— Hillary Clinton,

Toledo, Ohio, October 3, 2016.



Obama is set to cash in on presidency with a reported $20Milllion advance for his memoirs. Former President Barack Obama could rake in more than $20 million in advance for a memoir. Esther Newberg, co-head of ICM Partners' publishing unit, claims that an Obama memoir would 'go for more than any president's memoir has ever gone'. Obama, 55, went into the White House as a bestselling author for his book Dreams of My Father, which was published in 1995. The only other presidents to enter office as bestselling authors are Dwight D Eisenhower, for his 1948 book, Crusade Of Europe, and Donald Trump for his 1987 book, The Art of The Deal.

Former first family end Palm Springs vacation - with Michelle boarding billionaire Richard Branson's private jet. An eight-vehicle motorcade left the home of Spanish Ambassador James Costos and his partner Michael Smith, where the Obamas had been staying, around 10am and headed to a private terminal next to Palm Springs International Airport. A Riverside County Sheriff's Department vehicle blocked traffic in both directions on Highway 111 as the motorcade sped to the airport. Once there former First Lady Michelle was seen boarding a private jet owned by Sir Richard Branson.

Soros' Son Quietly Steps Up as Major Liberal Donor. Alexander Soros, the son of liberal billionaire George Soros who acts as the managing partner for Soros Brothers Investments, has quietly emerged as a major donor to Democratic campaigns and causes. Alexander has remained relatively unknown in the world of political giving thanks to his father garnering a bulk of the family's attention. However, Alexander has stepped up his political contributions even as his father continued to pour tens of millions into the coffers of Democratic campaigns and political action committees.

The Democrat money machine. Building a titanic campaign war chest was the paramount concern of the Democrats in 2016, because they thought it — and their media allies — would give them an unbreakable headlock over the public debate. So Joe Biden was told he could not afford to get into the race. Same for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who barely raised enough cash to pay for a Philly cheese sandwich. Their financial kneecapping allowed Clinton to suck up hundreds of millions in campaign cash, sometimes in legally questionable ways, even as she railed against the influence of money in politics.

Chaffetz Wants To Relocate Federal Agencies Away From Washington, D.C. Four of the five richest counties in the U.S. are Washington, D.C. suburbs — Loudoun, Fairfax and Arlington in Virginia and Howard in Maryland — so it is unsurprising that many Americans question the federal government taking money to prop up far-off elites? One solution to the federal government being too expensive and out-of-touch is moving parts of it away from Washington, D.C., according to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz.

It's Still a Mad, Mad California. Hypocrisy, when coupled with sanctimoniousness, grates people like few other human transgressions: Barack Obama opposing charter schools for the inner city as he puts his own children in Washington's toniest prep schools, or Bay Area greens suing to stop contracted irrigation water from Sierra reservoirs, even as they count on the Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy project to deliver crystal-clear mountain water to their San Francisco taps. The American progressive elite relies on its influence, education, money, and cultural privilege to exempt itself from the bad schools, unassimilated immigrant communities, dangerous neighborhoods, crime waves, and general impoverishment that are so often the logical consequences of its own policies — consequences for others, that is. Abstract idealism on behalf of the distant is a powerful psychological narcotic that allows caring progressives to dull the guilt they feel about their own privilege and riches.

The Obamas set for a $40 million payday. President Obama has made more than a tidy $15 million from his books since he published his first — Dreams from My Father — in 1995, and now he's set to earn another $15 to $20 million — or even more — from his forthcoming presidential memoir, top publishing insiders tell DailyMail.com. And high-ranking publishing insiders are talking at least another '$20 million' in an advance paycheck for First Lady Michelle Obama's long-awaited — and highly anticipated — memoir about her eight White House years. A source claims she's been quietly working on her book already.

How George Soros Destroyed the Democratic Party. In 2016, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states. That's up from 16 in 2000. What happened to the big donkey? Among other things, the Democrats decided to sell their base and their soul to a very bad billionaire and they got a very bad deal for both.

Top Clinton Fundraiser Selected For Key Democratic Post. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced a new finance director for the 2018 election season, according to a Wednesday report in Politico's Playbook. Mike Smith previously served as finance chair of the campaign to elect Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, where he reportedly managed a 5,000-person high-profile donor list. Smith served in the DCCC previously, first as deputy DC finance director, then as DC finance director before coming to the Clinton campaign.

Obama's Hawaii Christmas vacations cost taxpayers $35 million over 8 years. For the last time, taxpayers are paying for a Hawaiian Christmas vacation for President Obama and his family, an annual luxury getaway that has cost the Treasury easily more than $35 million over eight years. Golfing on oceanside courses, dining at high-end restaurants and frolicking on stunning white-sand beaches where security guards keep other tourists at bay, the president and his family are in the midst of a 17-day holiday that requires dozens of Secret Service agents, military personnel and other government employees to guarantee their safety and ease of travel around Oahu. The Obamas are once again renting a multimillion-dollar oceanfront home in Kailua, a town on the northeast side of the island where houses in the neighborhood fetch around $10 million. It's near golf courses and a Marine Corps base where the president goes for morning workouts at the gym.

Running For That Okidoke, and Shave Ice. [L]et the record reflect that BHO is one of very few Presidents whose golf game has actually improved during his time in office. And in case you're interested, we had dinner last night at the exclusive Vintage Cave Club, which is not just a restaurant it's a concept.

The 'Staggering' Campaign of Liberal Billionaire George Soros to Swing Local Prosecutor Elections. As part of his quest to overhaul the American justice system, liberal billionaire George Soros is targeting local prosecutor races like the one in Harris County, a large jurisdiction that includes the city of Houston. [...] Soros, 86, an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist, is No. 22 on the Forbes list of the world's billionaires, with a net worth estimated at $20 billion. He finances a variety of liberal political causes, including ones related to education, immigration, climate change, and the environment.

Hope and humility. [Scroll down] Humility is the polar opposite of what Michelle Obama displayed to Oprah and what the president has mirrored during his eight years in office. Throughout his presidency, you might have thought the pronoun "I" was his first initial for all the times he referred to himself. The Obamas could have offered real hope, especially in the hearts of African-American children, by leading the poor among them out of failing inner-city schools and giving their parents a choice of where to send them for a better education, which would have led to a better life. They rightly sent their daughters to elite private schools, rather than bad D.C. Public Schools, but denied that choice to those less affluent, thus perpetuating a spirit of hopelessness in those voters who had hoped for something beyond a "let's move" exercise program and a vegetable garden on the White House lawn.

Census Bureau: 4 Richest Counties in U.S. Are Suburbs of D.C. The four richest counties in the United States, when measured by median household income, are all suburbs of Washington, D.C., according to newly released data from the Census Bureau. They are Loudoun County, Va., where the median household income was $125,900 in 2015; Falls Church City, Va., where it was $122,092; Fairfax County, Va., where it was $112,844; and Howard County, Md., where it was $110,224. The Census Bureau treats independent cities such as Falls Church, Va., as the equivalent of a county when calculating its median household income statistics.

Hillary to celebrate dismal failure with ritzy party for rich donors — paid for by campaign funds. An essential companion piece to the other big Hillary story this morning, detailing just how inept her mega-bucks campaign was when it counted. The fact that she's throwing a party for her biggest contributors tomorrow to toast to her squandering their money was already public knowledge. What wasn't known until now, I believe, was that that party will itself be paid for with, um, their squandered money. For all the heat Jill Stein has taken for fleecing dumb liberals to pay for a doomed recount, Hillary was and apparently will remain the master at getting Democrats to chip in for hapless political vanity projects.

Hillary Clinton Donors Who Gave Less Than a Million Booted from Party Invite List. Hillary Clinton campaign donors who gave less than a million were left off the guest list for the Democratic nominee's glitzy "thank you" party — and they're not happy. Clinton will fill the iconic "grand ballroom" at New York's posh Plaza Hotel — one of the ritziest event spaces in the city — but with just a few hundred of her top bundlers (those donors who maxed out on individual contributions and then began soliciting million dollar checks from their friends and family). Invitations to the party went out last week, and the "Clinton campaign has been fielding complaints ever since." Because if you made less than a million for her campaign, or aren't one of Clinton's favored few mega-donors, you were bumped from the party.

Hillary Clinton throwing party to thank millionaire donors. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are throwing a party at the Plaza hotel on Dec. 15 to thank those who donated millions to the campaign. The party will be held in the Grand Ballroom on the third floor, to honor the Hillary for America finance leadership council.

Obama's last White House Thanksgiving: Turkey, prime rib, six kinds of pie. The White House on Thursday [11/24/2016] released the menu for President Obama's last Thanksgiving as president, which includes a half dozen hors d'oeuvres, turkey, prime rib, lots of side dishes and six kinds of pie.

The Obamas 'have bought a mansion at a California golf mecca as well as leasing a $4.3 million DC home' for life after the White House. When President Obama leaves the White House this January, his family is expected to become bi-coastal, with homes in both DC and California. Sources told the New York Post that the Obamas have purchased a home in Rancho Mirage, California. The Obamas are also leasing a $4.3 million home in the Kalorama neighborhood of DC, which will be their main home — at least for the next two years.

Obama's transition from 'man of the people' to 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'. Barack Obama grew up among much richer people than his family, in Jakarta and at the Punahou School in Honolulu. Whatever resentment he may have developed was directed at getting a heaping helping for himself at least as much as redistribution.

Hillary and friends are shocked to learn radical fringe politics is NOT the new normal. It used to be that Democrats abhorred the role of big money in politics. But Clinton outspent Trump 3-1 and raised more than a billion dollars. The plutocracy — Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the great American gilded fortunes of Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Facebook and Google — were not just Clinton supporters but often strident ones. The old idea of a liberal populist underdog had morphed into a haughty moneybag, with a huge staff, lots of opposition researchers and internal pollsters, surfeits of questionable cash donations, and politically correct endorsements that the left used to find plastic and inauthentic.

