Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, speaking at the NAACP convention in Orlando, Florida, entreated the NAACP to help the Obama Administration sell ObamaCare by comparing the fight for health care to the fight for civil rights. Sebelius wants
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) will lead a tour of House leaders next week aimed at educating Americans, and each other, about the history and importance of immigration to the United States. The tour, dubbed the “Become America” tour,
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who once said the mainstream media represented his base and assailed conservative leaders as “agents of intolerance,” is now getting back into the media’s good graces by being the favorite Republican of Democrats, especially Senate Majority
Tunisia, the epicenter of the Arab Spring uprisings, is faced with the possibility of further domestic upheaval. Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood rule under currently-jailed former President Mohamed Morsi was short-lived, lasting a little over a year. In the aftermath of the
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is becoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) favorite Republican. Most recently, McCain led a group of Republicans who also supported the Senate’s immigration bill–Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), John Hoeven (ND), Kelly Ayotte (NH), Lamar Alexander (TN),
Writing “Give. Me. A. Break.,” Politico media writer Dylan Byers published a strong defense of Rolling Stone Magazine’s decision to publish a glamour shot of surviving Boston Marathon bomber, Dzokhar Tsarnaev, on its cover. Byers makes the point that “countless
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) reportedly conceded that opponents of the Senate’s immigration bill are winning the messaging battle during a meeting with Gang of Eight members and big business interests on how to target and pressure House Republicans on comprehensive
Sensing support for the Senate’s immigration bill is losing momentum and anticipating the fierce resistance against the bill during the August recess, the Gang of Eight will coordinate with the big business interests to target at least 100 House Republicans
Hidden beneath a benign Los Angeles Times headline that reads, “Peaceful protesters lament L.A.’s violent Zimmerman demonstrations,” is the shameful story of Cuauhtemoc Negrete, a man who was beaten and robbed at an anti-Zimmerman protest. Negrete, who was with a
We can add the San Diego chapter of NOW to the list of people and groups calling for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to resign. Last week, former Filner ally and San Diego councilwoman Donna Frye brought to light salacious
Tuesday, the Associate Press published an article about juror B37’s Monday night interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Buried under over a dozen paragraphs, the AP finally reveals that, “The juror said she didn’t think Martin’s race was the reason Zimmerman
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who some say sabotaged Mitt Romney’s election chances by chumming it up with President Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy, is going to appear as himself on the new Michael J. Fox Show later this year.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough penned an op-ed at Politico Sunday which takes a long-contested claim as fact–that George Zimmerman used racially-charged statements against Trayvon Martin. After a jury found Zimmerman not guilty on second-degree murder or lesser charges, the “Morning Joe”
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, in his latest attempt to demagogue the gun-control issue, used the occasion of George Zimmerman’s acquittal to release a statement on Sunday that asserted his desire to eradicating “Stand Your Ground” laws. Critics of
Two weeks after FOX Business reporter David Asman filed a devastating report raising serious questions about former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer’s PAC funneling money to a shell non-profit, Schweitzer announced on Saturday he will not run for the U.S. Senate. Schweitzer,
Thursday evening, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes ripped into the GOP by summarizing a statement made by Republicans leaders as hating the “ass face” of Obama or Hispanics or Americans . It was hard to tell what Hayes was getting at, but
Former President George W. Bush announced at a naturalization ceremony on Wednesday that he does not plan to get involved in the specifics of the immigration reform debate happening in Washington right now but is glad the conversation is taking
In one of those somewhat silly and portentous “Behind the Curtain” reports Tuesday night, Politico hotshots Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen engaged in a high-profile piece of concern-trolling aimed at goading House Republicans into passing immigration reform. The dynamic left-wing
Barack Obama stopped by the second annual Kids’ State Dinner on Tuesday, an event his wife Michelle hosted in the East Room of the White House. Obama had a few choice words for the kids: “Food can be fun, it
As House Republicans gather to discuss the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill, which is likely to be rejected, supporters of the legislation have pinned their hopes to an unlikely state: California. Though only fifteen of the state’s fifty-three
Immigration reform will wither and die slowly in the House. So says Politico, the paper that keeps score for the company town that is Washington, D.C. As Republican House Members get ready to meet on Wednesday to discuss immigration issues,
Prominent liberals, including the group “Battleground Texas,” have recently launched efforts to try to “turn Texas Blue.” But these kickoff events, which have coincided with elected officials in Texas trying to pass pro-life legislation, may have come at the most
The left-wing Politico heard (or read) this and turned it into a headline that claimed: “Rush Limbaugh tells caller not to watch Fox” (Politico later changed its headline): RUSH: Tony, who is Julie Roginsky? CALLER: She’s a Democrat-Obama-Alinskyite, and she’s
The American Action Network, an establishment GOP advocacy group, has decided it will air a new television ad on Monday called “Surge” that aims to depict the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill that just passed the Senate as tough on
Former Politico reporter Jonathan Martin (pictured above between David Axeldrod and ABC’s Jeff Zeleny) is no stranger to controversy. His partisan attacks against the GOP (including private citizens) have been well-documented. Monday, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin took issue with
