Massive FEMA supply chain failures have resulted in shortages of bottled water, food, gasoline, shelter,power and clothing across New Jersey and metropolitan New York, where victims of Hurricane Sandy are angrily calling President Obama’s response no better–and in some regards worse–than President Bush’s
Just days after most Massachusetts political pundits had declared Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren the victor in Tuesday’s election battle with incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown, a new University of Massachusetts-Lowell/Boston Herald poll shows the two are statistically tied on the
Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, a Democrat who supported Barack Obama in 2008, has essentially abandoned him in 2012 by failing to endorse him this time around. Indeed, a careful reading of his high praise for Mitt Romney and tough
On Tuesday, October 30, the day after Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey, New York City, and Long Island with devastating losses, Mitt Romney converted his Kettering, Ohio campaign rally into a storm relief effort. He personally loaded bottled water onto
On Sunday, Madison’s Wisconsin State Journal endorsed Mitt Romney for President. In 2008, the paper endorsed Barack Obama, but four years later, the State Journal believes it’s time for Obama to go: Not enough hope and too little change. That
On Sunday The New York Daily News, the second largest daily newspaper in metropolitan New York and fourth largest in the entire country, endorsed Mitt Romney for President. In 2008 the Daily News endorsed Barack Obama. It was a stunning
As Long Island struggled to recover from Hurricane Sandy, the area’s most influential newspaper, NewsDay, endorsed Mitt Romney for President on Saturday. In 2008, the paper endorsed Barack Obama: Had Barack Obama done the job of president with the same
FEMA’s vaunted “lean forward” strategy that called for advanced staging of supplies for emergency distribution failed to live up to its billing in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In fact, the agency appears to have been completely unprepared to
The Federal Emergency Management Administration uses a curious phrase in its website’s description of the agency’s role in responding to Hurricane Sandy: The entire federal family continues to lean forward to support the states, tribes and communities in their ongoing response efforts
Two days after President Obama flew into storm-ravaged New Jersey on Wednesday for a 90 minute photo op with Governor Christie, parts of the state have descended into what one local resident calls “an apocalyptic vision.” On Friday, in an
In Michael Bloomberg’s Manhattan, just as in Barack Obama’s Washington, D.C., the political and media elite seem to think that talking about something, holding a press conference or televising a party amounts to doing something to solve a problem. The
Fresh off his “climate disruption”-driven endorsement of President Obama, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has chosen to divert critical food supplies and power generators from desperate residents of Staten Island to Sunday’s New York City Marathon. Gothamist reports: [T]hose
CBS’s Sharyl Attkison reported Thursday that “during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).” Attkison’s report cited a high-ranking government official: “The
The Obama administration missed a statutory deadline to file a key report on its second-term agenda to Congress this Thursday. For the second time this year, the White House failed to follow federal law requiring a report outlining the economic impact of its
A huge crowd greeted Mitt Romney at a Thursday morning campaign event inside a window manufacturing plant in Roanoke, Virginia. The local Roanoke Times reported the story: A fired-up Mitt Romney rallied a crowd of just under 3,000 in Roanoke County
Obama campaign chief political consultant David Axelrod told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday that if his boss loses either Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Minnesota, he’ll shave off his mustache: David Axelrod: I will come on Morning Joe and I will shave
In key swing states, the vaunted Obama ground game is being out-worked and out-organized by a loosely knit coalition of volunteer grassroots activists (both local and out-of-state), traditional conservative organizations like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, and the local and
Iowa’s Quad City Times, one of that swing’s states most important newspapers, endorsed Mitt Romney for President on Sunday. In 2008 the paper endorsed Barack Obama: We invested heavily in hope back in 2008. Our 2012 endorsement of Mitt Romney
The Nashua Telegraph, one of New Hampshire’s largest and most influential newspapers, endorsed Mitt Romney for President Wednesday. The paper endorsed Barack Obama in 2008: Four years ago, with little hesitation, we endorsed then-Sen. Barack Obama to become the 44th president
On Monday, the White House eagerly distributed a picture taken that day of President Obama in the situation room with his top aides discussing responses to Hurricane Sandy. The Obama administration has yet to distribute the picture of the President
