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President Obama and the first family earned about two-thirds less in 2010 than the year before, and donated about 14% of their income to charity. The Obama family, in tax returns released Monday by the White House, reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096, down from about $5.5 million in 2009. The Obamas reported paying $453,770 in federal taxes. They donated $245,075, or 14% of their income, to 36 different charities. Fisher House Foundation, a charity that works with veterans, took home the biggest single donation. The president earns a salary of $400,000 for his day job. His paycheck was...

President Obama on Wednesday will call for a one-third cut in oil imports by 2020, part of a plan he says will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign petroleum. Video: March 29 (Bloomberg) -- Mike Wittner, global head of oil research at Societe Generale SA, talks about the impact political turmoil has had on the oil industry and the outlook for gasoline prices in the U.S. Wittner speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." President Obama to call for one-third cut to oil imports Five myths about gas prices Crude declines in New York amid signs of rising U.S....

President Obama found himself locked out of the White House on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama issued a stern “hands off” warning to the US Supreme Court on the issue of health care, saying that “this program is too important to allow it to be overturned by an unelected oligarchy.” The warning came in the face of calls for the Court to resolve conflicting rulings on the President’s health care legislation from several lower courts. Conceding that “normally, it would be incumbent upon the Supreme Court to eventually clarify a situation in which lower courts have ruled differently,” Obama’s Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal nevertheless urged the Court to “back off. Right now...

RASMUSSEN: Obama Approval Index: -22 Strongly Approve 20% Strongly Disapprove 42% Total Approval 43% Developing...

Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow—from an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.’s staunchest supporters. In a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid program, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron has pulled the financial plug entirely on four U.N. agencies at the end of next year, put three others judged merely “adequate” on notice that they could face the same fate unless they improve their...

Seeking to appease disgruntled governors, President Obama plans to announce on Monday that he supports amending the 2010 health care law to allow states to opt out of its most burdensome requirements three years earlier than currently permitted. It's significant that the president is finally acknowledging that ObamaCare is unworkable and will impose enormous burdens on the states. Or is he? A closer look shows that the president is not lifting the burdensome requirements ObamaCare imposes on states. All he's doing is proposing to move up, from 2017 to 2014, the date on which states can apply for federal permission...

President Obama and the First family danced to Motown songs during a celebration at the White House on Thursday night.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is the leader of the regime today in Cleveland at Cleveland State University. State-Run MSNBC, the only network covering this and they cut away shortly after the president said what you're going to hear here. The entire nation is focused on Wisconsin. The entire nation is focused on debt. The entire nation is focused on four Americans shot by Somali pirates. The entire nation is focused on this country is a target of everybody and everything, including members of its own government. And the leader of the regime, who is the architect of all of this...

Washington (CNN) - Michelle Obama is taking heat from talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh after a report in the Vail Daily that she consumed a not-so-healthy-meal of ribs for dinner while on a recent visit to the Colorado resort, the latest example of conservative angst directed at the first lady's healthy-eating initiative. "The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice," Limbaugh said Monday on his radio program. "And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat per serving."

(Reuters) - Supporters of legislation to reduce public employee union bargaining power and benefits in Wisconsin were far outnumbered by opponents on Saturday, as the two sides shouted competing slogans under clear skies. Tens of thousands have demonstrated throughout the week against Republican Governor Scott Walker's proposals, which supporters say are necessary to bring state spending under control and opponents contend are aimed at breaking the back of state worker unions. Both sides drew thousands on Saturday, but opponents appeared to have several times as many on hand as those attending a rally backed by Tea Party groups, the first...

Remember when everyone was calling George W. Bush stupid? I do. Since then, his published memoir of his years in the White House has been on the bestseller lists following two years of Barack Obama unrelenting blunders and lies. From the beginning of the Obama administration, there were all manner of evidence that a group of hapless, moronic ideologues had been handed the reins of power. Early nominees for key posts were jettisoned or withdrew from consideration for a variety of reasons. This was followed by a huge overlay of “czars” for everything, with undefined power over and above the...

Fearless Reader proves his prowess at speaking extemporaneously and without benefit of his faithful friend TOTUS.We are seldom allowed insight in to the intellect of our president as an extempore speaker and the folowing quotes will clear up several misconceptions as to why. “Part of the facts is understanding we have a problem, and part of the facts is what you’re going to do about it.” “You’re free. And freedom is beautiful. And you know, it will take time to restore chaos and order - order out of chaos. But we will” “I’m going to spend a lot of...

"And then somebody -- I don't remember who it was -- turned and said, 'You know what? What about Gibbs' tie? What about Gibbs' tie? That might look good.' And, frankly, Robert didn't want to give it up because he thought he looked really good in the tie. But eventually he was willing to take one for the gipper, and so he took off his tie, and I put it on. And that's the tie that I wore at the national convention."

Free Republic favorite Bill O'Reilly will be conducting Dear Leader Barack Obama's traditional Super Bowl pre-game interview live on Fox broadcast at 4:45 p.m. EST.

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is convening an unprecedented mass meeting of U.S. ambassadors.</p>

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as "the president who lost Iran," which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the United States to being the revolutionary Islamic Republic. Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who "lost" Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, and during whose tenure America's alliances in the Middle East crumbled. The superficial circumstances are similar. In both cases, a United States in financial crisis and after failed wars loses global influence under a leftist president whose good intentions are interpreted abroad as expressions of weakness. The results are reflected in...

There's been a ton of hilariously Photoshopped versions of Time magazines ridiculous Reagan/Obama cover. I swear it's like they had a meeting to figure out ways to ruin The Gippers 100th birthday and voted that this was one of them....at this point I would say it didn't work out so well for them. Here are some "leaked" rejected drafts of the covers. ;-D There's the good... the bad... and the ugly...

President Obama mourned the death on Thursday of David Kato, a gay rights activist who was murdered in Uganda: “I am deeply saddened to learn of the murder of David Kato. In Uganda, David showed tremendous courage in speaking out against hate. He was a powerful advocate for fairness and freedom. The United States mourns his murder, and we recommit ourselves to David’s work. “At home and around the world, LGBT persons continue to be subjected to unconscionable bullying, discrimination, and hate. In the weeks preceding David Kato’s murder in Uganda, five members of the LGBT community in Honduras were...

HONOLULU (AP) -- Five Hawaii Democratic representatives want to pass a law making President Barack Obama's birth records public and charge $100 to see them.