When the House of Representatives launched a formal ethics investigation into the activities of Democratic Congressman Shelley Berkley on Monday, it confirmed what most political observers already knew. Shelley Berkley practices crony capitalism, Nevada style. On October 23, 2008, officials
Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown’s campaign announced yesterday that it raised $5 million in the three months of April, May, and June. This very large amount was $3.6 million less than the $8.6 million the Elizabeth Warren campaign raised during the
In a June 29 interview with NECN’s Jim Braude on the BroadSide television program, Elizabeth Warren (shown above in this 1950s photograph sitting next to her mother) claimed that her mother’s Native American heritage continued to divide her father’s family
Ken Aden, the Democratic candidate challenging Republican incumbent Steven Womack in the 3rd Congressional District of Arkansas, withdraw from the race yesterday when it was revealed that he had lied about serving in the Army’s elite Green Berets. Though Aden
A reader at Professor William Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection blog has offered convincing evidence that Elizabeth Warren’s husband, Bruce Mann, also contributed a plagiarized recipe to the infamous Pow Wow Chow cookbook. Subtitled A Collection of Recipes from Families of the
Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes has caught Elizabeth Warren in yet another lie about her false claims of Native American heritage. When Elizabeth Warren’s “Aunt Bea,” Bess A. Reed Veneck, died in 1999 at the age of 98, Ms. Warren was
As Breitbart News suggested last week, it appears Chief Justice John Roberts did, in fact, switch his vote on the Obamacare decision under pressure from President Barack Obama, the Democrats, and the mainstream media. John Fund at National Review has more details
Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett, whom the Washington Post recently referred to as “perhaps the key legal thinker developing the case against the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate,” issued a brief but pointed statement on the Supreme Court’s decision
In a dramatic reversal, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted unanimously today to reinstate Teresa A. Sullivan as President of the University of Virginia. It was a stunning political comeback for President Sullivan, who earlier in the month had
(Second in a four-part series) When Elizabeth Warren, Teresa A. Sullivan, and Jay Westbrook, co-authors of the 1989 book As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America, were charged by Rutgers Law School Professor Philip Shuchman with scientific misconduct in 1990, they quickly asked for
Ben Smith, in his article at Buzzfeed this week, noted that David Maraniss, in his new biography, Barack Obama: The Story, finally confirmed that Obama was incorrect when he wrote in Dreams from My Father that his father left his mother,
Legal Insurrection’s Anne Sorock recounts her experiences at the left wing “NetRoots Nation” convention in Providence, Rhode Island today: I attended the Netroots Nation progressive convention this morning in Providence, Rhode Island. The session was titled “American Indian Caucus.” When
This afternoon DeWayne Wickham, a well-known liberal columnist at USA Today, called on Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren to apologize to Native Americans: The lingering specter of a white, liberal Democrat who claimed to be a minority in a job
A recently discovered video shows Elizabeth Warren telling another tall tale about her family. The day after she announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate, Democrat Elizabeth Warren told the convocation at the University of Massachusetts-Boston: “My grandmother drove a wagon in
The leading politicians of the Massachusetts Democratic Party establishment circled the wagons around Elizabeth Warren this afternoon when Governor Deval Patrick endorsed her at a hastily called press conference. “I love this candidate,” the Governor said of Warren. “I’m excited
Last week, when Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) sought to examine whether U.S. funds flowing to Palestinian refugees gave Palestinians an advantage over Israelis, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was quick to complain that Republicans were putting the interests of Israel above
Masslive.com is reporting the latest bizarre twist in the saga of Elizabeth Warren’s likely false claims of Native American heritage. In a statement that would make Richard Nixon blush with shame, Warren has, effectively, told the new Cherokees Demand Truth
Elizabeth Warren can no longer count the Harvard University administrator who listed her as “Native American” among her advocates in the unfolding scandal of her professed minority heritage. In the reaction to the Boston Globe‘s controversial article on Harvard’s EEOC
Breitbart News’ Michael Patrick Leahy appeared on WRKO’s Howie Carr Show in Boston to discuss the latest revelations regarding Elizabeth Warren and Harvard Law School’s inclusion of her as a minority staff member.
(AP) Justice Dept.: Misconduct by 2 in Stevens caseBy PETE YOSTAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Justice Department’s internal ethics watchdog said Thursday that two prosecutors in the bungled corruption case against then-Sen. Ted Stevens engaged in reckless professional misconduct by failing to disclose
Michael Patrick Leahy detailed yet another twist to Elizabeth “Faux-Cahontis” Warren’s tale of fake American Indian claims. Apparently, in 1984 Warren supplied several “old family recipes” to the “Pow Wow Chow cookbook” edited by her cousin. Turns out these “family
The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to
Buried in the “For the Record” section, the Boston Globe today admitted that it made a major error in one of its initial reports on Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry: Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in
Lynda Smith, the amateur genealogist who unknowingly found herself at the root of the false “Elizabeth Warren is 1/32 Cherokee” meme introduced to the media by “noted” genealogist Chris Child of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, acknowledged in an