Democrats: The party of the little guy no more. The Democratic Party has historically stood for the little guy — defending low-wage workers from inhumane conditions, and later protecting women and minorities from institutional discrimination. But times have changed. [...] Wherever you look, you find Democrats abandoning their traditional role as defenders of the little guy and embracing the big guy. The biggest PACs, unions and Wall Street bankers support Democrats, including their presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The Democrats often pursue polices that are at odds with small business, law enforcement, the church — institutions that were once revered and powerful but that now have considerably less influence and stature.

NYT: 'Vibrant Washington Fears Trump Will Drain Its Culture'. Jason Horowitz writes in The New York Times that the Beltway elite fear that President-elect Donald Trump's "drain the swamp" mentality will greatly reduce the posh culture of Washington, D.C., which expanded under Barack Obama's presidency.

About those rioters. [Scroll down] This is why Trump won. Those millions of people across the nation are sick to death of being ignored, mocked, and dismissed as annoyances by the people they elected to serve their interests. Our elected officials get to send their kids to the best schools in the nation but deny their constituents school choice because they are beholden to the teacher unions. They eat in the finest restaurants while millions of their constituents do not eat out at all. The men and women in Congress have great health insurance while Obamacare is imposed on the folks back home and they cannot afford it. Their doctors cannot afford it. Obama still talks as though he did American citizens a favor! He did not. He has been increasingly despotic, going around Congress to regulate more and more aspects of all our lives.

RT visits Obama's post-presidential $5.3 mn Washington mansion. RT traveled to Kalorama, Washington DC — the opulent embassy district which, like five US presidents before him, Barack Obama has chosen as his new home. We spoke to his future neighbors, were stared down by his security detail, and even tried to rent a house next door. Like other former leaders dealing with the chaotic and often testing transition out of office, Obama did not buy his new residence — a 8,200-sq ft, nine-bedroom, eight-bathroom 1928 Tudor-style brick house — renting it instead from Joe Lockhart, Bill Clinton's former press secretary, and his wife Giovanna Gray, a Glamour journalist, who previously profiled Michelle Obama.

Wikileaks: Here's How The Clinton's Free Private Jet Scam Works. Ira Magaziner, the CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, asked former President Bill Clinton to thank Morocco's King Mohammed VI for "offering his plane to the conference in Ethiopia." "CHAI would like to request that President Clinton call Sheik Mohammed to thank him for offering his plane to the conference in Ethiopia," Magaziner gushed in a November 22, 2011 email released by WikiLeaks. Clinton frequently has expected free, luxurious private jet travel during his post-presidential life. Clinton, his wife and daughter have artfully secured free air travel and luxurious accommodations since they left the White House. It's an effective way to accept gifts of great value without declaring them for the Clinton Foundation.

Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run. They are the comfortable and well-educated mainstay of our modern Democratic party. They are also the grandees of our national media; the architects of our software; the designers of our streets; the high officials of our banking system; the authors of just about every plan to fix social security or fine-tune the Middle East with precision droning. They are, they think, not a class at all but rather the enlightened ones, the people who must be answered to but who need never explain themselves.

Ukraine stunned as vast cash reserves of political elite are made public. Two years after angry Ukrainians deposed Viktor Yanukovych and broke into his vast, opulent residential compound outside Kiev, revelations thrown up by a new system that requires government officials to declare their wealth and property online have led many to suspect the new elite are no better. The declarations, which all officials were required to file by Sunday evening, have made public many curiosities, including politicians who own multiple luxury watches, Fabergé eggs and large collections of weapons. One politician declared that he owned a personal church. By far the biggest shock, however, has been just how much money Ukraine's politicians seem to stash away in hard cash. The prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman, declared $1.2m (£980,000) and €460,000 (£410,000) in cash, as well as a collection of luxury watches.

Hillary Clinton: 'I Love Having the Support of Real Billionaires'. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says she loves having rich people support her. "You know I love having the support of real billionaires," Clinton said, during a speech in Florida.

University of California is Hillary Clinton's top source of campaign cash. Individuals working for the University of California were the biggest source of cash for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Individuals affiliated with the University of California system gave nearly $1.2 million to Clinton's campaign committee, the largest bloc of contributions she received for her presidential run. The second biggest giver to Clinton was another California entity, Alphabet Inc., the Mountain View-based parent company of Google. Donors associated with Alphabet gave Clinton $1.1 million

Exclusive: An Inside Look At An Opulent Clinton Foundation 'Site Visit'. Former President Bill Clinton and 11 wealthy Clinton Foundation donors generously served meals to 250 underprivileged children July 16, 2014, at the Akshaya Patra kitchen in Jaipur, India, as TV cameras recorded the moment. Clinton's group then quietly retired to Oberoi Rajvilas, a five-star "royal resort" where the former chief executive booked into Kohinoor Villa, an 11,377-square foot luxurious villa with a 60-foot swimming pool, according to the hotel's management. The same villa today goes for $13,900 per night, not including the 21 percent government tax. Clinton's villa was five times as big as the average American home, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Soros Gives $61 Million to Media Groups Promoting Clinton's Liberal Agenda. As U.S. citizens prepare to select the next president, one liberal donor spent more than $103 million on media over the last 14 years to promote his own progressive agenda. Liberal billionaire George Soros pledged to give at least $25 million to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and other Democratic candidates and causes, according to Politico. And emails exposed by WikiLeaks showed Clinton staffers going out of their way to "make Soros happy" before the 2016 campaign even started. But that's just a small slice of the pie. Media groups in the U.S. promoting the same liberal platform as Clinton got more than twice as much Soros money.

High-rollers have given at least $113M to Clinton and the Dems. Hillary Clinton has built the largest big-donor operation in history, with 1,133 high-rollers pledged to raise at least $100,000 each for her campaign. That's almost twice the number of "bundlers" that President Obama had four years ago, Politico reported. It means that at least $113 million — and maybe much more — of the money raised for Clinton and the Democratic Party has come from big-money hedge funders, tech investors and celebrities like George Lucas, Anna Wintour and Will Smith. Clinton raked in $526 million in campaign and super-PAC donations through mid-September, according to federal campaign records.

Chelsea and Bill join dozens of Hollywood A-listers led by Julia Roberts for $10,000-a-head New York fundraising show. Dozens of Hollywood and Broadway stars performed and urged Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton at a fundraising concert where tickets went for up to $10,000-a-head. The 'Broadway for Hillary' concert was held at the St James Theatre in New York City and hosted by Billy Crystal on Monday night, with proceeds going to the Hillary Victory Fund. Ticket options ranged from $45 for balcony seats to a staggering $100,000 for ten premium orchestra seats as well as two tickets to the wrap party.

Leaked emails reveal Hillary Clinton's life of deceit. It's all in a day's work for a woman who claims to be for the Little Guy but spends most of her time frolicking with the political and financial elites.

Obamas' Next Home: 9 Bedrooms in a Wealthy Washington Neighborhood. President Obama and his family plan to move to a mansion in the upscale Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, a mere two miles from the White House, when he leaves office in January, according to people familiar with his plans. Mr. Obama, who has said his family will remain in the capital until his daughter Sasha completes high school in 2018, will rent the 8,200-square-foot, nine-bedroom home, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal his plans.

State Department-Funded Nonprofit That John Kerry Had 'No Role' In Was Founded In His Home. News reports show that's Kerry's home address, which Zillow estimates is worth nearly $18 million. Kerry's wife, Teresa, is an heir to the Heinz family fortune. Beacon Hill is the most expensive block in Boston, with median home values estimated at $6.7 million in 2015, a Boston Globe affiliate reported. The Boston Business Journal ranked Kerry's house the third most valuable home in the city in 2013.

America's Versailles Set. Chelsea Clinton, for example, is married to hedge-fund operator Marc Mezvinsky (whose suspect Greek fund just went broke), and she once made over $600,000 for her part-time job as an NBC correspondent. She serves in a prominent role and is on the board of the non-profit billion-dollar Clinton Foundation, which has been cited for donating an inordinately small amount of its annual budget (often less than 15 percent) to charity work, while providing free jet travel for the Clinton family and offering sinecures for Clinton political operatives in between various Clinton campaigns. Explaining why she works at the Clinton Foundation and for other non-profits, Chelsea confessed, in Marie Antoinette style, that "I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't." She cared enough, though, to purchase a $10.5 million Manhattan apartment not long ago rather than, say, rent a flat in the Bronx.

America's Versailles Set. Take the case of Colin Kaepernick, the back-up quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers who makes $19 million a year (or about $20,000 per minute of regular season play). He has been cited by National Football League officials in the past for his use of the N-word, yet he refuses to stand for the pregame singing of the national anthem because he believes that his country is racist and does not warrant his respect. His stunt gained a lot of publicity and he now sees himself as a man of the revolutionary barricades. A number of other NFL athletes, as well as those in other sports, have likewise refused to stand for the national anthem to express solidarity with what they see as modern versions of the oppressed peasantry. But Kaepernick and his peers make more in one month than many Americans make in an entire lifetime.

Finally! The Clinton Family has a compound. As every Godfather fan knows, you've got to have a compound when your famiglia hits the big time. I am sure we are supposed to associate "family compound" with the words "Hyannis" and "Kennedy," but for me, "Corleone" comes to mind.

Bill and Hillary Clinton buy the house next door — their third $1 million manse. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is seeking a job that comes with a house, but she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have many options if the White House thing doesn't work out. The couple have purchased a home next door to their primary residence in Chappaqua, N.Y., according to real estate records. That makes three homes worth north of $1 million owned by the Clintons, including a stately mansion near the British Embassy in Washington that Clinton used when she was a senator.

