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“2014 voters are hawkish,” according to J. Ann Selzer, after conducting an Iowa poll for The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics. That can’t help but be more good news for a Republican Party as we move toward the November elections.

In what came as a bit of a surprise in political circles, the Denver Post editorial board on Friday endorsed Republican Rep. Cory Gardner over Democrat incumbent Senator Mark Udall in the Colorado Senate race. Seeing a need for “fresh

The celebrity Gossip News site TMZ makes its bread and butter covering ritzy celebrity events like the one President Obama attended at actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s house in Brentwood, Thursday.  Here’s a photo from the fundraiser via Twitchy: Creepy RT @dsupervilleap:

A funny thing happened on the way to the Governor’s mansion for Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s wife, Cylvia Hayes. While Hayes told Kitzhaber about two previous marriages, she failed to mention a third. And it looks like it was a

The media may be reporting the quote verbatim, but Jeanne Shaheen’s message to barack Obama as she’s fighting to keep her Senate seat there couldn’t be more clear. Stay out of New Hampshire, Barack! Shaheen to MSNBC on whether or a

The most offensive thing in Bill Maher’s public debate with Ben Affleck wasn’t his characterization of radical Islam, which attempted to stick to facts, it was his assumption that liberals and only liberals should be able to offer facts in

At the intersection of neurotic dumbassery and opportunism lies the American legal system, where the beverage company that makes Red Bull just decided to settle after being sued for the failure to give people “wings,” as promised in their advertising.

Kansas Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate Greg Orman may not say much about precisely how he’ll vote if elected to the Senate, but at a press gaggle after the recent Johnson County Public Policy Forum in Overland Park, KS, he

The producer of a movie that criticizes Obamacare is being slapped with an IRS audit and he suspects that the invasive probe is politically motivated. Via the Washington Times: Logan Clements, producer of “Sick and Sicker: ObamaCare Canadian Style,” announced

In response to Obama Chides the GOP For Being ‘In The Pocket Of Billionaires’ Before Attending Fundraiser At Billionaire’s House : That’s the state of liberalism in the Obama era: the President gets paid by some billionaires to say mean

In response to First US Ebola Patient Dies: During a press conference at the State Departmemt, today, Secretary of State John Kerry addressed the urgent need to contain the spread of Ebola in the wake of the first Ebola death

The Nameless Non-War spills out from the hazy borders of Syria and Iraq into Germany, where Kurds and Islamists had to be separated with water cannon, as reported by Reuters: German police used water cannon to stop clashes between hundreds

In response to Why Bill O’Reilly’s Interview with Leon Panetta was So Devastating to President Obama: It’s funny how the president’s loyalists in the MSM are covering Panetta’s devastating book by questioning whether a former administration official should write a

Remember that classic Motley Crue  song “Girls! Girls! Girls!?” Well, that song, which is arguably the official national anthem for all strip clubs around the U.S. and probably the world, could now become the theme song for Democrat Charlie Crist’s

Mitt Romney was early in his endorsement of Iowa republican Joni Ernst, now, with a month left until election day, he’s returning to do two public events for her next week. Another recent Romney claim that he won’t be running

Bravo to Jason Mattera for doing the work the mainstream media should have been doing for nearly two years now: — — By simply doing what should be standard operating procedure in our media, Mattera looks like some sort of

Hillary was asked about her position on the Keystone XL pipeline Monday during an interview that took place in Canada. Rather than answer the question by simply saying what she believes, she chose to dodge. “Well, you know I can’t

In response to Are You Ready For Hillary-Krieg? : I’d say good ol’ Leon Panetta is riding in the vanguard of that Hillary-krieg, doing the important work of setting up an implicit contrast between Madame Secretary and the semi-retired amateur

It’s bad enough that the Obama Justice Department is set to ban federal law enforcement officers from surveilling mosques without evidence of criminal activity.  After a member of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma (ISGOC)  beheaded a woman at his workplace,

Hey, did you know President Obama’s already-debatable authority to unilaterally bomb Iraq and Syria runs out today?  Is the War Powers Act still “the settled law of the land,” to borrow a phrase?  Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) lays out the

In response to Ebola Scare in Kansas City : Via KCTV – 5: The person who was rushed to Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri Saturday night is a man – not a woman as previously reported, and hospital

It can hardly be called a ‘blitzkrieg,’ or lightening war, as Hillary Clinton has already been around forever, while showing no signs of going away; however, as Maggie Haberman points out in Politico, Hillary is upping her offense, whether you

While the media has been quick to carry Barack Obama’s mid-term water in pushing the notion that unemployment is down to “5.9% … its lowest level since 2008,” what they aren’t pointing out is how disastrous the Obama economy has

At about 9:30  Saturday night, a Kansas City apartment building was sealed off as a seriously ill person was taken to Research Medical Center for treatment.  A source close to the situation said “all or part of the medical facility was

You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh at climate change cultist Eric Holthaus sobbing (literally) over the latest tract from the Church of Global Warming and deciding to do his bit to encourage a more primitive lifestyle by

The House Oversight Committee is pursuing another contempt of court charge, and possibly a daily monetary fine,  and jail time for outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder unless he complies with a court order to release certain Fast and Furious documents. Via

Barack Obama, with his sagging popularity, opened the door for the GOP when he recently suggested the November mid-terms are all about him.  Now, Republicans are seizing on the comments in competitive races all over the country – including New

I’ve probably got enough material from various contributors to put together a symposium on the utterly stupid behavior of supposedly super-intelligent government.  Let me loop David Harsanyi at The Federalist in to make one more point about the Ineptocracy: the

Speaker John Boehner is up for reelection to his post next year, and it seems that he could have a tough time getting the votes he needs to win. The conservative wing of the House is not happy with him,

As the story unfolded of how Ebola carrier Thomas Duncan waltzed right through every layer of protection the U.S. government has erected against contagion – the very same barriers Barack Obama was touting as nigh-infallible just a few weeks ago,

Having focused his campaign primarily on women’s issues and under a withering assault from Republicans for being soft on terrorism and national security, “Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colorado) launched a new TV ad Friday that touts his determination to defeat terrorist group ISIS.

More than 200 statues of Lenin have been pulled down in Ukraine this year by protesters seeking to symbolically reject Russian influence in the country. Using a site called Leninopad (traslation: Leninfall), protesters upload before and after pictures of the