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Obama doesn't attend own fundraiser for little Hollywood

Obama doesn't attend own fundraiser for little Hollywood

Talk about being second tier. Barack Obama didn’t even bother to show up at a young Hollywood fundraiser on Friday, an event viewed “as much a test of enthusiasm for his reelection as it is to raise badly needed campaign funds.”

Democrat Campaign Chair to Candidates: Avoid the Convention

Democrat Campaign Chair to Candidates: Avoid the Convention

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Steve Israel’s message is clear to an increasing number of Democrat candidates who want to win in November: stay away from the Democrat’s national convention. Joe Manchin, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Rep. Nick Rahall

White House Joins Iran In Hailing Morsi Win In Egypt

White House Joins Iran In Hailing Morsi Win In Egypt

Both Iran and the White House hailed the victory of Egypt’s president-elect Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood this weekend. For it’s part, the White House believes it represents a “milestone in (Egypt’s) transition to democracy,” while Iran views it as a “revolutionary

Ninth Circuit Defiant in Response to Senate Questions

Ninth Circuit Defiant in Response to Senate Questions

Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski offered up a largely empty defense of the 9th Circuit’s plans for a plush million dollar “Maui Wowie” conference, in response to questions from Senators Sessions and Grassley. Much of the Circuits conference will

Prosecutorial Overreach In ATM Gambling Case?

Prosecutorial Overreach In ATM Gambling Case?

Due to a glitch in data hand-off when Bank of America acquired LaSalle Bank, a Detroit man was able to take overdrafts totalling $1.5 million before Bank of America caught the problem just 17 days later. Worse, the man, Ronald Page,

Pentagon Soft-Pedals Report On China

Pentagon Soft-Pedals Report On China

The Pentagon’s 2012 annual report on China’s military is geared more toward diplomacy than intelligence or threat assessment. The report is half the expected size and omits key elements required for an accurate assessment of Beijing’s alarming military buildup. Included is

Lungs Found on LA Sidewalk Not Human

Lungs Found on LA Sidewalk Not Human

Lungs found on a Compton sidewalk this weekend have been determined to not be those of a human, according to coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. The are thought to be of animal origin, though nothing in the article rules out zombie

Another Obama Boom-let Threatens To Go Bust

Another Obama Boom-let Threatens To Go Bust

As another potential tax payer-funded Obama debacle, battery-maker A123, threatens to go bust, suddenly the company has come up with “a new technology” to save it. Now, new sorely needed private investors are supposed to simply forget that A123’s core

Herman Cain Inaugurated To Replace "Talkmaster" Boortz

Herman Cain may not have made it to Washington as President, but he will have an inauguration of sorts come January, “Herman Cain will return to radio full-time on Inauguration Day of 2013, replacing longtime conservative talk-radio host Neil Boortz.”

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's Gambling Problem

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's Gambling Problem

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s move to legalize gambling in New York State may give rise to more stories like this one in the New York Times, “Gambling Group Gave $2 Million to a Cuomo Ally“; however, it’s a complicated

Connecticut: $300,000 To Renovate Communist Party HQ

Connecticut: $300,000 To Renovate Communist Party HQ

The state debt clock for Connecticut indicates that 10% of the state’s population currently receives food stamps. Broken down by citizen, every state resident is approximately $11,000 in debt due to government spending. Given the state’s unemployment numbers — approximately

Forty Percent Now Say Trayvon Martin Shot in Self-Defense

Forty Percent Now Say Trayvon Martin Shot in Self-Defense

The tables are turning in George Zimmerman’s favor, according to new survey results released yesterday from Rasmussen Reports. As evidence continues to emerge from the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, Americans are becoming more convinced that his killer

Pelosi: Forcing Military Chaplains To Perform Gay Marriages

Pelosi: Forcing Military Chaplains To Perform Gay Marriages

The stage is being set so that military Chaplains can and most likely will be ordered to perform same sex marriage in contradiction to their religious beliefs.  WASHINGTON, May 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrat House leaders including Nancy Pelosi have

From Education to Indoctrination at U.C.

From Education to Indoctrination at U.C.

A National Association of Scholars’ report for the regents of the University of California points out that, not only has the leftist tilt in their faculty continued to grow over the years; it’s become more extreme in nature to the point where it’s impossible

Was Jill Biden's Charity Run Out of Joe Biden's Senate Office?

Was Jill Biden's Charity Run Out of Joe Biden's Senate Office?

According to the Web of Deception website, it seems that a former assistant to then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Tonya Baker Garvin, who went on to work for Biden’s successor, now works for Dr. Jill Biden’s charity, the Biden Breast Health Initiative–and used the

NYT Revives 'Zimmerman Is Racist' Meme with Unverifiable Anecdote

NYT Revives 'Zimmerman Is Racist' Meme with Unverifiable Anecdote

In an otherwise unremarkable and inconclusive New York Times report on the latest released findings in the Trayvon Martin shooting incident, the liberal rag decides to drop an unverified, practically un-sourced bomb on George Zimmerman. When police officers arrived on the

Anti-ALEC Effort: All Hat And No Cattle

Anti-ALEC Effort: All Hat And No Cattle

As usual, when it comes to the left, you can get more people in a room to tell others what to do and how to do it than you can find on the street doing anything. That’s not to dismiss

A Day of Contrasts in Zimmerman Case

A Day of Contrasts in Zimmerman Case

It was a day of puzzling contrasts in the case of George Zimmerman, whose attorney is just beginning to receive the evidence prosecutors intend to use against his client for shooting and killing Trayvon Martin. Some of that evidence reveals