Politics

(AP) Confident Romney predicts Wisconsin victoryBy STEVE PEOPLESAssociated PressFITCHBURG, Wis.A confident Mitt Romney is predicting victory ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary in Wisconsin. “It feels better and better. The support for my campaign is growing stronger and stronger,” he told

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to increase taxes on millionaires, reviving a proposal he first pitched last September that aims to draw sharp election-year lines between the president and the Republican opposition. The plan, scheduled

There was a time when liberals fancied themselves the keepers of civility.  Who can forget when, after the Gabrielle Giffords tragedy, the President spoke at a memorial in Tucson where he exhorted the nation to more courteous conversation by insinuating

(AP) Federal judge strikes down parts of Wis. union lawBy SCOTT BAUERAssociated PressMADISON, Wis.A federal judge upheld most of Wisconsin’s contentious law curbing collective bargaining rights on Friday, but he sided with unions by overturning two portions of the law

On Friday, Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee, 59, pleaded guilty to fraud charges involving the embezzlement of $20 million in Democratic campaign contributions in a case one prosecutor likened to that of Bernie Madoff. “It’s the largest embezzlement scheme of

In a private meeting of GOP lawmakers, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) proposed overturning the House and Senate ban on earmarks in order to push past legislative logjams: I just got up … and did it because I was mad because

(AP) Recall election ordered for Wis. Gov. Scott WalkerBy SCOTT BAUERAssociated PressMADISON, Wis.The recall election ordered Friday for embattled first-term Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker quickly turned into a possible rematch when the Democrat he narrowly defeated in 2010 announced he

What is it about New York politicians that makes them desperate to show ustheir underwear? Sunday, New York State Senator Greg Ball tweeted a pants-less picof himself. Here’s the tweet and the photo: Greg Ball has a long history of

The Gross Pointe North High School in Michigan certainly has a bizarre notion of what constitutes appropriate school language. According to Young Americans for Freedom, student Grant Strobl created a series of posters regarding the liberal media’s attack on conservative

Congressman Paul Ryan, (R-Wis.) who absolutely destroyed President Obama at the health care summit of February 2010, has endorsed Mitt Romney for president. On Fox News today, Ryan said, “I am convinced that Mitt Romney has the skills, the tenacity,

On March 31st at 8:30 pm, people around the world will shut off their lights for one hour as a symbolic gesture that they want “something” done about climate change. During that same hou,r many other people around the world

This is what we see time and again at the hands of the same Left that manufactured a month-long non-troversy over a word Rush Limbaugh spoke. While, on one hand, the left and their media allies feign outrage over Limbaugh,

Yesterday, the Democratic Senate threw down the gauntlet to President Obama. Obama wanted a bill passed that would end $4 billion in tax breaks for oil companies, and the Senate resisted; four Democratic Senators broke with the President and voted

A couple of weeks ago, the Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) inspector general, James Sullivan, released a report noting some curious dealings between the district’s head of food service Louise Esaian and a couple of the district’s food vendors: Now, Esaian and two

Thus far this obscene story has only bubbled up in left-wing fever swamps like Raw Story and Gawker, but that’s usually where it begins before the corrupt mainstream media amplifies it into the news cycle with absurd fig leafs, such as: “Questions

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Representative Paul Ryan, a leader in Republican efforts to slash government spending, endorsed presidential candidate Mitt Romney, calling him the party’s best chance to beat Democratic President Barack Obama.

Weeks of one-sided stories pushed by professional agitators like Al Sharpton have had an effect on public opinion. Last weekend, (3/25-3/26) CNN conducted apoll which showed 73% of adults believed Trayvon Martin’s shooter GeorgeZimmerman should be arrested. Now a new poll

This is a tale of groping gone wrong. A TSA manager who oversaw morningoperations at Dulles airport has been fired for allegedly running aprostitution operation at a nearby hotel: Bryant Jermaine Livingston, 39, was arrested while on the job asa

Yesterday the Obama administration announced a delaying tactic which willput off the possibility of new offshore oil drilling on the Atlantic coastfor at least five years: The announcement by the Interior Department sets into motionwhat will be at least a

Former Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) made quite a fuss when he donned a “hoodie” during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives until he was escorted out.At the time, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “applauded his courage”

ABC News has proclaimed that video of George Zimmerman at the Sanford, FL police station on the night of Trayvon Martin’s shooting showed no signs of blood or bruises from a fight with Martin before Zimmerman shot and killed him.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For the first time ever, Tennessee is basing a portion of a teacher’s evaluation on student test data. Test scores will be combined with a principal’s classroom observations to create an overall score for teachers, ranging from 1 (significantly

Yesterday, President Obama’s plan to raise taxes on oil companies went down in flames in the Senate, 51-47. And while the vote was largely along party lines, four Democrats–Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska), Mary Landrieu (La.), Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Jim Webb (Va.)–wisely

Corporal Jesse Thorsen, the Army reservist who took the stage at a Ron Paul campaign rally at the Iowa caucuses on January 3, has been found in violation of Department of Defense directives. According to the Army, “the investigating officer

(AP) Justices meet Friday to vote on health care caseBy MARK SHERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONWhile the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by

BOSTON (AP) – A former employee of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has been sentenced to nearly three and a half years in prison for possessing child pornography. Federal prosecutors say 34-year-old Andrew Cheever of Lowell was sentenced Wednesday to

New York State Senator Kevin S. Parker – who in recent days donned a hoodie in the New York Senate to protest the killing of Trayvon Martin — took to Twitter today to denounce the fact that Senate GOP Majority

San Francisco Subway has cut the $5 Footlong due to the cost of doing business in a city with an extraordinarily high minimum wage. As the San Francisco Weekly wrote, “Unless you like tuna — that’s the $5 Footlong of

In April 2011, African-American teenager Shawn Tyson killed two young British men, James Cooper and James Kouzaris. Tyson reportedly murdered them as they “begged for their lives.” Two close friends of the victims, Paul Davies and Joe Hallett, talked about

The Indiana Attorney General’s Office settled a robocall case last week with a Las Vegas company accused of unlawfully calling more than 270,000 Indiana phone numbers for Democratic candidates who were running for office in 2011. “We received some complaints

Police in Seneca, South Carolina have arrested six men for beating another man at an Applebee’s on March 17. According to the police, the alleged perpetrators may have attacked the victim based on racial motivations. The FBI has been notified

Does the fate of a federal government with limited powers rest in the hands of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia? And if so, will he rule against broad federal powers (as he did in the Gonzales case) or in favor of the

Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-Working Families Party) of Connecticut, the state with the largest achievement gap in the nation, made it clear that a primary focus of his agenda this year would be to fix what is broken with Connecticut’s public schools. The