**UPDATED** The Obama political machine’s race to the bottom has dived deepbeneath the muck of Harry Reid’s lies about Romney’s taxes and finally hit bedrock. Today Priorities USA released a new ad that will surely rank among the ugliest and
Since Harry Reid claimed that an anonymous source told him Romney didn’t pay any taxes for ten years, he’s taken a lot of flack. At first it was only from the right, but increasingly the left is now calling Reid
The remnants of Occupy Oakland have been staging a weekly “FTP” march to protest police brutality. This Friday the march also took up a new cause, the ability of vendors to get permits for a monthly street fair called “Art
Bill Clinton’s parsing of the word is during a deposition on the Lewinsky scandal arguably became the low point in his presidency. A report on the Solyndra debacle issued Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce committee reveals a similar
The FBI coordinated raids of houses in several northwest cities including Seattle and Portland have sparked a response by activists sympathetic to the black bloc targets of the raid. Vandals took credit for attacking an Oakland PD substation and also
Senator Patrick Leahy had no comment about a new House GOP report that shows member of the White House staff conducting official business with private email accounts in order to sidestep the law. Neither did the Citizens for Responsibility and
A report issued Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce committee documents the extent to which political concerns trumped due diligence in the Solyndra loan approval. The report shows that the initial announcement of the DOE loan guarantee to the
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a reportTuesday which details some of the ways in which the Obama White Househas side-stepped its promise to be transparent in the way it conductsbusiness. This means it’s a good time to
When White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer put up a “factcheck” on the official White House blog last week he was pulling nopunches. He pushed back on the “patently false” claim that “PresidentObama removed the bust of Winston Churchill from
The FBI has performed multiple raidsof homes belonging to suspected anarchists in Portland, Oregon and in Olympia and Seattle, Washington. Five grand jury subpoenas have beenissued in connection with the searches. Photos from a raid carried out in Portland show
Pat Quinn is the Democratic Governor of Illinois. His state currentlyhas $83 billion in unfunded pension liabilities and no plan for dealingwith them. Monday, Gov. Quinn called for a special legislative sessionto address pensions, saying, “This is a crying need of
The Obama administration quietly released a new budget report Fridayafternoon at a time calculated to make sure it received minimalattention. The highlights of the new report are a pair of new estimates,the first of this year’s deficit and the second
Protests against the Anaheim police department continued Sunday with as many as 350 people marching and chanting outside police headquarters. The protests are in response to two officer-involved shootings which took place last weekend. Video of the scene outside police
One of President Obama’s supposed strengths heading into this year’selection is his decision to bail out automakers, in particular GeneralMotors. GM made record profits in 2011, though that success has slumped a bit in 2012. A story published Friday in
Jonathan Chait has a piece at New York magazine proposing a novel newinsight on why Obama’s “you didn’t build that” gaffe is hurting thePresident. The “real reason“according to Chait is that Obama was speaking in “black dialect.” Inother words, the
During Thursday’s regular press briefing White House Spokesman JayCarney was asked by ABC’s White House correspondent Jake Tapper aboutthe unattributed “Anglo-Saxon” comments which drew a negative responsefrom Vice President Biden. Carney referred that question to the campaignthen offered his positive
CBS News published an article on its website Wednesday afternoon with the misleading headline “Romney claims many Aurora weapons were illegal.”This makes it sound as if Romney is keeping up with the news, since theguns used by shooter James Holmes
One of the five men accused of attempting to blow up a bridge in Ohio to make an Occupy-themed political statement has pleaded guilty.Anthony Hayne, who has a prior record for theft, will testify againsthis four co-conspirators in exchange for
A shooting by police in Anaheim, CA has led to four days ofprotests which seem to be growing more unruly with each passing day.Last night, 24 people were arrested after windows at local businesseswere broken and several trash bins were
