
John Gingrich, the Chief of Staff of the Veterans Administration, sent out a pro-Obama email to employees, touting President Barack Obama as a president concerned about reducing government waste while encouraging his employees to submit cost-cutting ideas. Gingrich wrote, in
by Tony Lee12 Jul 2012, 12:00 AM PST0

Texas Lieutenant Gov. David Dewhurst said that he had not supported a guest worker program during his debate with Tea Party candidate Ted Cruz last month. After Dewhurst was called out for misleading voters on this issue, a 2007 speech available on
by Tony Lee11 Jul 2012, 4:03 PM PST0

Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill may wish Vice President Joe Biden had not talked her up so effusively at a fundraiser yesterday. According to Politico, Biden gave an “impassioned” speech on McCaskill’s behalf and said he was a “strong, strong ally” of hers.
by Tony Lee11 Jul 2012, 12:58 PM PST0

The Democrats’ hypocrisy on outsourcing continues. As they attack Mitt Romney for being an outsourcer, it was revealed that President Barack Obama sent stimulus money — U.S. taxpayer dollars — overseas, and the Republican National Committee (RNC) called him out on
by Tony Lee11 Jul 2012, 8:19 AM PST0

The Southern California city of San Bernardino became the third California city in less than a month to file for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday night. The city’s interim city manager said San Bernardino is facing a budget shortfall of $45.8
by Tony Lee11 Jul 2012, 6:55 AM PST0

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went on FOX News’ “Hannity” on Tuesday night and said Mitt Romney needs to light the conservative base’s hair on fire if he has any chance of beating President Barack Obama in the fall. Palin
by Tony Lee11 Jul 2012, 3:29 AM PST0

Confusion surrounds the medical leave of absence of Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-IL.) Jackson, whose office said he was on medical leave for exhaustion before saying he was in an in-patient facility due to medical issues, is now not expected to
by Tony Lee11 Jul 2012, 1:00 AM PST0

Mitt Romney may announce his running mate earlier than usual, according to a Reuters report. And since Romney will attend the opening ceremonies for the Summer Olympics in London in two weeks, this would mean the Republican presidential nominee could
by Tony Lee10 Jul 2012, 11:54 PM PST0

One day after a three-judge panel heard arguments about the legality of Texas’s photo ID voting law, Attorney General Eric Holder went to Houston to speak at the NAACP Convention. Holder denounced Texas’s photo ID law as a political stunt
by Tony Lee10 Jul 2012, 5:14 PM PST0

A Missouri Democrat running to be the state’s next secretary of state thinks not a single Jewish person died in the 9/11 attacks. He’s also a 9/11 Truther. And he’s even willing to talk about these beliefs in on-the-record interviews.
by Tony Lee10 Jul 2012, 4:04 PM PST0

Jon Huntsman’s daughter, Abby, has only one qualification to talk vapidly about politics: her relationship with her father, the former governor of Utah and Obama’s Ambassador to China, who ran a miserable and failed campaign in which he pandered like
by Tony Lee10 Jul 2012, 3:28 PM PST0

When his economic policies are not working, all President Obama seems to have left, besides attacking Republicans in Congress and Mitt Romney, is his dog, Bo. On Monday, Obama gave interviews to local television stations from swing states such as
by Tony Lee10 Jul 2012, 5:47 AM PST0

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the Democrat whose candidacy has often served as template from which President Barack Obama has liberally borrowed, vetoed a bill that would reform what could be purchased with the state’s EBT food stamp cards. The bill
by Tony Lee10 Jul 2012, 5:39 AM PST0

Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-IL) has been missing in action from Congress due to a mysterious medical condition. His state’s senior senator, Dick Durbin (D-IL), said yesterday that Jackson needs to explain his medical situation to the state’s voters “soon,” according
by Tony Lee10 Jul 2012, 4:59 AM PST0

Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the left-wing Hispanic advocacy group, La Raza, last weekend and continued the Obama’s administration strategy of trying to convince and scare minorities into believing that Republicans would take away their civil rights. Immigration and voter
by Tony Lee10 Jul 2012, 4:47 AM PST0

According to a CNN/ORC poll, 53 percent of adults surveyed approve of the House of Representatives vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in civil and criminal contempt of Congress. Holder refused to turn over documents associated with the Fast
by Tony Lee9 Jul 2012, 9:09 AM PST0

In 2010, influenced by the Tea Party and its focus on fiscal issues, 17 states elected Republican governors. And, according to an Examiner.com analysis, every one of those states saw a drop in their unemployment rates since January of 2011. Since
by Tony Lee9 Jul 2012, 5:04 AM PST0

Left-wing Slate blogger Matthew Yglesias, who was a part of the left-wing cabal known as “Journolist,” and who is frequently a source of stories circulated by the Obama campaign, sent out a tweet on Sunday in which he implied that Republican
by Tony Lee9 Jul 2012, 4:38 AM PST0

Even MoveOn.org, one of the most left-wing organizations out there, initially condemned racist, antisemtie Charles Barron, a Democrat who was running for Congress in New York’s eighth congressional district, who was endorsed by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
by Tony Lee9 Jul 2012, 4:32 AM PST0

Joseph Williams, the former Politico reporter who was fired after making racial comments about how Mitt Romney only felt comfortable among white people and tweeting penis jokes about Ann Romney, went on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday and implied conservative
by Tony Lee9 Jul 2012, 4:30 AM PST0

In a classic case of where government regulation and public health concerns must be balanced against individual liberties and business interests, voters in Los Angeles County will decide in November whether porn actors will be required to wear condoms during
by Tony Lee8 Jul 2012, 9:16 AM PST0

The total number of people who are taking federal disability insurance payments is now greater than the population of New York City, as 8,733,461 workers took federal disability in June 2012, according to CNS News. The population of New York
by Tony Lee8 Jul 2012, 9:14 AM PST0

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) spoke at a fundraiser in West Virginia on June 30 and conceded that very few people will go to the voting booth because they are enthused about or in love with Mitt Romney or his
by Tony Lee7 Jul 2012, 3:43 PM PST0

According to a new Gallup survey, 47 percent of those surveyed — a plurality — believed that the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare as a tax would hurt the economy. Thirty-seven percent of those surveyed thought Obamacare would help the
by Tony Lee6 Jul 2012, 12:26 PM PST0

The campaign of Republican Senate primary candidate David Dewhurst has created a Twitter account “dedicated to fact-checking the claims in the race for U.S. Senate in Texas, launched to separate fact from fiction.” However, as blogger Kemberlee Kaye noticed, the “@TxSenFactCheck”
by Tony Lee6 Jul 2012, 11:39 AM PST0