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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will travel across the pond this week. Quietly, he hopes.

Team Hillary is currently in disarray thanks to the very same type of divisiveness many believe worked to derail her campaign and open the door for Barack Obama back in 2008.

Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-NV) is slated to have additional eye surgery on Wednesday. The battered leader has been long recovering from what’s been reported as an accident while exercising at home.

Florida Senator and prospective candidate for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination Marco Rubio picked up a key Mitt Romney aide, Jim Merrill, “to oversee his political activities in the Northeast and probably in a New Hampshire campaign.”

As Media Research Center fairly suggests, “the biggest witness against the exaggerated claims of Brian Williams’ Hurricane Katrina fabulism” may be Williams himself.

The Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office is charging Maxwell Morton, 16, as an adult in the shooting death of Ryan Mangan, also 16, after Morton allegedly took a selfie with Mangan’s bloodied body.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey has denied reports that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is under investigation.

Vice President Joe Biden is headed to Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday. Reports indicate he’ll deliver a speech at Drake University, followed by “a roundtable at Des Moines Area Community College on college affordability.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) appears to be ramping up his travel schedule leading up to a potential bid to win the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination.

Former Texas Gov. and potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Rick Perry took some heat over a Texas law on vaccination this week. Perry used an interview with the New Hampshire Journal to elaborate on his thinking in that regard.

A former Hunterdon County Assistant Prosecutor, Bennett Barlyn, claims he was fired by the administration of New Jersey Gov Chris Christie for objecting to the dismissal of indictments against certain Christie allies.

Despite years of protests from black and Latino members, analysis indicates House Democrats remain woefully behind the times when it comes to hiring diversity across their well-paid consultant class.

Based upon a search after seeing a Brian Williams quote via Twitter, a September 2007 Media Research item, Brian Williams Derides Petraeus as No Eisenhower, indicates NBC’s Brian Williams used a story now shown to be false as part of his coverage undermining then-U.S. General David Petraeus.

With illegal immigration being a critical issue for the Republican Party’s grassroots conservative base, past remarks made by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are coming back to haunt him in a big way and may even derail any planned campaign.

Reports indicate Sen. Harry Reid has $1.5 million in the bank heading into the 2016 cycle.

Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) told Philadelphia radio host Dom Giordano that the Obama administration “is no longer trying to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon,” according to reports.

Responding to an inquiry, a spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has told The Hill and the UK’s Daily Mail the senator did smoke pot as a teen.

After taking flack over his comments regarding vaccination, Republican Senator Rand Paul managed to fit in a booster shot for Hepatitis A at the Capitol physician’s office.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie canceled three media availabilities during his trip to the U.K. after enduring criticism from a statement he made about vaccination.

“We should pass a homeland security bill with no strings attached to it,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) after returning to the Senate floor for the first time since injuring himself severely while exercising in his bathroom at home.

Reports claim that former Sen. Hillary Clinton decided to base her campaign headquarters in New York City, possibly in Brooklyn.

The race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 appears at risk of becoming a ‘me too’ contest now as even former New York Governor George Pataki (R) claims to be “very interested” in a run. “I may well be running” said Pataki on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) took a swipe at the Obama administration on Fox News on Sunday, saying they should spend “less time being politically correct about how we define our enemies and more time on how to defeat them.”

Can Hillary survive Obama fatigue?

A New York Times piece means to portray ailing Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid as still in command while holed-up in “a well-appointed one-bedroom condominium at the Ritz-Carlton on M Street.”

Calling it “one of the largest burdens the party has carried in decades,” The Hill reports that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is carrying $15 million in operational debt going into the 2016 election cycle, and that doesn’t include the “$5 million loan the organization took out to buy a house adjacent to its headquarters that it has leased for years…”

Real estate mogul, television personality, and prospective presidential candidate Donald Trump took to his Twitter account to sum up Friday’s political events for Republicans.

The people who run America’s federal government are doing well for themselves, financially. You must make more than 100,000 to “live comfortably” in Washington, D.C.

One of the reasons many believe Hillary stumbled in 2008 was a large campaign infrastructure, often at war with itself in the primary, not merely her opponent Barack Obama.

Reports out of Wisconsin indicate former Senator Russ Feingold may resign his position at the State Department and potentially run for the Senate against Republican Ron Johnson.

Treasury officials have announced that 3-6 million people will be forced to pay the Obamacare tax penalty for not having health insurance in 2014. This is the first time the Treasury Department has given such an estimate.

After being defeated by President Barack Obama in 2012, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears to have gone on a real estate spree — building two large homes and purchasing a third.

After calling John Boehner’s admission that “there have been a couple of stumbles” in the new Congress a “dry understatement,” the establishment-friendly Washington Post goes on to note what most in the GOP base already know: the establishment GOP is less than impressive when it comes to governing.

Prospective Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina will co-chair a National Women’s Coalition, which Job Creators Network (NWC) characterizes as “a new initiative aimed at broadening the organization’s mission and giving added voice to women business leaders around the country.”

Former Secretary of State and likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has agreed to testify before the House Select Committee on the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi.

Facing strong opposition from parents and both political parties, Barack Obama is abandoning plans to tax college savings accounts, also called 529s.