WH: Administration’s Foreign Policy Has Improved ‘Tranquility of The Global Community’ (+video)

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Photo Credit: AP / Jacquelyn MartinWhite House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday the Obama administration’s foreign policies in a number of areas have enhanced the world’s “tranquility” – a word that raised eyebrows as reporters pointed to situations in Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine and the South China Sea.

More than one reporter during Monday’s press briefing referred to a front-page Wall Street Journal article highlighting some of those crises, and citing security strategists as saying “the breadth of global instability now unfolding hasn’t been seen since the late 1970s.”

“How does the White House react to the notion that the president is a bystander to all these crises?” asked Fox News’ Ed Henry, citing the widening gaps between the sides in the Iranian nuclear talks, the conflict in and around Gaza, and the Syrian civil war.

“I think that there have been a number of situations in which you’ve seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has substantially furthered American interests and substantially improved the, uh, you know, the – the tranquility of the global community,” Earnest replied.

ABC News’ Jon Karl quoted Attorney General Eric Holder’s assessment in an interview aired Sunday that the terrorist potential arising from Westerners returning home after fighting in Syria was “more frightening than anything I think I’ve seen as attorney general.”

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Advisor: Obama, NSA Use Internet to Silence Critics Like Tea Party (+video)

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Photo Credit: APThe Obama administration is expanding its online data search of Americans to find potential civil unrest — like the 2010 Tea Party movement — and squash it before they take root, a prominent financial advisor has warned clients.

David John Marotta compared the administration’s efforts to those used by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover against his critics and 1960s activists. “Targeting activists isn’t anything new. J. Edgar Hoover made it his life’s work. What has changed is the vigor with which the government has assumed its own activism against certain groups,” he said.

“If you wonder why the National Security Agency is collecting so much online traffic information, it is because you can use such metadata to determine patient zeroes in the intellectual pandemic of beliefs like the Tea Party movement. The idea is that, if they could identify the potential origin of such movements, they could eliminate the threat merely by silencing the source,” he wrote on his blog.

Marotta, based in Charlottesville, Va., often blogs for Forbes.

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Judge on Obama: We Don’t Trust You, We Don’t Believe You and You’re Not Capable of Leading the Country (VIDEO)

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There’s a reason we think you’re the worst president in recent history. We don’t trust you. We don’t believe you. We don’t think you’re capable of leading the country.

Watch the whole thirteen-minute statement below:

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Joe Miller: The Only Anti-Amnesty Senate Candidate in Alaska (+video)

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Listen to Joe Miller address the pressing amnesty issues facing our nation. And hear Mead Treadwell state that he supports amnesty for some illegals and is opposed to voter ID requirements. Finally, listen to Joe call out Dan Sullivan for his pro-amnesty backing:

Note: Mr. Sullivan has consistently refused to answer questions regarding amnesty and English as America’s common language. He is also silent regarding voter ID requirements. Finally, he is backed by big outside pro-amnesty money.

Mr. Treadwell, as he stated in the video above, opposes voter ID requirements and supports amnesty for some illegals.

WATCH: ‘I,’ ‘Me,’ ‘My’—Obama Uses First Person Singular 199 Times in Speech Vowing Unilateral Action

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Photo Credit: APNot counting instances when he quoted a letter from a citizen or cited dialogue from a movie, President Barack Obama used the first person singular–including the pronouns “I” and “me” and the adjective “my”–199 times in a speech he delivered Thursday vowing to use unilateral executive action to achieve his policy goals that Congress would not enact through the normal, constitutional legislative process.

“It is lonely, me just doing stuff,” Obama said at the speech in Austin, Texas, according to the official transcript and video posted on the White House website.

“I’m just telling the truth now,” Obama told the crowd. “I don’t have to run for office again, so I can just let her rip. And I want to assure you, I’m really not that partisan of a guy.”

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Obama Struggles To Stay Awake During One-On-One Chat With Student Whose Parents Lost Their Jobs

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Imagine you’re Kinsey Button, a college junior. You’ve been granted a meeting with the President after writing to him and expressing your family’s troubles after your parents lost their jobs.

And then – the President’s eyes gets heavy, and his head starts nodding. Right then and there, in front of photographers, and while you’re mid-sentence, he’s falling asleep.

What do you say?

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WATCH: BBC Admits 'Gaza Under Attack' Images Fabricated

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Photo Credit: AFPThe BBC has admitted that pictures of alleged Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and their aftermath may be inaccurate.

A little-known division of the corporation called BBC Trending says that many of images being shared on social media under the #GazaUnderAttack hashtag are in fact several years old, and in some cases from different conflicts.

In one case, a Twitter user posted multiple images with the caption: “This is not a matter of religion. This is a matter of humanity #GazaUnderAttack” – except one of the images was from Syria last month, and another from Baghdad in 2007.

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Unbelievable Gunfight: When a Crazy Ex Attacked a Mom, Her Armed Son Fought Back & Saved Her Life (+video)

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Shawna Brush repeatedly called the police asking for help, while her ex-boyfriend, Brian Davidson, was trying to break into her home.

Davidson had just been in jail, days beforehand, for legal charges against him stemming from a previous attack on Brush, including aggravated assault and stalking.

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GOP: Lerner Warned IRS Employees to Hide Information from Congress (+video)

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Photo Credit: Lauren Victoria BurkeJust as the IRS tea party targeting scandal was erupting, Lois G. Lerner warned colleagues to “be cautious” about what information they put in emails because it could end up being turned over to Congress, according to an email message released Wednesday.

The 2013 email exchange between Ms. Lerner and fellow employees at the Internal Revenue Service also says that instant message conversations were probably never stored and weren’t checked during open-records requests — even though they also fell under the law requiring electronic records to be stored.

“I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails — so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails,” Ms. Lerner wrote in an April 9, 2013, message.

She went on to ask whether the instant message communications were stored automatically. When a tech staffer said no but the records could be stored if employees copied them, she replied, “Perfect.”

“Why did it take us this long to get these emails? We’ve been after this for six months,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who raised the emails with IRS Commissioner John Koskinen at a hearing Wednesday.

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Boehner: 'I Disagree' With Impeaching Obama (+video)

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Photo Credit: APHouse Speaker John Boehner plans to sue President Obama, but he’s not in favor of impeaching him.

“I disagree,” he said twice on Wednesday, when a reporter asked him about Sarah Palin’s call to impeach Barack Obama.

Palin told Fox News on Tuesday that the “tippng point” for her was the “illegal immigration issue.”

On that topic, Boehner was asked about President Obama’s request for $3.7B in emergency spending to deal with the border crisis — more than half of it humanitarian aid.

Boehner said he’s waiting for a recommendation from the Appropriations Committee and from the newly created Border Working Group…

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