Paul Bedard

Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

A stunning 88 percent of Americans believe college grads this year will have difficulty finding jobs, a grim employment scene that prompted 51 percent to urge businesses to hire high school graduates and drop the college requirement, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll. The national...

Paul Bedard

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

First lady Michelle Obama's book about her veggie garden, American Grown, has been out for nearly a year but is only now that the mom of two who lives with her mom in the White House is getting to pitch it as the world's best Mother's Day gift. The reason: It debuted two weeks after Mother's...

Paul Bedard

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

As President Obama prepares to demand another increase in the nation's nearly $17 trillion debt ceiling later this month, about half of all House Republicans have joined to block him in a way that would keep the nation from defaulting and key programs like Social Security, Medicare and veteran's...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

If Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch eeks out a win Tuesday against former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford in the 1st District special election, she would immediately become the nation's most vulnerable Democrat. The reason: Her district is heavily Republican. "Colbert Busch will have to hang...

Paul Bedard

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

This week's Mainstream Media Scream features ex-CBS anchor Dan Rather slamming President Obama's critics as savages. Appearing on "The Chris Matthews Show" over the weekend, Rather said, "All of these things we've said about what the president could do, should do, might have, could have, but...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

The next, and fourth, generation in the Bush political dynasty is making its Washington debut, a first stop in what many believe could eventually lead to a House, Senate and even presidential bid by George P. Bush. The son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, George P. is the headliner Thursday at...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

As Israel's military ramps up its focus on Syria and Iran, the administration has decided to provide 864 million gallons of jet and other fuels to Jerusalem, according to Pentagon documents. In a memo to House Speaker John Boehner, the Defense Department said the $2.67 billion sale of JP-8 jet...

Paul Bedard

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

The honey bee disaster just got worse. In a new Agriculture Department report about the declining health and numbers of beehives, one of the nation's leading bee experts said that the federal government doesn't think there are enough of the buzzing bugs to pollinate America's crops. "Healthy...

Paul Bedard

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama gets the credit for the slight drop in the unemployment rate. "It was a good week for the president. The unemployment rate is down to 7.5 percent. Jobs are now growing at 208,000 a month in the past six...

Paul Bedard

Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013

An exhaustive new report on the nation's top 472 occupations finds that immigrants -- legal or not -- take some jobs from Americans, dispelling the accepted view that foreign workers only fill jobs Americans don't want to do. The study based on U.S. census data from 2009 to 2011 found that of...