Lugar: 36 Years of Public Service

He was 16 when I was born, Mayor of Indianapolis (my home town) when I was a student at IU, and off to the US Senate when I was a ripe old 28; been there ever since. And a few hours after having seen him take a beating most uncommon in American politics—he lost to Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock by 21 points in yesterday’s primary—the confetti has just stopped floating to the floor and empty beer cans have barely stopped rolling around as we look with mixed feelings at the phenomenon just experienced. 30 minutes ago

Pacquiao Banned from L.A. Mall for Same-Sex Marriage Opposition

The blatantly hypocritical leftist Thought Police has come for iconic boxing great and Philippines Congressman Manny Pacquiao. Today, billionaire Rick Caruso banned Pacquiao from a major Los Angeles hangout thanks to his outspoken opposition to same-sex marriage. Pacquiao is an Obama supporter who was, until now, held in high esteem by liberals including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). 1 hour ago

Hillary 2012? Obama In Serious Danger of Losing Arkansas Primary

After President Obama's humiliating showing against a West Virginia prison inmate earlier this month, a more serious humiliation could be in making after the May 22 Arkansas primary. According to a new poll of Arkansas Democrats taken by Talk Business-Hendrix College, Obama is only seven points ahead (45-38) of his challenger, an relatively unknown attorney by the name of John Wolfe. 1 hour ago

Wisconsin: Dems Lost Union Issue, Now Losing Jobs Issue

Big Labor has forced the good people of Wisconsin to have a "do-over" of their 2010 Gubernatorial contest. Not happy with the results or the reforms which Gov. Walker campaigned on and implemented, spent millions from it's members paychecks to force next months recall vote. Their anger was raised, obviously, by Walker's reforms which curbed the unions' ability to extract overly generous compensation and benefits from taxpayers. It was this reform of collective bargaining that sparked the recall campaign. Now the unions don't want to talk about it. 2 hours ago

JP Morgan Fiasco Means Higher Interest Rates Ahead

As fallout from the J.P. Morgan fiasco exposes the bloated derivative activities of major banks, the Federal Reserve will be forced to terminate the zero interest rate policy and let rates rise to retard bank speculative actions. Higher interest rates will stimulate banks to make more commercial and industrial loans, resulting in higher U.S. economic growth. 3 hours ago

Catholic University Commencement Speaker Hates Christianity

The commencement speaker this June at the largest Catholic university believes that Christianity is the most dangerous of devotions and that the earth would benefit from the extinction of man. De Paul University, in Chicago, is hosting E.O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and professor of entomology at Harvard University. 4 hours ago

Exclusive: SBA Slams Conformity of Progressive Women In New Ad

I've wondered lately how the policies of a man can be used to measure a woman's devotion to her own sex. I've also wondered how the ideology that preaches about choice can be so vehemently anti-choice when it comes to the choices of women with whom they disagree. These two quandaries are explored by the Susan B. Anthony List in a new web ad called "Womanhood." 4 hours ago

Poll: Romney Up 8 in North Carolina

Part of this, though, is the consequence of Obama running his campaign by, and for, the media. He's obsessed over social issues like birth control and gay marriage that cause folks in the Hollywood Hills to swoon, but leave regular voters yawning. 6 hours ago

Progressives Plot to Silence ALEC's, Our Free Speech

If anything is certain, it’s that these progressive groups will capitalize on any opportunity to silence the voices of their opposition at any cost. Whether it’s organizations like ALEC or Citizens United, or individuals like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, these groups are aggressively trying to silence others’ opinions through the means of thuggish tactics against indirect targets merely for their association with the object of progressives’ ire. 6 hours ago

Class Warfare Unites Democrats in 2012

There is only one issue that unites Democrats this election: class warfare. After the "shellacking" of the 2010 elections, Democrats nationwide have decided to follow the lead of New York Sen. Chuck Schumer this time around and run against the rich. 6 hours ago

