Judge Robert Bork, who’s probably best known for being defeated in 1987 as a Supreme Court Nominee after Ted Kennedy launched a vicious and malicious personal attack against him, is dead at the age of 85. By all accounts, Bork was
Robert Bork, former federal judge and Supreme Court nominee, has died due to heart complications in a Virginia hospital. Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1988 but withdrew his name from consideration after contentious Senate
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said House Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans “have threatened to abandon serious negotiations” to avert the fiscal cliff and warned Boehner’s Plan B counteroffer “will not pass the Senate.” According to The Hill,
By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTON The movie “Zero Dark Thirty” suggests the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques led the U.S. to Osama bin Laden. Sen. John McCain watched the movie Monday night and says it left him sick – because it’s wrong.
Today, on the editorial pages on The New York Times, Professor Adolph L. Reed, Jr. was allowed to launch a racialist attack against Republican Rep. Tim Scott, the black Republican recently named as Jim DeMint’s replacement in the U.S. Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the upper congressional chamber’s top Republican, wouldn’t throw his weight behind House Speaker John Boehner’s most recent fiscal cliff plan on Tuesday. McConnell told Breitbart News’ Kerry Picket that he’d rather not raise taxes on
Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp told Breitbart News he’s seriously concerned about Boehner’s fiscal cliff “plan B.” Huelskamp, a freshman, is emerging as a conservative leader after House Speaker John Boehner purged him from two fiscally focused committees. Boehner’s plan, a
The Wall Street Journal reports today that Newark Mayor Corey Booker, widely perceived as a potential 2013 Democratic nominee for New Jersey governor against incumbent Chris Christie, may forego that race and instead run for the New Jersey Senate seat
After Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye (D), who was third in the line of succession as president pro tempore of the Senate, died on Monday, concerns about the health of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is fourth in the line of
According to CBS reporter Jon Keller, actor-director Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt, aka Ben Affleck, a longtime liberal and devotee of anti-American author Howard Zinn, is considering running for John Kerry’s open Senate seat in Massachusetts. Writes Keller: Go ahead and laugh
(AP) Reid: Boehner fiscal cliff plan can’t pass SenateWASHINGTONSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid says a House Republican backup plan for avoiding the “fiscal cliff” can’t pass the Democratic-run Senate. House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that he was preparing a
Conservatives and taxpayer watchdog groups have examined the Senate’s $60.4 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill and have discovered it funds things completely unrelated to Hurricane relief. The bill appropriates money to fund Amtrak, Head Start centers, fix museum roofs and
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, (D-Ohio), whose spaceship should be landing any day now to take him back to the planet Zaxxon, called for a federal “Department of Peace” in the aftermath of the Newtown, Connecticut massacre. Kucinich blathered that there is
This week South Carolina’s Governor Nikki Haley finally announced she had selected U.S. Rep. Tim Scott to fill the U.S. Senate of the departing Jim DeMint. While the selection of Tim Scott would be consider historic by any standard of
On Monday, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced that she was appointing U.S. Congressman Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim DeMint. When he is sworn in on January 3, Scott will be the lone African
Calling it a “historic” and “new” day and flanked by nearly all of South Carolina’s congressional delegation, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Monday to fill outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint’s senate seat. Scott said he
After South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who is of Indian descent, appointed Rep. Tim Scott on Monday to Jim DeMint’s Senate seat, both were asked about and reflected on how Republicans can appeal to a broader demographic. When Scott replaces
(AP) Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii dead at 88By ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONSen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, the influential Democrat who broke racial barriers on Capitol Hill and played key roles in congressional investigations of the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals, died
(AP) Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii dead at 88By ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONSen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, the influential Democrat who broke racial barriers on Capitol Hill and played key roles in congressional investigations of the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals, died
While the rumor mill buzzes with reports that President Barack Obama will name Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry to be the nation’s next Secretary of State, United Nations ambassador Susan Rice’s team appears to be taking one last shot at
Sen. Daniel Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat, has died. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Inouye’s death on the Senate floor.
LosAngeles Times: Rep. Tim Scott, a freshman tea party Republican, will become South Carolina’s first black senator, Gov. Nikki Haley, announced Monday, appointing the congressman to fill the seat left vacant by Jim DeMint. Haley was joined by Scott and
Tim Scott has been appointed to fill the South Carolina Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Jim DeMint and immediately the racebaiters jumped in with both feet to attack him. One of the early hatemongers was Amos Brown, a
With Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) likely to replace retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton atop the State Department, a vacancy is slated to open for the Massachusetts Senate seat. Gov. Deval Patrick (D) will be filling it. Among the names
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) will appoint Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Monday to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, making Scott the Senate’s only black Senator and the first Republican African-American senator since Massachusetts’ Ed Brooke. Scott will be sworn in when
