Print Joel B. Pollak Follow Read Full Bio Obama and Heckler Plead to Close Gitmo In a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, DC., President Barack Obama called on Congress to permit him to close the terror detention facility at the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 23 May 2013, 11:56 AM PDT Did Feb. 2010 Austin Plane Crash Prompt IRS Scandal? In a speech on national security today, President Barack Obama made a bizarre reference to an incident that occurred in Austin, TX on February 18, 2010 when a pilot deliberately crashed a small aircraft into an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building, killing himself as well as an IRS employee, and injuring many others. 23 May 2013, 11:29 AM PDT Obama's Drone Address an Attempt to Bury Benghazi, Media Scandals It is difficult to interpret President Barack Obama's speech Thursday on U.S. terror policy as anything more than an attempt to distract from the damaging recent revelations about the Benghazi terror attacks. 23 May 2013, 11:09 AM PDT Thune Grills Pritzker About Subprime Bank Failure After over 40 minutes of evasion in Penny Pritzker's confirmation hearing as Secretary of Commerce, the committee finally heard about the failure of Pritzker's Superior Bank in 2001 due to subprime lending. 23 May 2013, 8:53 AM PDT GOP's Mark Kirk Boosts Pritzker A few weeks ago, I predicted that Penny Priztker would fail to be confirmed by the Senate. After all, she was such a weak candidate in 2009 that she withdrew her first nomination as Secretary of Commerce. But with Sen. Mark Kirk's last-minute announcement of support for Pritzker, her confirmation is now almost a certain bet. 23 May 2013, 8:05 AM PDT Finally: Tax-Dodging, Union-Busting, Subprime Mortgage Banker Hauled Before Congress The Senate will finally confront one of the architects of the subprime mortgage crisis today...by considering her confirmation as Secretary of Commerce in President Barack Obama's Cabinet. In the same week that the Senate grilled the CEO of Apple, Inc. about the low taxes it pays due to maintaining large cash deposits overseas, the Senate will roll out a warm welcome to Chicago heiress Penny Pritzker, who runs what Forbes called "one of the grandest and most successful family tax-avoidance schemes ever." 23 May 2013, 4:54 AM PDT Israel Releases Damning Report on Al-Dura Hoax The Israeli Government has released a comprehensive report into the infamous Al-Dura incident of Sep. 30, 2000, declaring that the 12-year-old Palestinian boy was not killed by Israeli soldiers and that journalists had perpetrated a "misleading and mendacious" hoax that had inspired terrorist violence against Jews and Israel. 22 May 2013 Gowdy Pursues Shulman's Evasions in IRS Scandal Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) honed in on evasive answers by former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing into the IRS scandal Wednesday. Shulman refused to answer "yes" or "no" when Gowdy asked him whether he had taken any action to investigate or stop the targeting of conservative groups when he was made aware of it in May 2012. 22 May 2013 Rep. Throws the Book--the Constitution--at Former IRS Chief Rep. John Mica (R-FL) literally waved the Constitution at former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman at a House Oversight Committee hearing on the IRS scandal Wednesday, arguing that the IRS had suppressed the freedom of speech of Americans. 22 May 2013 Cummings Fails to Ask Shulman If He Is a Democrat Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Elijah Cummings used carefully-chosen questions to former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman in an attempt to debunk the idea that the IRS had been used by the Obama administration to target its political enemies. 22 May 2013 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
Obama and Heckler Plead to Close Gitmo In a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, DC., President Barack Obama called on Congress to permit him to close the terror detention facility at the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 23 May 2013, 11:56 AM PDT
Did Feb. 2010 Austin Plane Crash Prompt IRS Scandal? In a speech on national security today, President Barack Obama made a bizarre reference to an incident that occurred in Austin, TX on February 18, 2010 when a pilot deliberately crashed a small aircraft into an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building, killing himself as well as an IRS employee, and injuring many others. 23 May 2013, 11:29 AM PDT
Obama's Drone Address an Attempt to Bury Benghazi, Media Scandals It is difficult to interpret President Barack Obama's speech Thursday on U.S. terror policy as anything more than an attempt to distract from the damaging recent revelations about the Benghazi terror attacks. 23 May 2013, 11:09 AM PDT
Thune Grills Pritzker About Subprime Bank Failure After over 40 minutes of evasion in Penny Pritzker's confirmation hearing as Secretary of Commerce, the committee finally heard about the failure of Pritzker's Superior Bank in 2001 due to subprime lending. 23 May 2013, 8:53 AM PDT
GOP's Mark Kirk Boosts Pritzker A few weeks ago, I predicted that Penny Priztker would fail to be confirmed by the Senate. After all, she was such a weak candidate in 2009 that she withdrew her first nomination as Secretary of Commerce. But with Sen. Mark Kirk's last-minute announcement of support for Pritzker, her confirmation is now almost a certain bet. 23 May 2013, 8:05 AM PDT
Finally: Tax-Dodging, Union-Busting, Subprime Mortgage Banker Hauled Before Congress The Senate will finally confront one of the architects of the subprime mortgage crisis today...by considering her confirmation as Secretary of Commerce in President Barack Obama's Cabinet. In the same week that the Senate grilled the CEO of Apple, Inc. about the low taxes it pays due to maintaining large cash deposits overseas, the Senate will roll out a warm welcome to Chicago heiress Penny Pritzker, who runs what Forbes called "one of the grandest and most successful family tax-avoidance schemes ever." 23 May 2013, 4:54 AM PDT
Israel Releases Damning Report on Al-Dura Hoax The Israeli Government has released a comprehensive report into the infamous Al-Dura incident of Sep. 30, 2000, declaring that the 12-year-old Palestinian boy was not killed by Israeli soldiers and that journalists had perpetrated a "misleading and mendacious" hoax that had inspired terrorist violence against Jews and Israel. 22 May 2013
Gowdy Pursues Shulman's Evasions in IRS Scandal Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) honed in on evasive answers by former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing into the IRS scandal Wednesday. Shulman refused to answer "yes" or "no" when Gowdy asked him whether he had taken any action to investigate or stop the targeting of conservative groups when he was made aware of it in May 2012. 22 May 2013
Rep. Throws the Book--the Constitution--at Former IRS Chief Rep. John Mica (R-FL) literally waved the Constitution at former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman at a House Oversight Committee hearing on the IRS scandal Wednesday, arguing that the IRS had suppressed the freedom of speech of Americans. 22 May 2013
Cummings Fails to Ask Shulman If He Is a Democrat Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Elijah Cummings used carefully-chosen questions to former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman in an attempt to debunk the idea that the IRS had been used by the Obama administration to target its political enemies. 22 May 2013
President Obama's speech on counterterrorism policy at National Defense University23 May 2013, 2:14 PM PDT
President Obama's speech on counterterrorism policy at National Defense University23 May 2013, 2:14 PM PDT