On Current TV last night: Keith Olbermann rather humorously said in an interview with the still very much alive twenty-three year-old Robert Beaulieu: “[O’Keefe’s associates] proved how you can’t commit voter fraud and they should be put on trial for
Jon Huntsman Jr. has ended his bid for the presidency. So what went wrong? A lot, but the simplest explanation may be the best. Here it is from Ed Morrissey: “He governed in Utah as a conservative in a state
Hollywood has learned something effective about conservative women: If you play them convincingly enough to left-wing stereotypes, people will believe that the caricature is the real deal. We saw this with Tina Fey’s portrayal of Sarah Palin where so many
MSNBC’s Al Sharpton continued the media smearing of James O’Keefe on his television program on Thursday night. Shaprton interviewed Paul Bergeron, the city clerk of Nashua, N.H., repeatedly states that voter fraud isn’t a problem in New Hampshire, but his
The left is desperate to quash James O’Keefe’s exposé of potential voter fraud in New Hampshire–and to prevent voter ID laws from being passed and enforced in states across the nation. On Tuesday, during the New Hampshire primary election, members
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that after three decades in Congress the pork-fond Rep. Jerry Lewis is stepping down. The Times writes: His legacy includes the Lewis Center for Educational Research in Apple Valley, the Jerry Lewis Swim Center
The left is desperate to quash James O’Keefe’s exposé of potential voter fraud in New Hampshire–and to prevent voter ID laws from being passed and enforced in states across the nation. On Tuesday, during the New Hampshire primary election, members
Before the electronic ink was dry Talking Points Memo Muckraker‘s Ryan J. Reilly pounced. Reilly’s hit piece is factually wrong and misleading–and that’s just the first few paragraphs! It was one of the few — if not the only —
A company went into bankruptcy (Smith Corona) and was sold to another company (Ampad). The new company, 80% of which was owned by Bain Capital, tried to make the old company profitable–and even offered to rehire the old employees at
We have heard that the race for the Republican nomination is over. It isn’t. Not even by a long shot. After Tuesday night, here’s the delegate count. Mitt Romney leads the pack with 20, followed by Rick Santorum at 12.
David Axelrod, chief political strategist for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and former White House political adviser, defended Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday evening in a speech in Thousand Oaks, Ca, saying that the news reports depicting the man once called
Over at Breitbart.tv, we feature a video where Rick Santorum looks to get Tea Party support. (South Carolina’s Tea Party groups hold their own convention in Myrtle Beach on Sunday, Jan. 15, and Monday, Jan. 16, the same day that
In an interview today with Larry O’Connor of Breitbart.tv, Governor John Sununu attacked Newt Gingrich and his backers for being anti-capitalist. Newt Gingrich has “gone anti-free enterprise,” Sununu told O’Connor. “What I’m shocked at is someone like Mr. [Sheldon] Adelson,
Jon Huntsman Jr. is surging in New Hampshire, but what to make of the results if he pulls off a second place upset? Well, I predicted that Jon Huntsman would pull off that upset on Breitbart.tv with Steve Bannon and
Yesterday in New Hampshire Larry O’Connor of Breitbart.tv caught up with Lawrence O’Donnell and asked him his opinion on the Republican field. Here’s what he had to say: [youtube M9U8TMEFyY0 nolink] Romney is the one they don’t want. They know
Joel Pollak, our editor-in-chief, asked Rick Tyler of Winning Our Future– Newt Gingrich’s Super PAC–about why Newt Gingrich and he are attacking Mitt Romney from the Left on his Bain Capital record. Tyler encouraged Romney to hold a press conference
Yesterday on Breitbart.tv Rick Tyler of Newt Gingrich’s Super Pac told us that all of the 100,000 jobs that Mitt Romney and his surrogates advertise having credited were created in Southeast Asia and Mexico. “Mitt Romney gives a bad name
Anderson Cooper of CNN is now alleging that Rick Santorum is a racist. Cooper wasn’t alone. This week CNN introduced Rick Santorum to his audiences as a racist homophobe. The Washington Post‘s Colby King argued on PBS that Santorum was
Saturday, at the GOP debate, Romney claimed that his company and those Bain & Co. invested in had helped create 100,000 net new jobs. That figure was contradicted by a figure of 10,000 jobs Romney had previously given in his
