Tuesday’s theme at the Republican National Convention was “We Built It,” but the night’s speakers did not reference or mention the Tea Party movement that built the current Republican majority in the House during the 2010 midterm elections and infused
Chris Barron, co-founder of GOProud, honored the late Andrew Breitbart at the group’s “HomoCon” party Tuesday night in Tampa, Florida. “Andrew wanted to take the conservative fight to every corner of this country country and to every medium,” Barron said
Former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is battling cancer for the third time and has been hospitalized. “I’m battling cancer. It’s another battle I intend to win,” Specter said in a statement on Tuesday. “I’m grateful for all the well wishes
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) is on a campaign to legalize hemp, arguing it would put his home state’s economy at a competitive advantage. Last week, Paul wore a shirt made from hemp at the Kentucky State Fair. He suggested
Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Tom Smith on Monday equated pregnancies caused by rape with out-of-wedlock pregnancies. His comments could again harm a party trying to recover from Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin’s remarks about how a woman’s body could
The U.S. military on Monday announced they have punished Six Army soldiers who burned Qurans at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan and three Marines who urinated on dead Taliban corpses. All received administrative, or “non-judicial,” punishments, which means the
Mitt Romney has tried to come off as less elite, and he hopes his $18 dollar dress shirts from Costco can help average voters relate to him more. Romney’s wife, Ann, who will speak at the Republican National Convention on
Ann Romney’s speech may be nearly as important as Mitt Romney’s speech on Thursday. Her speech aims to make her husband more appealing to women voters, but excerpts released by the Romney campaign indicate Ann Romney’s speech will also seek
Last Friday, more than 2.25 million viewers watched Fox News’ one-hour special on “The Hope and The Change” on “Hannity,” making the program the most-watched cable news show of the evening. More people watched the one-hour special about “The Hope and
Democrats have constantly argued Republicans are waging a “war on women,” but Democrats, unlike Republicans, may have no female governors after the 2012 elections. Republicans have female governors in Oklahoma (Mary Fallin), Arizona (Jan Brewer), New Mexico (Susana Martinez), and
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined a chorus of grassroots conservatives in calling for two proposed rule changes, backed by the top brass of Mitt Romney’s campaign, to be rejected on the floor of the Republican National Convention. Palin said
Republicans will feature five prominent Hispanics — Govs. Susana Martinez (NM), Brian Sandoval (NV), Luis Fortuno (Puerto Rico), Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), and Senate candidate Ted Cruz (TX) — in their national convention’s primetime lineup. Yet, the mainstream media continues
Illinois congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat and a candidate the Obama campaign likes to tout, has been accused of being a tax cheat after a Chicago newspaper suggested she illegally claimed homestead exemptions on two properties from 2007 to
A new Missouri poll indicates Rep. Todd Akin’s rape remarks have not hurt Mitt Romney in Missouri, but the comments about “legitimate rape” and the controversy that ensued have damaged Akin, especially among women voters. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll
A national poll has found that a majority of Americans remain pro-life and only overwhelmingly favor abortions in the most extreme circumstances, such as when the mother’s life is in danger. CNN/ORC conducted the national poll on August 22-23, when abortion issues
Vice President Joe Biden managed to upset celebrities who have been some of Obama’s most fervent supporters when he showed up more than two hours late to a New York fundraiser in the Hamptons. Celebrities like Russell Simmons left the
Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina sent an email Saturday that makes the Obama campaign seem like it is clinging to its last days in power. In response to an email sent two days earlier titled, “The end?,” Messina wrote, “Hell
Ron Paul will not have a primetime speaking spot at the Republican National Convention, but Mitt Romney and the GOP know they need his enthusiastic, libertarian-leaning supporters to vote for Romney in November. Both have taken steps to ensure Paul
On Thursday, FOX News revealed the identity of the former Navy SEAL Team 6 member who wrote a book about the mission that killed Osama bin Laden. The outed author — REDACTED — found himself potentially facing two legal challenges.
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), a prominent black Democrat, called out Vice President Biden for his remarks last week in Virginia in which he said Republicans will “put y’all back in chains.” In an interview with “The Perez Notes,” which was
Wednesday in New Mexico, Mitt Romney linked America’s energy independence to jobs, a healthier middle class, and greater national security in an address that laid out a comprehensive energy strategy that seeks to “achieve North American energy independence by 2020
The Hill reports Ron Paul is happy with the GOP’s foreign policy plank in the platform because there is strong language that reiterates that only Congress has the power to declare war, which is explicitly written in the Constitution. Paul
It will be a homecoming for Mitt Romney on Friday, as he campaigns with Paul Ryan at a farm in Commerce Township, Michigan. Commerce Township is in Oakland County, which is where Romney, whose father was governor of Michigan, was
Toni Preckwinkle, an Obama ally and mentor and Cook County, Illinois Board President, said on Tuesday President Ronald Reagan deserved a “special place in hell” for “making drug use political.” “What? You didn’t like that?” Preckwinkle said after members of the
Under Barack Obama, “Uncertainty Over Economic Conditions” and “Uncertainty Over Government Actions” are, respectively, the second and fourth most serious problems small business owners face, according to a quadrennial survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB). In 2008,
