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Former President Barack Obama wants to stay out of the 2020 fray, but he’s being drawn into it whether he likes it or not. First, he’s the most popular Democrat in recent memory. He cannot just hang in the bunker and disappear. Second, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg had done a swell job with his campaign folks in finding all the clips where Obama said good things about him and turned that into an ad. It almost seems like a quasi-endorsement, but it’s not. Obama hasn’t even lifted a finger concerning who he’s going to back, but you can...

Staff at the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) received a paycheck on Friday despite the government shutdown that left the agency with no funds, The Daily Caller News Foundation reported. The kicker? The agency is being run by Obama appointees who are still in the position.According to the DCNF, staff at the CSB received an email instructing them not to spend their paychecks because the agency was working with the Interior Business Center (IBC), a federal shared services provider that handles payroll for dozens of agencies, to have the funds reversed.Thomas Zoeller, the CSB’s senior adviser and acting general counsel, sent the...

The Fox News headline sums up the issue at hand: "No Obama documents in Obama library? Historians puzzled by Chicago center plans." The article continues, "The Obama Foundation is taking an unconventional approach to the presidential center and library being planned in Chicago. It's opting to host a digital archive of President Barack Obama's records, but not keep his hard-copy manuscripts and letters and other documents onsite." The Chicago Tribune broke the story that, to this point, has attracted no major media attention. Its headline raises much the same question Fox News did: "Without archives on site, how will Obama...

RUSH: Well, well, well, we have the president’s first hundred days now officially in the can and now under review, and as part of that review former President Barack Hussein Obama. (BEGIN PARODY) ANNOUNCER: Now, after being voted off the island we bring you President Obama with his critique of President Trump’s first hundred days. OBAMA: For the record, I was not voted off the island. I was asked to leave. Now, Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been nothing like my first 100 days. On day one I changed the direction of America. I closed down Guantanamo, traveled and...