Liberals would have you believe that so-called affirmative action in higher education was settled back in 2003, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race-based admissions policies at the University of Michigan School of Law were, more or less, constitutional.
Republican Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon is now essentially tied with Democrat Chris Murphy in a race Democrats felt would be a shoo-in for Murphy, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll. Murphy leads McMahon by one point in the
President Barack Obama has staffed his White House with more than a few radicals with bizarre views on both domestic and foreign policy. And throughout his political career, he has shared close personal and professional relationships with people whose outlook
According to a new poll conducted by Josh Mandel’s campaign, there is a statistical tie between Mandel and incumbent Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown. A Public Opinion Strategies poll taken Oct. 16-17 showed Brown at 44% and Mandel at 43%. Although
Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama by two points (49%-47%) in a D+7 poll of likely Virginia voters conducted by Wenzel Strategies, a firm that polls for conservatives and whose polls have had a high level of accuracy during the last election
Last week, in a little-noticed political bombshell, the US Chamber of Commerce has issued a new video ripping Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. According to the Chamber, during this election cycle, they will reach out to 7 million members
After a badly reported Gallup poll on important election issues, on October 20 CNN’s Carol Costello thought she had the answer as to why 39 percent of women felt that abortion was the top issue this election cycle: it’s the
(AP) George McGovern dies; lost 1972 presidential bidBy KRISTI EATON and WALTER R. MEARSAssociated PressSIOUX FALLS, S.D.George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way _ and that he had done so. It
In a debate last Thursday evening Josh Mandel, the Republican nominee for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat, called his opponent, radical leftist Sherrod Brown, a liar. Brown stammered back that that Mandel was cited by PolitiFact Ohio six times with
On Sunday The Houston Chronicle, which in 2008 broke a 44 year tradition of backing Republicans and endorsed Barack Obama, endorsed Mitt Romney for President in 2012: Like so many others, we were captivated by the Illinois senator’s soaring rhetoric and
CNBC’s Larry Kudlow is asking publicly what many voters have pondered privately: is President Barack Obama exploding welfare to buy votes? The facts Kudlow cites are alarming: According to Jeff Sessions, the rankingRepublican on the Senate Budget Committee, means-tested welfare
When you’re America’s most liberal senator locked in a tight race with a conservative challenger, it’s always a good thing when a damning YouTube that shows you praising organized crime disappears. Hard-left Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) appears in a 2008
Tammy Baldwin has come under fire for taking a $60,000 contribution from the Council for a Liveable World. In the October 18 debate with Gov. Tommy Thompson, Baldwin went on to deny having any knowledge of the group. The Council
The Romney/Ryan campaign and the Republican National Committee have moved 60 staffers into Pennsylvania, according to Sam Stein of the Huffington Post, the latest sign that the Republican Party sees the Keystone State as competitive. Recent polls showed the GOP
For several days, reports have circulated that attorney Gloria Allred–who always seems to surface when a Democrat is in trouble–is about to drop an “October surprise” on the Romney campaign. Speculation has surrounded a story published last week by the
During the fourth and final debate between Connecticut’s U.S. Senate candidates Chris Murphy (D) and Linda McMahon (R), Murphy said he believes life begins at birth, a position notably out of sync with most Americans. In May of this year,
PolitiFact Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s left-wing “fact checking” operation, has been invaluable to leftist Sherrod Brown for its writers’ attacks on his U.S. Senate challenger, conservative Josh Mandel. PolitiFact Ohio’s biased work has been the foundation for multiple Brown ads
By BRIAN BAKST and JACK GILLUMAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe latest trend in an election year marked by gushers of money? Big spenders going solo to spread a message. A billionaire investment broker is doling out millions to run a minute-long national ad
(AP) Victims want Fort Hood shooting deemed terror actFORT HOOD, TexasNearly three years after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, many of those affected are urging the government to declare it a terrorist attack, saying wounded soldiers and victims’ relatives
President Barack Obama has not been able to run on his record and has not presented a second-term agenda. But now, even his supporters are catching on to Obama’s lack of plans to fix the economy should he get elected.
What do Wall Street billionaires Michael Bloomberg, Peter Ackerman, and John Burbank III have in common with Eliot R. Cutler (pictured at left), the former Independent candidate for governor in Maine and a current State Chairman for the Maine United
Two new polls have incumbent Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) pulling away from embattled Rep. Shelley Berkeley (D-NV) in their Senate race. According to a poll from SurveyUSA, Heller leads 46-40; according to Rasmussen, Heller leads 50-43. The margin of the
It is always stunning to learn the truths about certain elected officials in our government. In a startling revelation from Media Trackers Wisconsin, Rep. Tammy Baldwin co-sponsored legislation to block funding of body armor and medical supplies to our troops
Moderator Liz Benjamin asked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and her Republican challenger Wendy Long at the New York’s Senate race debate on Wednesday “Have you read 50 Shades of Grey?”
The Cuban Missile Crisis proved to be one of the most frightening chapters in 20th century history, a time when nuclear war was a very real possibility. Now, a St. Louis-based bar known for welcoming Democrats like Sen. Claire McCaskill,