Mrs Clooney's worn £34,000 of clothes in 14 days while grandstanding as a champion of the downtrodden. With silk dresses, £1,000 designer bags and skyscraper heels, Amal Clooney's outfits are glamorous enough to grace a red carpet. Yet the glossy-haired human rights barrister, 38, has spent the past fortnight parading her wardrobe at events linked to issues ranging from sex slavery to the refugee crisis. Amal wore a different designer label — often several designer labels — each day. But given her worthy role, some of her haute couture fashion seems out of place. Even saving the world, it seems, is better done in designer clothes, be they bought or borrowed.

Hillary Absent Again: We Don't Need Another Part-Time President. Hillary Clinton postponed a lunch fundraiser in Chapel Hill with some of the state's wealthiest and most prominent Democrats. No reason was given for postponement of the Clinton event, according to CBS North Carolina. It was expected to take place at the home of Betty Craven and Michael Warner. The event was billed as "lunch with Hillary Rodham Clinton" and costs ranged from $2,700 to $100,000.

Bill Clinton's swanky birthday bash proves the Clintons just can't stop influence-peddling. For a giant, flashing sign that the Clintons' influence-peddling will never end, look no further than Bill's 70th birthday party Friday night at the Rainbow Room — which of course is a Clinton Foundation fund-raising bash. Yup, that's right; show 'em the money, money, money: Donors must give $250,000 to be a "chair" of the party, six figures to be a co-chair, 50 grand to be a vice-chair. True, buying a ticket will get you some glam — Barbara Streisand, Jon Bon Jovi and Wynton Marsalis are all to perform. But how many others hope their gift will at least get them onto some future White House guest list, and possibly buy even larger favors?

Where is Hillary Clinton? Campaign 'Postpones' North Carolina Fundraiser. Hillary Clinton postponed a lunch fundraiser in Chapel Hill with some of the state's wealthiest and most prominent Democrats. No reason was given for postponement of the Clinton event, according to CBS North Carolina. It was expected to take place at the home of Betty Craven and Michael Warner. The event was billed as "lunch with Hillary Rodham Clinton" and costs ranged from $2,700 to $100,000.

Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors. Hillary Clinton's campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by purposefully and repeatedly overcharging them after they make what's supposed to be a one-time small donation through her official campaign website, multiple sources tell the Observer. The overcharges are occurring so often that the fraud department at one of the nation's biggest banks receives up to 100 phone calls a day from Clinton's small donors asking for refunds for unauthorized charges to their bankcards made by Clinton's campaign. One elderly Clinton donor, who has been a victim of this fraud scheme, has filed a complaint with her state's attorney general and a representative from the office told her that they had forwarded her case to the Federal Election Commission.

Michelle Obama, 'Woman of The People,' Wears $4,200 Gucci Dress to Co-Host 'Ellen'. US Magazine says Michelle looked "out of this world" in her Gucci number. Agreed: She looked like a visitor from the planet Krypton.

Last Chance for the 'Deplorables'. Speaking to 1,000 of the overprivileged at an LGBT fundraiser, where the chairs ponied up $250,000 each and Barbra Streisand sang, Hillary Clinton gave New York's social liberals what they came to hear. "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?" smirked Clinton to cheers and laughter. "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it." They are "irredeemable," but they are "not America." This was no verbal slip. Clinton had invited the press in to cover the LGBT gala at Cipriani Wall Street where the cheap seats went for $1,200.

Deplorable me and disgusting Hillary. [Scroll down] Now I won't call people names but wannabe president Hillary Clinton's remarks, made at a fundraiser, certainly found an appreciative audience, laughing and applauding her. So yes, they got their $50,000 worth; [...] Clinton made the comments before introducing Barbra Streisand at an LGBT fundraiser in downtown New York. According to average ticket prices and attendance figures provided by the campaign, Clinton raised around $6 million at the fundraiser, at which some attendees paid $50,000.

Obama will likely become the first ex-president billionaire. Ah, the riches of public service. We are now assured the Obamas will be able to finance their post-White House lives with record-breaking book deals. [...] According to various book agents, it appears private citizen Barack Obama should expect to be handed a book deal in the range of $45 million. His wife, the woman whose mission as first lady was to make sure your kids never got enough to eat at school, is also said to be worth a book contract of at least $10 million. Public service now gets you filthy, fabulously rich. And as we've seen with the Clintons, is now a game for grifters, selling access and influence, with the highest bidder rewarded with the most influence.

Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich. Mr. Trump has pointed to Mrs. Clinton's noticeably scant schedule of campaign events this summer to suggest she has been hiding from the public. But Mrs. Clinton has been more than accessible to those who reside in some of the country's most moneyed enclaves and are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to see her. In the last two weeks of August, Mrs. Clinton raked in roughly $50 million at 22 fund-raising events, averaging around $150,000 an hour, according to a New York Times tally.

Hillary Takes Questions From Children — For *Only* $2,700 Each!. Who says Hillary has not been busy this month? She's been raking in millions of dollars from the ultra-rich. And the NYT reports that Hillary attended a $100,000-per-couple lamb dinner at the Martha Vineyard's mansion of Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Mrs. Rothschild told the guests: "Let's make it a nice night for her and show her our love."

Lucrative book deals might finance the Obamas' post-White House life. After he is out of the White House, President Barack Obama has said that he wants to become a venture capitalist, own part of an NBA franchise and avoid taking off his shoes during security screenings at commercial airports. All of those goals, serious or not, might soon be achievable if Obama and his wife, Michelle, sign post-presidency book contracts for what literary agents and major publishers say could amount to $20 million to $45 million — more than enough to pay the estimated $22,000 monthly rent for the nine-bedroom home they will occupy in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington and foot the bill for flights on private jets. (Obama has said he would like to avoid commercial flights once he surrenders Air Force One.)

Soros Spends Millions in DA Races, Supported Potentially Criminal Candidate. George Soros has been busy pumping money into district attorney (DA) races across the country, according to reports. Soros-funded shell groups called "Safety & Justice" PACs dominate DA races in Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas, Politico reports. Soros spent much of 2014 and 2015 giving substantial sums of money to Black Lives Matter (BLM) and affiliated groups, and is now pushing candidates at the local level as part of his "criminal justice reform" agenda. One beneficiary of Soros money is Kim Foxx, who won the Democratic March primary for Cook County, marking a major victory for BLM.

Clinton wraps up Hamptons fundraising swing. The Democratic presidential nominee hopped from mansion to mansion in the tony New York oceanfront vacation destination, appearing at parties and dinners where the contributions ranged from $1,000 to $100,000 for guests and hosts.

Hillary collected $270,000 per HOUR in secretive three-day California celebrity fundraising blitz. Hillary Clinton mingled with Hall of Fame basketball player Magic Johnson and Apple CEO Tim Cook, vamped in a photo booth with actor Justin Timberlake and dined with some of California's richest families on what was likely the most lucrative fundraising swing of her presidential campaign. The Democratic presidential nominee raised $18 million on a three-day trip through California, or roughly $270,000 an hour.

Hillary Raises Over $1 Million At Martha's Vineyard Home of Economist Magazine Owner. Hillary Clinton raised more than one million dollars over the weekend at a Martha's Vineyard house party given by top supporter Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Unmentioned in major media coverage of the fundraising event is that de Rothschild is a member of the Economist Group and also owns a major stake in the group, which has controlling ownership of the Economist magazine.

Cash Scramble: Hillary Closes August With 21 Fundraisers, One Campaign Event. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is spending that last days of August raising cash before heading into the busy post-Labor Day weekend campaign season. According to ABC News, Clinton attended five fundraisers in Martha's Vineyard last weekend and is leaving today for California where she will host seven more fundraisers in just three days. Later this week, according to Politico, she will head to the wealthy East Coast Hamptons area where she will hit nine additional fundraisers. In California, Clinton will attract the wealthy and powerful members of the Hollywood and Silicon Valley communities.

Hillary Clinton Flies 20 Miles In Private Jet To Attend Rothschild Nantucket Fundraiser. As we reported a few days ago, Bill and Hillary Clinton spent Friday night [8/19/2016] in Martha's Vineyard celebrating Bill's 70th birthday. We're sure it was a grand affair, well worth the heat Obama had to take from Louisiana flood victims to attend. Turns out the following morning, Hillary, not one to be bothered with traditional peasant forms of travel, awoke and took her private jet just 20 miles over to Nantucket where the Rothschilds will be hosting a fundraiser. The event is open to all... well anyone who can afford the $100,000 per person price tag.

'Rigged system' crusader Bernie Sanders conveniently never got around to releasing his personal financial disclosure form. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders almost giddily hit Hillary Clinton for giving paid speeches to Wall Street during the Democratic primary, but yet he never filed a personal financial disclosure form of his own. The non-profit Center for Public Integrity discovered that Sanders, amid a tough primary campaign, asked for an extension twice and then never provided the documents to the Federal Election Commission as his presidential campaign wound down. Meanwhile both Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump filed their forms by the mid-May deadline.

What happened to those $ millions from the Bernie Sanders campaign? For those who want to get rich off of politics, the surest racket is to become the media buyer for a major campaign. For the underwhelming task of actually buying television airtime and print space, one receives a huge commission of 15%. If a campaign spends ten million bucks on television advertising, the buyer gets a million and a half. For the Bernie Sanders campaign, which raised over $90 million, who received this generous bounty?

Obama golfs 'organic' on Martha's Vineyard, $350,000 initiation fee. President Obama is golfing organic Wednesday, taking his clubs to one of the most exclusive venues in New England, and one famously known as the nation's first "organic" course. Obama, who has golfed several times during his annual summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, steered his motorcade to Vineyard Golf Club, where the initiation fee is $350,000 and annual dues $12,000 for the 305 members.

It must be nice to have so little to worry about.

