(AP) Dems sharpen attack as GOP rallies behind RomneyBy STEVE PEOPLES and BETH FOUHYAssociated PressMILWAUKEEPresident Barack Obama’s administration launched a multi-pronged assault on Mitt Romney’s values and foreign policy credentials Sunday, while a fresh set of prominent Republicans rallied behind
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to increase taxes on millionaires, reviving a proposal he first pitched last September that aims to draw sharp election-year lines between the president and the Republican opposition. The plan, scheduled
It was one of his biggest campaign promises: Candidate Barack Obama told us early and often that he would unite Americans in the wake of Evil Bush doing everything he could to tear us apart. The media jumped on that
In a private meeting of GOP lawmakers, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) proposed overturning the House and Senate ban on earmarks in order to push past legislative logjams: I just got up … and did it because I was mad because
(AP) Recall election ordered for Wis. Gov. Scott WalkerBy SCOTT BAUERAssociated PressMADISON, Wis.The recall election ordered Friday for embattled first-term Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker quickly turned into a possible rematch when the Democrat he narrowly defeated in 2010 announced he
Clive Crook has an interesting post at the Atlantic today arguingthat Obamacare is a “milder dispensation” of government power thansingle-payer. And if single-payer is Constitutional, then stopping theObamacare mandate is really no victory worth having. In other words, thegovernment can
Yesterday, the Democratic Senate threw down the gauntlet to President Obama. Obama wanted a bill passed that would end $4 billion in tax breaks for oil companies, and the Senate resisted; four Democratic Senators broke with the President and voted
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For the first time ever, Tennessee is basing a portion of a teacher’s evaluation on student test data. Test scores will be combined with a principal’s classroom observations to create an overall score for teachers, ranging from 1 (significantly
Yesterday, President Obama’s plan to raise taxes on oil companies went down in flames in the Senate, 51-47. And while the vote was largely along party lines, four Democrats–Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska), Mary Landrieu (La.), Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Jim Webb (Va.)–wisely
New York State Senator Kevin S. Parker – who in recent days donned a hoodie in the New York Senate to protest the killing of Trayvon Martin — took to Twitter today to denounce the fact that Senate GOP Majority
Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-Working Families Party) of Connecticut, the state with the largest achievement gap in the nation, made it clear that a primary focus of his agenda this year would be to fix what is broken with Connecticut’s public schools. The
(AP) In Wisconsin, Romney links Santorum to ‘big labor’By THOMAS BEAUMONT and PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated PressLACROSSE, Wis.Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is attacking rival Rick Santorum as a friend of “big labor” as they campaign in Wisconsin, where a fight over
By and large, politicians are not willing to tackle the unsustainable costs they’ve created. Consider Illinois public employee pensions. Public employee pensions have been a state expense. Therefore, a big chunk of legacy costs don’t need to be shown on
(AP) House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plansBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to
Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel trailed Democratic senator Sherrod Brown early in the year, but now Rasmussen has them running neck-and-neck. Mandel seems to have enjoyed a bump coming off of his primary victory. The latest telephone survey of Likely Voters
With the recent revelation that the ultimate Washington insider, Jon Corzine, appears to have ordered the looting of hundreds of millions of dollars from customers at commodity broker MF Global, you would think crony capitalists would try to keep a
The other morning, I noticed everyone on the MSNBC’s “Trader Joe Show” having a slobbering love-fest over the HBO film “Game Change” based on a portion of a book bearing the same name. Even the show’s blonde boxing “ring girl,”
In this March’s “haunting” View from the Capitol, Katherine Amenta and Rep. Thaddeus McCotter sojourn through the darkest recesses of our nation’s Capitol to “myth bust” a Senate ghost, a demon cat and a Rotunda crypt keeper! And you thought
A US Senate committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would call on China to ease restrictions in Tibetan areas and free prisoners after a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans angry over Chinese rule. Under the resolution, the Senate would
(AP) Tough Republican budget likely to go back on shelfBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONConservatives claimed credit Tuesday for forcing House GOP leaders to draft a tougher budget plan than initially planned, even as they pressed an alternative proposal that claims to
