A man brandishing a sword was shot and killed after he charged an officer in Kansas City, Kansas, Saturday night. According to the police, the incident happened at about 10:00 pm while officers were responding to a armed disturbance. The name
Now that Republicans have celebrated a strong midterm election victory, many are asking, “What’s next?” What should they be doing? Where should the focus be? How do they turn a 2014 midterm victory into a 2016 presidential victory? I have
It is not the end of the year, and Senator Marco Rubio is now saying that he will make his decision to run for President in 2016 “in the coming weeks”. “For me, the decision is made based on the
The Fast Food chain Hardee’s recognized Joni Ernst, the first woman to represent Iowa as a United States Senator, with a full page ad in the Des Moines register, Thursday. Ernst had given a shout-out to her former employer at
Count Star Trek’s George Takei, aka Sulu, as one of Hillary Clinton’s early supporters for 2016. At times I support things that [Senator John McCain] says. He’s one of the rational Republicans. But I’m a Democrat and I think particularly
Fox News contributor and former congressman Allen West is taking the job of CEO at the Dallas-based and non-profit National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a think tank founded in 1983. The group says that since its inception, their goal
In response to Louisiana: Off and Running, Again: The Democrats have started pulling their ad buys for the Louisiana runoff, so Landrieu’s career is likely to end with a sad little ellipsis where the Party half-heartedly pretends she has a
While admitting that she has turned down work for personal and political reasons, Salon staffer Mary Elizabeth Williams claims she couldn’t possibly be seen as a “narrow-minded bigot,” presumably as her reasons are clearly so much better than, say, someone else’s.
On Fox News Friday evening, retired Army Major General and Fox News Military Analyst Bob Scales told Greta Van Susteren that the US military “knew three months ago” that it needed to send additional troops to Iraq, but “it wasn’t
The Supreme Court will decide the fate of Obamacare subsides and with them the fate of the law itself. Today the Court agreed to hear a case which will determine whether states without their own state-based insurance exchanges can grant
Incoming Affordable Care Act mandates are rerportedly “playing havoc” with substitute teaching programs in some districts. Under the new program, school systems will have to limit a substitute’s hours to below 29, or be forced to provide them will health
In 2006, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush, which was promptly ignored. The context was mounting international pressure on the Iranian regime, especially the UN Security Council, which was nearly unanimous in demanding
From left: Speaker of the House John Boehner, President Barack Obama, outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In back: Democratic Party mastermind and Andrew Breitbart nemesis John Podesta Not pictured: incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
I always expected the Halbig case to end up at the Supreme Court. I’m surprised so many people are surprised they agreed to hear the challenge today. I suppose this might have been a political decision, i.e. the four conservative
This is going on less than 3 miles from my home. Poor old guy just wants to feed the needy. I was actually there the day this happened, but left before he was arrested for the first time. Chef Arnold
President Obama continued his tradition of blatantly lying to the American people about ObamaCare during his press conference Wednesday and the Washington Post Factchecker has called him out on it giving him 3 Pinocchios. But it wasn’t just WaPo’s Glenn Kessler
Republican Senator and potential 2016 presidential candidate Rand Paul has been busy piling on Hillary Clinton in the wake of the Democrats’ 2014 midterm disaster. Whatever one wants to make of that, what hasn’t gotten much mention is the end
If you believe things aren’t over till they’re over, than the 2014 mid-terms still aren’t quite over. A slew of House races, many of them in California, two governors races and two senate races remain uncalled. GOVERNORS Alaska: Independent Bill
Now that the Republicans have taken over the U.S. Senate, as well as picked up more seats in the House, many expect that an internal party power tussle could take place between conservative legislators and the old GOP establishment. A
Today’s banana republic update comes to us from the exasperated watchdogs at Judicial Watch, which has a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit pending in the IRS targeting scandal. Some months ago, we learned that former Tax Exempt Organizations honcho Lois
Your feel-good story of the day: Republican candidate Mike Bost Tuesday won the U.S. House of Representative seat for Southern Illinois’ 12th Congressional District. Bost, a state representative since 1995, ousted Democratic incumbent Bill Enyart in a tightly contested race.