Obama from Martha's Vineyard: 'Climate Change... Is a Genuine Existential Threat That We All Face'. Speaking at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at a private home on Martha's Vineyard on Monday night [8/15/2016], President Barack Obama said that climate change "is a genuine existential threat that we all face." "Despite the extraordinary work that we've done in mobilizing 200 nations to, for the first time, tackle climate change in a comprehensive, aggressive way, we've still got a long way to go before we're out of the woods on that one," Obama said, according to a White House transcript. "And that is a genuine existential threat that we all face and, more importantly, our children and our grandchildren face." The Associated Press reported that people attending the fundraiser paid between $10,000 and $33,400.

Obama urges Democrats to campaign aggressively for Clinton. About 60 Obama and Clinton supporters paid between $10,000 and $33,400 to attend the event that was held in a tent on the sprawling property.

Soros Paid Al Gore Millions To Push 'Aggressive US Action' On Global Warming. Liberal billionaire George Soros gave former Vice President Al Gore's environmental group millions of dollars over three years to create a "political space for aggressive U.S. action" on global warming, according to leaked documents. A document published by DC Leaks shows Soros, a Hungarian-born liberal financier, wanted his nonprofit Open Society Institute (OSI) to do more to support global warming policies in the U.S. That included budgeting $10 million in annual support to Gore's climate group over three years.

Video: Hillary Clinton's cribs shock young people. Hillary Clinton has vowed to be a champion for "everyday Americans." The former Secretary of State — who once described herself and husband Bill Clinton as "dead broke" — kicked off her campaign on June 13 and in her 45-minute speech on New York City's Roosevelt Island, Clinton delivered a message similar to her initial presidential announcement. "Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times," Clinton said in the video announcement on April 12. "But the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top." So what do Millennials think of a candidate who criticizes the "1 percent," but simultaneously owns multi-million dollar properties in Washington, D.C. and New York and spends her summers in the Hamptons? [Video clip]

Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations. For all its talk of being a street uprising, Black Lives Matter is increasingly awash in cash, raking in pledges of more than $100 million from liberal foundations and others eager to contribute to what has become the grant-making cause du jour. The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition. That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.

Bill Clinton netted $1.6 million from for-profit colleges. Bill Clinton netted $1.6 million last year from a pair of for-profit education companies that caused controversy for the future president during Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state. Laureate Education paid Bill Clinton nearly $1.1 million in 2015, according to tax returns released by his wife's campaign Friday. GEMS Education, a Dubai-based firm, paid him more than $560,000. Both companies are major donors to the Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton's lucrative consulting contracts with the corporations have raised questions about how closely his personal fortune is linked to his philanthropic activities.

Clintons Made $6,725,000 in Speaking Fees in 2015. Hillary Clinton's 2015 tax returns show that Hillary and Bill Clinton combined to make $6,725,000 from speaking engagements last year. According to the returns, which were released at noon on Friday [8/12/2016], Hillary Clinton was paid $1,475,000 for speaking last year while Bill Clinton pulled in $5,250,000.

Clinton releases tax returns; earned nearly $240M since leaving White House. Hillary Clinton's income took a huge hit as she ran for president last year, dropping to less than half of what she made the year before, according to tax returns her presidential campaign released Friday [8/12/2016]. Mrs. Clinton hoped the release would embarrass GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has refused to release any of his, while also shining a light on the high rate she and her husband paid in their own taxes. The power couple reported earning $10.7 million in income in 2015, and claimed a tax liability of $3.6 million.

Bernie Sanders Pays $600,000 For New Summer Vacation Home. Bernie Sanders proved capitalism is alive and well when he paid a whopping $600,000 for a lakefront home in Vermont this week.

One in 10 DNC superdelegates were registered lobbyists. Nearly one in 10 superdelegates who voted in the Democratic presidential primaries were registered lobbyists, according to a new report, adding some support to Bernie Sanders's claim that "the system is rigged." At least 63 of 712 superdelegates were registered at some point as lobbyists on the state or federal level, according to an analysis conducted this year by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Sunlight Foundation. These individuals represented interests that span across big banks, healthcare insurers, the telecommunications industry and unions, including Goldman Sachs and Planned Parenthood.

Americans' sense of 'alienation' at an all-time high: poll. While a contentious presidential election dominates the media, a new survey finds that a sense of "alienation" among average Americans is at an all-time high. For decades, the Harris Poll has gauged how much, or how little, people feel their interests are heard and addressed by those with power and influence. The latest survey found that 82 percent of Americans believe that the people running the country don't really care what happens to them. Another 78 percent say the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer while 70 percent believe that most people in power try to take advantage of people like them.

The Everyday Woman: Ivanka's $138 Dress versus Hillary's $12,495 Jacket. Ivanka Trump reportedly wore a $138, blush-colored dress from her own fashion line — sold at Macy's and Nordstrom — when she introduced her father Donald Trump on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, where he accepted the Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States. The 34-year-old fashionista also wore her own dress on Wednesday night [7/20/2016]. [...] Trump's decision to adorn her reasonably priced clothing line makes her relatable to every woman and it's in stark contrast to presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's decision to wear a $12,485 Giorgio Armani jacket during her New York primary win in April.

Dead Broke: Forbes Says the Clintons Pulled in $229 Million Between 2001 and 2014. Remember when Hillary Clinton claimed she and Bill were "dead broke" when they left the White House? Hey, I know this will startle you, but it turns out that's [not true]. Because even before they left the White House, the Clinton had purchased both a "...a five-bedroom home in Chappaqua, N.Y., for $1.7 million [and] a seven-bedroom house near Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. [for] $2.85 million."

Michelle Obama Lectures the World on Girl Power. First lady Michelle Obama has wrapped up her six-day "Let Girls Learn" tour of Liberia, Morocco and Spain. Together with her mother Marian and two daughters Sasha and Malia, the FLOTUS, under the guise of promoting access to education for 62 million girls worldwide, embarked on a multimillion-dollar excursion where she ate great food, wore great clothes, hung out with celebrities, and spent $600,000 for one night in Marrakesh.

The Worst Smear Site In America. The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center relentlessly promotes the Big Lie, wildly popular in the media, that conservative Americans are racists and the real threat to the nation rather than Islamic terrorists. The group claims the principal enemies of the American people are presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, conservatives like David Horowitz, and the Tea Party movement. The SPLC is a shamelessly hypocritical leftist attack machine funded by radical speculator George Soros and a rogue's gallery of rich people and established philanthropies that want to fundamentally transform America. The fabulously wealthy 501(c)(3) nonprofit has an astounding one third of a billion dollars ($338 million) in assets, as well as investments in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, two offshore tax havens the Left loves to attack (but only when non-leftists stash cash there).

Here Are The Two Multi-Million Dollar Mansions Hillary Says She "Struggled" To Pay Mortgage On. In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton claimed that after the White House their family "struggled... to piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses." The "we struggled to get by" defense from a multi-millionaire might be tough to swallow for Americans actually struggling to pay their mortgage. Hillary, after-all, left the White House having spent 20 years living in gratis government mansions in Little Rock and Washington D.C. Additionally, lets not forget that Bill Clinton's annual salary was $200,000/year as President and he was able to cash-in on a $50,000 expense account. The Clintons made roughly FOUR times what the average American made and "struggled to get by." After leaving the White House, the Clintons bought two multi-million dollar mansions.

Obama girls land in windy Madrid after jaunt to Liberia and Morocco. It was a windy day in Madrid as they landed at Torrejon air base, forcing Malia to have a Marilyn Monroe moment with her stunning $78 wrap dress. Flying in from a jaunt in Morocco and Liberia, Sasha was sporting a henna tattoo that spiraled up her arm. And Michelle wore Spanish-style espadrilles with her $1,800 Proenza Schouler summer dress to greet officials and members of the public waiting on the tarmac.

Michelle Obama Pledges $100M of U.S. Tax Dollars to Educate Girls — in Morocco. FLOTUS must be unaware of all the black kids in DC and Chicago that could really use $100M for their failing public schools, since her daughters attend the super-fancy Sidwell Friends private school, where tuition is $34,268 a year. But that includes hot lunch! Truly, a bargain.

Common Core Fails Students. What if someone who was really rich got together with some people who were really smart and discovered what was best for everyone? What would happen if they all used the power of government to nudge (that is, to coerce) people to adopt their program... because it was for the best, even if no one knew it? You would get Common Core educational standards, a one-size-fits-all curriculum reform program that has been forced down school districts around the nation. The reigning genie behind all this is Bill Gates. After all, he is richer than everyone else, so therefore he must be smarter than everyone else. Better yet, he suffers from a malady that seems to inflict nearly all tech oligarchs — they believe that they constitute a class of Platonic philosopher kings or guardians who know what is best for everyone because they have a clearer vision of the Ideas.

Hillary Claims To Be Everyday American, But Look What She Was Carrying In NY. Although Hillary Clinton likes to pretend that she's "just like every other American," there's some strong evidence to the contrary. Take, for example, what she had in her hands during a recent stop in New York, and you'll see the serious issue with such a sentiment. [...] According to Mail Online, she had a sold out, Alexander McQueen handbag, which is valued at a whopping $1,500 — $1,645 depending on the source.

Hillary Clinton shows off her $1,600 Alexander McQueen handbag. Hillary Clinton arrived for her interview on The View carrying a stylish — and sold out — Alexander McQueen handbag that costs $1,645. As voters headed to the polls in Wisconsin on Tuesday, the presidential hopeful returned to her native New York, where she was twice elected by the state's voters to represent them in the Senate.

