A new four-page mailer savagely attacking GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly is being funded by billionaire Charles Munger, Jr., one of the children of Charles Munger, the vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. The mailer, headlined, “An Urgent Warning from Gov. Pete
By now we’ve all enjoyed a few strolls on Memory Lane and relived moments in which liberals pointed to the VA as the idea future of health care reform. (If you haven’t had enough yet, here’s one with some good
The 1980 campaign brought about the dissolution of the old New Deal Coalition and the rise of the Reagan Democrat, a phrase coined by Newsweek political writer Peter Goldman after that historic election. Yet all campaigns cannot be viewed as isolated incidents
Despite an eleventh-hour political attack engineered by the Democratic Party of Oregon, Dr. Monica Wehby easily won the Oregon U.S. Senate Republican primary on Tuesday, defeating second place “Homeless to Harvard” attorney Jason Conger. With 51 percent of the precincts
After assailing Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital for much of the 2012 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama golfed last Saturday with a Bain lobbyist. According to Politico, Obama golfed with Joe O’Neill, described as “a veteran Democratic lobbyist” who
America’s Health Insurance Plans, the health insurance lobby in Washington, D.C., has hired Speaker Boehner’s press secretary, Brendan Buck, as its new spokesperson and vice president of communications. Buck was Boehner’s press secretary for three years and also served as
The top strategist and political consultant for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign thinks that Republicans can win elections in California. Stuart Stevens, now a columnist for the Daily Beast website, claims that if Republicans can be more
Former Republican nominee for president of the United States Mitt Romney stated on Thursday that he endorses an increase in the minimum wage. Although many economists assert that an increase in the minimum wage will increase unemployment, Romney claims he
Look, I disagree strongly with the editorial stance at MSNBC, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t entertaining to watch the buffoons who work for them go face-down in the mud, over and over again. Competence would ruin
MSNBC hires anti-gay Alec Baldwin. MSNBC mocks Mitt Romney’s black grandson. MSNBC has to be shamed into hiring anchors that aren’t all white. And now, in reference to Cinco de Mayo, MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts hosts a white MSNBC staffer mocking
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney refused to apologize for Romneycare, which he instituted when he was governor of Massachusetts. President Barack Obama modeled Obamacare off of it. Now the Bay State is going to completely scrap its state health care
A Republican running for a New Jersey congressional seat released an ad attacking his tea party opponent for opposing federal aid to Hurricane Sandy victims–but the former AIG executive’s company was successfully sued twice for cheating Hurricane Ike’s victims. His
This morning the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Neel Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury official and financial investment executive, announced that he has been endorsed by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. The endorsement by Bush incomes on the heels of
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who failed in his bid to secure the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, said he is “not sure” Republicans care as much about the poor as Democrats do. Speaking at The New York Meeting on Monday,
Former Congressman Barney Frank says he has no problem with actor Alec Baldwin’s recent homophobic outbursts. Frank, the openly gay politician, happened to be sharing a stage with Baldwin when he was asked a question about the actor’s track record
As the June 3 primary draws nearer, Republican gubernatorial candidates Neel Kashkari and Tim Donnelly are relying on different measurements of success to build confidence among their supporters. Kashkari, who has a massive fundraising edge, is rolling out big endorsements,
The Maine Sunday Telegram has published a brief Q and A with Senator Rand Paul from his current visit to Maine. In it, they appear to have gone from trying to drive a wedge between Rand and his father Ron
Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly is picking up support in California’s Governor election and says it is starting to change the dynamic of the race. The race for Governor of California has its primary on June 3rd. The two candidates with
A few weeks ago I was at an event at my hair salon and I had the opportunity to talk to a local jewelry designer. Like many Americans, she doesn’t pay attention to politics every day. She had recently seen
Our immigration system is broken. Few would disagree. The political debate over immigration reform over the past decade has centered on legalization (also called amnesty) versus border security, and both sides are dug in. Liberals believe they cannot achieve their
The Washington Post‘s Robert Costa and Philip Rucker report: One rainy morning this month, the man who thought he would be president boarded a train near his beach house in San Diego. He stepped off in Burbank, Calif., and caught
Saturday, February 28, 1981 “…A call…reported a boat load of Haitians approaching our shores. I’m all for opening the door to refugees from totalitarianism but this is more complicated. These are just people who believe they can have a better life
A new poll shows Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst leading the Republican primary field in Iowa despite being outspent by her opponent 100-1 on television ads. The new Suffolk poll of likely voters in Iowa shows that Ernst now has
The Wall Street Journal strongly suggested Wednesday that opponents of “comprehensive” immigration reform are mere racists, in a slew of commentary prompted by the controversy over former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s remark this week that illegal immigration was an “act of
Using Twitter Monday morning, elite political journalist Mark Halperin made an extraordinary admission about the the left-wing bias among his colleagues in the mainstream media. “Right-wing media under appreciates how much huge MSM support of Jeb Bush on immigration can
