Democrats’ attempt to portray Paul Ryan as an extremist who would “end Medicare as we know it” hasn’t been going very well, largely because the Medicare plan he proposed isn’t really that extreme by historical standards. In fact, the shrill
Jails in Mecklenburg, North Carolina plan to boost staffing in advance of the Democratic National Convention which takes place in Charlotte, NC at the beginning of next month. Officials plan to increase staff by about 30 percent to handle the
The race to define Paul Ryan is on. Democrats greeted his selection with the predictable claim that he was an extremist who wanted to end “Medicare as we know it.” That characterization hit a wall Monday morning when Morgen Richmond,
Debbie Wasserman-Shultz appeared on Fox News Sunday with guest host John Roberts over the weekend. During the interview, Roberts asked her about the now infamous Priorities USA ad which dishonestly implies Mitt Romney is responsible for a woman’s death from
You haven’t seen “no-drama” Obama get upset very often in the last four years, but when he does, it’s pretty distinctive. His eyes narrow and fix on an individual. His hand goes to his chin and he becomes very, very
You haven’t seen “no-drama” Obama get upset very often in the last four years, but when he does, it’s pretty distinctive. His eyes narrow and fix on an individual. His hand goes to his chin and he becomes very, very
A budget discussion this February between Paul Ryan and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner exemplifies the difference between the approach of the two parties heading into this election. Ryan confronts Geithner with a chart from his own budget which shows unfunded
**UPDATED** The Obama political machine’s race to the bottom has dived deepbeneath the muck of Harry Reid’s lies about Romney’s taxes and finally hit bedrock. Today Priorities USA released a new ad that will surely rank among the ugliest and
Since Harry Reid claimed that an anonymous source told him Romney didn’t pay any taxes for ten years, he’s taken a lot of flack. At first it was only from the right, but increasingly the left is now calling Reid
The remnants of Occupy Oakland have been staging a weekly “FTP” march to protest police brutality. This Friday the march also took up a new cause, the ability of vendors to get permits for a monthly street fair called “Art
Bill Clinton’s parsing of the word is during a deposition on the Lewinsky scandal arguably became the low point in his presidency. A report on the Solyndra debacle issued Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce committee reveals a similar
The FBI coordinated raids of houses in several northwest cities including Seattle and Portland have sparked a response by activists sympathetic to the black bloc targets of the raid. Vandals took credit for attacking an Oakland PD substation and also
Senator Patrick Leahy had no comment about a new House GOP report that shows member of the White House staff conducting official business with private email accounts in order to sidestep the law. Neither did the Citizens for Responsibility and
A report issued Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce committee documents the extent to which political concerns trumped due diligence in the Solyndra loan approval. The report shows that the initial announcement of the DOE loan guarantee to the
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a reportTuesday which details some of the ways in which the Obama White Househas side-stepped its promise to be transparent in the way it conductsbusiness. This means it’s a good time to
When White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer put up a “factcheck” on the official White House blog last week he was pulling nopunches. He pushed back on the “patently false” claim that “PresidentObama removed the bust of Winston Churchill from
The FBI has performed multiple raidsof homes belonging to suspected anarchists in Portland, Oregon and in Olympia and Seattle, Washington. Five grand jury subpoenas have beenissued in connection with the searches. Photos from a raid carried out in Portland show
Pat Quinn is the Democratic Governor of Illinois. His state currentlyhas $83 billion in unfunded pension liabilities and no plan for dealingwith them. Monday, Gov. Quinn called for a special legislative sessionto address pensions, saying, “This is a crying need of
The Obama administration quietly released a new budget report Fridayafternoon at a time calculated to make sure it received minimalattention. The highlights of the new report are a pair of new estimates,the first of this year’s deficit and the second
Protests against the Anaheim police department continued Sunday with as many as 350 people marching and chanting outside police headquarters. The protests are in response to two officer-involved shootings which took place last weekend. Video of the scene outside police
One of President Obama’s supposed strengths heading into this year’selection is his decision to bail out automakers, in particular GeneralMotors. GM made record profits in 2011, though that success has slumped a bit in 2012. A story published Friday in
Jonathan Chait has a piece at New York magazine proposing a novel newinsight on why Obama’s “you didn’t build that” gaffe is hurting thePresident. The “real reason“according to Chait is that Obama was speaking in “black dialect.” Inother words, the
During Thursday’s regular press briefing White House Spokesman JayCarney was asked by ABC’s White House correspondent Jake Tapper aboutthe unattributed “Anglo-Saxon” comments which drew a negative responsefrom Vice President Biden. Carney referred that question to the campaignthen offered his positive
CBS News published an article on its website Wednesday afternoon with the misleading headline “Romney claims many Aurora weapons were illegal.”This makes it sound as if Romney is keeping up with the news, since theguns used by shooter James Holmes
