Barack Obama

The Obama administration issued more than 200 pardons and commutations this week, including a few that have raised eyebrows, and questions, about the White House's motives.

As of noon on January 20, 2017, Barack Obama will join the ranks for former presidents (and the fifth still alive). For some ex-Oval Office occupants, the transition is smooth, and they generally leave political life behind for good.

President Obama held a town hall event with military families in Virginia this week, and he got a question from a Gold Star mother about why he will not use the term "radical islamic terrorists."

Lest we forget, Barack Obama is still in the White House, and is still doing what he does best: flout the law, ignore the courts, and govern by his whims, as

The Obama administration's political appointees within the Pentagon are preparing to "play hardball" with House Speaker Paul Ryan, and in the process, posing a threat to national defense:

After weeks of denials from the Obama administration that a $400 million payment to Iran was not a ransom payment for hostages, the State Department has said, well, yeah, maybe it was:

The Obama administration used taxpayer money to try to defeat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Not directly, of course (that would be gauche, not to mention seedy, disreputable, and possibly illegal).

We could not come up with a more powerful metaphor for the Obama presidency than this video. As terrorists blow up over 300 people in Belgium, war rages in the Middle East, and the nation struggles with its future political course, Mr. Obama hits the dance floor.

We're not so churlish as to deny presidents the right to get away from the pressures of the office from time to time.  

But this...it gives the impression that Mr. Obama is marking time until he leaves office.

President Obama will unveil his final federal budget proposal next week, and inside it is a tax that reminds us of the bad old days under Jimmy Carter: