Dan Riehl

The L.A. Times calls Fwd.us founder Joe Green Mark Zuckerberg’s political wingman.  Tonight Zuckerberg’s “wingman” fired off a shot in an on going debate, or is it a debate Mark Zuckerbeg appears too afraid to engage. The back and forth began when

When asked by ABC’s Dan Harris if he’d consider a run for the Oval Office, former president and CEO of Ford Motors Alan Mulally didn’t make a point of saying he would not one day seek the highest elected office in the

New Mexico Senate candidate Allen Weh was the first candidate this cycle to feature radical Islamic terrorist group ISIS in a campaign spot back in August. Now others, including prominent Republicans, are following his lead as what many view as Obama’s

Citing ongoing legal battles with his ex-wife, South Carolina GOP Rep Mark Sanford announced the end of his engagement to Argentine fiancee, Maria Belen Chapur. In a rambling, nearly 2,400-word post on his Facebook page, Sanford blamed a custody battle between him

Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu is out with a new ad touting her alleged hard line on immigration, said hard line being a fence. She’s claiming her Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy is soft on immigration. Unfortunately, Landrieu called a border

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner put out an endorsement announcement that included Appomattox County Sheriff Barry Letterman and Nelson County Sheriff David Brooks. The problem is, neither are endorsing Warner and they aren’t exactly being quiet about it, now – especially Brooks.

The rise of ISIS and the 13th anniversary of 9/11 are heightening security concerns in Washington, especially for tomorrow, the anniversary itself. Some Senate staff were told to keep their car keys and wallets on their person at all times

Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) has been attacking his republican opponent, claiming he has weak ties to Alaska given that he resided in the DC area while working for former president George Bush. Those attacks may be brought into question now

According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the growing unpopularity of Barack Obama and concern for the nation’s future are crushing any hope Democrats may have had to hold onto the Senate in November’s midterm elections. The poll

Citing “numerous complaints about voter applications” submitted by the Democrat-aligned New Georgia Project, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp “is investigating allegations of forged voter registration applications and demanding records from a voter registration group with ties to one of the state’s

Don’t blame us, the headline is right out of Bloomberg News: “Democrats See South as No Country for White Men in Senate.” Talk about your southern strategy … Bloomberg explains why we are seeing mostly female Democrat candidates in the

With Barack Obama now publicly backing away from executive action, or perhaps an amnesty for illegal immigrants until after November, anyone watching the mid-term elections closely has to admit that the border crisis and the amnesty issue is now a

When not sitting behind closed door at a big dollar Democrat fundraiser, First Lady Michelle Obama told Georgia Democrats – and school children – it was time to “step up” during her recent visit to the state. It was unclear

What with the on going rise in Islamic extremism, including ISIS and as new information conties to break regarding past events in Benghazi, the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has decided to take up something extremely important to fulfill a

Many in media seem to have spent the first week of September trying to tamp down talk of a big GOP wave in November. Not Stu Rothenberg of Roll Call, who has been watching Washington politics forever. While the current

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Janice Leahy, the primary source for what clearly amounts to a Time hit piece on Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown, claims she was “duped” and “taken advantage of” by Time journalist Jay Newton-Small. Leahy

In New Hampshire, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig’s Mayday PAC has endorsed Scott Brown’s Republican primary challenger and recently sent out a mailer calling Scott Brown a “Washington lobbyist,” prompting an angry response from the Brown campaign — calling it a “flat-out lie.” “This

A new NBC News/Marist poll has Republican Tom Cotton leading incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Pryor by five in Arkansas, while Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has taken an eight point lead over his Democrat challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes. Meanwhile, “in

In 2008, when then candidate Barack Obama was caught up in a plagiarism scandal for using the words of Deval Patrick, his opponent Hillary Clinton’s chief criticism of him at the  time was that he was “just words.” His critics,

Democrat Jesse T. Smith is running for Congress in Alabama. On Monday Smith Tweeted: “The greatest country on earth is being bullied from within. Actions of Republicans in Congress are worse than #ISIL,” ISIL is the Obama administration’s preferred name for

The AP may not have trumpeted the political ramifications of Obama delaying executive action on immigration until after the mid-terms, but they were unable to completely ignore it, leading to these two incomprehensible, if not incoherent paragraphs within the AP