The Prowler
RIGHT REPUBLICANISM Look for national conservatives to begin amping up pressure on New York State Republicans who placed Dede Scozzafava, a moderate, on the ballot to fill the seat of Rep. John McHugh, the Obama Administration’s pick for Secretary of…
SO LONG, FREEDOM Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce today his intent to put in place rules that would allow the federal government to regulate the Internet. In a coordinated move to highlight the decision, and to take…
One of the key planks to President Barack Obama’s health care reform plan is already being held up by an Inspector General investigation into whether leaked internal government emails might have been used to sway influence for a government contract,…
Why spend $15 million when you can spend $15 billion on the same thing? That’s a question raised in an item already posted on the main site for tomorrow, concerning efforts to reject an approved small-business military medical records program…
The White House shouldn’t expect the furor over Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality Van Jones to go away just because he’s resigned, says a former Obama Administration transition team…
The White House invited an ACLU attorney, who has built a career over the past six years of litigating against the United States in support of terrorists, to an official White House dinner last night to celebrate Ramadan with President…
SCOT FREE British intelligence and Foreign Office officials were surprised by what they called the “seeming lack of enthusiasm” by the Obama administration in the run-up to the release of convicted Libyan terrorist Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the man responsible…
THE CO-OP FALLBACK The White House on Sunday was pushing the notion that it was willing to abandon the tent pole policy in its health care reform proposal — the so-called “public option,” more commonly understood to be socialized medicine…
Recently, high-profile visitors to the White House, including senior corporate executives, have found themselves paying for their own meals when sitting down with President Barack Obama, something unheard of in previous White Houses, according to former aides to President George…
GATES CLOSED It wasn’t out of a need for racial healing that President Barack Obama reached out to his old friend, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley. “We were looking at House hearings on…
