House Republicans have all agreed and passed the Paul Ryan Budget – a budget that takes $5.3 Trillion from services that helps the poor and transfer $4.3 Trillion to the rich in the form of subsidies and tax cuts. Knowing…
Year: 2012
President Barack Obama urged Congress to limit student-loan rate increases, calling higher education an “economic imperative.” Going to college is “an economic imperative that every family must be able to afford,” the President said Saturday in his weekly address. Student-loan…
Buzzfeed reports that at a 2008 rally in South Carolina Romney posed and held up this sign linking the two likely Democratic nominees, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, to 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden. Romney responded that his critics needed…
Ben Jacobs from The Daily Beast wrote about a conversation he had with Montana Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Mr. Jacobs noted that when he acknowledged the irony of Mitt Romney’s father being born in Mexico, and Romney having problems with…
Joe Walsh – who attacked president Obama over “fiscal responsibility” only to be shamed after reports surfaced that he owed over $117,000 in back child support – has come to terms with his ex-wife over what he’s calling a “misunderstanding.”…
A 17-member task force will consider whether Florida’s controversial “stand your ground law” needs to be changed. The state released details Thursday about the panel, which will consider Florida “laws, rules, regulations or programs that relate to public safety and…
The Florida judge assigned to the murder case stemming from the shooting of Trayvon Martin disqualified herself at the request of George Zimmerman, the defendant. Florida Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler, of the 18th Judicial Circuit in Seminole County, issued…
Vice-President Joe Biden will Wednesday lead a Democrat push to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, the 1994 legislation that now faces opposition from some conservatives. Biden will be joined by Attorney General Eric Holder, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, White…
Mitt Romney told CNBC that there’s precedent for presidential candidates releasing just two years of tax returns. Said Romney: “Well, we’ve had people run for president before, and they’ve released two years. John Kerry released two years of taxes… I’ve released one…
At a recent National Rifle Association (NRA) gathering, aging Rocker Ted Nugent said this about President Obama, “if Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” His…
Some will call it pure politics. Others will call it absolutely necessary in an economy where gas prices are skyrocketing. But no matter how you look at it, this new move by the Obama administration to try and bring down gas…