From The Hill: Polling leading up to the race indicated Obama was dragging down the Democratic candidate. Democratic pollster Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling said that a Turner win would be “largely due to the incredible unpopularity of Barack
From the Associated Press: Consumers spent less on autos, clothing and furniture to leave retail sales unchanged in August. The lack of growth suggests households became more cautious during wild stock market fluctuations and increased fears about the economy. The
Obama may be in the house for now, but if this were to keep up, he and his party won’t remain in the White House, or a House of Congress for too long: It sounded improbable on the surface that
Today, in 1901, President William McKinley died from gunshot wounds suffered on September 6th. Vice-Presiden Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as President.
Voters in New York City and Nevada went to the polls today to fill two vacancies in Congress. The polls have closed in New York City: Polls have closed in a New York City special election that will determine a
From National Journal’s Hotline: With less than seven hours to go until the polls close in the contentious NY-09 special election, allegations of dirty tricks between Democrat David Weprin and Republican Bob Turnerare flying. Weprin’s campaign claimed Tuesday afternoon that
Last night, to its credit, CNN showed what can happen if a news organization sets aside its political bias and lets the candidates actually debate. If journalism schools exist in the future, they should build a course around comparing the
From National Journal: As lawmakers continue to joust over how to accelerate growth and unleash job creation, the Census numbers are a timely reminder of how mightily the U.S. economy struggled over the last decade — and particularly over the
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Police say union supporters have directed racial slurs and racist symbols at replacement workers and security personnel outside an American Crystal Sugar plant in North Dakota. Traill County Sheriff Mike Crocker says there have been
From Bloomberg: Solyndra LLC’s workers making solar-power panels in a California factory subsidized by U.S. taxpayers showed “the promise of clean energy isn’t just an article of faith,” President Barack Obama said on a visit to the company in May
From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin’s largest teachers union has a problem. A union problem. This week, National Support Organization, which bills itself as the world’s largest union of union staffers, posted an online notice discouraging its members from seeking work
From the Associated Press: Greece is relying on rescue loans to remain solvent. But lagging efforts to tame a bloated budget deficit and enforce reforms are threatening that lifeline, which is conditional on fiscal progress. Athens is trying to convince
The fireworks finally started to go off in last night’s GOP debate and, yes, Perry was the man in the cross-fire. There was plenty of give and take, if you want to let people know what you think, feel free
Today, voters in New York City and Nevada go to the polls to fill two vacancies in Congress. It is expected that the GOP will win both seats. Did we mention one of the special elections is in midnight-blue New
Tonight, at 8pm EDT, the GOP candidates for President will meet in a debate sponsored by CNN and Tea Party Express. Check back throughout the night for feedback from Breitbart-opolis. Andrew Breitbart: Whatever Wolf Blitzer took to make it tolerable
Today, the Obama Administration sent legislation to Congress, detailing its latest plan to spur job creation. It relies on half-a-trillion dollars in new spending with an almost equivalent amount of tax increases. Very little of the proposed spending would actually
From The Los Angeles Times: In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard’s Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell
From KTVI in St. Louis: A witness on board a flight from St. Louis to Dulles Airport in Washington says two men who were originally thought to be behaving oddly on a plane at Lambert Airport Sunday night were indeed
From The Hill: Former Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, who dropped out of the race last month, endorsed Mitt Romney for president, in an appearance on “Fox and Friends” this morning. “The next president is going to have to lead
From AFP: A small group of Islamist demonstrators staged a protest outside the US embassy in London Sunday during a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Around 50 people brandished anti-US banners,
Another poll has the Republican up over the Democrat by 6 in the race to fill Anthony Weiner’s former seat. As upsets go, to invoke V.P. Joe Biden, this would be a big f***ing deal. Stay tuned. A newly released
Today, the Obama Administration is expected to finally get around to sending their latest “jobs plan” to Congress. The speech outlining the plan was delivered Thursday. These things take time.
Alert readers have reported that their flight, United Airlines 3681, from St. Louis to Washington Dulles had to make an emergency return to the gate as it prepared for take-off. According to local officials, it was found that two men
Infamy.
From Reuters: The Treasury is weighing a proposal to eliminate some, but not all, of the taxes on overseas profits of U.S.-based companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing two people familiar with the deliberations. Eliminating the taxes
From the Associated Press: Take a breather, Iowa and New Hampshire. Florida is about to get into the Republican presidential race big time, starting with a televised debate Monday in Tampa and ending with an early primary in 2012 that
From the Associated Press: Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is struggling to keep his money-losing organization afloat as more and more people are ditching mail in favor of the Internet, causing the lucrative first-class mail flow to plummet. Donahoe has a
Today, two years ago, BigGovernment was launched. What a wild, strange trip its been. Cannot possibly thank you all enough. Much more to come this year. Cheers.
From the Associated Press: Union activists aren’t backing off demands to work at a new Washington state grain terminal after hundreds of Longshore workers stormed the facility, overwhelmed guards and dumped grain. U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton issued a preliminary
Michael Barone in The Examiner: Barack Obama looked and sounded angry in his speech to the joint session of Congress. He bitterly assailed one straw man after another and made reference to a grab bag of proposals which would cost
Yeah, it isn’t working.
For the past several weeks, as the economic situation has deteriorated, the Obama Administration has shouted that they “get it,” they would have a plan, finally. Obama had two years with complete Democrat control of government and didn’t do anything
Okay, this is probably what you most want to talk about tonight. The NFL season kicks off Green Bay v. New Orleans. (If you want to talk about “The Speech”, it’s right below this post.)
Tonight, after weeks of teasing, President Obama is set to announce his plan to turn around the economy. Yes, he had two years with a Democrat Congress to do it…but he apparently really means it this time. Of course, he
From Politico: Just hours before President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on his jobs plan, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is demanding the nation’s first African-American president prove he cares as much about unemployed blacks as he does
From the Associated Press: A federal appeals court in Virginia dismissed two lawsuits Thursday that had challenged the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in both
From NBC Bay Area News: FBI agents armed with search warrants descended this morning on bankrupt solar company Solynrda this morning. The investigation comes after a request by the Department of Energy’s inspector general, FBI spokesman Peter Lee told NBC
From the Associated Press: Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. Six
The Obama Presidency by the numbers. (Hint: It ain’t pretty.) Here’s a link to more than enough debate coverage, rather than pick winners and losers here, read some of what’s being said and discuss in comments of you’d like. If
From the Associated Press: Stocks edged lower in early trading Thursday after the government reported that claims for unemployment rose last week, a sign that layoffs are increasing. First-time applications for unemployment benefits rose last week to 414,000. Economists had