The Obama campaign has been struggling lately. Obama’s “you didn’tbuild that” gaffe capped weeks of gloomy jobs numbers and fallinglikability for the President. But if there’s one thing team Obama hasgoing for it, it’s a surfeit of telegenic celebrities. George
Last Wednesday I had the chance to attend the L.A. screening of DineshD’Souza’s new film “2016: Obama’s America.” The film is essentially avisual treatment of D’Souza’s book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” Both the film and the book advance the
Wednesday, Buzzfeed publisheda document and a brief video clip to suggest that Romney was still CEOof Bain Capital after 1999. Here’s the description that goes with thearticle: Mitt Romney has spent much of the last week arguing that, despitesome public
Compton’s treasurer informed the city council Tuesday that he did not have enough cash on hand to make payments on city bonds. The city is currently $42 million in debt and the LA Times reports that Compton has “consistently fallen
The President’s statement about the importance of the public sectorat a stop in Roanoke, VA has received a lot of attention, mostly for hiscomment about private sector businesses. But there’s a lot more in this speech which deserves scrutiny. To
When Occupy LA took up residence in the park around LA’s City Hall in2011 the building was surrounded by a well-maintanined lawn. Months ofcamping at the site reduced it to a filthy, barren landscape where only the trees survived (and
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley this Sunday,political adviser David Axelrod stated that the President saw taxloopholes differently than Mitt Romney: “I’m not suggesting that, basedon what we know, that he’s done anything illegal. I’m not
James Fallows at The Atlantic is a big fan of anonymous quotes in hisblog posts. Just last month I noted that he was using an anonymous (andfalse, it turned out) quote to accuse Mitt Romney of being a “liar.” Shortly
The head of British Secret Service spoke publicly about covert action in Iran for the first time this week. Sir John Sawer, head of MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA,said joint operations by the British, Americans and Israelis had
Jonathan Chait was pretty excited about the Boston Globe’s front page story on Bain Capital yesterday. The Globereport held the momentary promise of enabling Obama’s toughest attackson Romney to be judged, (or rather re-adjudicated) by fact checkers atthe Post and
Thursday morning the Boston Globe published a story alleging that Mitt Romney worked at Bain Capital three years longer thanhe has publicly claimed. The Obama campaign jumped on this with a conference call for reporters during which a senior campaign
The Boston Globe has quite a racket going. They identify valuableresearch from other news sites and then turn them into their own front pagestories, stories which forget to mention the source of the information. Case in point, a Boston Globe
After the collapse of Solyndra last summer, Department of EnergySecretary Chu was called to Congress to explain the bad decision makingthat led to a $500 million dollar loss for taxpayers. Chu’stestimony in November 2011 was widely regarded as self-serving nonsense.The
The reviews are in and everyone agrees Obama’s swing state adattacking Mitt Romney on the abortion issue is dishonest. Romney’s camp called the ad false the moment it appeared. Time magazine’s Michael Scherer does a nice job summarizing the bogus
Democrats are taking their class warfare to a new level this year. As revealed in a Politico storyyesterday, paid campaign trackers are being sent to film the homes ofGOP candidates and, in an unprecedented step, the footage is beingupload to
NY police announced Tuesday that DNA found at the scene of a 2004 murder of a young woman matchesDNA left on a chain used to prop open NY subway gates as part of anOccupy protest. Eight years ago Sarah Fox went
A report by the Wall Street Journallooks at the amount of money spent by unions on political organizingand finds it is actually four times the amount reported in FEC filings.Since 2005, unions have spent $4.4 billion on direct donations andorganizing
The Department of Justice has been waging a battle against Texas’photo ID voting law since last July. That battle became more openlypartisan this week when it was revealed that the DOJ hired a progressivevoter data firm called Catalist to supplement
The Labor Department released jobs numbers for June today and theresults were disappointing. Estimates were that non-farm payrollwould add around 100k jobs last month. Instead they added just 80K,which is just over half the number needed to keep up with
While most Americans were celebrating the 4th of July Wednesday, thedegenerate remains of Occupy Oakland held a “F*ck the 4th” march throughdowntown which featured vandalism, death threats and a flag burning. There were a total of 60 marchers in all,
