(Weekly Standard) – As the White House first announced in March, Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Mexico and Costa Rica later this week. The trip is billed as “an important opportunity to reinforce the deep cultural, familial, and economic ties that so many Americans share with Mexico and Central America.” And at yesterday’s White House press [...]

(Washington Examiner) – President Obama, fresh off outperforming Conan O’Brien at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, let the good times roll during his speech at the National Academy of Sciences. “Part of what’s made the academy so effective is that all the scientists elected to your elite ranks are volunteers — which is [...]

(Breitbart) – According to a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), President Barack Obama has spent over twice as many hours on vacation and golf (976 hours) as he has in economic meetings of any kind (474.4 hours). The report, “Presidential Calendar: A Time-Based Analysis,” used the official White House calendar, Politico’s [...]

(Washington Post) – A good recruiter needs to be liked, so Dillie Nerios filled gift bags with dog toys for the dog people and cat food for the cat people. She packed crates of cookies, croissants, vegetables and fresh fruit. She curled her hair and painted her nails fluorescent pink. “A happy, it’s-all-good look,” she [...]

Triple your income? Pay 10 TIMES as much toward national defense and food stamps, but Obama tax-day ‘receipt’ website makes it nearly impossible to find out – Examples provided for $25k-$80k earners, but not for wealthy taxpayers       - White House won’t comment on failure to show massive tax burden of the ‘one percent’ [...]

(Washington Times) – Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, took in $26,400 in 2012 by renting a cottage on the property of their Delaware home to the Secret Service, tax records released by the White House revealed. They netted $17,944 of that rental money. The arrangement under which the vice president [...]

(The Wall Street Journal) – President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama paid $112,214 in federal income taxes in 2012 on adjusted gross income of $608,611, an effective rate of 18.4%, the White House said Friday. The first family’s income declined from the $789,674 in adjusted gross income they reported in 2011. That year [...]

(Breitbart) – Senate Democrats are “confident” they have the votes to bring gun control legislation to the Senate floor.  At least 14 Republicans have threatened to filibuster the legislation, but eight Republicans “have said they will not attempt to block an effort to bring up the measure, a senior Democratic aide said.” The staffer noted [...]

(Weekly Standard) – On Barack and Michelle Obama’s schedule for today, this event is listed: 7:30PM           THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY host a concert celebrating Memphis Soul music as part of their “In Performance at the White House” series; THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks As the White House has previously announced, Justin Timberlake (who will [...]

WASHINGTON – After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up. She’d already abandoned hope of getting work in her field, working with the disabled. But she couldn’t land anything else, either — not even a job interview at a telephone call center. Until she feels confident enough to send out [...]