Perhaps the Obama administration would like some whine with that cheese. Or, at a minimum, a new campaign strategy with its confounding communications plan. That the Obama White House has a soft spot for criticism comes as no surprise. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace alluded to as much when he ...

Only in Obama’s America could a congressman who made the right statement at the wrong time be called a racist. But that’s exactly what happened to South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson, herald of the now infamous “you lie!” interjection that sent on-call Washington hyper-partisans into a raving frenzy after the ...

It was the "biggest shock in IOC history." At home and abroad, from D.C. to Copenhagen, there were dismay and genuine surprise as Chicago's bid to capture the 2016 Summer Olympic Games came to an abrupt and startling halt. The city, considered by many the favorite going into Friday's final round ...

WiR's review of the president's health care address. Standing before a Congress suspicious of his proposals and addressing an public frustrated with and confused about his hitherto nonexistent plans for health care reform, President Obama laid out in clear terms his legislative wishlist while simultaneously taking to task the critics who ...

It was the best of times for conservatives, it was the worst of times for the Obama White House, it was the age of wisdom for critics of the president's agenda, it was the age of foolishness for young and dashing idealists who thought they knew what was best, it ...

For those of you just visiting for the first time, this is it: the first inaugural post dating back to January 20, 2009, Barack Obama's Inauguration Day. Since then, so much has changed (and we're not talking Obama-style "change" here). One thing has remained the same, however, and that is ...