
On Tuesday sources close to Det Bowers, a well known Christian pastor, reported that he has raised $417,000 in the two months since he joined the race to defeat incumbent Senator Lindsay Graham in South Carolina’s Republican U.S. Senate primary this
by Michael Patrick Leahy9 Apr 2014, 7:44 AM PST0

Another Tea Party versus Republican establishment battle is brewing in this June’s Oklahoma Republican U.S. Senate primary, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has come out on the other side of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. On Monday, Huckabee endorsed
by Michael Patrick Leahy9 Apr 2014, 6:46 AM PST0

Senator Al Franken (D-MN) is having a bit of a freak out out over Sarah Palin’s endorsement on Thursday of state senator Julianne Ortman, the leading candidate to win the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in Minnesota and
by Michael Patrick Leahy7 Apr 2014, 7:07 PM PST0

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky–Speaking at Saturday’s FreePAC Kentucky gathering sponsored by FreedomWorks, talk radio host Glenn Beck said of Matt Bevin, the Tea Party-endorsed challenger to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), “I believe that man was called of God.” Beck’s speech was wildly
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 Apr 2014, 9:09 PM PST0

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky–FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe, one of the featured speakers at the organization’s FreePAC Kentucky event in Louisville Saturday, told Breitbart News that the estimated 2,000 Tea Party activists attending the event will focus on the tools and techniques of community
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 Apr 2014, 7:21 PM PST0

Friday morning, Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) campaign sent out a press release criticizing his GOP primary challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel, for planning to attend a major Tea Party rally this weekend. “This Saturday, Kentucky will focus on the Final
by Michael Patrick Leahy4 Apr 2014, 12:07 PM PST0

The Republican Party of Virginia is picking a top conservative blogger as its executive director. Pat Mullins, Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, announced on Tuesday that Shaun Kenney, the founder of the respected conservative blog Bearing Drift, has
by Michael Patrick Leahy3 Apr 2014, 7:22 AM PST0

Momentum is building around the campaign of Tea Party backed state senator Chris McDaniel in his challenge to incumbent Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the June 3 Mississippi Republican U.S. Senate primary. A recent poll by Tea Party Express show
by Michael Patrick Leahy3 Apr 2014, 7:12 AM PST0

Glenn Beck and FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe are coming to a major Tea Party rally in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s back yard – and McConnell primary challenger Matt Bevin is a featured speaker. The event, dubbed FreePAC Kentucky by host
by Michael Patrick Leahy2 Apr 2014, 9:27 AM PST0

On Tuesday, Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, released his proposed Fiscal Year 2015 budget, which increases spending in 2015 and 2016 but would balance the budget within ten years with planned cuts in out years that are
by Michael Patrick Leahy1 Apr 2014, 9:29 AM PST0

MADISON, Tennessee–Obamacare is too “complicated” to know whether there will be further delays to its implementation, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday. Asked by Breitbart News at a press conference here whether there are any parts of
by Michael Patrick Leahy27 Mar 2014, 2:34 PM PST0

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray and an entourage of CFPB employees, several of whom are veterans of the Obama and Elizabeth Warren campaigns, descended on Nashville, Tennessee, for a payday loan field hearing Tuesday at the Country Music
by Michael Patrick Leahy25 Mar 2014, 4:22 PM PST0

With an eye on 2016, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is stepping up his Super PAC game. The former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations raised over $800,000 in 2013 and is looking to make a
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Mar 2014, 8:44 PM PST0

On Friday, the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund endorsed Matt Bevin, who is challenging Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in this May’s Kentucky Republican primary. Jenny Beth Martin, President of Tea Party Patriots and its Citizen Fund Super PAC, told the Washington Times, “Senator
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Mar 2014, 3:59 PM PST0

On Thursday House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued a subpoena to Environment Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy for documents related to the agency’s unprecedented use of an obscure section of the Clean Water Act to
by Michael Patrick Leahy22 Mar 2014, 2:00 AM PST0

Henry Holt & Company, which will be publishing Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) new autobiography, A Fighting Chance, on April 22 through its Metropolitan imprint, made no mention of her discredited claims of Native American heritage in the description of the
by Michael Patrick Leahy20 Mar 2014, 6:43 PM PST0

Doug Truax, an underdog who campaigned on full repeal of Obamacare, narrowly lost the Republican Senate primary in Illinois Tuesday night. With 94 percent of the precincts reporting, state senator Jim Oberweis, a moderate who wants to keep “a few
by Michael Patrick Leahy18 Mar 2014, 8:31 PM PST0

Earlier this month at the Conservative Political Action Conference, David Bossie, the president of Citizens United and a veteran congressional investigator during the Clinton years, did not mince words. “The conservative movement,” he said, “is always under attack from the
by Michael Patrick Leahy18 Mar 2014, 8:09 PM PST0

A long-shot challenger in the Illinois GOP senate primary has based his candidacy against a moderate Republican almost entirely on Obamacare repeal, and the results in Tuesday’s election could speak to voter intensity on the subject. Political newcomer Doug Truax
by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Mar 2014, 5:03 PM PST0

At a news conference on Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron Machen presented compelling evidence against a “senior advisor” to a 2008 presidential campaign as the originator of a $600,000 scheme of illegal campaign donations in which two
by Michael Patrick Leahy14 Mar 2014, 11:10 AM PST0

On Thursday, Newport, Kentucky Mayor Jerry Peluso endorsed Matt Bevin, who is challenging incumbent Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in May’s Kentucky Republican Senate primary. In a statement, Peluso cited Matt Bevin’s small business background as a main factor for his endorsement. “As someone
by Michael Patrick Leahy14 Mar 2014, 8:25 AM PST0

Jeffrey Thompson, a major Democratic donor who became wealthy by providing corporate services to the government of the District of Columbia, pled guilty on Monday in federal court to two felony charges of making illegal campaign contributions to local and
by Michael Patrick Leahy12 Mar 2014, 10:34 AM PST0

In an interview with local television station WUSA on Monday, Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray denied that he knew anything about more than $566,000 in illegal donations made to his 2010 campaign by D.C. businessman Jeffrey Thompson. Earlier on Monday,
by Michael Patrick Leahy12 Mar 2014, 8:10 AM PST0

Vladislav Miftakhov, the eighteen-year-old Russian national arrested on January 24 for making bombs in Pennsylvania, is being represented by a public defender despite the wealth of his parents. Christopher P. Brown, a staff attorney with the Federal Public Defenders Office
by Michael Patrick Leahy11 Mar 2014, 4:05 AM PST0

Former Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), now president of the Heritage Foundation, told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday that “we the people remember that the solution to America’s problems will not come from Washington but the little platoons all
by Michael Patrick Leahy8 Mar 2014, 11:39 AM PST0