In his victory speech on Tuesday night, Rick Santorum highlighted his visits to the Granite State, a place he says that he has visited more often than any of the other candidates, excepting Jon Hunstman. In the campaign for New
Is Rick Perry the Tea Party’s last hope in the 2012 election? As he prepares for his Alamo moment in South Carolina, the longest serving governor in Texas history makes the case for limited government. It’s a deliberate play for
We know that Barack Obama and Ron Paul share a foreign policy, but do they also share a strategy for getting to the White House? It would appear so. Ron Paul will be traveling to South Carolina twelve hours after
Anderson Cooper of CNN is now alleging that Rick Santorum is a racist. Cooper wasn’t alone. This week CNN introduced Rick Santorum to his audiences as a racist homophobe. The Washington Post‘s Colby King argued on PBS that Santorum was
South Carolina is emerging as the key battleground in the Republican primary for 2012–and the campaigns are accelerating their ad buys in the state. Since his success in Iowa, Rick Santorum has raised $2 million in two days, $250,000 of
Ron Paul is an old man in a young man’s game. Were he elected to the presidency this year at age 77, he would be the oldest president ever elected. That doesn’t bother his young supporters, many of whom will
Contrary to popular perception, there were no winners in the Iowa caucuses, but many losers. Let’s dispense with the obvious losers first: Michele Bachmann: Hometown girl did not make good. Bachmann made much of her Iowa roots on the campaign
After a disappointing fifth place finish, Perry said he was going back to Texas to “reassess” his campaign. Some have suggested he is all but certain to drop out after having spent some $4 million in Iowa, only to get
Progressives are hoping to rock the vote in the 2012 Iowa caucuses… by voting for Ron Paul. The reliably left-wing Mother Jones recently ran a story asking if Iowa progressives were Ron Paul’s wildcard in the race. The story pointed
Earlier this week I wrote about David Goodner, the head of Occupy Des Moines and a professional activist in Iowa. Here he is on video disrupting Newt Gingrich’s event at the Iowa Capitol. Here he is, in plaid, disrupting Mitt
For college football fans, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA is sacred ground. “The Granddady” of the college football tournament games, it has been played every year since 1902. The accompanying parade, the Rose Parade, predates the game, dating way
Evangelicals are in a civil war in Iowa. If they could unite behind a candidate, they could defeat Mitt Romney and Ron Paul in the Iowa caucuses, but they can’t. Part of the problem is that three candidates are running
In heaping scorn on Mitt Romney’s presidential prospects, George F. Will points to Romney’s poor record at winning votes. He points out that Romney has won 5 out of 22 elections in which he has run, making a batting average
Michael Barone has a thoughtful piece on the Iowa caucus in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. He writes in “As Iowa Goes, So Goes Iowa” that the Iowa caucus often doesn’t decide who wins the primary, let alone the general election.
On October 24, 2011, Michael Osborne, an independent legislative candidate, filed a lawsuit against the Virginia Republican Party alleging unfair ballot treatment. Osborne argued that if independent candidate petitions must be checked, so too must the primary petitions be checked
Four of the six leading Republican candidates were given lumps of electoral coal this Christmas season when they failed to gather the signatures necessary to qualify for the Virginia Republican primary held on March 6. This leaves only Governor Mitt
Rep. Ron Paul, the presumptive frontrunner of the Iowa caucuses, has come under fire again for racist material that appeared in a series of newsletters, written he says by someone else and published under his name nearly two decades ago.
Ron Paul is the presumptive frontrunner of the Iowa caucus, but this comes with its share of caveats, oftentimes lost in the news cycle. First, the implications of a Paul victory are muted in a state where, at most, only
Barney Frank, architect of the housing crisis, has a breathless piece in Politico arguing that Republicans ought to embrace Reagan and learn to apologize for America’s misdeeds. Curiously, though, Frank has never apologized for his own, political and personal. As
As so often happens in California, the worst of consequences comes from the best of intentions. “We need a system where voters choose the politicians, not where politicians choose the voters,” Governor Schwarzenegger proclaimed and so, with much fanfare, Californians