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) approval of a construction and operating license for two new reactors in Georgia last month was excellent news for the future of nuclear energy. After all, it was the first approval of its kind since
(AP) House reviewing ethics complaint against BerkleyBy KEVIN FREKINGAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe House Ethics Committee confirmed Friday that it’s looking into allegations made against Democratic U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley of Las Vegas that reportedly revolve around whether she used her office to
(AP) MF Global exec says Corzine ordered $200M transferBy MARCY GORDONAP Business WriterWASHINGTONA former MF Global executive appears to contradict testimony from Jon Corzine, saying the former senator and New Jersey governor ordered the transfer of $200 million last fall
Back in November, Hot Air linked to the Wall Street Journal, pointing out Obama’s lack of shame when it comes to campaigning on the public dime. More than opinion, that determination was based on fact. Actually, it was data that allowed the
Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer and the late Andrew Breitbart spent roughly six months coordinating an effort to ban members of Congress from using nonpublic information to profit themselves. On Thursday, their combined efforts came to fruition when the STOCK (Stop
(AP) House repeals Medicare cost board on party linesBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONDrawing a new election-year fault line between the parties, the Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to repeal a Medicare cost-control board that has yet to be named but is called
(AP) Insider trading ban sent to White HouseBy LARRY MARGASAKAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate has given final congressional approval to a scaled-down bill to explicitly ban members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information
The Minnesota House passed legislation to require photo ID at the polls. The measure in on the way to the state’s Senate. ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A proposal to make Minnesota voters show a photo ID at the polls is
(AP) Senate set for key vote on insider trading banBy LARRY MARGASAKAssociated PressWASHINGTONA key Senate vote is set on a scaled-down bill to explicitly prohibit members of Congress and other federal workers from profiting from information learned on the job.
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is convening a hearing on the pending Verizon purchase of broadcast spectrum from a cable company consortium. The Committee has called but six witnesses for the hearing. And two of them are radical Leftists – Joel Kelsey and Tim Wu.
In March 2011, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) introduced the Finding Fugitive Sex Offenders Act in the Senate. The Act was designed to grant the U.S. Marshals administrative subpoena power so that they could better investigate sex offenders who had not
A reminder from the mainstream, tax-supported media: if you oppose ObamaCare, that may be because you are a white racist who hates our black president. That’s the gist of Shankar Vedantam’s story this morning on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition,
When Barack Obama took office in 2009 under the guise of “hope and change,” gasoline was about $1.84 a gallon. Since then, he has reduced foreign importation of crude without increasing domestic production rapidly enough to make up for the
(AP) Santorum raises $9 million in FebruaryWASHINGTONRick Santorum’s presidential campaign has raised more than $9 million in February and has more than $2.6 million on hand for a Republican primary that shows no sign of ending soon. The former senator
(AP) GOP targets new cost-cut board in Obama health lawBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans are revamping their strategy against President Barack Obama’s health care law: If they can’t repeal the whole thing, they’ll try to pick off pieces. Starting with a
In a soon to be released book, Professor Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog continues the left’s war against voter ID. What makes his effort different is that Professor Hasen claims to be taking on both the right and the left. While
We’d always heard they did things a little differently in Louisiana, and now we’re sure of it. The school boards of three Louisiana school districts – East Baton Rouge, St. Martin and Vermilion – voted to cancel classes one day last week so their unionized teachers
The bill that was to ban members of Congress from using nonpublic information to profit their private investments has ground to a halt due to inaction by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), reports The Hill newspaper: One thing is clear:
(AP) House GOP to unveil budget blueprintBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONConservative Republicans controlling the House unveiled a budget blueprint Tuesday that combines slashing cuts to safety net programs for the poor with sharply lower tax rates in an election-year manifesto painting