The Prowler
WHAT COMES AFTER EMANUEL? White House insiders say that the “vibe” inside the Obama Administration is that “Rahm is running” for mayor of Chicago, but that it is perhaps the least surprising turn of events in what is expected to…
CANTOR WON’T Public Policy Polling might be a Democratic-centric firm, but that doesn’t mean that Republicans can’t use the data for their own interests. That’s why staffers and outside supporters for Reps. Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy, who have a…
Last week it was reported that just as First Lady Michelle “Antoinette” Obama was returning from her partially-taxpayer-funded vacation to Spain, her staff was contacting a British fashion designer about commissioning a coat for the First Lady. Of course, this…
SHOW OFF Last week, the Washington Post‘s David Ignatius wrote about one of the odder White House briefings he’s attended. This one involved Iran: “The White House chose an unusual way to send its signals to Tehran. A small group…
The leftist group Free Press, which has been pressing the Obama Administration and the Federal Communications Commission to impose stiff regulations on the Internet, celebrated the announcement Thursday that the FCC had ended its weeks-long negotiations with a group of…
Rep. Maxine Waters who may be facing a formal House of Representatives ethics trial over her activities on behalf of a bank, is just the most recent member of the Congressional Black Caucus to face such an investigation. Currently New…
On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its…
A number of private citizens who signed up for White House news alerts on the official White House website woke up this morning with a nice New Year’s message… from senior White House political adviser David Axelrod‘s Chicago-based consulting firm….
When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was placed on the British government’s watch list in May 2009 and banned from entering the country, the U.S. embassy in London (and by extension the U.S. State Department), as well as U.S. intelligence agencies, were…