O'Keefe Video Turns up Pressure on Governor Perdue in North Carolina

The new video James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released yesterday, which showed how easy it was for non-citizens to vote in North Carolina, has immediately had an impact in the state, pressuring Democrat Gov. Bev Perdue and state legislators, as well as creating a local media sensation. 7 hours ago

Crossroads SuperPac Announces $25 million Ad Buy

An independent group favoring Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, monthlong advertising campaign in 10 states against President Barack Obama, further escalating an expensive TV ad war in presidential battlegrounds six months before Election Day. 7 hours ago

Obama Fundraising Drops $10 Million in April

Obama's April fundraising haul fell short of the $53 million he raised in March. That's as his campaign said more than 400,000 people contributed to the campaign last month, including 169,000 new donors. 7 hours ago

Obama: All Women Care About Is Fashion and Beauty

This President has a problem with the ladies. For such a "fabulous" speaker he has a proven inability to articulate adequately to women why they should support him beyond "free" birth control pills. A campaign/commencement speech that has all the grace of a Derek Zoolander eulogy on how women can be powerful, stylish, and should be leaders because, fashion magazines doesn't cut it. 7 hours ago

A Day of Contrasts in Zimmerman Case

It was a day of puzzling contrasts in the case of George Zimmerman, whose attorney is just beginning to receive the evidence prosecutors intend to use against his client for shooting and killing Trayvon Martin. Some of that evidence reveals injuries to Zimmerman on the night of the shooting. It's also said the FBI may be looking at charging Zimmerman with a hate crime. Additionally, Zimmerman appears to have mentored a black child at some point in his life. 7 hours ago

Deb Fischer Primary Victory Shocks Political World

The Republican establishment spent nearly $3 million to support state attorney general Jon Bruning. The Washington conservative establishment spent nearly $3 million to prop up their candidate, Don Stenberg, who never got traction despite all of his endorsements. But it took just 135 words from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to propel Fischer to the head of the pack and give her the momentum, buzz, and name identification to capitalize on some of the groundwork she had diligently laid. 13 hours ago

Palin Statement on Fischer Victory in Nebraska Senate Primary

As recently as a week ago, Deb Fischer was dismissed by the establishment. Why? Because she is not part of the good old boys’ permanent political class. The message from the people of Nebraska is simple and powerful: America is looking for real change in Washington, and commonsense conservatives like Deb Fischer represent that change. 14 hours ago

Palin Effect: Fischer Wins Nebraska Primary

Just two weeks ago, the battle for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska was between state Attorney General Jim Bruning and state Treasurer Don Stenburg. Neither inspired the growing base of conservative voters. They were, to be charitable, standard conservative-ish career politicians. Mama Grizzly Sarah Palin shook up the race with a late endorsement of state Senator Debby Fischer. It made all the difference. 16 hours ago

Hillary Still 'Evolving' for 2016?

When President Barack Obama announced to the nation, with theatrics reminiscent of LeBron James’ “The Decision,” that while he is now personally in favor for gay marriage he favored a states’ rights approach to the issue, the mainstream media collectively gushed over Obama’s flip-flop. Newsweek put Obama on its cover with a gaudy rainbow halo over his head and called him “The First Gay President.” The New Yorker’s cover showed a White House with rainbow columns. 17 hours ago

Alleged Rev. Wright Briber Eric Whitaker Reaped Big Benefits from Obama

Eric Whitaker, one of Barack Obama’s closest friends and Michelle Obama’s former colleague at the University of Chicago Medical Center, allegedly offered to bribe Jeremiah Wright $150,000 into shutting up during the 2008 presidential campaign, according to Edward Klein, author of a new book about the Obamas. 19 hours ago

MoveOn: DNC Pulling Out of Wisconsin Recall

I hope the national GOP and the Romney campaign absorb this lesson. The left, through their mouthpieces in the media can talk a big game, but at the end of the day there is just no there, there. 21 hours ago

Liberal Graduation Speakers Outnumber Conservatives 7 to 1

The number of liberal commencement speakers at America's top colleges dwarfs the number of conservative speakers. The ratio, 7-1 this year, has never been higher, according to Young America's Foundation, which made a list of speakers invited to the top 100 colleges and universities in the U.S. this spring. Of the total, YAF identified 71 of the speakers as liberal or left-leaning. Only 10 speakers this year are conservative or right-leaning. 23 hours ago

Will America Follow Europe Leftward?

