“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. This is an opportunity. What used to be long-term problems — be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, t...

Says Hillary Clinton. What if George Bush or Dick Cheney had said something like that openly? It's the kind of line that people used to imagine Bush people saying in secret. IN THE COMMENTS: jayne cobb says: Didn't Rahm Emanuel say the exact same thing? Yes: It's the mantra of the Obama administrati...

Have you wondered why there have been so many hit pieces lately about Rush Limbaugh? Well, new revelations suggest that Democrats began a smear campaign against the conservative talk radio host last October, and now it's really caught steam. Apparently, the Left feared its message would be muted wit...

The “reports” come in from all over the internet and the papers, day after day after day: Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail: Democrat Rahm Emanuel put his Chicago residency in the name of a charity to avoid property taxes… Phil Gremillion at The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette,...

Liz Sidoti , Associated Press writer covering the White House, puts a positive spin on Barack Obama's exploitation of the economic crisis. Like other presidents saddled with a crisis, Barack Obama is embracing the worst economic conditions in a generation as an opportunity to advance an audacious ag...

Let’s turn an eye toward the New Yorker, a popular New York-based magazine that sometimes has a passable amount to do with DC and politics, making it a-okay for this, “the DC gossip.” Plus, as you may have heard, certain New Yorker staff writers have been turning a bemonocoled eye ...

Rahm Emanuel cannot leave his office without generating a colorful anecdote involving profanity. Today's installment: Rahm went to a movie! He went to see The Wrestler, in DC, at a regular person theater (Obama didn't invite him to the White House screening? We bet Rahm talks over movies all the dam...

Have you read the controversial New Yorker profile of Rahm Emanuel? It's controversial because it uses that word, in describing Rahm, a bunch of times, and also it pissed off some liberals. Of course liberals are notoriously easy to piss off, and the people most able to piss them off are, strangely,...

Boston Tea Party in Chicago: “Let’s all stop paying our mortgages!� Vote here on the question “Should we subsidize the mortgages of those who cannot pay them?� After $787 billion of pork-barrel spending was signed into law Tuesday, the Obama administration wants to pay for everyone’s mor...

On Saturday’s Fox News Watch, FNC host Bill Hemmer brought up the media’s lack of interest in Barack Obama’s plans to exert control over the 2010 census from the White House, as the show’s panel discussed Republican Senator Judd Gregg’s decision not to accept appointment to the position o...