Let’s face it: You don’t get to be governor of a deeply red state like Indiana, which went Republican in every presidential election from 1968 to 2004, without a dose of intolerance in your bones. ...
Ted Cruz: Friend to Fascists, Past and Present BY KAROLI Last week we gave you the skinny on the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Empower Texans and the John Hancock Committee for the States, which have ...
Anti-Semitic Whisper Campaign Drives Gubernatorial Candidate to Suicide: Sen. Pearce, others call for GOP chairman’s resignation By Steven Anthony-MPA News Service Three Republican senators and two GOP house members called on Missouri Republican Party Chairman ...
WASHINGTON (CBS) — Republicans now in charge of Congress offer their budget blueprint this week with the pledge to balance the nation’s budget within a decade and rein in major programs such as food stamps and Medicare. ...
Jan. 4 2012 After a thorough beatdown in the Iowa caucuses last night, Newt Gingrich turned this morning to Miami, announcing a new gala fundraiser at the Biltmore that he hopes will re-energize his presidential campaign. Too bad ...
The letter by those 47 Senators is getting scorned and abused nationwide. The hashtag #47Traitors has been trending on twitter. Huffpo speculates that it was “treason.” And no wonder, USA Today says the letter has ...
Also see: “Alaska Republicans re-elect Don Young to Congress — Corrupt Congressman awaiting indictments“: “Alaska Congressman Don Young, under multiple criminal investigations for bribery and extortion, has been re-elected by Republican voters. …” Congressman Don ...
Once a likely presidential candidate equates modern American life with Nazi Germany, it’s safe to say all bets are off when it comes to rhetorical excesses. Still, before yesterday, I honestly can’t remember the last ...
Also see: Kris Kobach’s bill on straight-ticket voting in Kansas is not helpful Latinos rally to defeat Kobach’s ‘Rule of Law Restoration Act’ Kobach argues for bill to avoid work comp lawsuits When it comes to ...
February 13, 2015 When the Michigan Republican Party elites gather on Feb. 20-21 for their state convention in Lansing, among the GOP State Committee members expected to attend is a West Bloomfield Township businessman who ...
Florida Attorney Steve Medina has been working on a case, pro bono, to expose the environmental corruption which has been taking place in Tallahassee and Putnam County, Florida.Tons of toxic waste is being dumped into ...
WASHINGTON — David Duke, the infamous KKK leader, is fed up with politicians criticizing House Majority Whip Steve Scalise for speaking at one of his white supremacist conferences in 2002. And Duke is ready to ...
Also see: “Finley: Nobody wants Dave Agema” (Detroit News) “Dave Agema’s Defense for Posting a Racist Article: I Got It From Allen West, and He’s Black!” (Salon) Michigan RNC Committeeman Dave Agema is facing renewed ...
Republicans say “return to sender” all victims of U.S.-funded violence in Honduras, no matter how young: “… So inspired were they, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives stayed late Friday to distort and demagogue a humanitarian ...
Several sections of a bestselling 2012 book ‘authored’ by renowned neurosurgeon and potential Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson were plagiarized from multiple sources, including an anti-socialism website, BuzzFeed has revealed. Multiple passages totaling hundreds ...
INTRODUCTION: THE NOT-SO-ADMIRABLE ELMER HOLMES BOBST Like most NYU students these days, you probably spent a good part of your weekend inside Bobst, which according to Pier, is really just a “giant stupid library.” The derision ...
For Republicans, hiring lobbyists to handle the day-to-day goings on of Congress seems to have become a normal occurrence these days, so Academi lobbyist Jeff Shockey being named Staff Director of the House Intelligence ...
In an interview with Playboy, Dan Savage has attacked “tormented closet case” Marcus Bachmann for promoting “ex-gay” therapy. Bachmann, the husband of Republican supreme wingnut Michele Bachmann, is probably Minnesota’s best-known practitioner of the harmful practice. An attempt earlier this year to ban ...
The collapse of InnoVida Holdings LLC in 2011 didn’t get much traction in the media. Except in South Florida, where a small group of investors lost more than $40 million on a scheme to market hurricane- and ...
Related — Barclays and the Oil Market: Agent Provocateur Ultimo: Prince Bandar and the Price of Oil (” … For the past 10 years oil is kept high by Wall Street’s mightiest (we mean Goldman Sachs) and the so-called ...
Ira Hansen’s own words brought him down December 4, 2014 Almost anyone should have learned something from Assemblyman Ira Hansen’s public and humiliating lesson: Your words can come back to haunt you. Hansen, chosen by his ...
Mitch McConnell’s Freighted Ties to a Shadowy Shipping Company After drugs were found aboard the Ping May, a vessel owned by his wife’s family’s company, Colombian authorities are investigating. Before the Ping May, a rusty cargo vessel, ...
The Republican victory in the US midterms was paid for by big energy interests and could hold back Obama’s climate ambition The resounding Republican victory in the 2014 midterm elections displayed that, despite unprecedented contributions ...
“… What he calls a ‘conspiracy’ is more a threat to the future of the big oil and gas companies that have been the most generous contributors to Mr. Inhofe’s re-election campaigns. …” People who ...
A Michigan Republican with a criminal record for breaking into cars and masturbating is urging residents to move out of state to avoid the “homosexual agenda.” Jordan Haskins briefly suspended his campaign for an open state house ...
The chair of a county Republican Party in Georgia was recently arrested after he was allegedly broadcast on Skype sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a woman. On Wednesday, the North Georgia News reported that Union County Republican ...
Former congressman Trey Radel’s criminal record has been wiped clean. Gannett’s Ledyard King reports the Florida Republican who resigned after pleading guilty to a cocaine charge has had his criminal record expunged. “Mr. Radel successfully ...
“… The Wisconsin Reporter’s smear piece on Burke quoted three GOP operatives who once worked for Trek Bicycle Corp., owned by Mary Burke’s Family. All three said she was fired in 1993 as head of ...
McHenry County sheriff’s candidate Jim Harrison launched a new attack in his campaign against Republican nominee Bill Prim, taking aim at a relatively high-ranking member of the county GOP. Documents Harrison released to Chicago-area media this ...
Doug Ducey, the Republican candidate for governor of Arizona in November’s election, hails from a family that for two generations was involved in organized crime in Toledo, Ohio, according to a report by The Center for Investigative ...
Speaker of Alabama’s House of Representatives Mike Hubbard was indicted by a grand jury and has been charged with 23 class B felony counts, including using his office for personal gain and soliciting things of ...
Also see: “Secret audio nails Scott Walker! A humiliating suck-up to the Koch brothers,” Salon, Aug. 28, 2014 “… Walker has, since his 2010 gubernatorial run, been a top recipient of campaign contributions from the Kochs. ...
By Jason Hart Euclid Democrat Kent Smith touts his 2008 book, “Please God Save Us,” as proof of his qualifications to serve in the Ohio House. Facing questions about the book’s content, Smith has recently sought to distance himself ...
By Jason Easley PoliticusUSA, September, 26, 2014 Koch brothers front Americans For Prosperity is reaching into their bag of dirty tricks by sending hundreds of North Carolina voters and one cat incorrect voter registration information. ...
“… Fuller was nominated to the bench in 2002 by President George W. Bush and has been a controversial figure in Alabama politics, largely for his role in the Siegelman trial. … One of the ...