There's still a chance that U.S. voters will decide to follow the lazy, downhill trail being blazed by socialists in Europe. Anti-austerity is very popular and has its own foot in the door here courtesy of the far-left and the Occupy movement. Some people simply refuse to believe you can't have your cake and eat it too. 1 day ago

Wendell Berry's Speech Reveals Washington's Disconnect

The broadcaster was referring to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner held on April 28. A more telling and troubling example of this disconnect occurred earlier that week, when author Wendell E. Berry gave the 41st annual Jefferson Lecture for the Humanities. The April 23 speech, which you paid for through the National Endowment for the Humanities, showcased the Washington mindset at its most myopic and misguided. 1 day ago

Obama Lowers His Own Grade on the Economy

Well, he at least gets extra credit for being honest. With hopes of an economic recovery fading, Obama is facing a very real threat to his reelection hopes. He had obviously assumed that economic data would be improving by now and has yet to find a way to address his economic stewardship. 1 day ago

Panic: Obama Campaign Already Coming Off the Rails

Its only Tuesday, but it has already been a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week for the Obama campaign. Saddled with increasingly bad economic data, the campaign has been doggedly trying to change the subject to anything other than jobs and deficits. We've been treated to a mythical GOP "war on women", a "debate" on birth control, a "road to damascus" moment on gay marriage, an "expose" of Romney "bullying" in high school, and the burning question of who is a better pet owner. Unfortunately for Obama and his allies in the media, none of it is working. 1 day ago

LightSquared Files for Chapter 11

On Monday, LightSquared filed for chapter 11. At issue was embattled LightSquared chief Philip Falcone's inability to "reach an agreement with its lenders to avoid a default, further" a failure that the Wall Street Journal says further "clouds the future for Mr. Falcone and his signature investment." 1 day ago

Bubble Burst: Obama Camp Whines Over NYT Poll

The MSNBC clip embedded below focuses on how Obama's decision to finally stop lying about his position on same-sex marriage has pretty much backfired. In a new CBS/NYT poll, 67% of the American people see Obama's decision as a political one, but only because it is. Rather than face the fact that a poll that historically skews in favor of Democrats has bad news for them, the Obama campaign chooses denial with a side order of crybaby. 1 day ago

Consumers Pull Back Spending

The Commerce Department said retail sales rose only 0.1 percent last month. After excluding gasoline station sales, consumers increased their spending on retail goods by just 0.2 percent. 1 day ago

O'Keefe Strikes Again--in North Carolina

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas exposed how easy it was for someone to walk in to a polling place and get Attorney General Eric Holder’s ballot, and now it has released another video that shows how easily non-citizens--and even dead people--can vote in North Carolina, a crucial 2012 swing state. 1 day ago

Stimulus Money Funded Sex Study

A local NBC affiliate in the San Francisco Bay area has discovered that nearly $1.5 million in research grants funded by President Barack Obama's stimulus went to studies "into the erectile dysfunction of overweight middle aged men and the accurate reporting of someone's sexual history." 1 day ago

Tea Party Conservatives Question Bruning

Conservatives and Tea Party groups in recent weeks have come out stridently against Republican Senate candidate Jon Bruning primarily for two reasons. First, they say they believe he is a crony capitalist in the mold of Republicans of the past decade that gave rise to the Tea Party. And second, they believe his financial entanglements will make it difficult for him to defeat Democrat Bob Kerrey in the general election in a race Republicans must win to shift the balance of power in the U.S. Senate to their side. 1 day ago