The surprising strategy behind Hillary Clinton's designer wardrobe. Hillary Clinton's New York primary victory speech in April focused on topics including income inequality, job creation and helping people secure their retirement. It was a clear attempt to position herself as an everywoman. But an everywoman she is not — she gave the speech in a $12,495 Giorgio Armani tweed jacket. The polished outfit was a stark contrast to the fashion choices Clinton has made in the past. As first lady, Clinton wore frumpy pastel skirtsuits. As New York senator and secretary of state, she attempted a more serious look, wearing pantsuits in a rainbow of colors — so mocked that they sparked memes. In comparison to Michelle Obama, who's become known as a style icon during her time in the White House and appeared on the cover of Vogue twice, Clinton has never been able to nail down a personal aesthetic that works for her.

Hillary Clinton wore $12,495 Armani jacket during speech on inequality. You just can't make this stuff up anymore. Hillary Clinton, dead broke as she claimed after leaving the White House with rapist Bill Clinton wore a $12,495 priced Armani jacket while giving a speech about inequality back in April. Some people struggling today don't even make that in a year. Others are lucky if this is 1/3rd of what they make in a year. No matter to 'dead broke' Hillary.

Hillary Clinton wore a $12,495 Armani jacket during a speech about inequality. Hillary Clinton took a lot of flak on Monday after a report surfaced that the presidential candidate wore a Giorgio Armani jacket worth more than $12,000 during a speech in April about inequality. Clinton, who was well-known for her vast pantsuit collection, has upgraded her wardrobe during her most recent bid for president to appear more relatable, according to the New York Post.

Obamas' Next Home: 9 Bedrooms in a Wealthy Washington Neighborhood. President Obama and his family plan to move to a mansion in the upscale Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, a mere two miles from the White House, when he leaves office in January, according to people familiar with his plans. Mr. Obama, who has said his family will remain in the capital until his daughter Sasha completes high school in 2018, will rent the 8,200-square-foot, nine-bedroom home, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal his plans. The house — valued around $6 million, according to several real estate websites, with an estimated monthly rent of $22,000 on Zillow — is owned by Joe Lockhart, a former press secretary and senior adviser to Bill Clinton. Mr. Lockhart was until this year the managing director of a communications and political consulting practice he founded, the Glover Park Group, but has moved to Manhattan to become executive vice president for communications for the National Football League.

The $5 Million D.C. Mansion Where The Obamas Will Live After Leaving The White House. After President Obama leaves the White House, his family has plans to move to a $5 million mansion in Washington D.C. According to Politico's Mike Allen, Obama will lease the mansion from former Bill Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart and Giovanna Gray.

Here's the mansion the Obamas will live in starting in 2017. President Obama and his family will reportedly lease an 8,200-square foot mansion in Washington, D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood after they leave the White House. Sources confirmed Wednesday to Politico that the Obamas will rent the mansion owned by Joe Lockhart and Giovanna Gray a day after it was reported by National Journal that they had settled on the Kalorma neighborhood.

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With what money will the Obamas pay the lease on this house?

Obamas 'choose upmarket suburb of Karolama, DC, as their post- White House home. The Obamas are choosing the manicured gardens and marble fountains of Kalorama, Washington DC, as their new home, according to reports. The soon to be former leader of the free world has eschewed Embassy Row, which he had apparently been toying with, and decided upon the salubrious Karolama, according to the National Journal. Its streets are lined with distinguished colonial homes, and its residents range from ambassadors to statesmen.

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This maneuver probably indicates one of several scenarios, for example: [#1] The Obamas will embark on fresh new careers as lobbyists, or [#2] The Obamas are staying close to Washington in case Michelle runs for the White House.

Report: Obamas choose DC neighborhood to live at after presidency ends. Back in March, President Barack Obama said he and his family will be sticking around the nation's capital after he leaves office in January. It appears they have chosen which neighborhood they plan on living in after his second presidential term is over. According to the National Journal, the Obamas plan to rent a home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Northwest D.C., just east of Massachusetts Avenue.

You Too Can Live Like Chelsea Clinton For A Mere $6 Million. The former first daughter and Marc Mezvinsky's starter home is on the market again after the couple sold it in 2013 for $5.9 million.

Obama foundation donors at the White House. A new study details how President Barack Obama has been inviting his Obama Foundation donors to events at the White House, a venue that obviously won't be available to him to entertain mega contributors in a few months. The Obama Foundation, created on Jan. 31, 2014, has to date only 39 contributors, with the money coming either from individuals or foundations controlled by Obama supporters.

Hillary reveals she earned $1.5 million from just six speeches last year and $5 million in book royalties. Hillary Clinton filed financial documents Tuesday [5/17/2016] showing that in 2015 she earned more than $5 million in royalties from her book 'Hard Choices' and about $1.5 million in speaking fees before she launched her presidential campaign. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, continued his lucrative speaking tour through last November, more than six months after his wife entered the race, reaping more than $5 million from banking, tech and other corporate interests.

The Progressive Lust For Power. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been talking a lot about "fairness" and "equality" during their primary campaigns. Like most progressives, they pass themselves off as the champions of the ordinary people who are suffering beneath the boot of rapacious capitalists and the plutocratic "one percent." Give us power, they say, and we will create "social justice" for all the victims of "white privilege" and capitalist greed, not to mention redistributing even more money from the selfish "rich" in order to finance such utopian goals. Promiscuously displaying their hearts bleeding for the oppressed has long been the progressive camouflage that hides their real motive: the lust for power.

Hillary and Bill Clinton Made $6.7 Million from Speeches in 2015. Hillary and Bill Clinton raked in a combined $6.725 million in paid speeches in 2015, a decrease from the year before, according to a personal financial disclosure form released late Tuesday night [5/17/2016]. As a presidential candidate, Clinton has come under fire for paid speeches she gave, particularly to big banks and Wall Street, after leaving the State Department. Her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters have called on her to release the transcripts of these speeches, which she has thus far refused to do.

Rift Between Labor and Environmentalists Threatens Democratic Turnout Plan. Two of the Democratic Party's most loyal constituencies, labor and environmentalists, are clashing over an effort to raise tens of millions of dollars for an ambitious voter turnout operation aimed at defeating Donald J. Trump in the November election. The rift developed after some in the labor movement, whose cash flow has dwindled and whose political clout has been increasingly imperiled, announced a partnership last week with a wealthy environmentalist, Tom Steyer, to help bankroll a new fund dedicated to electing Democrats.

The Greens' Daddy Warbucks Helps Himself. Any comprehensive review of green energy and its politics and policies has to include the name of wealthy liberal Tom Steyer — who has been called the environmental movement's new "Daddy Warbucks." Having made his billions from his tenure atop Farallon Capital Management — much of it from coal projects around the world — Steyer apparently had an environmental epiphany and now wants to atone for his past sins by trying to save the planet from manmade climate change. He is using his wallet to try to elect candidates who will promote policies and energy plans that agree with him. And that plan is "green."

NY Democrats selling national convention access to big donors. Despite federal and state probes into government pay-to-play schemes, New York's Democrats are offering fat-cat donors access to bigwigs at the party's national convention in exchange for contributions, The [New York] Post has learned. In their pitch for cash, state Dems promise to grant a dizzying array of perks to top donors at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July.

The Great Culture War. [Scroll down] Normal Americans are the ones paying the price for gesture politics. John McCain can be generous on immigration because he never experiences it. He lives in one of his wife's 23 mansions, rides in government limousines and works in fortified government facilities. Men like John McCain live as strangers in this country. What they see of it is from a safe distance. Similarly, the chattering skulls on television pull down six figure salaries and live in bunkered, whites-only communities. It is not an accident that they are crowded into the richest counties on earth, all of them around Washington DC. They are the petty royalty of the ruling class. To these people, normal Americans are aliens, indistinguishable from the people sneaking over the border.

John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Family Trusts Invest Heavily In Fossil Fuels. Despite Secretary of State John Kerry's outspoken demand that America drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, his family investments heavily favor oil, coal and natural gas companies while giving scant attention to renewable energy firms, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis. In his latest 2015 financial disclosure report obtained by TheDCNF, Kerry listed family trust investments in 94 companies involved in the exploration, extraction, storage and transportation of oil, natural gas, coal and liquefied natural gas. Several of the investments are in companies that use hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, which is passionately opposed by environmentalists.

Kerry, Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens. Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group. The revelation comes on the heels of the release of the Panama Papers, a treasure trove of 11.5 million legal and financial records documenting how some of the world's richest and most powerful people have used offshore bank accounts to conceal their wealth and avoid taxes.

One Law for the Rich, Another for the Average. Somewhere, Big Tim Sullivan might be laughing. Over 100 years after the enactment of New York City's handgun licensing law (commonly referred to as the Sullivan Act), the measure is still working as the political boss intended. That is to say, it is ensuring that New Yorkers who are well-connected, either by status or more nefarious channels, are able to arm themselves with handguns, while average residents remain at the mercy of the criminal element.

Hillary's State Department Stopped Haiti From Increasing Its Minimum Wage to 61 Cents. The #FightFor15 movement is continuing to make gains. After steamrolling through large urban centers such as Seattle, San Francisco, and New York, now it may be coming to entire states near you. New York and California recently adopted a $15 statewide minimum wage, and both Democratic presidential candidates have advocated extending the policy nationwide. While Bernie Sanders has made political hay out of Hillary Clinton's seeming reluctance to fully embrace his rush to $15, she has been coming around to the same talking points of late. Of course, when the rubber meets the road, Hillary seems to have a different take on drastic wage hikes. When she was running the show, the State Department helped block Haiti's efforts to increase its minimum wage from 27 cents to 61 cents per hour.

Surprise! Socialist Bernie Sanders' Free-College Plan Would Help Rich People Most, Study Says. The proposal by self-proclaimed socialist Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to make tuition free at America's public colleges and universities would provide almost $17 billion in free handouts to already-comfortable American families in the upper half of income distribution. Meanwhile, Bernie's plan would cause just $13.5 billion to trickle down to families in America's poor half — the ones who would have considerably more trouble covering room, board, textbooks, travel and other non-tuition costs.

