Tony Lee

On the eve of Bill Clinton’s address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday confirmed that President Barack Obama did in fact change the rules in Bill Clinton’s landmark Welfare Reform Act despite

For the first time, Democrats included an affirmative embrace of same-sex marriage in their party platform.  “We support marriage equality and support the movement to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples,” the platform, revealed prior to the Democratic National

Democrats’ 2012 party platform opposes “any and all efforts to weaken or undermine” abortion rights, which means the platform does not oppose taxpayer-funded late-term abortions opposed by most Americans.  “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and

Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-TX), Obama campaign co-chair and chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, on Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention accused Mitt Romney of having “embraced the racial profiling policies of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpaio.”

The U.S. national debt surpassed $16 trillion on Tuesday as the Democratic National Convention convened.  When President Barack Obama was sworn into office, the country’s debt was under $10 trillion, which means under Obama the country’s debt has increased by

Faced with a teachers strike and an increasing number of shootings and deaths on Chicago’s streets, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has decided to cut short his stay at the Democratic National Convention. Emanuel was originally scheduled to fly to Charlotte

Democrats have railed against voter ID laws, and their platform “opposes laws that place unnecessary restrictions” on those seeking to vote, but Democratic National Convention officials will only issue credentials to those who present state-issued IDs.  The DNC’s website says that “all

Democrats have removed God from the Democratic National Committee platform.  David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network noticed the omission and compared the language in the 2012 DNC platform to the language in the 2008 platform. In 2008, the DNC platform

U.S. manufacturing declined at its sharpest rate in three years in August and construction spending decreased across the board in July, according to reports released by The Institute for Supply Management and the Commerce Department, respectively. The reports come on

Emboldened by President Barack Obama’s executive action that allows some illegal immigrants to apply for work permits, a group of illegal immigrants on the “Undocu-Bus” arrived in Charlotte during the week of the Democratic National Convention to advocate for broader

One day after comparing Paul Ryan to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton left the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte due a “pre-scheduled root canal.”  Burton on Monday compared Paul Ryan to Goebbels when he said Ryan

Upset by how the Republican Party establishment “disrespected” them during the Republican National Convention, over 300 Ron Paul supporters joined a conference call on Sunday night to discuss plans to urge Paul to run as a third-party candidate on the

After prominent minority Republicans like Condoleeza Rice, Govs. Susana Martinez (NM), Nikki Haley (SC), and Brian Sandoval (NV), Rep. Tim Scott (SC), and Mia Love, who is running for Congress from Utah, addressed the Republican National Convention last, mainstream media

President Barack Obama is partly blaming his family and children for his inability to lessen Washington’s partisanship and gridlock during his first term.  On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday show, Jessica Yellin said she interviewed Obama for a forthcoming

Anna Wintour, Vogue editor and one of President Barack Obama’s top celebrity backers, will host two more lavish overseas fundraisers for the Obama campaign in London and Paris.  On September 19,  Wintour will host a “dinner with Anna Wintour, Tom

Planned Parenthood will hold an invitation-only “Sex, Politics, and Cocktails” party at the Privilege Day Club and Night Club on the first night of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina. The party will feature Cecile Richards, Planned

Hours after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac on Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney announced President Barack Obama would call an audible in his schedule and visit Louisiana on Monday to

Standard & Poor’s downgraded Illinois’ credit rating on Wednesday, citing “weak pension funding levels and lack of action on reform measures.”  S&P also gave the state a “negative outlook.” The agency lowered Illinois’ rating from A+ to A. This is

A federal court in Washington, D.C. rejected Texas’ voter ID law on Thursday that would require voters to present photo IDs in order to vote in elections.  A three-judge federal panel ruled that the voter ID law, which did not

President Barack Obama called for restrictions to be put on political speech during a Wednesday “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” session on the website Reddit, an Internet link-sharing community. Obama proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision