Charles C. Johnson

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

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

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

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