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The U.S. Senate campaign of Linda McMahon, a Republican from Connecticut, has filed an ethics complaint against McMahon’s opponent, Congressman Chris Murphy (D-CT), with the Office of Congressional Ethics. The complaint charges that Murphy received preferential treatment in 2008 from

Yesterday, appropriators in the House released the text of a bill to prevent a government shutdown when the fiscal year ends on October 1. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) agreed on the bill’s

Scott Van Duzer, the owner of a Florida pizza shop who made a name for himself when he spontaneously bear-hugged President Barack Obama on Sunday, said Floridians are now boycotting his restaurant.  “People are saying a lot of bad things

The Obama administration is famous for its crony capitalism. It’s famous for wasting money on disastrous investments like Solyndra to pay off its political allies. It now appears, however, that they go a step further: they put public funds in bad investment loans,

In another sign her campaign is not paying attention to details, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was caught on video in Worcester on Saturday autographing a copy of the Pow Wow Chow cookbook that contains her own plagiarized recipes.

Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown has accused Jewish opponent Josh Mandel of employing “the big lie,” a term coined by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf to cast aspersions on European Jews. The accusation was not an off-the-cuff remark but an attack

On Friday, Democratic Massachusetts State Representative Chris Fallon endorsed incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown: Malden State Rep. Chris Fallon became the first sitting Democrat to endorse Republican Sen. Scott Brown Friday, calling the endorsement of his “long time” friend an “easy

Even though Democrats control the Senate and the White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Friday blamed Republicans for the poor August jobs report in which 96,000 jobs were added and the unemployment only went down to 8.1%

By CARLA K. JOHNSONAssociated PressCHICAGOU.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has returned to his home in Washington after treatment for depression at Mayo Clinic, Jackson’s chief of staff in suburban Chicago said Friday. Congress goes back into session Monday following its

John Kerry, the despicably anti-American head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is rumored to be a candidate to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, had the gall last night to speak of American exceptionalism as well as

When Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson cut his “Cornhusker Kickback” deal and cast the deciding vote on ObamaCare, his political career was finished. While he initially made a pretense of possibly running for reelection, he eventually bowed to reality and announced

The Susan B. Anthony List will air a powerful pro-life commercial during President Obama’s speech at the DNC. The ad will showcase President Obama’s extreme record on abortion. The video features Melissa Ohden, an abortion survivor. Then Illinois Senator Obama

Bill Clinton’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention was a brilliant act performed by a master magician. It was also, like all magic, sleight-of-hand.  Actually, to be more blunt, it was a toxic, 50-minute bromide of lies, prevarications,

At least five themes coming out of the Democratic National Convention need refuting by conservatives and Republicans. 1. Sure, the economy is a disaster, but President Obama really, really cares about, like, you know, people and stuff. Conservative Comeback:   If

They loved Elizabeth Warren’s DNC speech in San Francisco: ELIZABETH WARREN: Sensible. She projects “sensible,” but don’t mistake that for a lack of passion, or a lack of political instinct. She also projects “relentless.” Warren took a crowd ready to

For the self described “intellectual godmother” of Occupy Wall Street, Elizabeth Warren’s fifteen minute speech to the DNC sounded more like a well rehearsed lecture filled with standard left-wing platitudes delivered by a politically correct graduate student than the William

The Democratic National Convention tonight is pinning its hopes on the shredded credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, who has been caught telling so many blatant lies during the course of her campaign she has become a national

Even before the opening gavel, embattled Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has told her first lie at the Democratic National Convention.  Appearing on NBC’s Today Show Tuesday morning, she made this statement to Savannah Guthrie: “When Romney says his plan

Nothing pumps up Democrats like screeching about abortion, and in that spirit, Nancy Keenan or National Abortion Rights Action League Pro-Choice America took the stage tonight to wild applause. “We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent

Tonight, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the podium to lie repeatedly about President Obama’s record. In flowing tones, he explained, “Some said he shouldn’t move heaven and earth to get bin Laden.” Just who said that, aside

The U.S. national debt surpassed $16 trillion on Tuesday as the Democratic National Convention convened.  When President Barack Obama was sworn into office, the country’s debt was under $10 trillion, which means under Obama the country’s debt has increased by

Former Congressman Bart Stupak admits a compromise he made with Barack Obama to pass the Affordable Care Act is invalidated by HHS’s controversial mandate for taxpayer-funded contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs. Today Breeanne Howe of RedState and I attended a Democrats For Life panel during