
An unexpected new player has entered the advertising wars in advance of tomorrow’s North Carolina Republican U.S. Senate primary. The campaign of incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), who voted for Obamacare and continues to support it, has paid for
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 May 2014, 10:14 AM PST0

The Republican Senate primary in Oregon on May 20 is emerging as one of the most interesting races in the country. The seat, currently held by one-term incumbent Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), has suddenly come in play, at least in the
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 May 2014, 9:16 AM PST0

Two hundred fifty left-wing Evangelicals, part of a coalition that calls itself the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), swarmed Capitol Hill last week to lobby an estimated 100 Republican Congressmen in support of amnesty for illegal aliens. A year ago, the same
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 May 2014, 8:57 AM PST0

A group of 32 local Oklahoma Tea Party, 9-12, and liberty movement activists have written an open letter disagreeing with a series of high-profile Tea Party affiliated individuals and groups who have endorsed the candidacy of former Oklahoma Speaker of
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 Apr 2014, 3:17 PM PST0

Bob Dole may have made tens of thousands of dollars for appearing in an erectile dysfunction television ad back in the 90s, but Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) Republican primary challenger, J.D. Winteregg, lost his job. Winteregg lost his adjunct teaching
by Michael Patrick Leahy28 Apr 2014, 2:43 PM PST0

On the second anniversary of the date the Boston Herald broke the story of the controversy surrounding Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) false claims of Native American ancestry, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus challenged Warren to release her Harvard employment
by Michael Patrick Leahy28 Apr 2014, 1:42 PM PST0

Politicians may be known for stretching the truth, but Speaker John Boehner’s claim he’s attended “hundreds of Tea Party events” over the past four years apparently pulled it well past the point of breaking. In reviewing press reports, Breitbart News
by Michael Patrick Leahy25 Apr 2014, 7:46 PM PST0

Citing an explosive undercover video taken at a March 29 cockfighting rally that aired Thursday in a Louisville television station’s investigative report, a spokesperson for Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday called his primary opponent, Matt Bevin, a pathological liar.
by Michael Patrick Leahy25 Apr 2014, 12:24 PM PST0

As Elizabeth Warren tells it in her new book, A Fighting Chance, it all began with a single question from the press about a long-ago forgotten Harvard Crimson story. “It started in April with a question,” she writes. “Sixteen years
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Apr 2014, 5:52 PM PST0

The Tea Party scored another electoral victory in a Republican Congressional primary in Florida on Tuesday. In a special election caused by the resignation of disgraced former Rep Trey Radel (R-FL), Tea Party-backed Curt Clawson, a relatively unknown businessman, won
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Apr 2014, 8:27 AM PST0

In her new autobiography, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reiterates claims that her parents “eloped” despite the existence of a marriage certificate and contemporaneous press accounts of their wedding. Although the subject caused her a major headache during her 2012 campaign
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Apr 2014, 2:20 PM PST0

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) shot a cap-and-trade bill, and an Alabama congressional candidate shot a printed copy of Obamacare, but Matt Rosendale, the Montana GOP congressional candidate, took the meme to a new level when he shot a drone that
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Apr 2014, 10:00 AM PST0

Former Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke, the money-raising front runner in June’s Republican Congressional primary to become Montana’s sole representative in the House of Representatives, says he is better able to provide leadership than the four other candidates who are seeking
by Michael Patrick Leahy21 Apr 2014, 8:00 PM PST0

The May 6 Republican and Democratic primaries in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes parts of Raleigh and several surrounding counties, have a cast of characters fit for a Hollywood soap opera about politics. Incumbent Representative Renee Ellmers (R-NC)
by Michael Patrick Leahy21 Apr 2014, 7:56 AM PST0

Dr. Greg Brannon, the Tea Party-endorsed candidate in North Carolina’s May 6 Republican Senate primary, is emerging as the top challenger to GOP Establishment-backed front runner, Thom Tillis. Tillis, Speaker of the House in the North Carolina House of Representatives,
by Michael Patrick Leahy20 Apr 2014, 9:54 AM PST0

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) writes in her new book, A Fighting Chance, scheduled for release on Tuesday, that “I never asked for special treatment when I applied to college, to law school, or for jobs.” But a mountain of factual
by Michael Patrick Leahy18 Apr 2014, 8:33 AM PST0

Amy Kremer, one of the original Tea Party activists who participated in the February 20, 2009 call that launched the movement and played a key role as scheduler of the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rallies, resigned on
by Michael Patrick Leahy18 Apr 2014, 8:24 AM PST0

by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Apr 2014, 12:44 PM PST0

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) repeats her false claims of Native American ancestry in her new book, A Fighting Chance, which is scheduled for release next Tuesday. “As a kid, I had learned about my Native American background the same way
by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Apr 2014, 8:48 AM PST0

On Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rallies that forced the mainstream media to acknowledge the existence of the Tea Party movement, Tea Party Patriots filed a lawsuit in federal court against the IRS and
by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Apr 2014, 6:46 AM PST0

David Brat, the long-shot challenger to Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, is demanding an investigation into the new executive director of the Virginia Republican party, Shaun Kenney, after it was revealed Kenney’s consulting firm is now
by Michael Patrick Leahy16 Apr 2014, 8:04 AM PST0

Five years after an estimated one million Tea Party activists turned out at more than 900 rallies across the country on April 15, 2009 to participate in the historic national Tax Day Tea Party, there are only a few such
by Michael Patrick Leahy15 Apr 2014, 11:55 AM PST0

The possibility that opponents of Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will coalesce around a single challenger in the June Republican U.S. Senate primary in South Carolina took an interesting turn on Monday when an influential Tea Party leader in the state
by Michael Patrick Leahy15 Apr 2014, 7:52 AM PST0

David Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, is hoping to play the role of David to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s Goliath in this June’s Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. But he’s got his work cut out
by Michael Patrick Leahy13 Apr 2014, 8:32 PM PST0

52 local Tea Party activists from Nebraska have signed a letter objecting to the national organizations who have endorsed Ben Sasse in the Nebraska Republican Senate primary, prompting FreedomWorks to fire back that the letter is a ploy from a
by Michael Patrick Leahy11 Apr 2014, 10:32 AM PST0