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WaPo: Foreign and Illegal Immigrant Money Funding Democrats

The Obama White House and Democrats charged recently that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations are using foreign money in the 2010 campaign. In his Washington Post column today, Marc Thiessen points out that the Democrats are getting

ObamaCare: Union Members Are Paying the Price

By now, most Americans know how hard union bosses pushed, tugged, bullied and threatened, using tens of millions of their members’ money on advertising and lobbying, all to get health care reform passed. Most Americans also remember (though many did

Attn MSM: Here's Evidence of Foreign Campaign Donations

Folks who watched CBS “Face the Nation” yesterday were greeted by a once-in-a-lifetime miracle occurrence: host Bob Schieffer taking a contrary position to one of the Administration’s talking points. Talking to White House political director David Axelrod about the President’s

Peter Jackson vs. The Unions

So my good friends, the labor unions, have decided to pick a fight with Peter Jackson and his upcoming production of “The Hobbit.” Of course, they are not my good friends, I say that sarcastically. Unions in general are bad

In Praise of Carly Fiorina

There is a brief story by Jim Carlton in the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal entitled “Fiorina Stays Away from Middle Road,” and in the cover story for the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes describes

3 Reasons Obama's Education Vision Deserves an F

President Barack Obama is making his bid to be “the education president.” At the start of NBC’s recent Education Nation summit in New York, Obama appeared on the Today Show and touted what he claimed were a wide-ranging set of

Teachers Union Spends $15M to Protect Status Quo

It should come as no surprise that unions are spending big bucks to keep their Democratic friends in power. And with good reason: Does anyone honestly believe with fiscal conservatives in control of Congress, legislation like last summer’s $10 billion

The Christie Way vs. The Quinn Way

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is traveling to Springfield, Illinois today to do a fundraiser for Bill Brady, the Republican gubernatorial candidate. While he’s in town, Christie should drop by the capitol and give Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, a Democrat,