Tag: Richard Pollock

Spending on White House dinners soars under Obama

Richard Pollock · October 25, 2012 4:00 am

Elon Musk, the entrepreneurial tyro behind electric automaker Tesla Motors, is also the prime mover behind the Falcon9, the first privately funded and developed rocket used by NASA to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. (AP Photo)

Obama funder gets insider deal at NASA

Richard Pollock · October 19, 2012 4:00 am

U.S. Army officials have purchased five prototype electric-powered trucks similar to this one, which is operating at Fort Carson, CO. (Army photo)

Army buys EV trucks despite costs, fires

Richard Pollock · October 5, 2012 4:00 am

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA. (AP Photo)

UPDATED! Waters tested ethics boundary to hire grandson as her chief of staff

Richard Pollock · September 28, 2012 4:00 am

President Barack Obama gestures during a tour of Smith Electric Vehicles in Kansas City, Mo. Smith Electric Vehicles is an all-electric, zero emissions commercial truck manufacturer that received a $32 million Recovery Act grant to build all-electric trucks July 8, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Staggering Smith Electric may be next Solyndra-like clean energy flop

Richard Pollock · September 25, 2012 4:00 am

Obama and his bride Michelle Robinson, a fellow Harvard Law School graduate, on their wedding day, Oct. 3, 1992, in Chicago. (Associated Press)

Chapter I: A childhood of privilege, not hardship

Richard Pollock · September 19, 2012 4:00 am

Obama with his grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, on a park bench in New York City, when Obama was a student at Columbia University. (Associated Press)

Chapter II: The myth of the ‘rock-star professor’

Washington Examiner · September 19, 2012 4:00 am

Like so many in the liberal powerbase that served as a springboard for Obama, Marilyn Katzâs activist roots stretch back to her days as a Students for a Democratic Society operative. Today, Katz is an influential political operative in Chicago who has visited the White House 26 times since 2009.

Chapter III: The 1997 speech that launched Obama

Washington Examiner · September 19, 2012 4:00 am

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A security company owned by now-jailed political fundraiser Tony Rezko sought help from Obama and then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in an effort to gain a lucrative contract in Iraq, according to a report published
in 2007.

Chapter IV: For the slumlord’s defense, Barack Obama, Esq.

Washington Examiner · September 19, 2012 4:00 am

Obamaâs toughest critic on the Left, the late Robert Fitch, charged that Obamaâs most trusted aide, Valerie Jarrett, made a fortune as a real estate developer. Fitch, a radical leftist and freelance journalist who specialized in urban politics and economics, said Obama surrounded himself with people who got rich on Chicagoâs $1.6 billion neighborhood demolition program known officially as the Plan for Transformation.

Chapter V: Obama’s toughest critics on the Left

Washington Examiner · September 19, 2012 4:00 am

A man moves furniture at the Altgeld Gardens housing project Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008, on Chicago's South Side. where Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., used to work as a community organizer. (AP Photo)

Chapter VI: The poor people Obama left behind

Richard Pollock · September 19, 2012 4:00 am

Former Illinois state Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, a maverick Republican and reformer, said Obama never fought corruption, by Republicans or by Democrats: "He never wanted to upset the apple cart with the Chicago machine."

Chapter VII: The myth of Obama as state Senate reformer

Richard Pollock · September 19, 2012 4:00 am