Billionaire-Bashing Bernie Sanders Is a Millionaire With Three Homes. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders rails against the "billionaire class" and has called income inequality "the greatest moral issue of our time," but the senator from Vermont is "not exactly a man of modest means," according to an article written by Kerri Anne Renzulli for the TIME magazine website. However, "nothing about Bernie's net worth devalues his progressive beliefs," stated Peter Daou, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton who responded on the Blue Nation Review website to reports that Sanders and his wife, Jane, could retire with an "effective retirement nest egg" valued at "nearly $2 million."

Hillary's Haircut Inequity. The Clintons claim that in 2001 when they left the White House in a moving van stuffed to the rafters with $190K worth of stolen items, they were poverty stricken. Then, between 2001 and 2012, on speaking fees alone, the destitute couple managed to stockpile approximately $160 million dollars. With that kind of haul, who needs commemorative china and cutlery? Anyway, now it's 2016 and, thus far, Hillary watchers haven't seen the former penniless first lady/current prosperous presidential hopeful wear the same outfit twice. In fact, every time Hillary Clinton's bulging eyes approach the podium, if you listen closely, besides the signature squawking and screeching, you'll hear a cash register ring up $1,400 for each and every Nina McLemore power pantsuit she shows up in.

Hillary Clinton's entourage blocks up traffic in New York as she gets $600 haircut. She has been out and about in New York trying to woo voters in Harlem. But before hitting the campaign trail [3/31/2016], Hillary Clinton's entourage reportedly blocked up traffic on Fifth Avenue as she enjoyed an early morning hair appointment at luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman.

Gridlock In NYC So Hillary Can Get a $1,200 Haircut. Hillary Clinton's oversized motorcade gridlocked Manhattan traffic this week so she could, eh, get a coiffe. Looks like the cut and color cost a mere $1,200. But she's for the little people!

The $50 Billion Hypocrite. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a net worth that exceeds $50 billion, but he really wants you to know that he's a Champion of the proverbial "little guy." How does he prove this? By promoting the notion that America would benefit greatly from the swift legalization of countless millions of illegal aliens — you know, "little guys" — who are highly likely to become permanent wards of the welfare state and, most importantly, permanent Democratic voters. In 2013 Zuckerberg visited Capitol Hill, where he pressed members of Congress to support an amnesty bill designed to confer citizenship to millions of people residing unlawfully in the United States.

The Apology Tour of Our Next President. In Havana recently, President Obama talked of the similarities between Cuba and the United States, as if a constitutional republic of some 240 years and a thuggish and murderous communist dictatorship were kindred souls. In Argentina, Obama both tangoed and then apologized for the nth time for his country while abroad, this time supposedly for not opposing the brutal Argentine military dictatorship at the height of the Cold War. He also advised young people that there was not that much difference between communism and capitalism — without giving them a glimpse of his own retirement plans that will make the Obamas fabulously rich by following the hyper-capitalist post-presidential get-rich program of the Clintons.

Bernie Sanders calls George Clooney's $33,400-a-ticket Hillary Clinton fundraiser 'obscene'. Bernie Sanders took a shot at Hollywood on Sunday [3/27/2016], calling two upcoming Hillary Clinton fundraisers organized by George Clooney 'obscene'. The actor is hosting a fundraising dinner for the Democratic candidate in San Francisco on April 15, where two seats at the head table with Clinton, Clooney and his wife Amal cost $353,400. The following night, Clooney is hosting yet another event at his home in Los Angeles where tickets are $33,400 each.

Michelle Obama's Floral Outfits Cost 23 Times Average Annual Salary in Cuba. The two floral dresses that first lady Michelle Obama sported in Cuba this week would not be affordable for the wide majority of individuals living in the repressive country. US Weekly recently spotlighted two outfits that Obama wore during appearances in Havana on Sunday and Monday that, according to a [Washington] Free Beacon analysis, together cost more than 23 times the average annual state salary in Cuba recorded in 2014.

Hillary Clinton to Miners: Let Them Eat Coal. By now, most people probably know about one of Secretary Hillary Clinton's biggest campaign gaffes to date: "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." As soon as I heard it, I tweeted: "Imagine a presidential candidate running for office based on putting people out of work?" I wasn't the only one shocked by the uncharacteristic clarity of her statement.

40 Reasons Not To Vote For Donald Trump. [#22] Eminent domain: Not only is Donald Trump in favor of having the government use the power of eminent domain to take property from private owners so it can be given to fatcats like him, he tried to use eminent domain to take a widow's home away from her so it could be used as a limo parking lot. If you think Donald Trump is for the little guy, you're a sucker.

Wage gap: One Hillary Clinton speech more than average CEO salary. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's charge that corporate CEOs earn 300 times more than their workers isn't just wrong. It hides another very real wage gap: She earns more in just one speech than the average American CEO in a year.

White Lady with $650K Speaking Fee Wants Black Americans to Know She's Down with Their Struggle. [Scroll down] I'm glad we are finally getting around to airing out a subject that's been put on the back burner for so long. After the Democrats got a free pass on making the African-American citizens of Detroit significantly poorer for almost half of a century, Hillary probably rightfully feels that there is no level of Demspeak feel-good pandering that she can't get away with now.

Obama dines privately with DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, actor Will Smith. As he is wont to do when he visits Los Angeles, President Obama dined secretly with moguls and stars. Mr. Obama had dinner at a hotel Thursday night [2/11/2016] with Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks CEO and a major campaign donor; Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios; and actor Will Smith, most recently in "Concussion." The White House didn't disclose the dinner, nor was it on Mr. Obama's public schedule. It was first reported by Deadline.com.

Obama hits golf course in California. While Washington was facing a deep freeze Friday [2/12/2016], President Obama was eager to hit the links on the West Coast. Fresh off a Thursday fundraising swing through San Jose and Los Angeles, Obama flew to Palm Springs, Calif., for a weekend golf getaway. Obama's motorcade arrived at Porcupine Creek golf course, owned by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, in nearby Rancho Mirage just over 20 minutes after Air Force One landed on Friday [2/12/2016].

Financial Scandals Follow Socialist Millionaire Sanders. Responding to one of Anderson Cooper's softball questions, socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told the CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night [2/3/2016] that he lives a frugal life and indicated that he doesn't care about money or status. "I have a small Chevrolet," he said. "It is one of the smallest Chevys that they make." He said it was about five years old. But James O'Brien, a political consultant and former publisher of Campaigns & Elections magazine, says the career politician, who has been a mayor, member of Congress and U.S. senator, has achieved the financial status of a millionaire. O'Brien has analyzed the financial status of Sanders and his wife, including their financial disclosure report, and has concluded they have a net worth in the range of $1.2 to $1.5 million, not the $700,000 or less that is usually reported by the media.

The many contradictions of Hillary Clinton. [Scroll down] Clinton has also vowed to raise taxes on hedge fund managers. Is that a way of expressing displeasure with her son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, who operates a $400 million hedge fund? For that matter, how did Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, who worked for a consulting firm and a hedge fund despite having no background in finance — reportedly become worth an estimated $15 million? Hillary Clinton recently proposed a new $350 billion government plan to make college more affordable. Certainly, universities spike tuition costs, and student-loan debt has surpassed $1 trillion. Colleges spend money indiscriminately, mostly because they know that the federal government will always back student loans. Yet, since she left office, Clinton routinely has charged universities $200,000 or more for her brief 30-minute chats. Her half-hour fee is roughly equal to the annual public-university tuition cost for eight students.

The Tet Offensive: European Union Edition. [Scroll down] Over on the Fourth Estate, the global mass media have been almost entirely subverted, scripted and stage-managed for decades by these über-wealthy elites through a thousand channels greased with kickbacks, no-show jobs, and secret payoffs that are disguised as special stock offerings and private land deals. Media figures morph seamlessly into senior political advisors and corporate board members, adding millions to their portfolios with each well-timed transition. Even many retired generals and admirals eagerly wallow in this swamp of sell-out and sleaze. It should not be a surprise to anyone that so many politicians leave Washington or Brussels as millionaires. Just as it should not be a surprise that long-time CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," was for his entire adult life secretly a leading member of the World Federalist Association, a fact he proudly revealed only after his retirement from in front of the camera.

Clinton donors use Maine Democrats to skirt campaign cash limits. A Cuban-born sugar tycoon. A California-based registered foreign agent for the government of Sri Lanka. A Chicago billionaire. All of them are recent large donors to the Maine Democratic Party via a complex fundraising scheme called the Hillary Victory Fund. The fund exploits recent court decisions and weakened campaign finance laws to maximize political contributions and funnel them to the Democratic National Committee.

Hillary Clinton pocketed $37 million in campaign cash in 4th quarter; $112 million in 2015. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said Friday [1/1/2016] it raised $37 million in the past three months and more than $112 million in all of 2015 to support her bid for the Democratic nomination.

Elitist President Obama Back To Familiar "Bitter Clinger" Remarks Ridiculing The "Blue Collar" Middle Class. You could not time a more damaging contrast than presidential candidate Donald Trump rallying with thousands of middle-class patriotic Americans, while the Democrat President of the country pokes them in the eye and heads off to Hawaii for a golf-filled Christmas vacation.

President Barack Obama and his family to spend Christmas in Hawaii for eighth consecutive year. President Barack Obama and the first family will return to Hawaii for their Christmas vacation next week for the eighth year running. The White House confirmed Friday [12/11/2015] that the Obamas are due to leave Washington for the island on December 18, the Huffington Post reports. It is not yet known where they will stay this year, though they have traditionally rented out a property in the upscale Kailua area on Oahu island.

