Even though Democrats quickly followed news of the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting with renewed calls for the kind of background checks contained in the failed Senate gun control bill, the facts demonstrate one clear point: The failed Senate gun bill
This article was originally posted on powerlineblog.com and written by John Hinderacker. In New Hampshire, Scott Brown has pulled into a statistical dead heat with incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. Brown is not a staunch conservative on every issue; if he
GOP leaders are clamoring behind the scenes to massively increase the number of guest-worker visas for high-tech companies if Republicans control Congress after the midterms. According to The Hill, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) recently said that “there is agreement on
Billionaire Tom Steyer’s climate change super-PAC, NextGen Climate Action, has targeted Colorado Republican U.S. Senate candidate Cory Gardner for his support of a “personhood” measure that would give legal rights to humans beginning at conception. As The Hill reports, NextGen
AUSTIN, Texas — Friday night’s debate between Texas Senator John Cornyn and his Democrat challenger David Alameel held few surprises as Cornyn, the incumbent viewed by virtually all political observers as a shoe-in for reelection, stayed positive, while Alameel sought
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham told Breitbart News that incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) is hurting American workers by supporting amnesty for illegal aliens and a massive increase in legal immigration. “At a time
The Ending Spending Action Fund has upped the ante in Georgia with a new $1.3 million ad buy, hitting Democrat Michelle Nunn across three fronts: her deference to an ever more unpopular Obama; Nunn’s ultimately embarrassing attempt to use former President George
Transparency and a free press may not be among North Carolina Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan’s priorities as she struggles to hold onto her Senate seat. She and her campaign insist “Solardyne/Green State Power, a company co-owned by Sen. Hagan’s husband Chip
A radio ad from a super PAC run by former aides to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is tying the death of Trayvon Martin to GOP Senate candidate Thom Tillis. The ad, a recording of which was posted online, says “Tillis
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is marshaling the conservative movement forces to the Granite State on behalf of former Sen. Scott Brown. Sessions, in a letter to the public asking them to
Radio’s Mark Levin told Breitbart News that if a Georgia or Louisiana loss is the reason why the Democrats keep control of the Senate in November, it’s the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s fault. “I hope everyone understands that if Harry
BuzzFeed’s Evan-McMorris-Santaro is blaming a Democrat tracker for a hit on Republican Georgia Senate candidate David Perdue that blew up in the left-wing outlet’s face. Why it’s a “fail” for a Democrat tracker to assume Buzzfeed will post oppo-research without
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie needs more help from the Republican party’s Victory 365 ground game to defeat incumbent Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) in next month’s election, despite good reviews in the conservative media for his campaigning style
Barely a week after the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) announced it was not going to fund additional television ads in support of challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes’ campaign to defeat incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Kentucky U.S. Senate
Rep. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) Senate campaign announced Friday it has purchased television time and will be airing a 14-minute long campaign ad focused on Cotton’s connections to his hometown and personal history. According to the campaign, the lengthy ad —
A top Democrat pollster summed up the challenge facing Democrats in the election just over a week away. “I think Obama being so unpopular is the biggest factor in this election,” Tom Jensen, a pollster with the left-leaning firm Public Policy
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) flubbed a Martin Luther King Jr. quote on Thursday, during an event. Watch below: A h/t to the Republican National Committee who provided Breitbart News with the clip.
CONCORD, New Hampshire — Incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) lied at least twice about the Senate immigration bill during Thursday night’s debate against former Sen. Scott Brown. The first lie Shaheen told about the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” bill
In the wake of news that an American doctor who recently returned from West Africa tested positive for Ebola in New York City, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis called on President Obama to start exhibiting leadership. “The American people
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Ron Wyden says the CIA is trying to blunt the impact of an upcoming Senate report examining the harsh treatment of al-Qaida detainees by insisting on censoring the pseudonyms used for agency officers mentioned in the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is preparing to transfer a military detainee in Afghanistan for criminal trial in Virginia, U.S. officials said Thursday. The move would mark the first time a military detainee from Afghanistan was brought to the
In a decision that is sure to inflame San Francisco politics, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District Charles Breyer ruled Tuesday a San Francisco law requiring landlords to pay displaced tenants the difference between current rent and the amount needed to
On Thursday Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst decided to skip a meeting with The Des Moines Register’s editorial board saying that the paper has so favored her opponent that her time would be better spent campaigning. This prompted a
Georgia Senate Democratic Nominee Michelle Nunn said in an online interview on Thursday that she believes in using the death of Ferguson, Missouri resident Mike Brown as a “platform to have a conversation” in her campaign. When asked twice if
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is certain that Barack Obama is campaigning to help Democrats retain control of teh Senate … she’s just not clear on where that may be happening. Reports Bloomberg, the Chairwoman insisted Obama “is campaigning
