Gabriel Gomez, the Republican nominee in the June 25th Massachusetts special Senate election, told Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr on Wednesday that he will "absolutely" call on the State Department to release the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya.
8 May 2013
Fresh from his stunning victory in Tuesday's special election to represent South Carolina's First Congressional District, Mark Sanford (R-SC) is poised to emerge as a thorn in the side to the members of the Washington Republican establishment who abandoned him.
8 May 2013
On Monday, Jon Carson, Executive Director of Organizing For America, told a small group of supporters at a New York City fundraising event what everyone in the political world already knew: OFA will stop pretending it's a 501 (c) (4) over the next several months and will gear up to use all its available resources to defeat Republican candidates in the 2014 Congressional midterm elections. 501(c)(4)s are forbidden under law from "direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office."
7 May 2013
The wide open, no holds barred race for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia took a bare knuckles turn this past week when a controversy exploded over a pair of anonymous internet campaign videos that attacked one of the seven declared candidates, technology entrepreneur Pete Snyder, and some anonymous direct mail pieces that attacked another candidate, Prince William County Delegate Scott Lingamfelter.
7 May 2013
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) told CNN's Candy Crowley Sunday that the FBI should be able to speak directly to Muslim clerics who operate mosques which may be attended by radicalized Islamists.
5 May 2013
PPP, the left leaning polling organization, released a poll on Friday that showed Democratic nominee Ed Markey clinging to a 44% to 40% lead over Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts special election to select a new Senator to take the place of now Secretary of State John Kerry.
4 May 2013
Two days after the Massachusetts primary election in which Ed Markey won the Democratic nomination and Gabriel Gomez won the Republican nomination, the Emerson College Polling Society released a poll that shows Markey has only a 42% to 36% lead over Gomez in the contest to select who will replace John Kerry in the Senate. Voters will make their choice in the special election on June 25.
3 May 2013
On Thursday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNN that the three University of Massachusetts Dartmouth college students arrested Wednesday on charges related to the Boston Marathon bombings should also be charged as accessories to the murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier, who was allegedly killed by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev on April 18. If they are liable for Officer Collier's murder, it is also possible that under the "felony murder" doctrine, Kadyrbayev ,Tazhayakov, and Phillipos may actually be responsible for two murders--that of Officer Collier and also alleged "Suspect #1," Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
2 May 2013
On Thursday, CBS reporter Elaine Quijano told CBS This Morning that "sources tell CBS news the laptop [belonging to Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev] has been recovered." Investigators will be scouring through the contents of the laptop to determine if it contains any evidence related to the Boston Marathon bombings Dzhokhar and his now-deceased brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev are alleged to have committed.
2 May 2013
The Boston Globe reported on Wednesday that "three college students have been arrested by federal authorities in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings." The Globe cited "a law enforcement official familiar with the case," as their source.
1 May 2013