“Time for TRUTH” seems like a cliché. Perhaps it is a cliché, at least in government. Lots of well-meaning men and women dedicate many hours of service to the United States government. Yet somewhere along the way TRUTH became a nice thought but an unattainable goal, and somehow America started a downhill spiral on a [...]
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House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday teed up another debt-ceiling brawl, announcing that Republicans will insist on the same kinds of demands that Democrats claim brought the country close to its first-ever default last summer. The speaker, in an address in Washington Tuesday afternoon, said that when it comes time to vote on a debt-ceiling [...]
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Most polls, Rasmussen excepted, continue to show that neither presidential candidate is pulling away from the other and that close Senate races have shifting leads. Primary elections, however, are showing a very different situation — and it is voters who turn out in elections, not random Americans called by pollsters, who determine the winners and [...]
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A super PAC supporting President Obama is out with its own ad attacking Mitt Romney’s business record, spending $4 million on a swing state TV campaign. Priorities USA Action, founded by veterans of the Obama and Clinton administrations, is hitting on themes already being sounded by the president’s re-election campaign. The new ad also focuses [...]
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A late-hour lobbying offensive by social conservatives prevailed in the House of Delegates early Tuesday to torpedo bipartisan support for the judicial nomination of an openly gay Richmond prosecutor. After a lengthy discussion, the GOP-controlled House of Delegates defeated the nomination of Tracy Thorne-Begland, Richmond’s chief deputy commonwealth’s attorney. He would have been the first openly gay judge elected in Virginia. Thorne-Begland [...]
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On Laura Ingraham’s radio show Monday, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, a former MSNBC contributor and author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” echoed the sentiment he voiced on last weekend’s “The McLaughlin Group,” about President Barack Obama’s newfound gay-marriage position. But this time he voiced his disappointment that the Republican Party [...]
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The week began here on Swampland with Mark Halperin’s optimistic dispatch from Chicago, “Why The Obama Campaign Is Confident About Beating Romney.” So perhaps it is appropriate that the week get bracketed by a report by William Galston, a Democratic strategist who has worked for Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Walter Mondale, among others. His [...]
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Speaking Saturday night at an event sponsored by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky expressed surprise that President Barack Obama would say that his support for same-sex marriage was rooted in the Bible. “What version of the Bible is he reading?” Paul said. ““The president recently weighed in on marriage,” [...]
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On the upper eastern edge of Ohio lies a valley built on the sweat of the working class, where steel mills sit mostly shuttered but a once-struggling Chevy plant endures. It is a place filled with union halls and blue-collar families for whom the auto bailout meant survival, delivered by a president many here see [...]
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The following 15 minute video from the Media Research Center is both highly entertaining and a peek inside the mind of a young man, barely out of childhood, who has been subjected to liberal brainwashing, with no access to facts that do not fit the left’s agenda. In the video, he encounters an unnamed man who engages [...]
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In an article last week, it was pointed out that many of the delegates that the states are actually electing are Ron Paul delegates. Though Paul has not won a single state in the primaries, he has won several in delegate counts. While the main stream media and the GOP apparently think that Mitt Romney is the nominee, that has yet [...]
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Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has had a rough couple of weeks on the campaign trail as questions continue to swirl about why she listed herself as a minority in law school directories in the 1980s and ’90s. Warren,62, has maintained that she identified herself as a minority to meet other people like herself. Warren is [...]
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Today’s unconscionable Washington Post story, which implied without evidence that Mitt Romney was a homophobic bully to one John Lauber back in his high school days five decades ago, has totally imploded. Timed to drop the day after President Obama’s announced embrace of same-sex marriage, the story set the political world atwitter. But earlier today, Breitbart News reported that [...]
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Immediately after President Obama announced his support this week for same-sex marriage, attention turned to politics. The outcome of this year’s election will be determined by a handful of states — one of them is Iowa, where the politics of same-sex marriage are complicated. Same-sex is legal here, but three of the state Supreme Court [...]
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A little political catnip to ease you into your weekend. Look — it’s May. Polls don’t matter yet. But this is still fun: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Mitt Romney earning 50% of the vote and President Obama attracting 43% support. Four percent (4%) would vote for a third party [...]
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