Florida Senator and prospective candidate for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination Marco Rubio picked up a key Mitt Romney aide, Jim Merrill, “to oversee his political activities in the Northeast and probably in a New Hampshire campaign.”
Dr. Ben Carson is pushing back against the comical charge that he’s an “extremist.”
As Media Research Center fairly suggests, “the biggest witness against the exaggerated claims of Brian Williams’ Hurricane Katrina fabulism” may be Williams himself.
The Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office is charging Maxwell Morton, 16, as an adult in the shooting death of Ryan Mangan, also 16, after Morton allegedly took a selfie with Mangan’s bloodied body.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey has denied reports that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is under investigation.
New Jersey high school senior Samantha Jones has won a court challenge to keep “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, defeating an effort by the American Humanist Association to remove the language from the pledge.
Vice President Joe Biden is headed to Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday. Reports indicate he’ll deliver a speech at Drake University, followed by “a roundtable at Des Moines Area Community College on college affordability.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) appears to be ramping up his travel schedule leading up to a potential bid to win the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination.
Former Texas Gov. and potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Rick Perry took some heat over a Texas law on vaccination this week. Perry used an interview with the New Hampshire Journal to elaborate on his thinking in that regard.
A former Hunterdon County Assistant Prosecutor, Bennett Barlyn, claims he was fired by the administration of New Jersey Gov Chris Christie for objecting to the dismissal of indictments against certain Christie allies.
Despite years of protests from black and Latino members, analysis indicates House Democrats remain woefully behind the times when it comes to hiring diversity across their well-paid consultant class.
Based upon a search after seeing a Brian Williams quote via Twitter, a September 2007 Media Research item, Brian Williams Derides Petraeus as No Eisenhower, indicates NBC’s Brian Williams used a story now shown to be false as part of his coverage undermining then-U.S. General David Petraeus.
With illegal immigration being a critical issue for the Republican Party’s grassroots conservative base, past remarks made by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are coming back to haunt him in a big way and may even derail any planned campaign.
Reports indicate Sen. Harry Reid has $1.5 million in the bank heading into the 2016 cycle.
Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) told Philadelphia radio host Dom Giordano that the Obama administration “is no longer trying to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon,” according to reports.
Responding to an inquiry, a spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has told The Hill and the UK’s Daily Mail the senator did smoke pot as a teen.
After taking flack over his comments regarding vaccination, Republican Senator Rand Paul managed to fit in a booster shot for Hepatitis A at the Capitol physician’s office.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie canceled three media availabilities during his trip to the U.K. after enduring criticism from a statement he made about vaccination.
“We should pass a homeland security bill with no strings attached to it,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) after returning to the Senate floor for the first time since injuring himself severely while exercising in his bathroom at home.
Reports claim that former Sen. Hillary Clinton decided to base her campaign headquarters in New York City, possibly in Brooklyn.
The race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 appears at risk of becoming a ‘me too’ contest now as even former New York Governor George Pataki (R) claims to be “very interested” in a run. “I may well be running” said Pataki on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) took a swipe at the Obama administration on Fox News on Sunday, saying they should spend “less time being politically correct about how we define our enemies and more time on how to defeat them.”
Can Hillary survive Obama fatigue?
A New York Times piece means to portray ailing Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid as still in command while holed-up in “a well-appointed one-bedroom condominium at the Ritz-Carlton on M Street.”
Calling it “one of the largest burdens the party has carried in decades,” The Hill reports that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is carrying $15 million in operational debt going into the 2016 election cycle, and that doesn’t include the “$5 million loan the organization took out to buy a house adjacent to its headquarters that it has leased for years…”
