In the wake of the slaying of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, House Democrats are drafting legislation designed to prevent similar tragedies in the future. The lawmakers want to adopt tougher rules for neighborhood watch programs, eliminate certain state gun laws, rein in racial profiling and require an examination of racial disparities nationwide. The Democrats behind [...]
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Seemingly back in campaign mode, President Barack Obama headlined a pair of Vermont fundraisers on Friday which ended with the Democrat vowing to bring the change promised in his 2008 victory. During his Burlington speech to a crowd of nearly 4,500 at the University of Vermont, Obama itemized the highlights of his first term in [...]
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Despite staking rival Rick Santorum to a six-day head start in Wisconsin, Mitt Romney arrived here Friday with a lead in the polls, the endorsement of influential homegrown conservative Paul Ryan, and the aura of an all-but certain nominee. In an afternoon speech at Lawrence University, Romney ignored the other Republicans in the race and [...]
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If George Zimmerman is not arrested in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin soon, theRev. Al Sharpton will call for an escalation in peaceful civil disobedience and economic sanctions. Sharpton would not say the efforts would be taken against the city of Sanford specifically, but he has been critical of the police department’s handling of [...]
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On Wisconsin TV, Rick Santorum is getting pummeled as someone who doesn’t understand the economy. On the radio, he’s portrayed as squishy on funding for women’s health care provider Planned Parenthood. In mailings, Santorum has “crazy ideas” that the state’s Republican voters are asked to reject in their presidential primary next week. Yet again, the [...]
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Jan. 1, 2013, seemed a long way off in the Chicken Summer of 2011. That’s when Congress reached a deal that ended, or rather postponed, the debt-ceiling crisis by declaring that automatic cuts in federal spending would be triggered at the beginning of 2013, unless a bipartisan supercommittee came up with a sweeping plan for [...]
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The parents of two British students murdered in Florida have criticised President Barack Obama for his lack of compassion over their son’s deaths. His failure to respond to three letters sent to the White House was because there was no “political value” and not worthy of a few minutes of his time. They spoke out [...]
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President Obama is pushing past both GOP front runners in the latest Ohio election poll. Results from the Quinnipiac University poll showed the president above former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by 47 to 41 percent. Obama also held a 47-40 percent lead over former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. “President Barack Obama is on a roll [...]
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It was among the day’s most probing questions about health care, with ramifications for tens of millions of Americans and the presidential campaign. But it did not come from a Supreme Court justice. It came from Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show,’’ and it was directed to his guest, Mitt Romney. What might happen, Leno [...]
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According to the rules of decorum and civility in the House of Representatives, members are required to dress appropriately when they are in the chamber, meaning a coat and tie for the men, no hats or overcoats, and appropriate business attire for the women. Hoodies and sunglasses are a no-no, as Rep. Bobby Rush (D. [...]
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Mitt Romney trails Barack Obama by 19 points in basic popularity as the 2012 presidential contest inches closer to the main event, with a record 50 percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll now rating Romney unfavorably overall. Thirty-four percent hold a favorable opinion of Romney, the lowest for any leading presidential [...]
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U.S.’s November election and leads by a lesser margin in a third, according to a poll that says Obama is benefitting from a recovering economy and support among female voters. The “swing-state poll” for Quinnipiac University shows Obama ahead of Romney by 7 percentage points in Florida, 6 points in Ohio and 3 points in [...]
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Ask Ron Paul why he’s still in the presidential race, and he’ll tell you not to bother him with “silly questions.” In an interview on CNN, host Piers Morgan asked the Texas congressman on Monday night, “If I was prescribing some medicine for you right now, congressman, I think I would say the situation is [...]
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Sarah Palin applauded Rick Santorum Monday night for accusing a New York Times reporter of “bull——“ over the weekend, saying she was glad to hear about the presidential candidate’s outburst and adding, “Welcome to my world, Rick, and good on ya.” ”It was good, and it was strong, and it was about time because he’s [...]
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In the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, then-Sen. Barack Obama ran a campaign ad blasting Hillary Clinton’s health reform plan for including a so-called “individual mandate.” His ad argued the mandate “forces everyone to buy insurance, even if you can’t afford it, and you pay a penalty if you don’t … It’s not that people don’t [...]
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