WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama named sixteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to […]
Author Dan Balz writes, “Presidential elections are often retold from the inside out, as if all power and wisdom flow from the strategists plotting and arguing inside their secured headquarters.” This hits the nail on the head, and is part of the reason the book is such a great read. […]
This morning, Hassan Rouhani was sworn in as Iran’s new president during a session of parliament. Rouhani won the presidential election as a moderate and has sparked hope in the West of improving relations with Iran. However, he said that any interaction with Iran must happen through dialogue. He called […]
“Three years after the Obama administration proclaimed ‘welcome to the recovery,’ we’re still seeing the same thing month after month: not enough new jobs and an unemployment rate far higher than promised. Nearly five years of aggressive intervention by Washington – the ‘stimulus’ era of excessive spending, excessive red tape, […]
The Department of Labor’s monthly jobs report shows that the economy added 162,000 jobs in July. The unemployment rate fell to 7.4%. Many analysts were expecting about 180,000 jobs to be created. The Department also revised the May and June job numbers downward. This was the lowest jobs report since […]
