By Joseph Curl The Air Force One photo shoot over New York City last month, with the presidential aircraft buzzing lower Manhattan at 1,000 feet as terrified workers were fleeing office buildings, was a convergence of gaffes missed e-mails and phone calls, doses of pain pills, early departures from the office, and hallway "asides" that went nowhere. Share/Save Read More →

By Steve Huntley The nearly $800 billion stimulus bill will be signed, sealed and delivered in a day or so. Even those of us with doubts about its priorities, its big spending and its non-stimulus agenda of liberal goals hope it will deliver a much-needed jolt to our staggering economy. We're all in this leaky boat together. Share/Save Read More →

By Ben Smith A White House estimate of the number of jobs stimulus legislation will create includes some sharp discrepancies between state and local jobs claims. Those differences — which the document suggests are large rounding errors — was spotted by the office of House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, which assembled the chart above. It comes as the White House is seeking to define the stimulus... 

By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air An oft-repeated aphorism instructs us that we can have our own opinions, but not our own facts — or at least not unless we get to stand behind the podium at the White House.  When Barack Obama explained his economic package last night to the American people in a prime-time press conference, he made two flat-out false statements regarding his opposition.  He... 

By Brett Stephens  Barack Obama has now been president for 21 days, following an inauguration that was supposed to have pressed the reset button on America's relations with the wider world and ushered in a new period of global cooperation against common threats. Here's what pressing reset has accomplished so far: Share/Save Read More →

By Jennifer Loven President Barack Obama, pressuring lawmakers to urgently approve a massive economic recovery bill, turned his first prime-time news conference Monday night into a determined defense of his emergency plan and an offensive against Republicans who try to "play the usual political games." Share/Save Read More →

The questions for Barack Obama from a crowd in Elkhart, Ind., aren't all friendly ones, and they aren't all about the stimulus plan. Obama responded to one question Monday about the tax problems faced by some of his high-level nominees, saying the nominees had made "honest mistakes." Share/Save Read More →

President Barack Obama is fighting to maintain control of the American political agenda after being rocked by a series of setbacks. He has admitted "screwing up" key White House appointments and now faces possible defeat in the Senate over his economic stimulus bill. Share/Save Read More →

By James Bone in New York and Dominic Kennedy in London A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses. The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr...