No recession at the White House this Christmas season! With the US economy still in the tank and many if not most Americans having to cut back on holiday spending, it must have been a good year at the White House as the Obama administration was way to generous in the gifts that it gave to Iran! Just what Ahmadinejad always wanted! Secret US technology and Iraq! H/T Sultan Knish Become a fan of The...

White House Cites Information Obtained From Christmas Day Bomber Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab As Justification For Mirandizing Terror Suspects Senator Kit Bond has issued a letter to President Obama, in which he protests the White House media briefing concerning the renewed cooperation of the Christmas Day terror suspect. Such a briefing says Senator Bond, serves only to alert our enemies with no oth...

The Obama administration and Congress are gearing up for a battle over sanctions against Iran, with Capitol Hill resisting White House pressure on measures the administration says could antagonise allies and complicate its foreign policy

It now appears that Rahm Emanuel has accepted the job of White House Chief of Staff in an Obama administration. The Chief of Staff is, in many ways, the second most powerful person in the White House after the president. Some will say that the appointment of the hyper-partisan Emanuel demonstrates that for all the talk of unity, this is going to be an aggressively political White House. But that m...

Deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton announced today that President Obama has approved creating a brand new anti-terrorism interrogation squad that will report directly to the White House: The administration has also decided that all U.S. interrogators will follow the rules for detainees laid out by the Army Field Manual, according to senior administration officials who spoke on conditio...

Larry Summers, the Obama administration's top economic adviser, will step down after the November mid-term elections and return to Harvard University, the White House said

The US administration's new budget is downright scary – not because it is badly thought out or dishonestly presented, but because it represents the outer limit of what White House experts who understand the need for fiscal consolidation think is politically feasible.

The turnover of top White House officials is set to continue with the imminent departure of Barack Obama's chief of staff. The consequences depend not just on the replacements but on the president's understanding of how his administration needs to change

The Obama administration has played down signs of a growing rift with senior Democrats over White House criticism of the Israeli government after a withering attack on it by Chuck Schumer, the Democratic senator from New York

Christians around the world who live in countries dominated by the Muslim faith live in fear of attack and even death everyday, but particularly on Christmas "Most of the churches here in Baghdad have canceled Christmas celebrations." CANON ANDREW WHITE Yet where is the overriding public demonstration of outrage? Where is President Obama and his administration with wholesale condemnation? Where is...