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President Donald Trump criticized Fox News on Wednesday for allowing professional Democrats to spread their message unchallenged. “The New Fox News is letting millions of GREAT people down!” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!” The president ripped Fox News for allowing Democrats like former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile to spread her views on the network. He also accused anchors like Sandra Smith for failing to challenge them. “Just watched Fox News heavily promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she...

The buzz of last weekend was an opinion piece on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Review by Drew Westen. He has been a Democratic Party organizer and is now a professor of psychology at Emory University. This is not a criticism of Obama from the right, from yet another Tea Party person foaming about birth certificates and socialism. This is a criticism from a progressive, a true believer. First, Westen criticizes Obama's speechifying. The bully pulpit granted to each president has been largely squandered by Obama. His best speech ever, the one about race, came before...

A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a San Diego man who authorities say threatened Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that Walter Bagdasarian's violent and racist screed against Obama was "repugnant" but not criminal.

...But there was never anything silly, nor light-hearted, nor casual, about Barack Obama's efforts to keep the public's eyes from the basic facts of his life, from birth to his candidacy for president. On the contrary, this opacity is a deliberate policy. Why? The presumptive answer, absent testimony from those involved, is to ensure that real facts interfere as little as possible with the image and narrative that he and his associates have carefully crafted for him. Distinguishing between reality and that narrative would require above all a skeptical attitude, sure to be characterized by Democrats and the media in...

It all looked so easy in August 2008, when Sen. Barack Obama spoke before the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The Democrats were going to win in November, storm Washington with their reforming ways, and because they were so much smarter than everyone else, they'd know how to get the American economy cooking. There was no doubt as the enthusiastic Invesco Field throng cheered and chanted, "Yes, we can." Well, never mind. After the Democrats squeezed floor votes for unpopular health care legislation through the House and Senate, independent voters are turning on Obama, conservatives never warmed to him and...

WASHINGTON – Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer kept getting interrupted Monday morning. While chatting in her Capitol Hill office with nine California reporters about her plans for the new Congress, Boxer got two phone calls during the 90-minute meeting, both from the same man. It was Barack Obama. She wasn't complaining. After the calls, Boxer told reporters that she had changed her mind and was leaning toward supporting Obama's request to approve spending the remaining $350 billion from a $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan approved last year. Boxer said he told her that he would give a television speech to...

No sooner did New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdraw his nomination as secretary of commerce amid a "pay-to-play" grand jury investigation back home than word leaked that former California Rep. Leon Panetta was being named CIA chief. The timing was no coincidence. A Washington source tells us the Panetta nod wasn't due for another week, but that once Barack Obama's transition team "saw the Richardson train wreck coming, someone thought it would be smart to get reporters talking about something else, fast."It worked with reporters. Unfortunately, the ploy frosted incoming Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein, who was not happy...

I really am a tax-and-spend liberal, as you probably already know, and I really do wish that still-beloved almost-President Obama were not promising so darn many tax cuts. It is not my impression that the economy is in the tank because our taxes are too high. The people who need the money the most are the people who will not be paying taxes at all, and in the meantime the federal government will have even less money than it usually does to pay for all the things Obama has promised to do, including building bridges and schools and providing better...

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Sen. Barack Obama has not yet officially said he is running for president, but supporters in Silicon Valley are already preparing to help pay for his bid. Tech-savvy politicos in the wealthy California region have formed a political action committee backing the Illinois Democrat and are planning a major local fundraiser for next month. The Obama for America Draft Committee PAC, created by San Jose Democratic consultant Jude Barry, raised $30,000 in December. Organizers say the phone is ringing off the hook from potential contributors and volunteers. Obama, 45, formed an exploratory committee earlier this week for a 2008 presidential...