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In response to Palin, Robertson Head All Star Line Up For Cassidy in Louisiana : I have a feeling that the entire Republican Party, including the squishy ones in the middle, and those that lean further right than others in

I’ve long been fascinated with the business of manufactured popularity, in which various forms of sock puppetry are used to make a person or product seem much more popular than it actually is.  It’s amazingly easy to do on the

CBS News is careful to note that the State Department shut down its unclassified email system to repair “possible” damage from a “suspected” hacker attack, but those suspicions must run pretty deep to justify the measures that were taken: A

“We don’t need a fundamental transformation of America, we need a fundamental restoration of all that’s good and safe and free in America,” said former Alaskan Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin at a recent event in support

In response to Senator Chris Murphy, Jake Tapper and the Unsung Villains of GruberGate: It’s amazing to think we reached the end of the week with a hard blackout imposed on the Gruber story by two major networks, ABC and

An amazingly stupid story with a clever Twitter hashtag, #shirtstorm, has been brewing for the past couple of days.  Long story short, one of the brilliant scientists who just landed a space probe on a moving comet decided to wear

If ever an occasion called for a Hitler downfall parody, GruberGate is it. Courtesy of Michelle Obama’s Mirror, Der Fuhrer is not pleased to find out Field Marshal Gruber has spilled the beans on the ObamaCare deceptions and called the

In a tweet Saturday morning, Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn. demonstrated his party’s contempt for their voters by attempting to shame reporters who are covering the ObamaCare scandal that has come to be known as “GruberGate.” Said Murphy via Twitchy: It’s

You hear a lot of liberal rhetoric from some of the top brass at Google, including open-borders ideology, and then you read stories like this one from Reuters: Google was sued this week by a worker who claimed the company

Realizing the significance of keeping Jonathan Gruber’s growing number of newly discovered revealing statements regarding the formulation and passage of the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, Texas Senator ted Cruz is out with a new web video hitting ObamaCare architect

At first glance, I thought this video from Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) concerned President Obama’s Net Neutrality push.  While Senator Cruz has been outspoken about Net Neutrality, in this case he’s warning about dethroned Democrats forcing a different bad idea

Clearly Republican Bob Portman wants the media talking up the notion that he’s considering a run for the presidency. But given his deep ties to D.C. and both previous Bush administrations, one has to wonder how he would keep any

In response to 5th Video Shows Gruber Laughing At and Mocking ObamaCare Critic’s Accurate Predictions: Shed no tears for Jonathan Gruber, fair Debra, for he was well-compensated for his perfidy, and we were forced to pay him.  I want to

How bad are things for Democrat Mary Landrieu in her bid to try and hold onto power? This bad. When Slate is calling your campaign cynical, desperate and pointless, it may well be time to give it up. But that’s

With news that the White House would use executive action to protect up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation, House Democrats showed their solidarity with Barack Obama in his willful disregard of American voters and how they expressed themselves

While blaming accounting procedures, the federal government’s budget deficit for October came  in higher than it did for October of last year. According to reports, the Treasury Department reported “a $121.7 billion deficit in the first month of the fiscal year,

In response to Hit By Wave, Democrats Avoided A Tsunami: I totally agree that he Democrat Party avoided a political “tsunami” on election night, but give it time. Landrieu could lose her seat, giving the GOP 55 Senate seats.  Now

If the 2014 mid-term elections constituted a wave election, new findings via a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute indicate Democrats may have just barely avoided being hit by a tsunami that could have given the GOP additional senate seats

As expected, Democrats are blaming everyone from the Tooth fairy to Santa Clause, for their election night debacle. One of the most vocal liberal Democrats, Rep. Alan Grayson, is blaming the losses on a “Obama-hatred” which has apparently gripped the

 The U.S. war on Ebola continues, as Florida Congressman Dennis Ross has just filed his  Contain Ebola and Stop the Epidemic (CEASE) Act  that would restrict certain flights from Africa to land in the United States, as well as prohibit

Now that comments by Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber have entered their fourth day of dominating the non-network news cycle, the White House allied Center for American Progress is beginning to push back by claiming Gruber is simply wrong. But is

Imagine the sinking feeling you might experience if the very ground you were walking on began to fall away beneath your feet. That’s likely how Mary Landrieu feels as the liberal wing of her own party cuts and  runs on

The Wall Street Journal wrote about Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s ridiculous and pathetic play for votes by reinventing herself as a Keystone XL pipeline hawk – she stopped just short of yelling “DRILL, BABY, DRILL!” – and noted that while

Senator Mary Landrieu isn’t the only Democrat looking to stage a little Separation Theater to open daylight between herself and Party leadership.  Politico reports she was one of several Senators to stage show votes against keeping Harry Reid as the

If you thought Democrat leadership in Washington is accountable to someone, or something other than D.C. Democrats … you’d be wrong. Despite overwhelming and near historic Democrat losses in both the House and the Senate, the party faithful are poised

Rubio is running! Rubio is running! That is what I think, after finding out that Senator Marco Rubio’s new book will be released on January 13, 2015. Amazon, which is preselling, “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone,” for $21. Rubio’s

Barack Obama is the most dangerous lame duck ever to haunt the marshes of post-election defeat.  He’s angry at the American people, testy with Democrats who blame him for their electoral losses, and more determined that ever to finish “transforming