Barack Obama News
Read news, analysis, and commentary on Barack Obama, his administration’s legacy, and his continuing impact on national debates.
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Obama Warns Americans May Not Know Election Results for Days
THE CENTER SQUARE—Former President Barack Obama warned Americans Tuesday that they may not know who won the election for days. Obama posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, late Tuesday afternoon as millions of Americans cast their ballots around the country. Obama told Americans to “let the process run its course,” saying “it takes time…Casey Harper -
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RELENTLESS: Growth of Obama-Era Foster Care Policy Unmasks Transgender Orthodoxy’s Inherent Threat to Parental Rights
A groundbreaking new report from The Daily Caller exposes the backstory behind the Biden-Harris administration’s regulation on foster care rules for children who identify as LGBTQ, and underscores the inherent threat that transgender orthodoxy poses to the parental rights of moms and dads who reject the idea that children can be “born in the wrong…Tyler O’Neil -
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Biden’s Opening Obamacare to Illegal Immigrants Will Add Billions to National Deficit
The Biden administration’s plan to open Obamacare enrollment to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients will add billions to the national deficit, a Congressional Budget Office report found. Roughly 110,000 illegal immigrants in the DACA program will sign up for Obamacare, adding about $7 billion to the federal deficit over the 2025-2034 period, according to…Jason Hopkins -
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Todd Starnes Explains ‘Residual After-Effects of the Barack Obama Presidency’
In 2007, Todd Starnes was working at Fox News and covering then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. “I just felt like that was going to be the historic campaign, and it turned out to be,” says Starnes, a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host. The political climate facing America right now is in part due to…Virginia Allen -
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Hunter Biden’s Receipt of Obama Officials’ Personal Cell Numbers Undercuts White House Impeachment Defense
Emails reviewed by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project bring new scrutiny to President Joe Biden’s claims of complete separation between himself and his son’s business dealings. (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.) According to the email reviewed by the Oversight Project, in 2015, then-White House official Alexander Mackler forwarded the personal cell…Colin Aamot -
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Time to Revive the Debate Over Obamacare
Big media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, last week called out former President Donald Trump for slamming Obamacare, opining that such a move was a big mistake. Not so fast. The truth is that Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, failed to deliver on its high-profile…Nina Owcharenko Schaefer -
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Docs Reveal FBI Questioned Obama DOJ in Hillary Email Probe
A presidential candidate faces an FBI probe surrounding alleged mishandling of classified information, amid questions about the independence of the Justice Department. Meanwhile, the candidate's supporters allege political interference and demand that the chief investigator be investigated. Such was the case in the closing days of the 2016 presidential election. Democrats and other supporters of…Fred Lucas -
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Obama Still Scolds Americans for Offering ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ During Maui Tragedy
After the horrific wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui last week that took the lives of at least 99 and left more than 1,000 unaccounted for, many Americans are donating money to help the victims. Many more are offering their thoughts and prayers, including former President Barack Obama, who grew up in Hawaii but…Brian Gottstein -
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The Barack Obama Cover-Up
This week, Tablet released a fascinating conversation with historian David Garrow, author of a massive unauthorized biography of former President Barack Obama in his early years titled “Rising Star.” By all rights, the book should have been a massive hit upon its release in 2017. Instead, it underperformed. The revelations contained therein never hit the…Ben Shapiro -
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Barack Obama: The Man, the Myth, the Legend (to Be Continued)
The media deification of Barack Obama has really never ended. His election to the presidency in 2008 was treated as a milestone, like man landing on the moon. Allegedly objective journalists lined up in every studio and on every front page to do him homage. It wasn’t journalism. It was more like idolatry. It was…Tim Graham -
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‘INSANE’: Republicans Act Against Obama Policy That Risks Airline ‘Passengers’ Lives’ to Advance a ‘Woke Agenda’
House Republicans took action this week to reverse an Obama administration policy that critics claim prioritizes diversity over skills for hiring air traffic controllers and could be “risking passengers’ lives to advance their woke agenda.” In passing the $4 billion Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill Thursday, the House included a provision to eliminate the “biographical…Fred Lucas -
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Here’s the Real Reason Obama Went Out of His Way to Defend Librarians in a ‘Banned Books’ Letter
Former President Barack Obama just came out in favor of porn in schools. Sure, the former president didn’t say that outright. He released a letter lamenting the supposed trend of “banned books” and standing with school librarians as if they were under siege. “In a very real sense, you’re on the front lines — fighting…Tyler O’Neil -
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EXCLUSIVE: Documents Reveal Rush to Target Trump’s National Security Pick in Obama’s Waning Days as President
Heavily redacted documents from the National Security Agency tell at least part of the story of a final-month rush by the outgoing Obama administration to torpedo the incoming presidency of Donald Trump. The Daily Signal obtained 217 pages of documents from the NSA through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents reveal that Obama…Fred Lucas -
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Barack Obama, Ever the Racial Arsonist
One way to describe the philosophical and ideological divide between former President Barack Obama and Sen. Tim Scott is that the optimistic Scott views the glass that is America today as much more than half-full, while the ungrateful Obama still sees it as half-empty—or worse. Nearly six-and-a-half years after leaving the White House, Obama—appallingly, but…Peter Parisi -
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In Third Obamacare Decision, Supreme Court Doesn’t Decide Whether Its Constitutional
The Supreme Court handed down its decision Thursday in California v. Texas, the third challenge to the Affordable Care Act, colloquially called Obamacare. The high court held that the various states and individuals who brought the suit did not have standing to challenge the law. The mandate and the rest of the act survive. Importantly,…GianCarlo Canaparo -
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With Obamacare Still on Books, Americans in Dire Need of Better Insurance Options
Now that the Supreme Court has just—yet again—left the Affordable Care Act on the books, it’s a good time to ask just how well the program is doing. A good place to start: how is it working to help the sick? And why are people still saying they want better options? For example, as more people…John Goodman -
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Obamacare’s Side Effects: Higher Costs, Lower Choices
One of the main goals of Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, was to make individual insurance cheaper and more accessible for Americans. The health care law imposed new mandates and regulations on the market for individual insurance, and the data indicates these reforms did exactly the opposite of the goal: In nearly…Abigail Slagle -
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Obama and Democrats: Filibuster for Me, but Not for Thee
Senators of both parties often say they want to legislate “on a bipartisan basis.” On March 6, for example, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said it three times in one short speech. For more than 200 years, the Senate’s approach to handling legislation has had a built-in bipartisan incentive by giving the minority more…Thomas Jipping -
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Rep. Jim Banks: After 11 Years of Obamacare, Republicans Need to Become Party of Health Care
When I first arrived in Washington four years ago, I firmly believed that Republicans weren’t just right on health care, but that we won the debate on health care. Senate Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in March 2010, and in the following November, voters handed Republicans the majority in the House of…Rep. Jim Banks -
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Number of Illegal Border Crossings Now 6 Times What Obama Team Considered ‘Crisis’
There is a catastrophic crisis that could add another quarter of a million to the population of illegal aliens in this country in less than a year. According to former officials in the Obama administration, the standard for a border crisis was 1,000 attempted crossings a day. Who was on the team that set that…James Carafano