In Paris for Climate Summit, Obama, Susan Rice, John Kerry Dine at Fancy French Restaurant. While in Paris for the Cops21 climate change summit, President Obama took some time off to enjoy a fancy meal at L'Ambroisie with French President Hollande. [...] According to an estimation from Zagat, a meal at L'Ambroisie costs about $200 and is described as "a jewel of French gastronomy" on the restaurant's website.

Ex-NYC mayor with multiple mansions, jets: 'Crazies' like Ted Cruz don't accept climate change reality. According to the New York Times in 2012, [Michael] Bloomberg has eleven homes. Eleven. ELEVEN! He also has a fleet of private planes that he uses to get to and from those homes, as well as to arrive at "climate change" summit meetings in style. That's the guy accusing others of not believing what they're saying. Here's just one of Bloomberg's places: A 22,000-square-foot mansion with 11 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms with hot and cold running hypocrisy.

Green Tech and the climate crisis syndicate. Renewable Portfolio Standard advocates recently held their 2015 National Summit. The draft RPS agenda suggests it was quite an event — populated by bureaucrats, scientists and consultants who have jumped on the climate and "green energy" bandwagon, to follow the money. Indeed, they are no longer content with 10% corn ethanol in gasoline, or some wind and solar power in the electricity mix. Now they want to convert the entire electrical grid from fossil-fuels to renewable sources and, if Catholic bishops get their way, totally eliminate hydrocarbons by 2050, despite the horrendous impacts that would have on workers, families and the world's poorest people. There's certainly a lot of money to be made. The green revolution is estimated at $1.5 trillion per year, which means potentially huge profits for those with political connections.

Top 10 reasons George Soros is the most dangerous man in America. [#1] Gives billions to left-wing causes: Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes. Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who's who of left-wing groups. This partial list of recipients of Soros' money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post, Southern Poverty Law Center, Soujourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.

Resettlement Contractors Lie to Protect Their Franchise. In the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, and the revelation that at least two of the terrorists were Syrian refugees, the governors of Texas, Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indiana, and even Massachusetts, have announced they will seek to bar Syrian refugee resettlement in their states. More are likely to join them. Good for them! But the resettlement contractors have fired back.

Politico: Big-money leftists considering major funding for #BlackLivesMatter. Oddly enough, the MSM denouncers of "big money" in politics are never concerned with the cabal of left-wing billionaires who manipulate public opinion from behind the scenes by funding the Astroturf-ish movements like #OccupyWallStreet in the last presidential election cycle and now #BlackLivesMatter. Operating under the ironic name of "Democracy Alliance," a cabal of billionaire and mere centi-millionaire leftists meets in secret to decide where to spend their money to keep the left powerful. George Soros, the financier whose billions mostly reside overseas in banking secrecy havens, already is known to have spent tens of millions of dollars funding Ferguson protests and spin-offs like BLM, according to the Washington Times. Now his colleagues in the Democracy Alliance are reportedly ready to up the ante with many millions more to fan racial resentment.

Democrats Decry Income Inequality That Their Own Policies Make Worse. [Scroll down] Under Obama, the poor have gotten poorer and the rich richer. Incomes for the bottom 20% have fallen in each of the past four years and are now 8% below where they stood when Obama took office. Meanwhile, incomes of the wealthiest 5% have climbed under Obama, after adjusting for inflation. Then there's the report published in September by the European Central Bank, which examined the correlation between welfare spending and income inequality in European countries. It found that the higher the welfare spending, the higher the income inequality.

Bloomberg targets states suing over climate rules. Billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg will begin shelling out millions of dollars to counter the 26 states suing the Obama administration over its climate rules, and Democrats aren't immune. Bloomberg advisers said Friday that the $10 million campaign will target state attorneys general who are part of a multi-state suit comprising more than half the nation, including the Missouri attorney general who is running for governor.

Hillary's 'everyday Americans' base is questioned as ZIP codes at the top of her donor list are among America's richest. Hillary Clinton's donors have something else in common other than their support for the Democratic candidate. Turns out, they're neighbors. The top 10 zip codes of her donor list represent some of the richest neighborhoods in the country, and they're all clustered in Manhattan or near Northwest Washington, D.C.

How The Clintons Have Made $230 Million Since Leaving The White House. Less than a week before the Clintons left the White House in 2001, they bought a replacement house 15 minutes down the road for $2.85 million. It was a pricy purchase for a couple who had more than $1 million in legal debt and a net worth of nearly nothing at the time. But the Clintons had little reason to worry — they were poised to make a fortune. Over the next 15 years, they earned more than $230 million before taxes.

Lobbyists for Clinton's 'Enemies' Are Bankrolling Her Campaign. Asked to name the enemies that she is most proud of during Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton cited industries represented by lobbyists who are among her top campaign fundraisers. In addition to Iran and the Republican Party, Clinton said she was proud to count "the health insurance companies" and "the drug companies" as her enemies. Those industries' lobbyists do not appear to share that enmity. By mid-July, seven of them had raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for her presidential campaign, according to campaign finance records.

Clinton Promises to 'Make the Wealthy Pay' and Make 'Companies Share Profits'. At the very beginning of the debate, Clinton introduced herself as "the granddaughter of a factory worker" to establish her credibility with the middle class. Later, debate moderator Anderson Cooper challenged her on that point, noting that Hillary and her husband Bill "are part of the one percent." "Well, you know, both Bill and I have been very blessed," Clinton responded.

The Editor says...

I suppose "blessed" is a code word for greedy.

Hillary Clinton's Hidden Big Business Agenda Exposed. Despite all this anti-corporate rhetoric, the fact is that [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton will be the best friends big business could ever hope for, since their regulatory agenda will invariably help big, established businesses at the expense of small, entrepreneurial competitors. That, after all, is their legacy in the banking and health care industries. Both Sanders and Clinton are big boosters of the Dodd-Frank financial reform. But a recent Harvard study found that the massive regulatory scheme that it imposed has hurt small community banks the most.

President Obama's mysterious trip to San Diego. Those attending the Democratic National Committee fundraiser paid between $250 and $10,000.

Obama to party with Jamie Foxx at $10K a ticket fundraiser hosted by the DNC in Southern California. President Barack Obama is reportedly hosting yet another big ticketed star-studded event in Southern California on Saturday, that will include entertainment from singer Jamie Foxx. According to TMZ, the Democratic National Committee is throwing the ritzy $10,000 a ticket fundraiser in Pacific Palisades at a private home. The original invitation to what is expected to be an all night affair, said that the musical guest had not yet been determined.

Planned Parenthood Got $528M In Tax Dollars, Paid Cecile Richards $523,000. Planned Parenthood received $528 million in government health services grants and reimbursements or 41 percent of its total revenue for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2014 and gave its president, Cecile Richards, $523,000 in annual compensation. "My annual compensation is $523,000 a year," Richards told House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).

Because they both care so much about the poor and unfortunate...

Michelle Obama Wears $2300 Dress To Greet Pope. Politico reports that First Lady Michelle Obama, looking lovely and classy, greeted Pope Francis Tuesday while wearing a $2,290 dress. While the Obamas are not Catholics, this is still a finger-in-the-eye to a White House guest who frequently speaks out — to wild Democrat applause — about the evils of excessive capitalism. [...] According to WorldVision, you can feed a child for just $35 a month. Michelle Obama's dress would feed over 80 children for that month. This choice obviously is contrary to the values of Pope Francis. But the Obamas' religious values come from elsewhere, a divisive and disturbing place, not a charitable or unifying one.

Michelle Obama Wears $2300 Dress To Greet Pope. Both President and Mrs. Obama are disciples of Jeremiah Wright, a racist Jew-hating Chicago-based preacher. Not long after Obama ascended to the presidency, Wright, Obama's religious mentor for 20 years, retired to a $1 million, 10,400 square foot mansion located next to a country club and golf course.

Obama rubs elbows with Harry Reid's corporate welfare lobbyists. The crowd cheered the President's toast to their taxpayer-provided profits, and soon Obama headed off to a $33,000-a-head fundraiser at the mansion of the billionaire owner of the local newspaper. You, the taxpayer, paid for Obama's flight to Vegas. This is what Hope and Change looks like seven years after Obama accepted the Democratic nomination. Obama was the keynote speaker at the National Clean Energy Summit, an annual confab organized by outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid — which tells you a lot about the nature of the event.

Hillary Clinton plans to spend break from campaigning among 'ordinary Americans' in $50,000-a-week Hamptons home. Her campaign has centered on her claim that she will be the champion of the middle class if she is elected to the White House. So the average person will no doubt find it easy to relate to the beachfront mansion that Hillary Clinton is renting for her summer vacation in The Hamptons. Exclusive pictures obtained by Daily Mail Online show what exactly the Democratic Presidential candidate is getting for her $100,000 — which covers just a two week rental.

Bill and Hillary Clinton spending $100K on Hamptons rental. Following Hillary Clinton's recently announced plan to help the middle class, she and Bill are again renting a house in the Hamptons for the last two weeks in August for a rumored $100,000. The Clintons are renting a four-bedroom home from Republican art collector Andre Nasser and his real estate guru wife, Lois, at 44 Broadview Road — a hidden cul-de-sac in Amagansett that boasts wealthy neighbors, including Harvey Weinstein.

Obama Leaving For Vacation But Troubles May Follow. [Scroll down] Reportedly staying at the same location they rented last year, the secluded 8,100 square foot estate boasts seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a pool, a hot tub and dual tennis/basketball court. Zillow estimates the property at more than $13 million.

Obama's Martha's Vineyard Sojourn Four Times Longer Than Average American Vacation. The Associated Press reported that the Obama family moved up the date of departure, extending their summer vacation to 17 days, more than four times the length of the average American vacation. In fact, Obama's summer break is one day longer than the total amount of vacation time the average American worker is allotted for an entire year. The first family will reside in the same $12 million mansion in Chilmark that they rented last year. Positioned on 10 acres of land, the 8,100-square-foot home houses seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. The estate is enhanced by a dual basketball/tennis court and an infinity pool.

