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No One Cared About Hacking until We found Out How Corrupt Liberals Are By S. Noble - January 6, 2017 US major government and military organizations are hacked all the time by endless numbers of foreign and domestic actors. Nothing was done to fix our cybersecurity. But let a privates organization like the DNC get hacked or careless John Podesta’s emails get hacked and all hell breaks loose. John Podesta left his smart phone in a cab, he fell for a phishing incident and his password was ‘passwØrd”. Hillary put our state secrets on a personal server she kept in...

A moving truck was seen on Wednesday parked outside the White House, where President Obama will live and work for just two more weeks. The truck was parked on West Executive Avenue, a street inside the White House gates and situated in-between the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and the West Wing.

The White House is bugged! No, not like that. But actual flies are swarming the place, confounding housekeepers, irritating aides, even trying to feast on the president. During an East Room interview with John Harwood for CNBC and The New York Times on Tuesday, a giant fly orbited Mr. Obama’s head. “I got the sucker,” the president boasted after fatally slapping the critter on the back of his hand. That scene became an instant YouTube sensation — and resulted in a complaint from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “Well, I guess it can’t be said that President...

That will be the role Hollywood will chronicle in a movie praising ‘The Community Organizer Who Became President & “The President Who Returned to the Life of a Community Organizer’ Outgoing President Barack Obama is leaving the White House in the same venue in which he spent the last eight years: kicking up hedonistic heels for Party Time! The same freeloaders who spent the better part of the last decade boozing it up and gorging themselves at the White House, will whoop it up with party crazed Barack and Michelle as they party on out the door into—hopefully—community organizer oblivion.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest expressed annoyance that President Obama doesn't get enough credit for being the "most transparent" president in history. . . . Earnest added that there is really "no constituency in American politics for transparency in government beyond journalists."

TylerDurdenDecember 23,2016 Just over six years ago, in December of 2010, we wrote "Charting America's Transformation To A Part-Time Worker Society", in which we predicted - and showed - that in light of the underlying changes resulting from the second great depression, whose full impacts remain masked by trillions in monetary stimulus and soon, perhaps fiscal, America is shifting from a traditional work force, one where the majority of new employment is retained on a full-time basis, to a "gig" economy, where workers are severely disenfranchised, and enjoy far less employment leverage, job stability and perks than their pre-crash peers....

Kellyanne Conway: I Can Manage White House Job And Being A Mother Because 'I Don't Play Golf And I Don't Have A Mistress' Oliver DarcyDecember 23, 2016 Incoming White House counselor Kellyanne Conway provided an interesting answer on Thursday when asked if she would have trouble fulfilling the duties of her new job while being a mother of four. "I would say that I don't play golf and I don't have a mistress, so I have a lot of time that a lot of these other men don't," she told the Fox Business Network. "I see people on the weekend...

Mitt Romney appears to have no hard feelings for being passed over as Trump’s secretary of state. Even though ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson was chosen for the position in the end, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee says that his candidacy alone proves Trump is willing to listen to alternative viewpoints. He expressed his thoughts in a short letter to the editor via The Salt Lake Tribune on Saturday: My political journey was surely not so bizarre as the 2016 campaign. That said, let me offer this personal perspective. I was indeed very critical of Donald Trump during his campaign. But...

Infiltration of the federal government by members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood is worse than some have warned recently, says a former FBI special agent in Washington. The agent confirmed that at least three operatives of the Egypt-based Brotherhood – whose credo is “Jihad is our way and death in the cause of Allah is our dream” – have penetrated the Obama administration.

…a choice that breaks from a modern tradition of featuring images of the White House on the card. . . . Malia and Sasha “dazzle” in elegant, embroidered gowns designed by Naeem Khan, that are worth nearly $20,000. Each. There’s not much of a Christmas-y feel to the card, other than being framed by Christmas holly clipart. Fittingly, Bill Clinton was the first modern president to use a family photo on a White House Christmas card in 1993. You have to go back to Franklin D. Roosevelt — another Democrat — to find another family portrait in use.

