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Moments after Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s (D-MI) campaign manager blasted out an email accusing the Michigan Republican Party of “launching a statewide effort to suppress the Democratic vote” and urged Democrats to “fight back,” the Michigan Republican party received a threatening

The Arab American Institute has released the results of a September survey of 400 Arab Americans, which shows that a majority support Democratic President Barack Obama in the race for the White House.  There has been a significant 15 percent

It’s no surprise that Planned Parenthood, its president Cecile Richards, and its loyalists are out in force to re-elect Barack Obama. Mitt Romney has said he would cut off federal tax dollars to the group, while President Obama is one

Yesterday, Democrat Tammy Duckworth, who is challenging incumbent Republican Joe Walsh in the redrawn 8th district of Illinois, told a local television crew outside an event for veterans in Santa Monica, CA that she could not speak to them about her campaign

Just one day after a left-wing activist attempted to deface private property (and a woman who got in her way), the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York has announced they will amend their rules regarding the types of advertisements that

Much of the policy, if you can call it policy, of the Department of Energy under Secretary Steven Chu and President Barack Obama has been based on the potential of plug-in vehicles. The underlying assumption that Chu espoused and Obama

Free speech in America is under assault from the “tolerant” left, nowhere more so than in New York City, where the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been fighting an effort to run subway ads reading, “IN ANY WAR BETWEEN THE CIVILIZED

The Tea Party is regularly ridiculed and declared “dead” by the mainstream press and their elitist allies in Washington and Hollywood. Not surprisingly, when Tea Partiers show up and rally by the thousands, they get all but ignored, while 30

If President Barack Obama wins re-election in November, who will return with him to the White House? Mitt Romney has a transition team already in place, searching inside and outside the Beltway for the best talent a Republican administration can

Don’t be fooled by the supposedly bipartisan effort to investigate the Obama administration’s actions after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya. Democrats are no more serious about challenging their leader in the White House than they have ever

How much should a public restroom cost? If you have to go to the bathroom in Elmhurst park in Queens, New York, you can go in style. A new facility there that features two urinals and one stall for men

Attempts by the Obama Administration to obfuscate and misdirect over the horrible tragedy in Libya are falling apart. As my colleague John Nolte noted, even Democrats on Capitol Hill are demanding answers and a fuller explanation over events surrounding the

It remains unclear whether President Barack Obama’s lies about attacks on U.S. embassies will cost him re-election. One thing is certain, however: whatever ambitions Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once held to run for president in 2016 have been damaged

On Thursday, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), said his opponent Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) was nervous about losing the senate race. As a result, she was not as “ladylike” when the two debated last week as she was in a

President Barack Obama’s campaign, again, tried to gin up outrage over Romney’s private equity past. The left-wing Mother Jones magazine released a 1985 video of Mitt Romney discussing Bain’s capital’s investment strategy of planning to “invest in startup companies and

The mainstream media and liberals have incessantly played up Mitt Romney’s comments about the 47% of Americans who do not pay income tax, but nearly 80% of Americans believe everyone should pay some income tax. A majority of Americans agree,

On 9/11, as radical Islamic terrorists were attacking the U.S. consulate in Libya and their sympathizers were raising Al Qaeda banners above the U.S. embassy in Cairo–all, we were later told by the Obama administration, due to outrage at a

(AP) US Postal Service to default on second $5B paymentBy HOPE YENAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe U.S. Postal Service, on the brink of default on a second multibillion-dollar payment it can’t afford to pay, is sounding a new cautionary note that having squeezed

Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan held two town halls in Colorado Wednesday, emphasizing the country’s debt and the looming cuts to its defense budget in Colorado Springs and Fort Collins.  In Colorado Springs, a day after Republican Senators John McCain

In an appearance on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) claimed that Democrats were conducting a “positive” campaign but Republicans were trying to “poison the debate.” Pelosi also told Maddow that Republicans

Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama campaigned in Fairfax County and Virginia Beach, Virginia, respectively, on Thursday. The candidates targeted the state’s two most populous regions impacted by the looming defense cuts Obama put on the table.  In Virginia Beach,

The ACLU released a report this week that shows that under Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder, warrantless wiretapping and monitoring of American’s electronic communications is “sharply on the rise.” After months of litigation and Freedom of Information Act requests,

In its Iowa poll this week, Public Policy Polling (PPP) skewed its sample to advantage President Barack Obama and also asked respondents questions worded to shade their view of Romney negatively.  PPP is a progressive organization that does polling for Daily Kos and the

A rumor has surfaced that the body of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is buried under a suburban Detroit driveway. A man in Roseville, Michigan, claims he saw Hoffa’s burial.   Hoffa was last seen at a suburban Detroit restaurant

The Iowa Republican, an influential website for all things Iowa politics, and Voter/Consumer Research, a polling firm, conducted a poll in Iowa composed of 36 percent Republicans, 35 percent Democrats, and 30 percent no-party voters. And in the R+1 poll, Mitt

Just one day after an Islamic activist attempted to cover over private property in spray paint (and a woman who got in her way), the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York has announced they will amend their rules to prohibit

Female Republican politicians look more feminine than their Democratic counterparts, according to a study published Thursday based on facial features of US women lawmakers. Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann is a good example of the correlation, said the study by

In July, I started to notice something funky about the media polls. Almost all of them were using polling samples that assumed a dramatic increase in Democrat turnout over 2008. Even though the liberal group Third Way had found that

The Obama campaign released a two-minute ad Wednesday which lays out a four point plan for his second term. The ad may sound good to those not paying much attention, but all it really does is rehash old promises and

Members of a local television crew were frustrated when Tammy Duckworth, Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in the 8th district of Illinois, refused to answer their questions about her campaign in Los Angeles today.  Duckworth’s finance director, Leah Israel, initially

Today, aboard Air Force One, traveling press secretary for the Obama campaign Jen Psaki doubled down on the Obama team strategy of playing down expectations for next week’s debate with Mitt Romney. She explained to the press: The President will

Remember when President Obama’s re-election campaign and its allies complained about billionaire Sheldon Adelson giving cash to Republican super PACs? This time? Or this time? Or this time? Or this time? Or this time? They apparently have no such qualms

According to Barack Obama’s White House schedule today, he has some time after 2:10 p.m. to do anything in the world he’d like to do. But apparently he still won’t meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Instead, his press

California’s state song will soon be changed from “California, Here I Come!” to “California, There It Goes!” An American icon, the Campbell Soup Company, is closing its plant in Sacramento, leaving 700 people without jobs. The plant was built in

You can’t imagine how many videos I get sent to me. I make a point of watching some of all of them, but I couldn’t stop watching this one: – – Note that Bishop Jackson is not endorsing Mitt Romney

Due to burdensome regulations, taxes, government spending, and the increasing cost of health insurance and energy under President Barack Obama’s administration, a majority of small business owners and manufacturers believe the economy is in a worse position for them to