Julian Castro, Mayor of San Antonio, delivered a passionate keynote speech tonight. Some moments of it were clearly plagiarized from the speeches of Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at the Republican National Convention. The mood in
Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio, who will be giving the keynote address tonight, is, according to some, the next Obama. But while Obama’s radicalism may have escaped the notice of the DNC in 2004, Castro’s views are bit more
Nothing pumps up Democrats like screeching about abortion, and in that spirit, Nancy Keenan or National Abortion Rights Action League Pro-Choice America took the stage tonight to wild applause. “We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent
We all must absolutely acknowledge and accept the fact that president Obama came into office at a time when our economy was in an extremely troubled and difficult state. Things were bad, no doubt about it. It is a fact
What began as a tribute to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy turned into an attack video on Mitt Romney featuring excerpts from the debate between the two Massachusetts politicians from nearly twenty years ago.
Tonight, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the podium to lie repeatedly about President Obama’s record. In flowing tones, he explained, “Some said he shouldn’t move heaven and earth to get bin Laden.” Just who said that, aside
Adam Carolla is frustrated Mitt Romney’s resume isn’t speaking for itself. The podcast king shared his feelings on both the political process and how Americans view politicians, on a radio show the day of Romney’s RNC speech: “When you see
Democrats are looking to fast track a successor for Barack Obama for 2012 and are looking to San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro to do just that. They’re hoping to pattern Castro’s ascent into the upper echelon of the party after Obama’s, by
It was both fitting and proper that Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who leads the state with the worst bond rating in the nation, should have received a primetime speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention as the nation passed $16
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Breitbart News Network’s Ben Shapiro caught up with Obama campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs and grilled him on the campaign’s negative attacks on Mitt Romney and the shifting sands of the Democratic Party’s position on Israel.
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-TX), Obama campaign co-chair and chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, on Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention accused Mitt Romney of having “embraced the racial profiling policies of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpaio.”
How many tweets about the anuses of conservative women does it take to get fired from Nickelodeon? More than two, apparently. Yesterday, Breitbart Managing Editor Alexander Marlow emailed West Coast Vice President of Nickelodeon Ariana Urbont about Jason Biggs, star
No one works harder to protect Obama than Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed Politics, but the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart was so outrageously misleading and dishonest in an attack on Mitt Romney yesterday that even Ben Smith’s BenSmithers felt compelled to record
Update: Republican nominee Mitt Romney has released the following statement in response: It is unfortunate that the entire Democratic Party has embraced President Obama’s shameful refusal to acknowledge that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. Four years of President Obama’s repeated attempts to
Upset by how the Republican Party establishment “disrespected” them during the Republican National Convention, over 300 Ron Paul supporters joined a conference call on Sunday night to discuss plans to urge Paul to run as a third-party candidate on the
The Democrats clearly are bankrupt of ideas. Tonight, late on the Labor Day holiday, they released their party platform for 2012. Platforms are where the national parties lay out their guiding philosophical and policy positions on the major issues of
Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles who was featured on the June 2009 cover of Los Angeles Magazine with the one-word caption, “Failure,” is the chairman of the upcoming Democratic National Convention. The obvious reason is that the Obama administration,
Ahead of the DNC gathering in Charlotte, a number of organizations are out today with new polls on the race in North Carolina. PPP has the race in the Tarheel State tied, although they use a D+13 sample to get
(AP) Romney launches GOP response at Dem conventionBy STEVE PEOPLESAssociated PressGREENVILLE, N.C.Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign is launching an aggressive Republican response at the site of the Democratic National Convention aimed at stealing attention and driving new questions about President Barack
(AP) Days after Isaac, a quarter-million still in darkBy CAIN BURDEAU and KEVIN McGILLAssociated PressNEW ORLEANSAbout a quarter of a million customers remained in the dark Monday in Louisiana and Mississippi, days after Isaac inundated the Gulf Coast with a
Democrats across the country are in full meltdown over the growing possibility that their favored candidate, incumbent President Obama, may lose to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. And, exercising Godwin’s Law, they’re already labeling Ryan and the GOP Nazis. Monday
At the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan outlined their plan for a stronger middle class and their vision for the future. They were joined by Republican leaders throughout the country who will join with them in restoring
President Obama’s competitive, boastful nature and condescending advice rubs even loyal Democrats the wrong way, a new profile alleges. The New York Times‘ Jodi Kantor airs complaints from “loyal” Obama associates — not as a buried lede but explicitly in
conservARTive: This was the last march of the week, protesting Mitt Romney’s speech, and there was an expectation that the anarchists were going to have a showdown with the police. Law enforcement had powerful anti-riot weaponry visible during the week.
