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Fed nuts gave ACORN 200G

WASHINGTON -- The federal government gave scandal-tainted ACORN and its affiliates $200,000 in Justice Department grants over the last seven years -- with much of it going to Big Apple groups, an internal audit released yesterday showed. One of the ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: ACORN,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Lamar S. Smith

ACORN gets hooked again

WASHINGTON -- Posing once again as pimp and prostitute, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles busted another ACORN office in Los Angeles, where they taped a worker offering advice in setting up a hooker ring with underage girls smuggled from abroad. "I could ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: ACORN

Leaders 'cower' amid outrage

WASHINGTON -- In a city more choreographed than Tinseltown, genuine sparks of anger rarely fly. In the grand, cavernous hearing rooms of the US Senate, decorum almost always reigns supreme. The marble walls are shined to sparkle and the dark wood ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Eric Holder,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Jon Kyl,  Barack Obama

Commander sets the right tone for once

WASHINGTON -- With a pained face and a voice laced with somber reverence, President Obama yesterday properly mourned the dead and wounded at Fort Hood. And, wisely, the commander-in-chief steered clear of all the knee-jerk justifications we have heard ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Obama set for Afghan surge

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is close to a final decision to add 30,000 to 40,000 more troops to the 68,000 already in Afghanistan -- a move that likely will enrage much of his anti-war, liberal base. The troop surge would likely begin in January, ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  Fox News Channel,  Taliban,  Joe Biden

With this 'victory,' Dems might as well be whistlin' 'Dixie'

Saturday's vote to create a massive government-run health-insurance program is to Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats what the Battle of Gettysburg was to the South. It will be remembered as the high point of their unswerving efforts to demand government ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Nancy Pelosi,  Barack Obama

O's losing team goes for a 'spin'

WASHINGTON -- The White House turned into a bunker yesterday as top aides to President Obama went into denial, insisting that the big Republican wins in New Jersey and Virginia had absolutely nothing to do with the campaigner-in-chief. White House ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  Robert Gibbs,  Jon Corzine

'Messiah' prez hardly looks like a savior just 1 year later

So this is the postpartisan politics President Obama promised us. You have a Democratic president who -- although far from the messiah we were promised -- still remains likable. Yet his policies -- from his government-run health-insurance scheme to ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Jon Corzine,  Christopher J. Christie

DNC downplays election results

Polls aren't even closed yet and Democrats are playing down the results of today's voting in New York, Virginia and New Jersey, where polling suggests they might strike out quicker than a batter up against Cliff Lee. DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse got an ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Robert Gibbs

Gay-nups vote is Maine event nationwide

WASHINGTON -- The state best known for its blueberries, buttery lobster and Yankee independence is not normally a bastion of social conservatism. That's why a ballot proposal on gay marriage to be decided by Maine voters tomorrow has drawn the nervous ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party

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