Once upon a time, you could count on the New York Times to have President Obama’s back no matter what what he or members of his administration did. Not anymore. In its 14 May 2012 edition, the New York Times published an editorial that starts with the following statement: The Obama administration, which has a [...]
ABC News has more details on the IRS inspector general report about the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS. Mary Katherine Hamm at HotAir detailed the intrusive questioning last week. The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS [...]
Once upon a time in United States history, the expression “racist Democratic Party” would have been considered redundant, because it was a given that the Democratic Party was a bastion of racism. After all, back during the antebellum period of the 19th Century, it was the Democratic Party that resisted the end to slavery, that [...]
Yesterday I wrote about 16 GOP Senators voting to begin debate on gun rights in the Senate. I noted that, in doing so, they had done nothing to violate the 2nd Amendment or any earlier statements of 2A support they had made. The vote was procedural and merely allowed debate. Some people understood the distinction. [...]
Yesterday 16 Republican Senators, including both Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker from Tennessee, joined Democrats in voting to begin debate on legislation expanding background checks on gun purchases. With 68 votes to begin debate, a threatened GOP filibuster was stopped before it started. Grassroots reaction was both swift and pointed. Grassfire.com wrote, “Sen. Harry Reid’s gun-control legislation [...]
A new study by National Bureau of Economic Research confirms that the aggressive expansion of the “Community Reinvestment Act” did indeed result in the high risk loans which precipitated the economic crisis of 2008.
“To address the most significant event of the weekend, I love her bangs,” President Obama said. “She looks good. She always looks good.” He’s her husband, and he’s obviously well-trained, because that’s exactly what he’s supposed to say. Call me old-fashioned, but I’m still of the mind that bangs are still the province of younger [...]
Yet again life imitates The Simpsons. Supposedly serious minded people have suggested Obama could circumvent congress and negotiating the debt ceiling by commissioning the Treasury Department to mint platinum coins in one trillion dollar denominations and depositing them to the Federal Reserve. Presto! Crisis averted. Setting aside questions of legality or wisdom, why a $1 [...]
From Brietbart editor Ben Shapiro’s appearance on Piers Morgan’s barely seen CNN show last week: MORGAN: You genuinely believe your own government is going to turn on you in a way that you require an AR-15 to challenge them? You really believe that will happen in modern-day America? Is that what you think? SHAPIRO: They [...]
Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat leader of the House of Representatives and former Speaker of the House, is defending a faked photograph released on Thursday showing the “diversity” of the Female members of the Democrat delegation to Congress. The photo featuring “all” the Democrat women of the House standing on the steps outside the Capital building [...]
From The Hill: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and President Obama have exchanged new offers in negotiations over tax hikes and spending cuts in a sign the talks are making progress. The White House made its offer on Monday, lowering its $1.6 trillion request for new tax revenues to $1.4 trillion over 10 years, according to [...]
AEI’s Marc Thiessen, writing in The Washington Post has a history-based warning for President Obama and Democrats in relation to the “fiscal cliff:” Obama thinks he has a lot more political capital than he really does. A White House official told Politico’s Mike Allen this weekend that the “President campaigned on this and won.” So [...]
Susan Ferrechio at The Washington Examiner sumarizes the current state of “fiscal cliff” negotiations: The White House on Thursday offered House Republicans a deal that would raise $1.6 trillion in tax revenue in exchange for $400 billion in spending cuts that would “come later,” according to a top GOP aide. Not surprisingly, the deal isn’t [...]
If U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice was expecting women in the national media to defend her, then Rice must be disappointed by Maureen Dowd’s November 27th newspaper column pertaining to Rice’s meetings with Senate Republicans. In her column, Dowd describes the perspective of U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) and the questions that Senator Collins intended to [...]
The race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was decided in just a few ultra-competitive states that could have gone either way. Had Romney won these states he would be President-elect Romney today. There is precedent for this kind of near victory despite a popular vote loss. In 2004 John Kerry was less than 120,000 [...]
Due to the re-election of Barack Hussein Obama, the United States is officially a failed experiment. In fact, his election in the first place in 2008 signaled the end. Because so few of you people out there know anything about history any more, I’ll have to explain that opening line above. You see, the founders [...]
In 2008 Barack Obama won with “Hope and Change,” and in 2012 he was re-elected with “Divide and Conquer.” President Obama won re-election by running perhaps the most negative campaign in history, and by building a perpetual campaign organization that succeeded in slicing and dicing the electorate then turning them out. The permanent organization that [...]
As the battleground states shake out the endgame for Mitt Romney now appears to be that he must win Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Colorado. If he loses any of those states President Obama will almost certainly win re-election. All of these (except for Colorado) were pretty much must win states in any Romney victory scenario. [...]
It’s still early, but Mitt Romney is currently ahead in the popular vote 51% to 48% with approaching 40% of the vote counted, which he may well retain through the night. Currently the election would appear to come down to Ohio and Florida. If Romney loses either it’s essentially over. Florida would appear to be [...]
My advice? That, and that you should ignore exit polls and “leaked” exit polls. Wait for the real vote totals. My personal feeling is that you’ll be able to garner a lot of information from the race in Virginia. If Romney wins by 4-5% in Virginia you can be pretty sure that he’s going to [...]
Talk about a final day contrast… President Obama’s rally in Cleveland was notable for appearances by Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z, but the real story was the half empty arena. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, appearing with his wife Ann at the Patriot Center and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia packed at least 8,500 [...]
Back in 2008, a man who established his reputation with Baseball statistics was lionized as a political guru for correctly “predicting” the winner of 49 of the 50 states. He did this through aggregation of state polls, and a formula which, speaking bluntly, was based heavily on subjective weighting of polls he liked. On his [...]
As pointed out by Joel Pollak at Big Government, the latest CNN national poll of likely voters has some very good news for those of you following poll fundamentals, as opposed to topline percentages. Mitt Romney is has a commanding 22% lead among Independents. This is a post-Hurricane Sandy poll, so any talk of a [...]
As the election race closes to less than forty hours before Election Day, all kinds of stories have come out. ‘Inside’ stories about Romney preparing for a loss, Obama planning to move to Hawaii next year because he knows he’s done, so-called experts and gurus who promise perfect knowledge of what will happen … there’s [...]
Sure everyone remembers last week’s happy specifying by President Obama and his very public embrace by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his endorsement by New York Mayor-for-life Mike Bloomberg, but those were the good old days. Each successive day, with Obama on the campaign trail and nowhere near the devastation, new information of the [...]
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