In an interview conducted over the weekend with Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough that aired on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, President Obama announced that a key element of his second term agenda will be to establish a new cabinet
Drivers headed eastbound on I-40 can’t miss this compelling billboard at the 363 mile mark just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. Paid for by the Roane County Tea Party, the simple and clear message — America or Obama: You Can’t Have
On Monday morning, a defensive and obviously irritated President Obama took on the demeanor of the offended party when he was questioned about his handling of the Benghazi debacle on MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Co-host Mika Brzezinski poses the Benghazi question to
A Boston Globe poll released Monday shows Scott Brown now leads Elizabeth Warren by two points, 45% to 43% in the hotly contested Massachusetts Senate race. This is a reversal from a Globe poll published earlier this month, which showed Warren in the
On Sunday, the Chicago Daily Herald, the second largest daily newspaper in metropolitan Chicago, endorsed Mitt Romney for President in 2012. In 2008, the Daily Herald endorsed hometown Senator Barack Obama for President: In endorsing Illinois’ favorite son in 2008,
A Breitbart News analysis of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s recent October 15, 2012 filing with the Federal Election Commission shows that more than half of the $36.2 million Ms. Warren has raised for her campaign has come from
When Angus King finished his second term as Governor of Maine in January 2003, he left the state with a $1.2 billion deficit, according to the Maine Republican Party. But in television ads paid for by his independent campaign for
On Saturday the Daily News, the second largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan Los Angeles area, endorsed Mitt Romney for President in 2012. In 2008 the Daily News endorsed Barack Obama: FOUR years ago, as America faced serious trouble at
On Friday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, one of the major Florida newspapers that endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, endorsed Mitt Romney for President in the 2012 election: Brush away all the rhetoric, all the vitriol, all the divisiveness from the presidential
Politico reported on Thursday that President Obama recently displayed his idea of “the new civility” in an interview with historian Douglas Brinkley for Rolling Stone: FIRST LOOK – Rolling Stone cover, “Obama and the Road Ahead: The Rolling Stone Interview,”
On Wednesday, AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka boasted of his organization’s aggressive ground game in the key states of Ohio, Wisconsin, and Nevada. Noticeably missing from Trumka’s list were the pivotal swing states of Virginia and Florida where recent polls show Mitt
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008, has reportedly decided not to endorse any presidential candidate in 2012. Sources say the paper is not eager to experience the same kind of heat it received after endorsing Republican
Senate candidate George Allen released a television ad Wednesday criticizing his Democratic opponent Tim Kaine for supporting Obama and his planned defense cuts. The ad came less than 48 hours after President Obama declared in the third presidential debate that he
At Monday’s third presidential debate, President Obama pointedly promised that sequestered budget cuts that will affect defense spending “will not happen.” OBAMA: First of all, the sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen. [emphasis added]
The Daily Princetonian reported Wednesday that Michelle Obama, Princeton Class of 1985, “has rebuffed” numerous requests from Princeton’s administration to visit her alma mater since she became first lady in January of 2009: Over the past seven years, as her
President Obama’s gaffe in Monday’s debate when he told voters in the Norfolk area, home to the largest naval base in the country, that his second term plan is to further diminish the role of our Navy, isn’t his only
The defining moments of Monday’s foreign policy debate came halfway through the evening, when President Obama struck himself out–especially in Virginia–with three pitches aimed at Mitt Romney that boomeranged. These ill advised lines will come back to haunt him over the
On Sunday, The Arizona Republic joined a growing chorus of newspapers across the country when it endorsed Mitt Romney for President: The last U.S. president to attempt transformative social change on the scale attempted by President Barack Obama was Lyndon
On Sunday the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, one of the most influential newspapers in Texas, endorsed Mitt Romney for President: The slow U.S. economy and its discouragingly high unemployment overshadow the other important issues in this election. Economic recovery must be
On Sunday the Tampa Tribune, one of Florida’s most influential daily newspapers, endorsed Mitt Romney for President in 2012: Mitt Romney is the man who can lead the nation out of its lingering economic doldrums and restore faith in the
