Well, that didn’t take long. Although, to be fair, the Huffington Post turning so quickly on a military man isn’t exactly a shock. At this point, one has to wonder when the calls will begin for Walsh to withdraw. Via
An earlier New York Times item detailing a significant case of plagiarism by Senator John Walsh of Montana specifically claimed Walsh had not sought treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after his service in Iraq. The aide said Mr. Walsh,
The New York Times reports that Montana U.S. senator, Democrat John Walsh, “plagiarized large portions of his final paper submitted for his 2007 master’s degree at the U.S. Army War College…..” Walsh’s military credentials were heralded as a large part of his
As American veterans were languishing on wait lists unable to get critical health care they deserved and needed, Iowa Democrat and Senate candidate Rep. Bruce Braley appears to have spent two years mostly ducking his responsibilities on the Veterans Affairs Committee
If South Dakota Democrat and U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland has any answers when it comes to illegal immigration, including the current crisis at the border, you wouldn’t know it based upon his recent town hall performance. In regards to
Democrats may talk about change but that seems dubious given that the names at the top of their Georgia ticket harken back to the politics of decades ago. State legislator and grandson of the notoriously failed President Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter, is
While Republicans are reluctant to speculate about the possibility of a Mitch McConnell loss to Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky this November, when asked if his number two, Texas Republican John Cornyn, was a lock for Leader if he does lose,
Senator Al Franken has declined a Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) invite to debate both his Republican and Independence Party opponents at the Minnesota State Fair. The debates had enjoyed a 20 year MRP tradition. Franken’s campaign gave no explanation. Perhaps this
A new Ronald Kessler book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of Presidents,” due out Aug. 5 from Crown Forum depicts a Hillary Clinton who is less than warm to her Secret Service detail, as
Estela Martinez, 54, of Dallas has been sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison “for making false statements during her multiple bankruptcy filings,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Martinez is one of several people to be charged
Brooks County is too far from the border to receive federal funds for illegal immigrants, but from the discovery of mass graves, illegals, including children, who roam aimlessly sometimes until dead from the heat and exhaustion, the current immigration crisis
With the administration’s lax immigration policy encouraging more and more illegal child immigrants to enter the US, criminals have seized upon the opportunity to exploit money, “from $300 to several thousand dollars”in some cases, from their families. The families are being
As The Hill points out, Democratic Sen. Mark Udall (Colo.) has been forced to take a side in Colorado’s fight over fracking, putting him at odds with his own state party. Between Obama’s numbers being underwater, Democrats being viewed as anti-Fracking
Reading this Politico item on Obama’s botched handling of immigration policy, one would think Democrats are all for embracing scores of illegal immigrant children now in the U.S. for an indeterminate period of time. Obama’s foes on border crisis: Democrats
On Friday, the United States Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to make retroactive an April decision to reduce the penalties for most drug crimes, meaning it will now “apply to nearly 50,000 federal inmates who are serving time under the old rules.”
As Steve Barnes writing in The Baxter Bulletin points out as regards Senator Mark Pryor’s previous efforts, “In all their son’s campaigns heretofore the Pryors maintained a fairly low public profile even as they burned the phone lines in Mark’s
The Cook Political Report has moved the Iowa Senate race pitting Republican Joni Ernst against liberal Democrat Bruce Braley to the Toss Up category. With Tom Harkin retiring, Republicans appear to be united behind a surging Ernst, while Braley has
Along with citing a list of moderate GOP governors with last names like Bush and Christie as potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates, “Arizona Sen. John McCain said Thursday that he believes Republicans can defeat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
When asked his opinion of the ongoing crisis involving illegal immigrant children, NJ Governor and potential 2016 GOP presidential contender Chris Christie said, “I have great empathy for that situation. We’ll take every request that comes based on its merits and
“Any way you slice the numbers, you end up with a close race. This is one that bears watching as the campaign unfolds,” said Lee Miringoff of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, referring to a Marist poll in Iowa’s
Despite what’s being acknowledged as a humanitarian crisis, Democrats in Congress are vowing to derail any potential fix, even though it was the Democrat-in-chief in the White House who opened the door to that very thing. Democrats in the House
The International Raelian Movement, a group that “tries annually to remind people that before Adolf Hitler’s rise, the swastika was an ancient symbol of well-being to Hindus and Buddhists” The group also believes that “human beings were created by extraterrestrials.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appeared on CNN on Sunday and labeled his fellow Republican Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) an “isolationist. He is “part of a wing of the party that has been there prior to World War I, that is a
The conventional wisdom headed into the November mid-terms was set, illegal immigration was going to divide the GOP and lift the sagging image of Obama and his fellow Democrats, possibly even giving them a chance in what most concede will
Kent Terry, the brother of slain border patrol agent Brian Terry, isn’t shy about letting his feelings be known regarding political matters. Today he reportedly took to Facebook to point out three Greyhound buses presumably carrying illegal immigrants headed North on
