The President of Ukraine is taking time off to nurse a cold. Viktor Yanukovych, one of the more prominent leaders of Eastern Europe but presiding over an increasingly volatile nation, announced on the presidential website this week that he has
LA Times writer Paul Thornton has been following the many scandals surrounding Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis: her lies about her personal life, her lack of identifiable political ideology, the attacks on her opponent Greg Abbott. Yet to Thornton, it isn’t
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may stand accused of using Sandy money as both carrot and stick in his political battles, but that’s not stopping him from asking the federal government for more help. The Star-Ledger reported Wednesday that Christie sent
President Obama promised that the Affordable Care Act would be just that: affordable and provide health care. In the past few months, neither has proven true, as millions of Americans have been dropped from their policies or can’t afford their
A Pennsylvania couple lied about their address in order to send their daughter to kindergarten in a wealthier district. They were not the only parents committing such an act, but both the only minority parents and the only ones criminally
President Obama would have been remiss to not mention that his signature legislation at the State of the Union address last night. He did so with unwarranted aplomb, repeating the falsehood that Obamacare has insured nine million people–a number embellished
President Obama waded lightly through every major issue on Americans’ minds in his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, from war to jobs to salaries in those jobs. But the line of the night–a call to abandon “workplace policies
An extensive report in The New York Times Wednesday detailed the sophisticated way Chris Christie’s campaign manager Bill Stepien – expelled from New Jersey’s GOP leadership this month for his role in the Fort Lee bridge scandal – kept dossiers on the “Top
“Greg Abbott and his folks have picked a fight with the wrong Texas gal if they think that I will shrink from working to fight for a just and right future for all Texans,” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis told
Hometown newspapers are turning on Wendy Davis. After the Dallas Morning News revealed a number of discrepancies in her biography, a column in the Waco Tribune warns that electing Davis would send an administration full of her campaign staff, who
Wendy Davis is going on the offensive, putting some distance between her biographical lies and her campaign by bringing out her family. Daughters Dru and Amber published letters this week asserting that Davis did not abandon them, that she was
Port Authority Chairman David Samson is currently one of twenty facing subpoenas from the New Jersey legislature over the closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge to Fort Lee. He is also being probed, the Bergen Record reports, for
With the Super Bowl teams descending on New Jersey this week, embattled Governor Chris Christie took a night off from his many scandals to attend festivities with Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City while keeping the state rivalry
The scandal known as BridgeGate continues to wreak havoc on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s public image. A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll reveals that opinion of Christie has reached new levels of negativity with Democrats and moderates, and more and more Americans think he
According to Federal Election Commission records, Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis–the feminist icon who exploded onto the national political scene with a pro-abortion filibuster in June–donated to Republican George W. Bush days before becoming a public official. The records list
The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper, is calling on Governor Chris Christie to step down from his position as the head of the Republican Governors Association. The editorial board chastised Christie for what they perceived as a “great” move for
Last week, the Wendy Davis campaign surprised Texas with an abrupt pivot in conversation. Under a firestorm of criticism for the many falsehoods touted in her biography, a candidate known only for amorphous “feminism” and support of abortion started talking
Walgreens’ and Walmart’s pharmacies announced this month that they will help with the botched Obamacare rollout by providing free prescriptions to customers whose insurance coverage is pending. The move, while well-intentioned, only helps those possessing a prescription, leaving anyone still
A lawyer who deposed Hoboken, New Jersey, Mayor Dawn Zimmer told a local news outlet this week that the mayor told attorneys under oath that she did not keep a diary. Zimmer, who is accusing Governor Chris Christie of sending
The Wendy Davis campaign continues to frantically attempt to distract the conversation from the elaborate fraud that is her public persona to the fact that those mean conservatives keep attacking her. In an email to supporters, Davis’s campaign manager called
One of the last things Michael Bloomberg did as Mayor of New York on New Year’s Eve was award a $10 million contract to the now-notorious Canadian firm responsible for designing HealthCare.gov. The firm was commissioned to overhaul New York
Democrats have given up arguing that Wendy Davis is being honest about her history and are now simply demanding we all accept her narrative and her lies simultaneously. In a column suggesting Davis is being “swift-boated” for fabricating parts of her
As the latest recipient of a subpoena from the New Jersey Legislature’s committee investigating last September’s closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge, the Christie for Governor campaign has hired an attorney famous for representing Lance Armstrong and Karl
The Department of Justice is launching an investigation to determine whether New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez helped a duo of fugitive Ecuadorian bankers remain in the United States in exchange for campaign funds, according to a special report by NBC
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may have the support of RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and the Republican establishment, but House Speaker John Boehner isn’t hitching his wagon to Christie, telling Jay Leno last night that he doesn’t see BridgeGate “going away
