflected on how strange it was for Barack Obama to delay signing up for ObamaCare, to the point where his refusal to do so had become impossible for the media to ignore. The matter came up with
In a recent long-form article on the troubles that the banking and investment sectors have had with the destructive policies coming out of the White House, unnamed Democrats told Politico that Rahm Emanuel and, most especially, Valerie Jarrett were not
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to take two cases where Obamacare collides with religious liberty and is sure to capture national attention. The Affordable Care Act requires most employers to provide “preventive care.” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a
Jewish leaders are feeling misled by the White House over the terms of a proposed deal with Iran on nuclear enrichment, according to the Times of Israel. Specifically, they are upset that they were urged not to lobby for new
The Times Of Israel is reporting that a team of negotiators led by White House adviser Valerie Jarrett has been conducting secret talks with Iran about it’s nuclear weapons program for the past year. The report states the deal submitted
Last week, the Democrat controlled Senate failed to muster 60 votes to confirm the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to be the new, permanent director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The White House selected Watt to be the
In its recently assigned role as ObamaCare “Navigator,” i.e., an organization that has been given federal funds to help Americans sign up for ObamaCare, Planned Parenthood is encouraging customers to sign up for health insurance plans that include its own
Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post does a nice job explaining why the President’s oft-made claim “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” is not remotely true and why the administration’s current excuses are not believable. Kessler
Barack Obama’s Senior Advisor, Valerie Jarrett, tweeted on Monday, “FACT: Nothing in #ObamaCare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.” This flies in the face of an NBC News report that
According to sources close to the White House, Vice President Joe Biden and his chief of staff Bruce Reed are “no longer involved” in planning for Obama’s long term gun violence prevention program. The vice president’s disappearance from an issue
On October 25, Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett “seems to have her tentacles into every issue and every topic” at the White House. According to The Hill, Chaffetz was talking with radio host Laura
On Thursday, conservative icon David Horowitz penned an essay explaining the threats to American freedom. The essay was based on a speech Horowitz gave at the Kohler conference, sponsored by the Bradley Foundation. In it, Horowitz labeled President Obama and
On Friday, on the 40th anniversary of the “Battle of the Sexes” match that female Billie Jean King won over male Bobby Riggs, the White House screened a PBS documentary about King that made no mention that Riggs may have
White House officials, including top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, were on hand at this week’s AFL-CIO convention to pressure union leaders not to voice their growing angst with Obamacare in the form of a strongly worded resolution blasting the president’s
By DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated PressEDGARTOWN, Mass.President Barack Obama returned to the golf course Sunday to play a sixth and final round before heading back to Washington after a weeklong vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. Obama played at Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown,
In constant campaign mode, President Obama attended a tony get-together in Martha’s Vineyard on Thursday night, headed up by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and attended by luminaries from the media world ranging from Obama’s chief Hollywood backer, Harvey Weinstein, to
Historian Diana West’s new book American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character has caused a stir, and countered many shibboleths on the left and the right. West’s book details the deep roots of communist infiltration that ran through
Over 100 organizations–including Planned Parenthood affiliates, community groups, health care providers, and business groups–will receive $67 million in grants to serve as “navigators” who will help Americans sign up for health insurance in Obamacare’s new state exchanges. Among the “navigator” recipients
As Americans watch the Saturday protests across the nation with shouts of “Justice For Trayvon!” and “No Justice, No Peace,” they’ll probably be wondering where all the money came from to support the organizational effort needed for the 100-city effort.
Barack Obama will do anything to promote alternatives to using fossil fuels for energy, including bouncing a soccer ball on his head. Showing off his amazing athletic and acrobatic skills, Obama posed with a Soccket ball on his head in
In a recent oped at Fox News, Daniel Blomberg and Eric Rassbach argued that IRS has a long history of targeting that has focused mainly on houses of worship. It uses ‘the crushing power to deny or revoke the non-profit
Joe Scarborough on Huff Post Live says that while President Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett have spoken up in defense of Attorney General Eric Holder, more and more journalists are speaking out against him for a string of White House
Obama’s Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett told Huff Post Live that Eric Holder will continue in his post as Attorney General, as he has the President’s full confidence even in the midst of multiple scandals.
In response to The Obama/Clinton 10:00 Phone Call: On the O’Reilly Factor, tonight, Charles Krauthammer brought up the 10:00 pm phone call between Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, whose activities on the night of the 9/11 attack in Benghazi have
With Paul McKinley surging up the Illinois conservative ranks–after the mainstream Chicago media’s attempts to reconvict him for his past backfired–the only question remaining is: where is the Illinois Republican Party? Not only was the Illinois Republican Party missing in
In a speech Friday afternoon at the Hyde Park Academy in Chicago, IL, President Barack Obama reminisced about his career as a community organizer on the city’s South Side. As he has done in previous speeches in the area, Obama
Valerie Jarrett admitted today that Obama has not talked to congressional leaders about the Sequester on NBC’s “Today” show…
Ohio’s heretofore conservative governor, John Kasich, has decided he will accept federal money to expand Medicaid benefits–a move that puts him on the side of ObamaCare. Conservatives are furious: Chris Littleton, the Ohio director for American Majority Action, said, “The