This week Sharyl Attkisson released Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington. The book offers an insiders perspective on some of the major stories she has been involved in over the last
Not one prone to hyperbole, the most senior republican in the Senate, Utah’s Orrin Hatch said of Harry Reid’s leadership, it’s “the most pathetic, pitiful way I’ve seen the Senate run in all my 38 years — and I’ve seen some
Since at least 2009, Democrats have branded the GOP as the “party of no.” This claim has some basis in fact but it was also used as lazy shorthand nearly every time Republicans opposed the actions of a progressive President,
Dan Henninger at the Wall Street Journal thinks Obama’s weaksauce economy cooked Democrat geese during the midterm elections: “Low economic growth in the modern U.S. economy is a total, across-the-board, top-to-bottom political loser.” Normally “economic growth” is an economist’s term
In response to King Will Continue To Caucus With the Democrats: No surprise here. King really isn’t an Independent, but a blue-blood Democrat. I am going to assume that he will want to stay far away from Republicans, considering that
You’ll read some thorough, well-researched analysis about what the 2014 midterm election wave means for various potential 2016 presidential candidates. I think the time is right for some guy out in flyover country to whip a quick post off the
Congressman-elect Carlos Curbelo defeating liberal Democrat Joe Garcia in arguably one of the most contentious congressional races in the nation. All Curbelo had to do to win was reach out to his base of support, and let Garcia’s past actions
RGA Chairman Chris Christie appeared on the Today show Wednesday morning to praise the Republican candidates who defended and won governorships across the country despite a tough electoral map. Christie’s voice was rough from overuse during the final hectic week
NBC political analyst Chuck Todd predicted Tuesday night that the president would have to back away from his threat to act unilaterally on immigration because of the Republican sweep. “I think politically, tonight, it put an end to it. It would
Politico tries to sum up what we may have learned from the 2014 mid-term elections. This gem somewhat stands out, even if it isn’t surprising — “… equal-sized majorities of yesterday’s electorate held unfavorable views of each party.” What may be
I’m sure my fellow Floridian Javier will join me in thanking Governor Rick Scott for scaring us all half to death with a close race, but in the end, soulless party-flipping opportunist Charlie Crist was sent packing. The New York
If you thought the 2014 mid-term elections were over … think again, although many believe a December run-off between Democrat Mary Landrieu and Republican Bill Cassidy is over before it even begins. Unofficially, Republican Rob Maness got 13.8% of the vote,
An important reminder from John Lott: the midterm-election Republican tsunami reached deep into local elections, too. Republicans have picked up Colorado state Senate (possibly the state House), Maine state Senate, Minnesota state House, New Hampshire state House, New Mexico state
In response to Image of the night: Charlie Crist’s fan put away for the last time: This was the second election night that I was able to toast to the defeat of arguably the least principled politician in the history
As expected, it was a big night for he GOP, as it snatched away control of the U.S. Senate away from Harry “Dingy” Reid, forcing President Obama to have to work with a Republican-controlled Congress in the remaining two years
Last night several high-profile champions of the Democrats’ “war on women” meme lost their races, suggesting this particular appeal to voters may have peaked in 2012 and will see diminishing returns in the future. Wendy Davis was selected by Democrats
Despite previous hints that he might opt to decide to caucus with Republicans and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reaching out in an attempt to make that happen, Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine says he’ll be staying with
An Emanuel Cleaver supporter working outside a polling place at 31st and Prospect in Kansas City, Missouri, Tuesday morning, bullied a Jacob Turk campaign worker who was placing a Turk sign at the location. David Bernal, the Turk volunteer, said
In response to Kay Hagan Airs Last Minute Obama Endorsement: Charlie Crist just did the same thing here in Florida. Obama’s robocall for Hagan is probably a last ditch effort to get out the black vote for her close race