Suddenly Yahoo News wants you all to know that polls showing a big Romney surge are “meaningless at this stage in the election.” Author David Rothschild says that we should just ignore the polls. Obama is still winning and that
As the media pushes the cosmetic differences between the two presidential candidates, I have long said that this election is about a fundamental question: Do you want more government or less government? After the release of President Obama’s interview with
President Obama has lately been touting the claim that he’s created 5.2 million new jobs as President. His fantastic boast is featured in a new TV ad. But FactCheck.org says not so fast. Those claims are “inflated,” to say the
Rising enthusiasm for Mitt Romney’s surging presidential candidacy has driven Americans to the donation box: Romney’s campaign raised a whopping $112 million in 17 days of October, according to the Republican National Committee. Much of that giving was obviously driven
Conventional wisdom is that Obama might have won the debate but he didn’t do enough to change the race. Obviously, that’s up to the voters, but for now the CW is all we have: Mitt Romney wins. That’s not to
On Oct 19 President Obama delivered a speech claiming Al Qaeda is nearing defeat. On that same day, Al Qaeda delivered an attack on a Yemeni army base that killed 24. Obama told a cheering crowd: “Four years ago, I
The U.N. claims the U.S. Border Patrol has gotten somewhat trigger happy on the U.S./Mexico border. They base this claim on a recent shooting in which a Mexican teenager was killed while part of a group of teens that was
According to First Lady Michelle Obama, appearing on Pablo Sato’s show on WPGC 95.5 in Washington, D.C., “we are seeing right now that we are in the midst of a huge recovery. Right? Because of what this president has done.”
In the world of journalism, no bad deed goes unrewarded. Take the case of former Washington bureau chief for Yahoo! News, David Chalian. You may recall that he was fired after he was heard saying during the Republican National Convention
A Danish wind turbine company whose subsidiaries received over $50 million in U.S. stimulus dollars announced on Friday it has cut more than 800 jobs in the United States and Canada this year and may be forced to lay off
James Clapper, director of National Intelligence (DNI), has come out swinging against his critics, just two weeks after his public affairs director said that US intelligence had initially labeled the attacks on our Benghazi consulate “spontaneous.” Back on September 28,
What is the truth about the horrific attack in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012 that killed our ambassador to Libya and three others? And why has it been so hard to get that truth out of the Obama administration? We
The Obama campaign beclowned itself this morning on a conference call attacking Mitt Romney’s “dishonesty on abortion,” in an attempt to stop Romney’s effort “to close the deal” (in the words of Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter). Not content to point
As if to confirm all the scuttle surrounding GOP enthusiasm, how effective Romney’s ground game is, and reports from other states about Romney’s advantage in early voting, today the Tampa Bay Times reports some pretty phenomenal numbers. I should be
Professional athletes rarely take public stands on political issues, but Maryland’s gay marriage initiative has pitted two Baltimore Ravens football players — Matt Birk and Brendon Ayanbadejo — against each other. Another football player, Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, has
LONDON (Reuters) – A leading media watchdog has accused Iran of trying to cow journalists into silence and self-censorship, adding to international pressure on Tehran over its treatment of activists and the press. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists
Seemingly disparate calls for enforcement mechanisms to encourage “religious tolerance” throughout the world are slowing but surely coalescing around the pursuit of laws banning criticism of Islam or Mohammed. We’ve seen this approach to speech in Islamist countries, where criticism
If “The Dark Knight” couldn’t earn a Best Picture nomination, “The Avengers” has virtually no chance of getting one this awards season. Yet “The Master,” a seriously flawed film from beloved auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, is an odds-on favorite to
Anthony E. Zuiker is responsible for one of modern television’s most durable franchises – “C.S.I.” That’s the kind of clout that should give Zuiker the creative freedom most artists crave. You won’t find his latest project on ABC, CBS, Fox
Toyota has scrapped plans for widespread manufacturing and sale of a new mini-car that was to be powered as electric only. Reuters reports that Toyota stated they “had misread the market and the ability of still emerging battery technology to
On Saturday, Michelle Obama compared the voter ID laws that were passed to combat voter fraud to other laws in the past that had denied blacks their civil rights. She called the battle against voter ID laws the “march of
The 33,000 troops Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan as part of the 2009 surge have been withdrawn to bolster the president’s war-victory claims in the upcoming election. The troops were originally sent to push back the Taliban and create safe
President Barack Obama’s fundraising trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday–shameful though it may have been, in the midst of a deadly foreign policy crisis–was a sign of how important Nevada remains to his re-election prospects. Mitt Romney was in the
Instead of questioning President Barack Obama about the intelligence and security failures that led to the deaths of four diplomatic personnel in Libya Tuesday, the media has focused its ire on a California private citizen. The filmmaker allegedly behind the
The Democratic National Committee is trying to cover up an incident at the party’s National Convention in which a Puerto Rican member of the New Progressive Party called a politician of African descent a “monkey” at a DNC luncheon. Lornna
