In reaction to a report revealing that Sen. Kay Hagan’s husband’s business received nearly $390,000 in federal grants and tax credits, Republicans argue that the Hagan campaign is lying when it claims the incumbent senator did not profit off the
Conference season is in full swing. For a few days each through September and early October, the four main British political parties and their accompanying army of press, lobbyists and the occasional delegate embark en masse to far-flung English cities
Per a new report by Politico, “JDC Manufacturing, a company co-owned by the Democratic senator’s husband, Chip, received nearly $390,000 in federal grants for energy projects and tax credits created by the 2009 stimulus law, according to public records and
A small coalition of hard-left groups have called on GOP chairman Reince Priebus to “shun” several social conservative groups for their positions on homosexuality. An expensive full-page ad appeared in Wednesday’s Washington Post signed by the Southern Poverty Law Center,
The New York Post reports that the Staten Island Zoo “went to great lengths to … keep secret” the fact that a groundhog New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped during a Groundhog Day ceremony, died of internal injuries
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund (TPPCF) is calling on Arkansans to see through what it says was Sen. Mark Pryor’s (D-AR) “sham” vote in favor of a motion that would have moved an anti-amnesty amendment forward. “Sen. Pryor’s vote was
Brace yourselves. It looks as though it’s going to be 2008 and 2012 all over again — where a 50 year-old GOP haircut and a 35-year-old GOP rock are big news, but Hillary will get a sweet mainstream media pass
Although a growing number of media outlets, including Politico, Esquire, and The Week, have declared CNN’s Fareed Zakaria a plagiarist, CNN chief Jeff Zucker told Politico Tuesday that, “We continue to have complete confidence in Fareed.” “We continue to have
Elites in the permanent political class are on the retreat, and no issue reflects that more than amnesty legislation. Not surprisingly, amnesty represents the divide between the Masters of the Universe in the bipartisan permanent political class and American workers.
After clinching the Republican nomination for the Alaska Senate race, Dan Sullivan has now surged six points according to a new Public Policy Polling poll. An August poll conducted prior to the primary showed Begich leading Sullivan 43 percent to
In response to Issa Calls On Lois Lerner To Testify Before Congress Under Oath: Having followed the IRS scandal closely since Day One, I had a number of less-than-flattering thoughts about her big interview with Politico, which I could summarize
Experts are anticipating that another wave of unaccompanied minors from Central America will make their way northward to illegally enter the United States. “The situation in Central America has not changed, we have the same problems of insecurity and violence,
On September 12th, the Center for Responsible Lending, a left-wing group advocating for greater regulation of the banking industry hosted a national “messaging” conference on “bank reform,” with a special emphasis on curtailing “payday lending”. A centerpiece of the conference
A study conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington has concluded that warmer sea and land temperatures along the Pacific coast in North America over the past 100 years are due to weak winds–and not
Per a new Politico report, “Democrats love to cast Republicans as the party of big money, beholden to the out-of-touch billionaires bankrolling their campaigns. But new numbers tell a very different story — one in which Democrats are actually raising more big
Immigration reform has not happened under President Obama because Democrats have wanted to keep immigration as a political wedge issue, according to pro-immigration reform Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL). “The Democratic Party leadership has been very strong, has pressured the Democrats
House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa renewed his call Monday for ex-IRS official Lois Lerner to testify before Congress, following her Politico interview in which she reasserted her innocence, and said she’s “not sorry for anything.” In the first media
Move over, Scott Brown. The strategy of hitting Democrats on immigration in elections is working for Republicans who employ it nationwide–even in liberal Massachusetts, where another poll shows GOP gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker tied in a close race with Democrat
You could sum up Politico’s exclusive interview with Lois Lerner by noting that it opens with the former IRS executive claiming, “I didn’t do anything wrong,” and closes with a quote-free section subtitled “Unanswered questions.” Politico’s Rachael Bade reportedly talked
Lois Lerner wants a new job. She can’t get one. No one will hire her. So it makes perfect sense that she would go to the leftwing Politico for aid and comfort. After all… If I were a hyper-partisan leftwing
On Sunday, former President Bill Clinton made efforts to further distance Hillary Clinton from President Barack Obama’s unpopular foreign policy by stating that the Obama administration should have armed Syrian rebels years ago, a position Hillary Clinton claims she took
Former President Bill Clinton declared on Sunday that his economic policies dwarfed those of former President Ronald Reagan. “When I was president, I’ve told you this before–one of the things I was most proud of is we moved 100 times
Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, writes in POLITICO: Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime. With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama is doing more than
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is continuing its effort to paint Senate Democrats facing reelection as being in favor of executive amnesty. “Yesterday it became clear just how worried Senate Democrats are about their vote,” to allow President Obama to
During testimony before the House Oversight Committee Thursday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Marilyn Tavenner admitted that the White House’s original number of eight million Obamacare enrollments was inflated. The real number, Tavenner now claims, is 7.3 million. Oversight