Obama 'Stereotyped, Simplified and Used' Us

A student at Barnard College, Ayelet Pearl, has written a stirring protest to President Barack Obama's commencement speech yesterday. Noting that the president's words were "beautiful," Pearl nonetheless objected to the use of the historic women's college as a political prop, and said that the event left her feeling "stereotyped, simplified, and used." 1 day ago

Principled Conservative Action Will Lead this Nation

This election will be crucial in determining the direction of our nation: One of fiscal responsibility and principled leadership or the compromise of decades past. We can no longer afford to deceive ourselves about the urgency and severity of our situation. We are in the “Age of Consequences” - An inescapable outcome to years of ineffective leadership and symbolic dedication to Conservative principles: RINOs compromised rather than fought; appeased rather than demanded; and surrendered rather than resisted. 1 day ago

Will Pacquiao Defect--and Swing Nevada?

Champion boxer Manny Pacquiao has spoken out against President Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage. "God's words first ... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man" Pacquiao told the Examiner's Granville Ampong. He went on to add that gay marriage is contrary to the Bible, which he described as the "manual for life." 1 day ago

Obama: Romney and 61% of North Carolina Voters 'Backward' on Gay Marriage

Moreover, North Carolina is the 31st state to pass such a protection on marriage between a man and a woman. Which means, as of right now, there are far more “backward” voters in this country than there are progressives. But Obama knows this, and that’s why as soon as he announced his new position on gay marriage, he immediately began attacking Mitt Romney as a way to keep this nation’s predominately “backward” voters from thinking about what just happened. 1 day ago

Poll: Romney Winning the Women's Vote

I expect the media to be in a surly mood tonight. After months of manufactured "GOP War on Women" silliness, a new CBS/NYT poll (!) finds Romney leading Obama 46-44% among woman voters. Mind you, that isn't GOP woman or even independent women, but ALL women voters. 1 day ago

Government, Environmentalists Blocking Access to Rich Shale Reserves

The President has recently made a habit of claiming that oil self-sufficiency is impossible because the US has just 2% of the world's oil reserves. However, congressional testimony given Thursday May 10th reinforces that America is exceedingly rich in natural resources, especially a type of oil reserves known as oil shale. The present administration doesn't seem very eager to get at those (or other) natural resources. 1 day ago

Dem Recall Candidate's Wife Uses Public Email To Lobby, Enlist Campaign Help

Kris Barrett, who taught at a Milwaukee Public School used her taxpayer funded email account to twice lobby Democratic lawmakers and a third time to recruit fellow teachers to campaign against conservative County Executive candidate Jeff Stone. The use of a taxpayer funded email account for political purposes is a gross misuse of resources and forbidden by the Milwaukee Public Schools Employee Code of Ethics as well as the MPS Staff Acceptable Use Policy. 1 day ago

Rapid Response: Romney Campaign Fires Back at Obama Ad

I think the ads serve as something of a lesson in something else: the need to adapt quickly to changes in the political landscape. That Obama would attack Romney on events after he had left Bain Capital is a clear signal that Obama is losing the economic argument. That Romney would have a solid response ad ready to go within hours is a clear signal that Romney isn't going to let Obama and the media control the narrative of the campaign. 1 day ago

The Palin Effect: Tea Party Flexes Muscle

The conventional wisdom among the mainstream media is that the Republican establishment would strike back during the 2012 election, thereby blunting the influence of the conservative Tea Party movement that propelled the party to historic gains in the 2010 midterm elections. 2 days ago

Ron Paul 'Goes Galt': Quits Presidential Race but Hopes to Turn Tide

Like John Galt, the fictional hero of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Republican presidential contender Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has quit the mainstream of American political life--only to plot a return as a revolutionary hero for the cause of liberty. Paul has announced that he is suspending his campaign, but will keep trying to win delegates in state contests that will allow him maximum leverage at this summer's Republican National Convention. 2 days ago

