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GOP Debate Reactions

Mike Flynn, Editor Big Government: Little known fact; during the last GOP debate in Iowa, the RNC held their holiday party at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in DC. There weren’t any TVs among the open bars. So, no one

The GOP Needs a Bolder Growth Message

Message to my fellow conservatives: Please don’t blame the mainstream media for the improvement in jobs, unemployment, and economic growth. Reporters are not making this up. The economy is better. It’s going to give President Obama a leg up on

A Government for the Rest of Us

It seems like everyday I wake up and it’s the same old story with politics and politicians: If you vote for my bill, I’ll support yours; the Republicans hate this and the Democrats hate that; you scratch my earmark and

Will the NLRB Decide the 2012 Presidential Election?

With the Iowa caucuses kicking off the primary season to decide the Republican presidential challenger, it is important to reflect on what President Obama will be doing to secure a second term, as he has no Democratic challenger. As Obama

CNN: Santorum's a Racist, Papist, Homophobe

The mainstream media’s attempt to sink Sen. Rick Santorum continues. Via Breitbart.tv, here’s how CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 introduced Santorum to viewers–not by describing his accomplishments or principles, but by branding him–falsely–as a racist religious extremist who hates homosexuals: Would

Rick Santorum Triumphs by Defeating the Media

Time‘s Mark Halperin wondered openly this morning whether the mainstream media might be “rooting for” Sen. Rick Santorum in the Republican primary. That could happen if journalists decide that Santorum would be a weaker general election threat to President Barack

Pros and Cons of iPhones for Citizen Journalists

An iPhone or a smart phone can be a wonderful thing. You can do… well, darn near anything with it, including record for posterity any event within eye-range–or should I say, I-range. Unless you want to become famous (or infamous),

To Toast or to Roast the Occupy Protesters of 2011?

In looking back at 2011, especially given the wrongheaded selection by Time Magazine of “The Protester” as their “Person of the Year,” it is worth examining just what sort of protesters entered the political landscape, and, more importantly, whether some

SF Weekly Tries to Undo Pelosi Retirement Story

Peter Jamison of SF Weekly (in Snuggie, above) has declared that Jeffrey Scott Shapiro’s scoop at Big Government about Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s wish to leave Congress is a “fake.” Though Jamison admits that comments from Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra “were

SEIU Corruption Flies Below the Radar

The SEIU’s Insidious Tentacles continue to infiltrate government and politics at the expense of its own rank and file without attracting national media attention. Interestingly enough the mainstream media will not peek beneath the covers and investigate reports by employees

Political Baggage: Establishment & Media Manipulation

As the 2012 Election primary seasons begins to ratchet-up, we had all better get ready for an onslaught of talk about “political baggage.” Whether it’s Mitt Romney’s “Louis Vuitton baggage” of having hired illegal aliens to manicure his lawn or