Tag: New York Times

On Tuesday, Jonathan Hurt, senior advisor to Kentucky senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, admitted that his candidate’s rocky rollout — which involved no air conditioning, a toilet paper roll holding up a mic, and the wrong backdrop – might not

When President Barack Obama, in mid-June remarks to a townhall meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, equated the city’s separate Catholic and Protestant schools to racial segregation in the United States, he became the target of sharp criticism from Catholic clerics

Despite the media’s attempt to cast Democrat Texas State Senator Wendy Davis as a people’s hero after her 11-hour filibuster over preserving late-term abortion, Davis runs significantly behind Governor Rick Perry, a proponent of the bill at issue, in a

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy let a key detail slip out during an interview with the the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd that appeared on April 13th.  In her column, Dowd recounts Murphy saying this:  Wonder how the Newton families ended up

In the highly-publicized race to face up against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes has thrown her hat into the ring – though if her campaign launch is any indicator, there is significantly

The New York Times is reporting that leaker Edward Snowden and his planned release of classified information are helping potential terrorists evade detection. The disclosure comes from an article about how Snowden used his status as System Administration for National

Prosecution witness Sanford police officer Doris Singleton, who took George Zimmerman’s initial statement after the killing of Trayvon Martin, testified on Monday that Zimmerman never attempted to stop testimony before police or asked for a lawyer. According to Singleton, he

Monday marked the beginning of the second week of testimony in the George Zimmerman trial over the killing of Trayvon Martin. The state called Hirotaka Nakasone, an FBI audio expert, who said that identifying the voice on the 911 call

The decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to bring civil charges late last week against former MF Global head and Obama campaign bundler Jon Corzine raises the question of why New York’s own energetic Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, stayed out of

Ross Douthat argues in the New York Times this weekend that the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act is a boon to the Democrat Party. Douthat believes the Court’s invalidation of a portion of

The Battle of Gettysburg determined what philosophy would rule the country, and, by extension, the free world. It hadn’t started out as a “Civil War” but rather a “War Between the States.” Actually, both sides often referred to it as

On NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she hoped gay marriage would be nationalized within five years. “Well, I would certainly hope so,” she stated. “Course I’ve been in this – shall we

State Sen. Wendy Davis (D-TX), the woman who gave an 11-hour filibuster to protect late-term abortion against a proposed law in the state of Texas, put on running shoes and a back brace, and inserted a urinary catheter in preparation

On Friday, in testimony devastating to the prosecution’s case against George Zimmerman in his murder trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin, prosecution witness John Good stated that Martin was on top of Zimmerman, beating him  mixed martial arts style

Rachel Jeantel, the prosecution’s star witness in the George Zimmerman trial, said on Thursday that she heard Martin say to Zimmerman “get off, get off!” during their confrontation. Not only that – she accused the police of failing to correctly

Rachel Jeantel, the prosecution’s star witness in the George Zimmerman trial, admitted on Thursday in court that she could not read a letter she supposedly “wrote” to Trayvon Martin’s mother about the shooting. She was asked to read the letter

Rachel Jeantel, the prosecution’s star witness in the George Zimmerman trial, said on Thursday on the stand that Sabryna Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, sat next to her during her first interview with the state attorney and law enforcement.

Prosecution star witness Rachel Jeantel, the 19-year-old to whom Trayvon Martin was reportedly speaking while he was being followed by George Zimmerman, admitted again on the stand on Thursday that she had changed her testimony about Zimmerman’s words. Originally, she

Testifying at the George Zimmerman trial on Wednesday, the prosecution’s star witness, 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel, who was allegedly on the phone with Trayvon Martin just before he was shot by Zimmerman, admitted on the witness stand that she had changed

Jane Surdyka, one of the prosecution witnesses in the George Zimmerman trial, testified on Wednesday that it was likely Trayvon Martin on top of George Zimmerman that she saw during the scuffle shortly before Zimmerman shot Martin. She testified that