In Tuesday night’s final debate for John Kerry’s U.S. Senate seat versus Republican Gabriel Gomez, Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) made a number of significant gaffes. One flashpoint in the campaign has been on the issue of taxes. In one commercial, Markey
CBS Boston: Gabriel Gomez, the Republican candidate for the special election to replace former Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, touts the grassroots bona fides of his campaign against his opponent Ed Markey’s endorsements from Washington, D.C. politicians.
Watch this moment between Democratic Rep. Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez during their second debate for the Massachusetts Senate seat… The candidates for the open US Senate seat from Massachusetts clashed over tax policy. Democratic Congressman Ed Markey and
On Wednesday, the Boston Herald reported that former President Bill Clinton would campaign this weekend for Rep. Ed Markey, who is campaigning for John Kerry’s former Senate seat. The news is the latest sign that Democrats are beginning to panic
On Tuesday night Gabriel Gomez, the ex-Navy Seal and Republican nominee for Senate, successfully painted his opponent, 37 year Democratic Congressman Ed Markey, as a Washington insider in the second debate between the two candidates competing to win John Kerry’s
A “Dear Colleague” letter signed by then-Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in 2005 urged an end to “government fishing expeditions” under Section 215 of the Patriot Act to gather records on American citizens indiscriminately. The letter was also signed by eight
National Democrats are rushing to Massachusetts to support Democrat Rep. Ed Markey’s campaign for the Senate. Markey, who entered Congress during the Nixon Administration, is in a tough race against businessman Gabriel Gomez to fill the Senate seat left vacant
Democrat Rep. Ed Markey, who entered Congress during the Nixon Administration, has voted to increase his own salary at least six different times. Markey is a candidate in the special election to fill former Sen. John Kerry’s Senate seat. A
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), who is running to refill Secretary of State John Kerry’s Senate seat, gives his solution the current NSA surveillance scandal: give intelligence agencies the tools to hunt down terrorists and protect Americans’ privacy at the same
A new poll finds Dem Rep. Ed Markey and GOP candidate Gabriel Gomez in a statistical dead heat for the special Senate election two weeks from Tuesday. The poll, from GOP-firm McLaughlin and Associates, finds long-term House member Markey leading
A poll released by by McLaughlin Associates on Friday shows the Massachusetts race between Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democratic Congressman Ed Markey to replace John Kerry in the United States Senate is a dead heat. In a head to head match up,
Reuters is reporting that Secretary of State John Kerry “quietly acted last month to give Egypt $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid.” According to laws governing the funds, in order to give the $1.3 billion to Egypt, the Secretary of State
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an immediate end to mass protests against his rule Friday but urged supporters to “go home” after they staged a major show of strength welcoming him home from an overseas trip. Waving
On Wednesday evening, Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez put his opponent, long time Democratic Congressman Ed Markey, on the defensive in the first debate of the special election campaign to replace John Kerry in the United States Senate from Massachusetts. Gomez
Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat says that if U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts at restarting the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority fails, “the West Bank could fall to radicalism and violence.” According to The Guardian,
US Secretary of State John Kerry began his first trip to Latin America for talks with his regional counterparts expected to focus on drugs and security. Kerry will likely say that there has been no change in the US anti-drug
Safely re-elected last November, President Obama waited barely a month (December 4, 2012) before suspending once again the provisions of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. That law required the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the permanent and undivided
Gerardo (Jerry) Villacres, the former director of the Boston Spanish-language paper El Planeta, called Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez and former Navy SEAL a LINO (Latino in Name Only). In the op-ed, titled, What is a LINO?, Villacres wrote: In
ABC: US secretary of state John Kerry has warned Russia against its plan to provide Syria with long-range surface to air missiles, saying it would jeopardise any attempt to hold peace talks. Mr Kerry made the comments at a news
Bob Shrum, a longtime Democrat operative, has decided that President Barack Obama’s handling of the White House during this IRS scandal has been bad. Maybe not “Nixonian” bad, but instead indicates a sort of Carteresque incompetence. Shrum is a high-powered
The head of a congressional oversight panel demanded Tuesday that Secretary of State John Kerry hand over communications detailing the Obama administration’s handling of last year’s deadly attack on the US mission in Libya. The House Oversight and Government Reform
The day after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry set forth a $4 billion plan to boost the Palestinian economy in exchange for concessions on Israeli/Palestinian peace talks, Palestinian Authority (PA) economic adviser Mohammad Mustafa said: “The Palestinian leadership will not
Speaking in Africa on May 25, Secretary of State John Kerry “urged Nigeria…to uphold human rights as it steps up its fight against [the] radical [Islamist]” group Boko Haram. But considering the atrocities allegedly committed by Boko Haram, might not
The former Soviet prisoner Natan Sharansky, among other communist dissidents, has often spoken about the moral clarity that President Ronald Reagan’s much-maligned phrase, “evil empire,” brought to the Cold War. Ridiculed by the liberal elite as primitive moralizing, Reagan’s concept
A $100 million mosque under construction outside Washington, D.C. attracted a visit last week from Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Writer Ryan Mauro notes that Maryland Secretary of State John McDonough was on hand, along with representatives of two Islamist
