Tony Lee

CBS News’s Bob Schieffer, who will moderate Monday’s foreign policy debate, announced last week that China will be one of topics he will have President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney address.  China is a particularly timely topic, given that a

Before the Democratic National Convention, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Democrats would not finance the convention with special-interest money or corporate donations. She went on to say they did not need such money because convention organizers had “exceeded” the

A leading indicator of how well the economy will do points toward more tough times for the job market in President Barack Obama’s economy. When the economy is about to boom, companies start hiring more temporary workers. But in the

Democrats and even polling organizations have assumed enthusiasm for President Barack Obama’s candidacy in Iowa would match 2008’s level, but the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party admits that will not be the case this year.   Sue Dvorsky, chairwoman

A North Carolina Democrat running for state Senate was arrested for trafficking heroin on Thursday.  According to the Raleigh News-Observer, Castalia town commissioner Clarence Bender was arrested during a traffic stop.  Nash County and Drug Enforcement Agency officials had been

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is seizing upon President Barack Obama’s comments about wanting to reintroduce the so-called “assault weapons ban” during last Tuesday’s town hall to mobilize voters in some of the nation’s most important swing states. According to the Star-Telegram, the NRA

First, there was “Big Bird.” Then, there were “binders full of women.” Now, the Obama campaign’s latest cheap campaign tactic against Mitt Romney is: “Romnesia.” While Mitt Romney has been accusing President Barack Obama of not having a record or

California’s unemployment remained above 10% last month — even after the state saw the second-largest drop in its unemployment rate in the nation last month.  According to the California Employment Development Department, only 8,500 jobs were created in September in

Friday’s Rasmusssen Reports poll not only found Mitt Romney with a three-point lead (50%-47%) over Obama in Virginia but also with a two-point lead (49%-47%) among women voters.  Romney hit the critical 50% mark in Virginia, but it is even more significant

President Barack Obama has not been able to run on his record and has not presented a second-term agenda. But now, even his supporters are catching on to Obama’s lack of plans to fix the economy should he get elected. 

President Barack Obama has racked up such a huge debt that Americans have been forced to concede that even Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was right when he warned that America could potentially collapse due to its mounting debt.  Iran’s official

At the 2008 Al Smith Dinner Charity Dinner, President Barack Obama wowed the audience while John McCain looked like a candidate on his way to defeat. Four years later, on Thursday, at the same white-tie charity event in which presidential

At Thursday’s Al Smith Charity Dinner, President Barack Obama seemed like a man preoccupied with sinking poll numbers. He appeared nothing like the candidate Obama who wowed the audience at the same event in 2008. In self-deprecating remarks, Obama revealed

President Obama, regardless of whether he wins reelection, is set on taking the country off the so-called fiscal cliff. He is so intent on raising taxes on those making over $250,000 a year that he is threatening to veto any

President Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to bring about unity and empower blacks to feel more free, but a new Washington University study has found that under Obama, blacks — conservatives and “born again” Christians in particular — feel less

Struggling campaigns get peppered with process questions and have to push back against them, and that is what is happening to President Barack Obama’s campaign.  On Wednesday, Obama press secretary Jen Psaki had to say the campaign was “absolutely not” pulling out of

Mitt Romney went to Virginia on Wednesday for two campaign stops and said President Obama’s campaign may be “running on fumes” amidst reports that the Obama campaign’s internal polls have Obama struggling in key battleground states like Virginia. Obama is

President Barack Obama falsely criticized Mitt Romney’s record of hiring and promoting women. However, his White House pays women less than men. Worse, The White House has been described as a “hostile workplace,” by his own female debate coach —

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has been playing Mitt Romney in President Barack Obama’s debate prep sessions and he said on Wednesday that he would need an “exorcism” after Monday’s final debate between Obama and Romney to purge Romney out of

Illegal immigrants in Los Angeles, California are a step closer to obtaining official government identification cards. On Wednesday, members of the Los Angeles City Council Committee voted unanimously to ask the Council to allow third party vendors to run what will

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach released a letter Wednesday in which Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) offered his support to rename a section of a park in memory of a Holocaust denying anti-Semite who was also known for his racist diatribes.  Boteach, who

Republican governors in Iowa and Virginia said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama failed to present his vision for a second term in his debate against Mitt Romney, echoing the concerns of undecided voters who thought the same after the

The mainstream media has speculated that the religious right may not be enthusiastic about Mitt Romney’s candidacy, but Evangelicals and Catholics in swing states like Colorado and Iowa are enthused because of social and — more importantly in 2012 —