Remember the summer of 2009, when the Obama administration tried to push through a cap and trade bill? It passed the U.S. House, and it’s been sitting in the U.S. Senate ever since, where I expect it will stay. In
From Politico: John Paulson, one of the world’s richest hedge fund managers, has not been shy about spreading his wealth to Senate campaign coffers — or to the chairman of the committee that could directly affect his bottom line. Paulson
The kerfuffule over the “little punk staffers” who populate congress in the thousands focuses on the wrong people. Yes, there are too many of them and many are paid much more than they are worth. Yes, they wield too much
According to Ben Smith of Politico, Andy Stern, longtime President of the Service Employees International Union, is rumored to be resigning from his position. From the Politico post: Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of America’s most prominent
From Ben Smith at Politico: Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of America’s most prominent labor leaders, is set to resign, according to a member of the union’s board and another SEIU official. The President of an SEIU
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Politico: North Carolina Republican Party Chariman Tom Fetzer has called for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to step down from his post, becoming the first committee member to publicly seek Steele’s resignation.
Last night Andrew Breitbart had a confrontation with AFL-CIO Chief on the Harvard University Campus about Tea Party racism. Byron York wrote up the exchange at the Washington Examiner: There was a confrontation last night at Harvard’s Kennedy School of
A Public Safety Alert from David Burge Executive Director and Chief Research Officer The Media Violence Project / Center for the Study of Politician Sociopathy At the Media Violence Project, our charter is to protect public safety by researching, documenting
In my column this week for the Irish Examiner USA, I wrote, “When it comes to Hate Speech and Violence, Liberals Rule.” For some strange reason liberals are identifying all contrary opinions as hateful regardless of the words actually used.
[Note: This is Part II in an ongoing series about the Clinton Redux, the Obama Administration and their political wars against Americans. Click here for Part I] With the passage of Obamacare, Democrats, assisted by the media, have been claiming
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Politico: An emboldened President Barack Obama will take a stronger hand with Congress in coming weeks, planning to push lawmakers to pass new regulations for Wall Street by September, the second anniversary of
In the wake of last week’s vote for national health care, it is becoming clear that the Republicans have a great shot at success on Election Day this November. The Republican establishment is wisely listening to conservatives who believe in
I know a little something about coffins. And I know when I’m being lied to. An email arrived in my inbox this afternoon from Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s baby-brother, Congressman Russ Carnahan (D-Missouri). In this email, Carnahan pledges
When Barack Obama decided to launch his political career in the living room of unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, he tacitly endorsed using violence as a political tactic. And when two staunch allies of the Democratic Party–the SEIU and ACORN–drove
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was in the U.S. and met with Barack Obama in the White House, but you won’t find any photos of Netanyahu with Obama on the wire services. There aren’t any. Obama wouldn’t allow it. Politico
Remember as you read this: There is nothing the democratic-media complex will not do to lie about the tea party patriots or to prop up these horrid leftists who are transforming our country into some kind of quasi-socialist state. On
Hand-wringing today in Politico: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is warning that some of his Democratic colleagues are being threatened with violence when they go back to their districts — and he wants Republicans to stand up and condemn the
First, the obligatory media chorus of “ugliness” at Saturday’s anti-Health Care Bill rally at the Capitol, then the unsubstantiated claims of racist speech. So far, so Saul Alinksy. Now the escalation continues. From Politico: Steny Hoyer: Members are at risk
News is all over the country that the often criminal group the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is dead, folding its tent, kaput. All this is because, as Politico puts it, of a “conservative assault that never
Politico’s Ben Smith has the bombshell: The national group ACORN is folding, an official there, Kevin Whelan, said in an emailed statement: The ACORN Association Board met on Sunday March 21 and approved a set of steps to responsibly manage
Politico: Reporters in the House chamber said the “baby killer” shout seemed to come from a group of lawmakers that included Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), but he said it wasn’t him. “I don’t think it’s appropriate at all.”
Politico: When Pelosi said “We’re doing this for the American people,” a protestor yelled “you’re doing this TO the American people!”
That’s a sadder-but wiser David Shuster you see in the following teaser video on “media bias” from Mediaite, responding to off-camera questions from someone named Tommy “We Got Him” Christopher. Watch in amazement as a chastened Shuster dodges, weaves, and
With the focus this week on health care’s “home stretch” and concerns about government limiting the ability of ordinary Americans to make choices about medical treatment, another threat to freedom is accelerating that could harm Americans’ abilities to start a
House leaders are preparing to ram through ObamaCare this week without a vote. Not only is the legislation unconstitutional, but the process being used to pass it is unconstitutional. The House is preparing a rule that would consider the Senate-passed