RI considers 'Homeless Bill of Rights'

The idea behind the legislation is to make it clear _ to the homeless as well as law enforcement, local officials and potential landlords and employers _ that discrimination isn't legal. It's also designed to be enforceable, so homeless people who believe they've faced discrimination have grounds to sue. 2 days ago

Amateur Genealogist Who Backed '1/32 Cherokee' Warren Now Admits Mistake

Lynda Smith, the amateur genealogist who unknowingly found herself at the root of the false “Elizabeth Warren is 1/32 Cherokee” meme introduced to the media by “noted” genealogist Chris Child of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, acknowledged in an email to me this past Saturday, May 12, that her statement in a March 2006 family newsletter upon which Mr. Child based his claim of Ms. Warren’s Cherokee ancestry was made with no supporting documentation. It was, in fact, an honest mistake that Ms. Smith now acknowledges is entirely without foundation. 2 days ago

Walker Up Nine in New Poll

A poll released today shows Scott Walker holding a robust lead in next month's June recall election. The poll, by polling firm We Ask America finds Walker backed by 52% of likely voters, nine points ahead of Democrat Tom Barrett's 43%. 2 days ago

Exclusive: Palin Pick Fischer Surges in Nebraska

The most recent poll of the Nebraska GOP Senate primary, which will be held on Tuesday, shows that the race is now a two-person race between establishment Republican Jon Bruning and conservative Deb Fischer, who is running for statewide office for the first time and placing an emphasis on reaching out to the state’s grassroots conservatives. 2 days ago

Palin Derangement Syndrome: Romney Camp Allows Media To Impact VP Choice

As of now, Romney has done a pretty solid job of consolidating the base. But to be seen as toadying up to the corrupt media by validating a dishonest mythology about someone as important to and respected by the base as Governor Palin, could harm that effort. Nothing, however, is more disturbing about this report than the idea that Romney would allow the media to in any way tamper with who he might choose to share the ticket with him. 2 days ago

Big Cable Would Prefer If You Paid Their Bills

Right now in Congress – specifically in the Senate - there is a heated debate between broadcast companies and cable operators like Direct TV over legislation that would strip broadcasters of their ability to negotiate in the free marketplace. Some cable operators, it turns out, would love to provide Americans with the quality content American broadcast companies churn out. They just don’t happen to want to pay for it. 2 days ago

Womens' Lawsuit Aims to End Forced Unionization

A little publicized federal court case being heard on Tuesday in US District Court in Minneapolis, however, takes the divisive issue away from state lawmakers and propels it to the national level, with the potential to end or embolden what some call compulsory unionization once and for all. 2 days ago

Court Victories Could End Card-Check Scheme

A major flaw in this Card Check scheme is that the so-called “neutrality agreement” creates an inescapable “thing of value” and violates the Taft-Hartley Act. Now, the Eleventh Circuit Court has repeatedly agreed that this neutrality agreement indeed violated the law. 2 days ago

Dems Attack Romney Over Layoffs Made by Obama Bundler

The ad is built around interviews with former steelworkers at GST Steel, a mill in Kansas City, who were laid off as the company collapsed in the wake of a downturn in the steel market. The ad is certainly gripping and emotional. It is also, however, completely wrong. 2 days ago

Brown Banks on Tax Hikes to Bridge Budget Gap

Under Brown's tax plan, California would temporarily raise the state's sales tax by a quarter-cent and increase the income tax on people who make $250,000 or more. Brown is projecting his tax initiative would raise as much as $9 billion, but a review by the nonpartisan analyst's office estimates revenue of $6.8 billion in fiscal year 2012-13. 2 days ago

Edwards' lawyers set to begin presenting defense

Edwards has pleaded not guilty to six criminal counts arising from alleged federal campaign-finance violations. He's accused of masterminding a scheme to use nearly $1 million in secret payments from two wealthy donors to help hide his pregnant mistress as he sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. 2 days ago