Progressive liberals reveal their true character. Liberal Democrats love to run for office wearing missionary robes. They proclaim that they will help the poor, that they want the minimum wage raised, and that they want the sick, helpless, and elderly to receive money that they will take from the rich. Republicans are not qualified to run government, Democrats say, since they are mean, selfish corporate types who want to do nothing but grab money from the working class and keep it to themselves. Oh, really? Look what Democrats do in Chicago, a crucible of Democratic rule.

Obama's big $1 million take in the Big Apple. President Obama raised nearly $1 million for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and other Democrats' re-election efforts in Manhattan Friday night [7/17/2015] at the uptown home of a British shipping magnate. The president headlined a Democratic National Committee "roundtable" with some 30 donors who paid $33,400 each to attend the event held at the east side four-story brownstone of George Logothetis and his wife Nitzia. The event was closed to the press and the White House provided only a read-out of the name of the hosts and the amount each person paid to attend.

Hillary's coming out speech. [Scroll down] Lest anyone think Hillary has changed her mind since 1993, it's now clear that she is competing with Bernie Sanders for the office of socialist-in-chief. Her speech at the New School for Social Research focused on the failings of capitalism. [...] Hillary hit all the right notes in her coming out speech on Monday, with appeals to working women, unions, illegal immigrants, the LGBT community, environmentalists, and other Democratic constituencies. But underneath it all was a tired old vision of Big Government coming to the rescue of helpless citizens victimized by the rich. That has been the orthodox progressive line in this country and elsewhere for over a century, and everywhere it has been tried it has failed.

Obama and daughters set to attend $33K a head private soirée on Manhattan's upper east side. President Barack Obama's motorcade will bring Manhattan to a standstill tonight as he heads to the uptown home of a British shipping magnate for a $33,400-a-head fundraiser. Obama and some 30 Democratic faithful will head to the luxury east side brownstone of 40-year-old George Logothetis and his wife Nitzia for the meet-and-greet that will boost Democratic Party funds by a cool million dollars Daily Mail Online has learned. Logothetis, who comes from a wealthy Greek family, is a strong supporter of Obama's attempts to reform the nation's immigration rules to allow a path to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally.

Michelle Obama Arrives in London Wearing a $1,795 Designer Dress. It's First Lady Michelle, the one that wears J. Crew and shops at Target just like all of us...

Obama's secret dinner with Hollywood moguls. Tinseltown is emerging as a transparency-free zone for President Barack Obama, where for the second time he appears to have given his pool the slip to have a private, off-the-schedule dinner with movie moguls. Deadline Hollywood reported that Obama dined at his Beverly Hills hotel Thursday night with Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and director Steven Spielberg. White House spokesman Eric Schultz would only confirm that "the president did have dinner with two of his friends last night in Los Angeles," adding, "I believe they've been supporters of the president in the past."

Hillary Clinton's Hamptons Quandary. For the past several summers, Bill and Hillary Clinton have done what New York City's moneyed residents have done for decades: They spent their vacation amid the prime beachside real estate of Long Island. In 2011 and 2012, there was the eight-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot East Hampton rental with a heated pool that the couple took for part of August, the kind of house that typically goes for $200,000 per month, according to local real estate listings. Then, in 2013, they opted for an equally pricey six-bedroom mansion in Sagaponack with a private pathway to the beach. (Mrs. Clinton worked on her memoir, "Hard Choices," from a sunny office with an ocean view.)

Someone Tell the Pope: Environmentalism Crushes the Poor. Yesterday [6/16/2015] the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity released a report that documents how the Obama administration's war on coal (and on cheap energy generally) has hurt poor and middle-class Americans. While I can't vouch for the calculations, the report is an impressive piece of work, based on energy consumption and price data from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration, along with data from the Census Bureau and the Congressional Budget Office. Energy costs consume a substantial portion of the budgets of lower-income Americans. This simple chart tells the story: while energy costs account for only 7% of expenditures by those who earn over $50,000 per year, those making less than $30,000 pay an astonishing 23% of their after-tax income for energy.

Bankroller of Democratic Voting Rights Cases? George Soros. A Democratic legal fight against restrictive voting laws enacted in recent years by Republican-controlled state governments is being largely paid for by a single liberal benefactor: the billionaire philanthropist George Soros. Mr. Soros, the Hungarian-born investor whose first major involvement in American politics was a voter-mobilization drive in the 2004 presidential race, has yet to commit the many millions of dollars that Hillary Rodham Clinton's allies hope he and other like-minded billionaires will pour into the "super PAC" directly aiding her campaign.

40 Years of Democrats Saying How Much They Want to Get Money Out of Politics. Democratic Party platform, 1992: It's time to reform the campaign finance system, to get big money out of our politics and let the people back in. We must limit overall campaign spending and limit the disproportionate and excessive role of PACs. Jimmy Carter, accepting the Democratic nomination, July 1976: Too often unholy, self-perpetuating alliances have been formed between money and politics, and the average citizen has been held at arm's length.

The Democrats: America's Poor Little Rich Party. Something deep in the psyche of the Democratic Party prevents it from acknowledging that it, and its candidates, are awash in cash.

What is wrong with Democrats? I see unions corrupt politics and teachers' unions protect their interests and the future of their pensions over protecting the future of our children we place in their care. The work ethic is being eviscerated. People who build things are derided by President Obama as having not built things or dismissed as "lottery winners." Doctors do not heal, they are greedy people who yank out tonsils and lop off legs solely for profit — or so says the Democrats' leader, Barack Obama, and the Democrats who cheer him. People who work in finance are "fat cats" and "one-percenters" who must be "toppled" — or so sayeth the one percent of one percenter, Hillary Clinton, probably the most hypocritical person in America. Why do Democrats worship her?

Inside the war on coal. Beyond Coal is the most extensive, expensive and effective campaign in the [Sierra] Club's 123-year history, and maybe the history of the environmental movement. It's gone largely unnoticed amid the furor over the Keystone pipeline and President Barack Obama's efforts to regulate carbon, but it's helped retire more than one third of America's coal plants since its launch in 2010, one dull hearing at a time. With a vast war chest donated by Michael Bloomberg, unlikely allies from the business world, and a strategy that relies more on economics than ecology, its team of nearly 200 litigators and organizers has won battles in the Midwestern and Appalachian coal belts, in the reddest of red states, in almost every state that burns coal.

The Green Behind California's Greens. [Scroll down] Since the deaths of HP's cofounders, their heirs have pushed the two foundations' philanthropy ever-leftward, and activist environmentalism is a prime beneficiary. Under the direction of Packard's three daughters, the conservative Republican's philanthropic wealth has gone to the National Abortion Rights Action League Foundation, the Feminist Majority Foundation, and the very green Earth Action Network. This liberal giving has prompted Packard's son, David, whose political views are closer to his father's, to withdraw his money from the foundation and form his own nonprofit, which gives to more traditional and nonpolitical causes. In a signature moment in green giving, the Packard and Hewlett Foundations decided in 2007 to boost their spending on climate-change issues, funneling the money into a new, San Francisco-based nonprofit, ClimateWorks, led initially by the former head of environmental programs at Hewlett. The Hewlett Foundation, according to the Columbia Journalism School report, agreed to put $500 million into ClimateWorks, with the Packard Foundation adding approximately $390 million since 2008.

New Clinton speech disclosures reveal foundation's take. Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton brought in more than $12 million in speaking fees since 2002 that was donated directly to their family foundation, covering a a total of 97 speeches across the U.S. and around the world, according to data made public for the first time Thursday night [5/21/2015]. The new list of paid speeches gives a more complete financial picture of the Clintons' high-dollar public appearances. A personal financial disclosure filed last week by Hillary Clinton shows that the couple made over $25 million in personal income on public speeches since the beginning of 2014.

By the Way, Bill and Hillary Have Banked More than $30 Million Since Last January. She's running for president as a "topple the rich" champion of "everyday Americans," and he's just tryin' to pay the bills, y'all: [...] "The former President was even paid $175,000 for a speech in Miami where he appeared via satellite." Hillary also made six figures for addressing a gathering she didn't physically attend.

Clintons report making $25M for speeches since Jan. '14. Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton earned more than $25 million combined in speaking fees since January 2014, Fox News confirmed Friday [5/15/2015]. [...] Clinton has started her campaign for president by painting herself as a champion for the middle class. However, Republicans have scrutinized her about the wealth she and Bill Clinton have amassed since she left the White House. That includes their ability to command six-figure fees for delivering speeches and the finances behind the Clinton Foundation because of its acceptance of donations from foreign governments.

$1.3M loophole for Elizabeth Warren. Federal law requires members of Congress and other federal officials to annually disclose their financial assets and liabilities, including mortgages. In a form filed last week, Warren stated she and her husband, Bruce Mann, had no debt liabilities in 2014. But according to a Middlesex South Registry of Deeds record, Bank of America holds a $1.3 million mortgage on the Cambridge home owned by Warren and Mann. An aide for Warren said the amount represents a home equity line of credit, not a mortgage.

Dem. Congressman With Millions in Legal Bills Demands Pay Raise. A Democratic congressman who still owes millions of dollars in legal bills racked up while fighting corruption allegations said on Monday [5/18/2015] that members of Congress need a raise in order to cope with the District of Columbia's rising cost of living. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) said at a Monday Rules Committee hearing that members of Congress, who make an average of $174,000 per year, "aren't being paid properly." "Members deserve to be paid, staff deserves to be paid and the cost of living here is causing serious problems for people who are not wealthy to serve in this institution," he said. Observers scoffed at th