Since Election Day, President Barack Obama has appointed 56 people to boards, commissions and offices in the hopes that they remain in those posts for years to come. He has reduced the prison sentences of 79 federal inmates. He has handed out the nation’s highest civilian honor to 21 people who he said personally made an impact on his life. And he has churned out rules, regulations and policies several times a week. Obama is trying to put the people and policies in place that he wants to outlast his presidency in the final weeks before Donald Trump takes...

The crowd gathered outside the White House during the lighting of the National Christmas Tree Thursday chanted “four more years” as President Barack Obama turned on the lights. “Four more years, four more years, four more years,” the group shouted at the 94th annual lighting ceremony of the National Christmas Tree on The Ellipse.

The White House debuts its Christmas decorations for Obama's last holiday season - complete with a 300lb gingerbread house and Hillary Clinton's 'frosty' friends That's also where visitors will find the hefty, 300-pound gingerbread White House, made this year from 150 pounds of gingerbread covered in 100 pounds of bread dough. The Lower Cross Hall, where Hillary Clinton's portrait hangs, has been decorated with snowmen lining the corridor. . . . The first lady's 'Let's Move' anti-childhood obesity campaign is represented by the fruits, a nod to healthy eating, and laid out in the Green and Red Rooms upstairs on...

I have a minor surgery this morning so I’m turning the whole thing over to you guys. Mind your manners, don’t forget the MOTUS Rule Book (sidebar) and clean up after yourselves.To get things rolling, what do you say we all contemplate the awesomeness of our Great Presidential Christmas Hall of the Snow Goons.Try to focus on the impermanence of the snow goons; that should make the fundamental transformation of the Central Hall into a third rate mall a bit easier to deal with.Then imagine them all committing hari kari. That should be fun.Snow Goon Shrine of the First Jilted...

Michelle Obama kicked off her family's final Christmas season at the White House on Friday by receiving a 19-foot Balsam-Veitch fir from Wisconsin as the official White House Christmas tree. Joined by two young nephews instead of her teenage daughters, the first lady said she's ready and excited for the holiday. . . . Mrs. Obama explained that the appearance by her nephews "is what happens when you get teenagers," referring to 18-year-old Malia and 15-year-old Sasha, the daughters who in past years have joined her for the tradition of receiving the Christmas tree on the morning after Thanksgiving. "One's...

President-elect Donald Trump will live in the White House, he said Sunday, ending speculation about whether he might opt to stay in New York City and reside in Trump Tower or at one of his other properties. His wife, Melania, and 10-year-old son, Barron, will likely join him after Barron finishes the school year this spring, Trump added. “Yes, White House,” Trump told reporters when asked about where he will live, per a pool report. Asked about plans for Melania and Barron to move to Washington, Trump added: “Very soon. After he’s finished with school." A New York Post article...

Future First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron will not be moving to the White House after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, The Post has learned. The president-elect’s 46-year-old wife and their 10-year-old son are staying put at the family’s glitzy Trump Tower penthouse so that Barron can continue attending his Upper West Side private school, sources told The Post. “Melania is extremely close to Barron, and they have become closer during the campaign,” said a source close to Trump’s transition team. “The campaign has been difficult for Barron, and she is really hoping to keep disruption to a minimum.”

Vital to organizing any White House is distilling people with loyalty, talent, mission-focus, and connectivity to problems that need real solutions. The Trump team has a tougher job than most. Objectively, they are leaning into tougher problems than the Nation has faced in decades, making top picks harder – and more important. From the economy to national security, immigration to foreign policy, they have their work cut out. Three suggestions may help, as they did after Reagan’s victory – and creating rolling Reagan victories. First, do not throw the baby out with the bathwater, but throw out as much...

President Obama is apparently refusing to renovate the Oval Office — and has instead decided to pass the buck to Donald Trump, who may be forced to work somewhere else for a quarter of his term now as a result of the numerous security upgrades that will be going on inside the room. “My understanding is that for the first year of his time in office, President Trump will not have the Oval Office,” former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove told Fox News on Wednesday.

"We regret to announce that the "Dine at the White House Mess" program will no longercontinue under the Trump Administration due to the repeal of the Obama Administration'sopenness and transparency doctrine." Sorry about the lack of the pic on the page.