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The Department of Labor coordinated with the White House on whether or not to release hidden portions of former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’ schedule as Solis battled an FBI investigation into her illegal fundraising for President Obama. New emails provided to The Daily Caller from the nonprofit legal research firm Cause of Action show the White House thanking the Department of Labor for “flagging” a public information request for “withheld” portions of Solis’ schedule. (SEE THE EMAIL CHAIN). The White House then asked for the name of the conservative group making the request — information that Labor officials were eager...

We live in a strange time. Historically, reporters and editors have believed that their job is to disseminate news. That is no longer true. Now, most reporters and editors believe that their principal function is to prevent people from learning things they are better off not knowing. Day after day, they run interference for their party, the Democrats. Blockading inconvenient stories from making the news is job number one. Consider Fast and Furious. The Obama administration deliberately encouraged guns to be sold illegally and transferred to Mexican drug lords, for reasons that have never been explained. Hundreds of Mexicans and...

For a long time, as much as I wanted to see Obama gone, I opposed the notion of Congress attempting to impeach him. I figured that with the Senate in the hands of Harry Reid, nothing would come of it. What’s more, when it was attempted with Clinton, he came out at the other end more popular than ever, a martyr in the eyes of the left. But I no longer care about the end result. I want Obama to go through the process because he has it coming. In totalitarian states, after all, the people have no other recourse...

The town is turning on President Obama – and this is very bad news for this White House. Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama – and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now. Establishment Democrats, never big fans of this president to begin with, are starting to speak out. And reporters are tripping over themselves to condemn lies, bullying and shadiness in the Obama administration. Buy-in from all three D.C. stakeholders is an essential ingredient for a good old fashioned Washington pile-on — so get ready for bad...

From spinning Benghazi to politicizing the IRS to spying on the AP, a raft of embarrassing revelations is crippling the president President Obama has had a tough week, and it's about to get a lot worse. The past few days have seen a cascade of evidence that the administration not only feigned transparency, but may have covered up the politicization of the IRS and the response to the terrorist attack on the Benghazi consulate. Whistle-blowers on the Benghazi response moved that story back into the headlines, but not for long. Because on Friday, the IRS admitted that it had targeted...

"...the only thing missing from the list is the partridge in the pear tree. The list contains, “Nineteen different appointment scandals, seven broken promises related to his pledge to have “unprecedented transparency, six issues surrounding lobbyists in the “no lobbyists” Obama administration, five controversies involving tax cheaters…including three after he said he had to “make sure we’re not screwing up again,” four scandals related to the Obama family, three inauguration scandals, two broken tax promises, two broken promises on the Iraq war, along with other lies, flip-flops and broken promises on issues like the economy, AIG and war.” The “biggest”...

Although it hasn't technically begun, the Obama Administration already has the Clinton Administration beat, corruption-wise -- and by a large margin. Googling "Clinton corruption" nets you 1,660,000 hits, which seems like a lot until you google "Obama corruption," which is already up to a whopping 11,600,000 hits and rising.

Democratic political strategist James Carville predicts the Democratic Party -- already burdened by the Gov. Rod Blagojevich scandal -- will suffer more embarrassing scandals in 2009. Carville, who made his political predictions for CNN.com, said the reason is based on simple math: More Democrats in elected office increases the likelihood of scandal. "I firmly believe that there are streaks, and that political scandals happen in clusters," Carville said. "The Republican Party had its fair share of scandal and charges of deeply imbedded corruption preceding the 2006 election and leading up to the 2008 elections. "It doesn't hurt to point out...

...Asked about the claim that Mrs Obama accused her of having a close friendship with the Senator, she said: ‘I have no comment on anything. ‘I switched careers. That’s it. I’m a Democrat and I support Senator Obama ... I don’t have anything to say.’ She added that she emigrated to the Caribbean from the US after falling in love with the man with whom she now lives. Senator Obama’s team did not respond to our request for comment. But one day after we contacted Obama’s team, a London law firm informed The Mail on Sunday that it had been...

Democratic political guru James Carville predicts the Democratic Party — currently disgraced by the venal behavior of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — will suffer a series of embarrassing scandals in 2009. Carville, who ran Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign in 1992, said the reason is based on simple math: More Democrats in elected office increases the likelihood of scandal. “I firmly believe that there are streaks, and that political scandals happen in clusters,” Carville said, in a posting on CNN.com. There are several burgeoning scandals right now in Democratic circles: * Blagojevich is accused by federal prosecutors of conspiring to...