WASHINGTON — The US Senate voted down Thursday a measure to start building the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline between Canada and the Gulf Coast of Texas despite President Barack Obama’s opposition. The Senate measure was introduced by minority Republican lawmakers upset at Obama’s decision to delay a decision on…
Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night made the dubious claim that Harvard law professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., a former mentor of President Barack Obama, purposefully hid footage from the media in 2008. But Ogletree could not have suppressed the footage even if he wanted to. Local news…
Daily Voice editor Keith Boykin, who attended Harvard University with President Barack Obama, expressed confusion on Wednesday over the controversy surrounding video of Obama introducing Dr. Derrick Bell in 1990. Breitbart.com published video of Obama speaking about Bell, a racial justice pioneer who developed the critical race theory. Breitbart.com has…
Bill Burton on Wednesday defended President Barack Obama’s support for his own super PAC, even though the president opposes the controversial organizations in general. Burton is the co-founder and senior strategist of the Priorities USA Action, a super PAC that supports Obama. “At the end of the day, we don’t…
Breitbart.com editors Ben Shapiro and Joel Pollak said Wednesday on Sean Hannity’s radio show that they would release footage that proved President Barack Obama had “radical intellectual founders” — footage which was covered up by the mainstream media. But before Breitbart.com released the footage, PBS Frontline published the full unedited…
President Barack Obama on Wednesday rebuked foes who promise “three-point plans for two dollar gas,” aiming to deflect election year attacks sparked by rising US petrol prices. Obama’s remarks came as he traveled to the swing state of North Carolina to visit a Daimler Trucks plant to tout a new…
Among the many who disapproved of Rick Santorum calling President Barack Obama “a snob” for wanting kids to attend college, the most surprising critic of those comments maybe the GOP presidential candidate’s wife. In an interview with Politico released Sunday evening, Karen Santorum shared her disapproval over her husband’s choice of…
As a child, President Barack Obama once had a nanny in Jakarta who was a little different from other female caretakers: she was actually a he, who discovered at a young age that she was simply born the wrong gender. Her name is Evie, now 66-years-old, according to The Associated…
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday warned an 11-year-old boy that the world would be one step closer to nuclear war if President Barack Obama was allowed another term in office. “If Barack Obama gets re-elected, Iran will have a nuclear weapon and the world will change if that’s…
President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he was bestowing America’s highest civilian award, the presidential medal of freedom, upon Israeli President Shimon Peres, for his “moral example.” “Shimon once described the story of the Jewish people by saying it proved that, ‘slings, arrows and gas chambers can annihilate man, but…
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