(FoxNews) – Glenn Beck tells Newsmax that President Barack Obama’s White House qualifies as the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. “There are so many things that this administration has d…

The White House says there are two words President Barack Obama will not say tonight in his speech about the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq: “Mission accomplished.”

The White House says there are two words President Barack Obama will not say Tuesday night in his speech about the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq: “Mission accomplished.”

Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
This Politico piece by Jim VandeHei, Alex Isenstadt, and Mike Allen got a lot of play last week:In conversations with more than two dozen party insiders, most of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about the state of play, Democrats in and out of Washington say they are increasingly alarmed about the economic and polling data they have seen in recent weeks.They no longer believe the jobs and housing markets will recover -- or that anything resembling the White House's promise of a "recovery summer" is under way. They are even more concerned by indications that House...

AP - White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says the two men being held in the Netherlands because of suspicious items in their luggage were not on any terror watch lists.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs talks to Steve Inskeep about President Obama's address to the nation on Iraq on Tuesday night. They also discuss the economy and the outlook for Democrats in the midterm elections.

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The Newsroom - President Obama today sought to refocus the White House's efforts to shore up the U.S. economy, with a pledge to extend tax cuts for Americans earning less than $200,000 per year. The president remained silent about the fate of Bush-era tax cuts to wealthier Americans, while also issuing a plea to Republicans to reach across the partisan aisle to ease passage of a small-business jobs bill he argues is crucial to the nation's recovery.

Reuters - President Barack Obama will make a statement on the economy at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT) Monday in the White House Rose Garden, the White House said.

U.S. President Barack Obama will make a statement on the economy at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT) on Monday in the White House Rose Garden, the White House said.

Carl Hulse, New York Times
WASHINGTON — The incumbent senator from Alaska is taken by surprise in a primary. A new conservative movement energizes Republicans in a furious response to a Democratic White House. Little-known insurgent candidates prepare to storm the Senate.The latest on President Obama, his administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. 

Carl Hulse, New York Times
WASHINGTON — The incumbent senator from Alaska is taken by surprise in a primary. A new conservative movement energizes Republicans in a furious response to a Democratic White House. Little-known insurgent candidates prepare to storm the Senate.The latest on President Obama, his administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. 

Jonathan Alter, Newsweek
President Obama at a meeting in the White House in July. "I'd like to burn them off," says the Illustrated Man in Ray Bradbury's 1951 science-fiction classic of that name. "I've tried sandpaper, acid, a knife." Nothing works. More than a half century before head-to-toe tattoos, a time-traveling witch had painted colorful images on nearly every part of the man's body. The elaborate stories they told made it hard for him to hold a job.President Obama is our era's Illustrated Man. His enemies"”and even some of his...

AP - Glenn Beck, the man behind Saturday's rally at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech, has built an empire around his own voice that grew exponentially with his move to Fox News Channel and President Barack Obama's election to the White House.

AP - Glenn Beck, the man behind Saturday's rally at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech, has built an empire around his own voice that grew exponentially with his move to Fox News Channel and President Barack Obama's election to the White House.

The United States military has found a new menace to the defense establishments and military training — the erupting wind turbines encouraged by White House to spur renewable energy production in the United States.

Politico - Republicans plan a wave of committee investigations should they regain the majority in November.

The Upshot - The White House press corps may look a bit different when President Obama returns from Martha's Vineyard, with a couple of changes in the past two days. Michael Shear, a White House reporter for the Washington Post, is joining the New York Times, according to sources with knowledge of the move. Shear leaves the Post [...]

Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
In what will rank as one of the all-time presidential PR disasters, we're now well over half way through what the White House called "the summer of recovery." And what a recovery it's been.Earlier this month, first-time claims for unemployment hit a nine-month high. The unemployment rate remains at 9.5% and 18.4% of workers are out of a job, can only get part-time work, or have given up looking for a job altogether.

AP - The White House, in an effort to turn up the heat against al-Qaida's branch in Yemen, is considering adding the CIA's armed Predator drones to the fight, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.

President Barack Obama will make a major address on Iraq on August 31, a White House spokesman said on Tuesday.

US President Barack Obama is to give a major speech to mark the end of American combat operations in Iraq on August 31, the White House said Tuesday.

AP - With a broad grin and aw-shucks approach, Bill Burton is a marked contrast with his boss, the always ready-for-battle White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

AFP - Rain is keeping President Barack Obama indoors on his summer vacation but he is still having fun, playing Scrabble and reading books, the White House said Tuesday.

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama will have no further comment on the mosque near Ground Zero in New York and the administration will not get involved in talks about relocating the controversial facility.