The Hill examined the fundraising numbers in the second quarter of candidates in tough August primary races. More often than not, a candidate’s fundraising numbers in these races give a good sense of how the candidate is likely going to fare.
George Soros’s son, Jonathan, is starting a Super PAC to lessen the impact of Super PACs. According to The New York Times, the Friends of Democracy Super PAC will support 10 to 15 House lawmakers supportive of campaign finance reform,
Rasmussen Reports found on Tuesday that 63% of Americans believe the country is in a recession in a survey measuring the consumer confidence. Consumer confidence dipped a point 84.7 in Rasmussen’s tracking poll and is still down two points from
Let this be a lesson to anyone on the right who thinks that affirming a DNC-crafted MSM-approved media narrative will win you popularity: The latest CBS/NYT poll is out, and it looks bad for the incumbent Democrat, who was swept into
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), have been some of the most vocal voices to have called on Mitt Romney
Yesterday, U.S. Federal District Court Judge Warren Urbom dismissed a case brought by Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning arguing that the Health and Human Services mandate requiring religious employers to provide abortion-related services violated their First Amendment right of religious
Last month, Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic press secretary, authored a press release in which he tried to skewer Sheldon Adelson, the multi-billionaire casino owner who backed Newt Gingrich with $20 million and then, when Mitt Romney became the presumptive Republican
The Conservative Caucus wants the truth about Operation Fast & Furious and they’re offering a $100,000 reward to get it. “Was Operation Fast & Furious simply a bungled attempt to capture Mexican Drug Lords, or was it an ‘under the
Representative Paul Gosar has done an excellent job as a freshman in Congress. He’s a Tea Party conservative and backed by Tea Party favorite, Sarah Palin. But instead of giving him the benefit of the doubt, fellow Tea Party conservatives
Despite all the hand-wringing in DC parlors over the Romney campaign, the number of states in play this November keeps expanding in his direction. We aren’t seeing solid Romney states suddenly becoming competitive. We are, however, seeing states like Pennsylvania,
In a clear election year public relations move, Rep. Sandy Levin (D-MI), the leading Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, is pushing a bill that would require disclosure of 10 years of tax returns, as well as of
[Regina] told me about her childhood in Chicago, the absent father and struggling mother, the South Side’s six-flat that never seemed warm enough in winter and got so hot in the summer that people went out by the lake to
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
How much would a weekend trip skiing trip to Aspen, Colorado, cost you? If you’re Michelle Obama and her two daughters, would you believe over $83,000? Believe it. Over President’s Day weekend in February of this year, Michelle took her
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
The average Canadian is now richer than the average America, according to Toronto’s Globe and Mail. In fact, it’s not even close. The average Canadian household has $40,000 more in net value than the average American household, $363,202 to $320,000.
Here we go again. Yet another example of the Obama White House’s failed attempt to pick winners and losers and doing so by gambling with our our tax dollars, this time to the tune of $6 million in tax credits
Rumors are swirling that Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) is going to give the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention on August 28. Christie is widely considered a rising Republican rock star – somebody to keep an eye on, a
Yesterday, inexplicable Romney surrogate John Sununu responded to critics of the campaign by outlining their “Braveheart” strategy. Sununu referenced a scene in the film where Mel Gibson’s character William Wallace held his forces back until a critical, and most advantageous,
Anthony Weiner is back on the publicity trail, releasing pictures … this time, of his wife and baby, rather than his baby-maker. In a beautiful spread for People, Weiner posed with wife Huma Abedin and baby Jordan; he refused to
The Coachella Music Festival, the huge festival that normally resides in Indio, California, is leaving the desert for the sea. Goldenvoice, the festival’s promoter, will use Celebrity Silhouette, a 1,000-foot, 122,000-ton cruise ship with room for 2,800 fans, cabana-style alcoves
The Democrats are playing chicken with the American economy, and it may come back to haunt them. Republicans, determined to keep in place the entire roster of Bush tax cuts, are not backing down. The Democrats, desperate to please their
Yesterday, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urged Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to start quantitative easing or similar measures before November. Then, incredibly, he ordered, “Despite two false starts, we’re having a much rougher time than we ever imagined getting unemployment
In a time of economic crisis, it’s good to know that our President has his head in the right place. He’s deeply concerned and worried, focused like a laser beam on one problem: his gray hair. This morning, the Obama
As the Obama campaign continues its attacks on Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital and his tax returns, it has argued that the focus is justified because Romney made his business background his “calling card” for his presidential run. They argue,
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said she is encouraging Democrats in the House to stay at home during the Democratic National Convention to campaign. “I’m not encouraging anyone to go to the convention, having nothing to do with
Thirty percent of American adults owe more money than they did a year ago, a Rasmussen Reports national survey found. Rasmussen Reports asked 1,000 adults via telephone on July 8-9, “Do you owe more money, less money or about the
The asinine new insistence that Mitt Romney turn over years of tax returns to the general public has reached extreme pitch over the last 24 hours, with both conservatives and liberals calling on Romney to hand over his papers. Now,
As the Obama campaign and the media continue to press Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns, and to suggest–without a shred of evidence–that he is a “felon,” it is worth noting how much critical information Barack Obama
Here’s a couple of things you might not know about me. I believe strongly in…. 1. World peace. 2. That all politicians should release at least the last five years of their tax returns. I hate war and nuclear weapons
On November 8, 2011, I had a post that looked at the Occupy Wall Street movement and traced it back to our Organizer-in-Chief, Barack Obama. I posited that somewhere between his unceasing class-warfare and his disdain for America’s economic system, were
I don’t think Mitt Romney’s choice to be his Vice-President will make a significant difference in the outcome of the Presidential election. As I’ve argued since April, this November we’re going to see a conservative landslide. Mitt Romney will be
