New York Post Slams Vacationing Obama On Front Page For Looking Like Hes On Vacation

Fun Fact of The Day: Obama Has Spent Nearly Two Months Golfing
A true hero of the Working Class. (WHD)- President Obama has gone golfing a total of 59 times in just under two years as president, a blistering pace that puts him on the Golf Course an average of about once every two weeks, including winters. According to statistics compiled by CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who keeps close tabs on the president’s activities, Obama played 30 rounds in 2010, 28 rounds in 2009, and one this year. The 2011 outing is among the five times he...

Oops: Obama Rented an Illegal House During Hawaii Vacation
President Barack Obama's two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals. Obama did not break the law by staying at the house, but the property owner who rented his house to the Obamas does not have the permit that would allow a stay of fewer than 30 days. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedo...

Daley, candidate for senior post in Obama administration, visiting White House
William Daley, the front-runner to become permanent Chief of Staff to President Obama, is paying a furtive visit to the White House on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the hiring process. This Story Robert Gibbs resigns, saying he'll serve Obama better from outside Gibbs: It's been a 'remarkable privilege' Daley visits White House as Obama prepares to make sweeping staff changes The Fix: Gibbs shoes are tough to fill Robert Gibbs leaving the White House Michelle Obama names new ch...

Oops: Obama Rented an Illegal House During Hawaii Vacation
President Barack Obama’s two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals. Obama did not break the law by staying at the house, but the property owner who rented his house to the Obamas does not have the permit that would allow a stay of fewer than 30 days. Glenn Weinberg, the owner of the Kailua estate, told Civil Beat that it was legal for him to rent to the president for a short stay because he kept the home empty for t...

Obama Rented Illegal Hawaiian Vacation House
Adrienne LaFrance, Honolulu Civil Beat President Barack Obama’s two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals. Obama did not break the law by staying at the house, but the property owner who rented his house to the Obamas does not have the permit that would allow a stay of fewer than 30 days. Glenn Weinberg, the owner of the Kailua estate, told Civil Beat that it was legal for him to rent to the president for a short s...

Barack Obama: Dependable as the sunrise [Reader Post]
Yeah sure. If there’s one thing you can depend on, it’s Barack Obama saying one thing and doing another. Most likely Obama will pound something like globawarmiatechange or Amnesty down our throats. And today was no different. Over at The Hill they told us that Obama was getting all bipartisany: President Obama, returning to Washington from his Christmas Vacation in Hawaii, urged House and Senate GOP leaders to put partisan politics aside in the name of working to boost The Economy. &...

Obama Sure Does Spend a Lot of Time Golfing
If President Obama was a Republican this would be Scandalous. But he’s not, so he gets a pass. Since taking office he’s spent about two months golfing. President Obama has gone golfing a total of 59 times in just under two years as president, a blistering pace that puts him on the Golf Course an average of about once every two weeks, including winters. According to statistics compiled by CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who keeps close tabs on the president’s act...

Obama Lost His CharismaNot His Political Skill
Obama’s presidency is surviving on what little personal charm he has left despite his complete loss of charisma as a leader. And yet, the pared down president is revealing himself to be a skillful and dangerous political opponent with moves this week that show he’s been biding his time while giving the Republicans room to make their own mistakes. Long before November’s loss, Obama telegraphed that the second phase of his presidency would be quite different from the first. Tho...

Obama 2011: Raise the Debt Limit! Obama 2006: Dont You Dare Raise the Debt Limit!
What a difference five years makes. President Obama‘s economic spokesman Austan Goolsbee has turned into Chicken Little, demanding the nation’s Debt Limit be raised above the current $14.3 Trillion (excluding unfunded liabilities). But in March 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passionately opposed raising the then-$9 Trillion National Debt limit. Here’s what Obama said back then: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s Debt Limit is a sign of le...

The profoundly unconservative, Big Government GOP
As noted yesterday, House Republicans are already backing away from their plain-spoken, oft-repeated pledge to approve $100 billion in Budget cuts as soon as they take control of the House. In most cases, including my post yesterday, that’s being treated as just another in a long line of broken promises by politicians. But on further thought, it’s much more than that. It’s actually telling us something profoundly important about our nation’s fiscal crisis. Think about i...

Sarah Palin is the Next Nelson Rockefeller?!
The title of this post might seem absurd on its face. After all, politically Sarah Palin and Nelson Rockefeller have absolutely nothing in common. One is an uber-rich liberal New York scion of America’s wealthiest family, the other the Tea Party Queen/Mamma Grizzly from Alaska. Surely there can’t be anything that the two have in common. Can they? Well, I was recently reading David Pietrusza’s very good book: 1960-LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidenci

Boston Herald Sportswriter Steve Buckley: 'I'm Gay'
Boston Herald sportswriter Steve Buckley revealed that he is gay in his latest column. In the column, titled "Welcome to my coming-out party," Buckley says that he had intended to tell his readers--and his listeners who hear him talk about Boston sports on local radio--about his Sexuality years ago, after his mother, who had been worried about the public reaction to such an admission, changed her mind: Just over seven years ago, before Thanksgiving, we were getting into the car outside of a CV...

Bad news: Obamas Hawaiian vacation rental was illegal
“Illegal” is such an ugly word. Instead, let’s say that the rental wasn’t … properly documented. And before any Birthers e-mail me: Yes, yes, I know. “Neither is he.” Something for Darrell Issa to add to his list? President Barack Obama’s two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals. Obama did not break the law by staying at the house, but the property owner who rented his hou...