Dimon: JPMorgan trading loss could top $3B

JPMorgan Chase is the largest U.S. bank, holding more than $2.3 trillion in outstanding loans and other assets, and employs 240,000 people in 60 countries. 2 days ago

GOP Launches Super PAC Targeting Young Voters

Crossroads Generation is drawing upon $750,000 in seed money from GOP organizations like the College Republicans, the Young Republicans, the Republican State Leadership Committee and American Crossroads _ itself a super PAC that has raised $100 million so far this election cycle to defeat Obama and will support the Republican nominee, very likely to be Mitt Romney. 2 days ago

Obama Plays the Bain Card Early

At the center of the push _ the president's most forceful attempt yet to sully Romney before the November election _ is a biting new TV ad airing Monday that recounts through interviews with former workers the restructuring, and ultimate demise, of a Kansas City, Mo., steel mill under the Republican's private equity firm. 2 days ago

Palin Makes Cruz Campaign 'Sun-Spot Hot'

While Ted Cruz has been endorsed by conservative Senators such as South Carolina’s Jim Demint, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey, and Utah’s Mike Lee in addition to influential conservative groups like FreedomWorks, nothing gives a campaign more rocket fuel, especially among conservatives, than the endorsement of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. 2 days ago

Surfing For Your Conservative Soul

Surfing is a passion for me, as is conservatism. I watched the video of Garrett McNamara riding his world record wave and saw the elation in his face as when he described how it felt. It made me think about what surfing means to me and how much it has affected my philosophy and reinforced my belief in conservatism. 3 days ago

American Sovereignty: LOST at Sea?

Sen. Dick Lugar’s defeat in a Republican primary this week has not been attributed, as nearly as we can tell, to his 1979 trip to Moscow with Joe Biden. Then, the two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee left the bosses of the Kremlin with the distinct impression that they cared about arms control and not so much about human rights. Claire Berlinsky’s article in the Spring 2010 issue of City Journal ought to be disqualifying. Nor, it seems, did the senator’s spearheading of the ill-advised START treaty with the Russians in a lame-duck session in December 2010 lead to his loss by a stunning 61% to 39% vote to a TEA Party-backed challenger. 3 days ago

Exclusive: Tea Party to Front Lines in Wisconsin

For 21 days leading up to Wisconsin’s June 5 recall vote, Tea Party Patriots -- in conjunction with other local and national Tea Party groups -- will spearhead efforts in Wisconsin to help those like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Lieutenant Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch who are facing recalls, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. 3 days ago

Jerry Brown Struggles with Public Sector Unions

Brown’s good-old-boy support for his union brothers and sisters may have come to a screeching halt as California State Controller John Chaing published a devastating April Financial Statement showing monthly income, sales and corporate tax revenue came in 20.2% below the governor’s latest projections and sales tax collections fell by an astounding 61% below last year. 3 days ago

Virginia Emerges as Key 2012 Battleground

According to a recent survey conducted by the website RealClearPolitics, Obama has a slight lead over Romney in Virginia -- 47.5 percent versus 44.3 percent. 3 days ago

Walker Rallies GOP for Recall

Gov. Scott Walker said Friday that Republicans gathering for the annual state convention this weekend should be focused on ensuring he and five other Republicans survive June 5 recall elections, even as an intraparty fight over endorsing GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate election threatens to be a distraction. 3 days ago

BlueZone Crisis: California Deficit Soars to $16 Billion

The Democratic governor said the shortfall grew from $9.2 billion in January in part because tax collections have not come in as high as expected and the economy isn't growing as fast as hoped for. The deficit has also risen because lawsuits and federal requirements have blocked billions of dollars in state cuts. 3 days ago

Obama, Biden praise each other, play golf

Biden started the week by stealing some of the president's thunder when he came out publicly in favor of same-sex marriage. Obama expressed his support for gay marriage on Wednesday and the vice president apologized that day for getting out front of his boss on the issue. 3 days ago

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