The Second Presidential Debate featured repeated claims by each candidate that the other was not telling the truth–as well as at least one claim of fact by the moderator that turned out to be false. There were even questionable claims
Why go see a movie with a title like “Hating Breitbart?” In this shill-a-minute, 24-7 multimedia news cycle, what’s the point of looking back, to analyze in depth the ephemeral headlines of 2010, the squabbles between the NAACP and the
Sen. Tom Coburn’s Wastebook 2012 is replete with fantastic examples of idiotic federal government spending. When the left complains that tax revenues aren’t high enough, the proper answer is that we should start by cutting stupidities like the “Prom Week”
According to Sen. Tom Coburn’s Wastebook 2012, released this morning, the federal government spent $30,000 on a grant to University of Washington and Cornell University researchers. Their task: to determine whether “gaydar” – the ability to instantly tell whether someone
Supporters of Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren were caught on video ridiculing and demeaning a gay staffer working on Republican Senator Scott Brown’s campaign. According to the Weekly Standard, Warren’s supporters heckled Ross Hemminger, Youth Coordinator for the Scott Brown for
President Obama is taking heat from another prominent fellow Democrat over his energy policies. On Thursday, North Dakota Senate candidate Democrat Heidi Heitkamp said at a North Dakota Chamber of Commerce forum that she would tell the President, “You’re wrong
After Mitt Romney’s dominating debate win over President Barack Obama during their first presidential debate, Romney has taken the lead over or closed the gap with Obama in every swing state. Yet the mainstream media has been claiming that in
The Boston Globe reported Monday that Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren raised $12.1 million for her campaign in the 3rd quarter ending September 30, 2012. That brings the total raised to $36 million. Yet more than 40% of these funds–an
The Boston Globe reported Monday that Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren raised $12.1 million for her campaign in the 3rd quarter ending September 30, 2012. That brings the total raised to $36 million. Yet more than 40% of these funds–an estimated
That sound you hear from Maine is Angus King breaking wind – for gas. King has spent his career making money off championing the use of wind for energy, and used to decry the use of natural gas, but somehow
(AP) Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter diesBy PETER JACKSONAssociated PressHARRISBURG, Pa.Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Republican-turned-Democrat who played a key role in many Supreme Court nominations, has died. He was 82. His son Shanin Specter says
Is there any doubt that Candy Crowley, who will moderate the next Romney-Obama debate, will use her liberal bias to help Obama? This is the same woman who had this to say after Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his
In the wake of Barack Obama’s disastrous debate performance, and clear signs that Mitt Romney is gaining momentum in the final weeks of the campaign, the media this morning are seizing on a new poll showing Obama up 2 percent
Federal authorities are investigating Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) for “suspicious activity” involving allowance money his House office receives to operate offices in Washington, D.C. and Illinois. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, authorities are investigating the possibility of “inappropriate expenditures” of the funds.
In 2010, GOP candidates for federal office had a banner year in Illinois. The GOP picked up 4 House seats and a U.S. Senate seat in President Obama’s adopted home state. State party GOP candidates fared less well, however. The
The Dow lost 2% last week to mark the sharpest weekly decline in four months. These losses occurred despite the Obama Administration’s best efforts to tout the highly controversial surprise drop in unemployment to 7.8%. At least three factors
By ANDREW MIGAAssociated PressWASHINGTONTwelve years after leaving the White House, Bill Clinton is campaigning as if he’s in the political race of his life. In some ways, he is. Clinton is endorsing President Barack Obama and Democrats in tight races
By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio Friends of coal are certain they know the enemy. They fault President Barack Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency for new clean air rules they deride as a devastating blow to a multibillion-dollar industry
The Energy Committee for Israel (ECI) just launched a television ad that will run for ten days against Wisconsin Senate Democrat candidate Tammy Baldwin. Baldwin, who has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1999, is seeking
Texans in State Senate District 10 need to get to the polls on Election Day and vote the conservative Dr. Mark Shelton to replace Liberal Wendy Davis. The district’s demographics are in Dr. Shelton’s favor, and he’s exactly the conservative we
Yesterday, in a case that will determine the fate of affirmative action in higher education, the Supreme Court heard Abigail Fisher’s challenge to race-base admissions at the University of Texas at Austin. With the possible exception of the Fisher case,
In “Making Credit Safer,” a 2008 Pennsylvania Law Review article co-authored with Owen Gill, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren argued that American consumers are, in essence, too simple-minded to understand credit and therefore must be protected by the federal
A new Rasmussen poll has found that Connecticut Senate Democratic candidate Chris Murphy has a five-point lead over Republican candidate Linda McMahon, 51%-46%. The survey of 500 likely voters was conducted following a rather contentious debate between the candidates on
By PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated PressWASHINGTONTo prepare for his biggest test yet on the national stage, untested debater Paul Ryan has been hauling two thick briefing books around the country and intently studying up on Vice President Joe Biden, who has been
Suppose you are a senior who chooses a private health insurance plan or natural methods of treating illness. You should be able to forgo Medicare and pay for your own treatment, shouldn’t you? Not unless you’re prepared to give up
