On Friday, Republican Virginia Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling did not rule out the possibility of waging a write-in campaign for governor against Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli. Bolling withdrew from the governor’s race last year when he realized
Hillary Clinton did not know that Huma Abedin, her longtime top aide whom she has called a “second daughter,” was going to stand by disgraced former Rep. and New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and speak during a press
On Friday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blasted President Barack Obama for calling his administration’s scandals “phony,” saying that was an “atrocious” thing to do. Appearing on Fox News’s On The Record, Palin referred to scandals like Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the
Brandon Harker, a veteran of the War in Afghanistan living in Washington, returned home this week after an eight-month deployment and discovered the friend with whom he had entrusted the care of his Labrador retriever, had sold the two-year-old purebred
The federal government plans to investigate an Arizona high school over a “Redneck Day” celebration two months ago that was inspired by the popular Duck Dynasty television show on A&E. According to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil
Just as they did with the sequester, Democrats will try to blame Republicans for a potential government shutdown or cuts to the budget that may occur as part of a new debt deal this fall. Politico reported that, “President Barack
Appearing on Fox News’s On The Record on Friday evening, former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin contrasted herself with Republican strategist Karl Rove by holding up a “redneck version of a whiteboard” with a list of Obama
A Republican Congressman introduced legislation Thursday that would ban the federal government from taking raisins from farmers without compensation. The government is allowed to do this because of a depression-era law coupled with a Marketing Order enacted during the Truman
On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blistered the mainstream media for favoring Republicans who are docile and trained to parrot policy positions Democrats prefer. “There are a lot of Democrats and folks in the media who like their Republicans timid
Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took on Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) libertarian foreign policy directly, calling it a “very dangerous thought” in a post-9/11 world. Christie made his remarks at the Aspen Institute in Colorado on Thursday and said he has not
A Republican in California won a state Senate seat on Wednesday in a District in which Democrats have a 22-point advantage and that is 60% Hispanic. Andy Vidak, the Republican farmer, won the special election runoff for the 16th District
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) believes that Huma Abedin, the Hillary Clinton confidante and wife of New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, and the State Department are stonewalling his investigation of the undisclosed consulting work Abedin did while on the
Only 19% of blacks and 54% of Americans believe Americans are judged by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin, according to a national survey that was released on Wednesday. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll asked
On Thursday, a Hispanic New York City mayoral candidate demanded that former Rep. and fellow candidate Anthony Weiner apologize for using the alias “Carlos Danger” to continue his sexting escapades after he resigned from Congress in 2011. Rev. Erick Salgado,
An illegal immigrant teenager in Omaha, Nebraska reportedly raped and murdered a 93-year-old woman on Sunday. Sergio Martinez-Perez, the 19-year-old alleged perpetrator, will be arraigned on murder charges in a Nebraska courtroom on Friday. According to investigators, Martinez-Perez “is not a legal
Hispanics see race relations more favorably than whites or blacks, according to a national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Among Hispanics, 60% thought race relations were either “very good” or “fairly good.” Among whites, 53% thought race relations were “very good” or
A national survey has found that 52% of Americans believe race relations in the country are “very good” or “fairly good,” down from more than 70% from 2009-2011. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday, just 4% of
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has scheduled a Congressional hearing on July 30 to discuss “race and justice” issues in the context of the George Zimmerman trial. The hearing, otherwise known as “A Conversation on Race and Justice, will reportedly
After pressure from Washington lobbyists who seek to game the tax code on behalf of their clients, senators have been reportedly promised 50 years of secrecy on the deductions and credits they they will recommend be preserved when the Senate
Democrats, especially female members, piled on Republicans like Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), Mitt Romney, and Rush Limbaugh in 2012, accusing them of insensitivity and waging a so-called war on women. But as even the left-leaning BuzzFeed has observed, female Democrats
The president of the National Council of La Raza said on Tuesday that a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants is a “threshold” issue for Hispanic voters. Janet Murguía made her remarks while addressing La Raza’s annual convention in New
On Tuesday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), one of the drafters of the immigration bill in the House, said supporters of comprehensive immigration reform have found enough Republicans needed to pass the legislation. “We found the 50 Republicans needed to pass
A new national poll has found that an all-time high of 57% of Americans would vote to throw out every member of Congress if given the option in the 2014 elections. According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released
A new national poll has found that support for President Barack Obama among blacks has dropped considerably over the past four months, which has contributed to Obama’s sagging approval numbers. Furthermore, the lack of support among blacks for Obama may
Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) is crushing challenger Liz Cheney, 54 percent to 26 percent, in a statewide poll that was released on July 23. According to the Public Policy Polling (PPP) poll, only 31 percent of respondents considered the daughter
