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Senate Minority Leader McConnell to Akin: 'Step Aside'

Senate Minority Leader McConnell to Akin: 'Step Aside'

This afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a statement about Republican Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, who is facing incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill in Missouri: “Congressman Akin made a deeply offensive error at a time when his candidacy

Poll: Warren Down 49-44 to Brown in MA

Poll: Warren Down 49-44 to Brown in MA

The disastrous Senate candidacy of Barack Obama favorite Elizabeth Warren – the woman from whom he cribbed his own disastrous “you didn’t build that” language – is now floundering in the polls. According to the Democratic polling firm Public Policy

Akin Pledges to Stay in Race

Akin Pledges to Stay in Race

Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R) is staying in the race, he stated today on The Dana Show and The Mike Huckabee Show. “I haven’t done anything morally or ethically wrong,” said Akin to Huckabee, two days after commenting

Phelps May Lose Gold Medals Thanks to Olympics' Greed

Phelps May Lose Gold Medals Thanks to Olympics' Greed

The scam that is the Olympics has found a new victim: the greatest Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps. The 22-time Olympic medalist and 18-time gold medalist is now under fire because Louis Vuitton, one of his advertisers, released a

McDonald's Fires Back on Food Police First Lady

McDonald's Fires Back on Food Police First Lady

Note to Michelle: don’t mess with the Golden Arches. Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week, where she told Leno that after winning her medal, she “splurged on an Egg McMuffin

RNC Chair to Akin: 'Step Aside'

RNC Chair to Akin: 'Step Aside'

This evening on CNN’s “Out Front,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called for Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin (R-MO) to step aside. Here’s what Priebus said: But if it was me and I had an opportunity to let someone

Obama Caves To Media, Hijacks Press Briefing

Obama Caves To Media, Hijacks Press Briefing

For the last several years, the Obama administration has acted as though the press was an arm of the White House. They give exclusive access to friends; they punish enemies. And most of all, they don’t allow anyone in the

Augusta National Admits Two Female Members

Augusta National Admits Two Female Members

Augusta National has finally ended its decades-old men-only membership policy, admitting two women to join the club: former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and South Carolina financial honcho Darla Moore. “This is a joyous occasion as we enthusiastically welcome Secretary

NBC's Chuck Todd Rips White House Press Censorship

NBC's Chuck Todd Rips White House Press Censorship

Today, the Obama White House apparently lost the leg-tingling support of NBC’s Chuck Todd. Todd, fed up with the fact that aides to Joe Biden have reportedly been editing White House press pool transcripts to avoid quoting Biden’s “they gonna

Obama-Approved Media Matters: Navy SEALs 'Gutless'

Obama-Approved Media Matters: Navy SEALs 'Gutless'

Remember that quaint period of time when the left was pretending to like the military so they could bash the war in Iraq? Well, that’s all over. Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at the Obama White House’s unofficial 501(c)3 outlet, Media

Politico Lets Anti-Obamacare Lowry Column Slip Through

Politico Lets Anti-Obamacare Lowry Column Slip Through

In a shocking turn of events, Politico, which usually spends most of its time BenSmithing for the President, somehow allowed National Review editor Rich Lowry to take to its opinion pages today, where Lowry laid out a particularly strong case

Black VA Pastor Rushes to Defend Biden 'Chains' Comment

Black VA Pastor Rushes to Defend Biden 'Chains' Comment

Before Joe Biden’s famously disgusting reference to slavery in 49 percent black Danville, VA – the “they gonna put ya’ll back in chains” line – Rev. William Avon Keen gave an invocation. Now, the pastor is under fire – and

No BFD: Obama Campaign Cursing Again

No BFD: Obama Campaign Cursing Again

This evening, Jeremy Bird, National Field Director for Obama for America, send out one of the campaign’s ubiquitous emails. This one carried the patented Obama stylings: role reversal (Mitt Romney as aggressor, Obama as victim), cliché (baked cookies – just

Politifact's #1 'Lie' of 2011 Now Obama's #1 Talking Point

Politifact's #1 'Lie' of 2011 Now Obama's #1 Talking Point

Today, President Obama went after Paul Ryan’s budget that would move to preserve Medicare for decades to come by mirroring a debunked Democratic talking point. “My plan has already extended Medicare by more than a decade,” said Obama. “Their plan

Politico Equates Obama Attacks with Romney Self-Defense

Politico Equates Obama Attacks with Romney Self-Defense

Politico is on the warpath for the “high-minded campaign.” At least that’s what they’d have you think; their lead piece tonight is “Death of the high-minded campaign,” lamenting the supposed lack of decorum of both the Barack Obama campaign and

Fire in the Belly: Romney Ready for Surge

Fire in the Belly: Romney Ready for Surge

Today in Ohio, Mitt Romney showed that he is an entirely renewed, re-energized candidate in the aftermath of his selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate. For the first time this week, Romney has shown fire in the belly.