After the holiday, returning to car pool unprepared for gloomy radio news
It was the first carpool pickup of the new year, a return to routine and old habits. Like many of us getting back into the swing of regular life after a break, the woman in the driver's seat still had a bit of holiday lightness about her. It hadn't been the world's greatest Christmas, but she'd enjoyed two weeks with her family and had especially relished not spending so much time in the car. Still, here she was, back in her role as chauffeur, and so, out of long practice, she flicked the radio ...

Welcome to my coming-out party
A candid admission: There was a time when I hated it when my mother would call with an urgent request that I drop everything to take her shopping. These trips often involved the pursuit of trivial items — shoes, a table lamp, frozen strawberries. Or scatter rugs: In any given year, my mother would acquire enough scatter rugs to cover every inch of the playing field at Fenway Park [map], including the bullpens. I, on the other hand, had much more important things to do — such as go on...

Alaska Airlines Announces Low Fares to Its Nine Mexico Destinations
SEATTLE, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air announced a winter fare sale with hot fares starting as low as $119 to nine Mexico destinations. Fares are good for travel from Jan. 10 through April 7, 2011. Tickets must be purchased by Jan. 18, 2011 and are available for purchase starting today at www.alaskaair.com and www.horizonair.com. "There's never been a better time to get away to Mexico with these low fares to your choice of nine great destinations," said Joe Sprague...

Worst Persons
The Washington Post editorial board is just now realizing that the Republicans are the party of fiscal irresponsibility. Paul Krugman rightly kicks some assnecks here. Why the blindness? I suspect a lot of it had to do with the desire to seem balanced. Journalists felt that they had to find Republican fiscal heroes, just to show how even-handed and open-minded they were. To say that the whole Deficit thing was a political ploy, with no substance behind it, sounded shrill. It's not like the nu...

Mookies Back
Mookie aka Moqtada al Sadr is back in Iraq. You know where he was hanging? Iran. Odd, I didn’t hear any neocons today celebrating what a great victory we have achieved in Iraq. What better sign of our victory than the return of the bearded radical Imam. According to the AP: Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a fierce opponent of the United States and head of Iraq’s most feared Militia, came home Wednesday after nearly four years in self-imposed exile in Iran, welcomed by hundred...

More Hispanic voters in states adding seats
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- States set to gain congressional representatives have larger Hispanic populations than other states, the Pew Hispanic Center said Wednesday. The center analyzed 2010 Census data. Researchers found the percentage of eligible voters that are Hispanic in states gaining seats is 15.2 percent. Those states that are losing seats or remaining flat average 5.4 percent. Since 2000, almost 6 million Hispanics have become eligible to vote with the total now at 20.1 million. Most...

Former FCC chairman joins company's board
Former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin has joined the board of a communications technology company. Kevin Martin, a Republican who chaired the agency during the first half of President George W. Bush's term, will serve on the board of directors for the manufacturer AirWalk Communications.  Martin is also a partner in the communications practice of Patton Boggs.  Source: https://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/136349-former-fcc-chairman-joins-company...

Sadr Returns Triumphantly to Najaf
Al-Zaman (The Times of Baghdad) writes in Arabic that Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadr Movement, returned on Wednesday to Najaf after 4 years in Iran. An aide issued a communique saying, “Muqtada al-Sadr arrived in Najaf in the company of a number of his major aides, among them Mustafa al-Ya`qubi, Muhammad al-Sa’idi, and Haydar al-Jabiri.” Sadr’s arrival coincided with a trip to Tehran from Iraq by former Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, leader of the National Co...

John Johnson Jr.: Volunteer football coach taught sportsmanship to youths
He was 65. "Because he was so genuinely concerned about the future of the kids, my father used sports as a deterrent to prevent them from falling into the wrong type of lives," said his daughter, Toya Johnson. "Whether he was coaching football or Baseball, he was always very supportive of the Children and enjoyed teaching them about good sportsmanship and helping them realize their full potential." Through his association with Pop Warner, Mr. Johnson w...

Lessons From the Lame-Duck Tax Rates Battle
In the recent debate about ending or prolonging the Bush Tax Rates, the Democrats subtly staked out a new fiscal doctrine -- not increasing tax rates costs the government money and increases the Deficit. What we heard ad nauseam from President Obama and congressional Democrats was that keeping the Bush rates in effect for those earning more than $250,000 will "cost" the government $700 billion in lost revenue over the next ten years and increase the federal Debt by the same amount. That supposed...

The Drug War: A Roller-Coaster To Hell
Bill fell into a disastrous cycle of drug use and got hooked on Heroin, the tragic horrors of which he didn't grasp until it was too late. Shame at being a failure further fueled the cycle, and he was a junkie before he was 30. There was the inevitable collision with police, courts and Prison. He is now on an in-prison Methadone program. The black inmate, who I will call Ahmed, has much different concerns as he looks toward getting out and back on the streets. Like Bill, his concern is also h...

Obama's Next Press Secretary Needs Power, in the White House and with the Press
This post originally appeared on Slate. (Credit: Getty) The president's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, announced today that he's leaving the White House. So who will speak for the president now? This question won't be answered merely by naming a successor. The number of people who can speak for the president--plus the inevitable blend of policy defense and political Rhetoric that takes place as we move toward the 2012 Campaign--could make for some confusion in the White House. The president spoke t...