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The race for one solidly Democrat state Senate seat in Fresno, California could prove crucial for Republicans looking to break a Democrat supermajority in the chamber. Republican incumbent Andy Vidak, a local farmer elected to the seat last year in

In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, Politico Playbook’s Mike Allen surveyed the scene of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary contest, particularly regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton candidacy. Allen said that Democratic donors were looking for

In an apparent case of mistaken identity, Congressional Quarterly published an interview with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy that did not take place, Politico reports. In the original, since retracted story, reporter Amrita Khalid wrote that “California Republican Kevin McCarthy

President Barack Obama revealed that he had lunch with Bill Gates “the other day” during a Friday town hall event at an Indiana steel manufacturing plant.  Gates was in Washington, D.C. on Monday for a Politico event, and he praised

As President Barack Obama seeks to give temporary amnesty and work permits to perhaps five million illegal immigrants, the majority of whom are low-skilled workers, there is a shortage of skilled workers in the medical coding field.  Torrey Barnhouse, president

Sitting comfortably with a new job at the Daily Mail, former CNN host Piers Morgan revealed to Politico’s Dylan Byers that he is working on a new anti-gun movie. According to Politico, Morgan describes the film as a Michael Moore Bowling

HOUSTON, Texas –The Liberian Ebola patient being treated in Dallas, Texas, Thomas Eric Duncan, reportedly had contact with 80 people while infected.  Those 80 are currently being interviewed by health officials, Dallas Health Director Zack Thompson told ABC News. Breitbart Texas obtained a statement from the Texas Department

HOUSTON, Texas — Numerous young children in Dallas may have been exposed to Ebola after having contact with the infected individual. Five children are currently being monitored for the virus.  A total of 12 to 15 people are currently be watched

The Washington Free Beacon’s ongoing vetting of potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is obviously stressing the former Secretary of State’s Palace Guards in the mainstream media and Hollywood. As we reported last week, The Beacon’s recent unearthing of correspondence between

HOUSTON, Texas — More federal tax dollars will be spent on legal counsel for minors who entered the U.S. illegally. President Obama’s Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Tuesday that $4.2 million more “leftover funds” will be spent on

A wave of unearthed plagiarism charges against Fareed Zakaria at Our Bad Media has resulted in Newsweek adding a plagiarism warning to every one of the CNN anchor’s previous columns and articles. According to Politico, Zakaria worked for Newsweek as

On Monday evening, Newsweek added a plagiarism warning to all of Fareed Zakaria’s articles for the publication.  “Fareed Zakaria worked for Newsweek when it was under previous ownership. Readers are advised that some of his articles have been the subject

First off, my heartiest congratulations and well wishes to Chelsea Clinton and Mark Mezvinsky on the arrival of their daughter, Charlotte. And also to newly-minted grandparents, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Please do not allow our pointing out example #87,483 of

AUSTIN, Texas — Wendy Davis, the Democrat nominee for Texas Governor, is running a race that no one thinks she can win. Correction: no one thinks she can win except Joe Biden, but the Vice President’s peppy declaration that “She’s

The economic stimulus package Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) voted for in 2009 served to benefit her husband’s company to the the tune of $390,000 in federal grants and tax credits, according to a Politico report released Thursday evening. JDC Manufacturing,

If former Florida Governor Jeb Bush runs for president in 2016, he will reportedly double down on amnesty for illegal immigrants and Common Core. According to Politico, George H.W. Bush, his father, is reportedly “eager for his son to run”

In reaction to a report revealing that Sen. Kay Hagan’s husband’s business received nearly $390,000 in federal grants and tax credits, Republicans argue that the Hagan campaign is lying when it claims the incumbent senator did not profit off the

Conference season is in full swing.  For a few days each through September and early October, the four main British political parties and their accompanying army of press, lobbyists and the occasional delegate embark en masse to far-flung English cities

A small coalition of hard-left groups have called on GOP chairman Reince Priebus to “shun” several social conservative groups for their positions on homosexuality.  An expensive full-page ad appeared in Wednesday’s Washington Post signed by the Southern Poverty Law Center,

The New York Post reports that the Staten Island Zoo “went to great lengths to … keep secret” the fact that a groundhog New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped during a Groundhog Day ceremony, died of internal injuries

Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund (TPPCF) is calling on Arkansans to see through what it says was Sen. Mark Pryor’s (D-AR) “sham” vote in favor of a motion that would have moved an anti-amnesty amendment forward.  “Sen. Pryor’s vote was

Brace yourselves. It looks as though it’s going to be 2008 and 2012 all over again — where a 50 year-old GOP haircut and a 35-year-old GOP rock are big news, but Hillary will get a sweet mainstream media pass

Although a growing number of media outlets, including Politico, Esquire, and The Week, have declared CNN’s Fareed Zakaria a plagiarist, CNN chief Jeff Zucker told Politico Tuesday that, “We continue to have complete confidence in Fareed.” “We continue to have

Elites in the permanent political class are on the retreat, and no issue reflects that more than amnesty legislation. Not surprisingly, amnesty represents the divide between the Masters of the Universe in the bipartisan permanent political class and American workers. 

After clinching the Republican nomination for the Alaska Senate race, Dan Sullivan has now surged six points according to a new Public Policy Polling poll. An August poll conducted prior to the primary showed Begich leading Sullivan 43 percent to

Experts are anticipating that another wave of unaccompanied minors from Central America will make their way northward to illegally enter the United States. “The situation in Central America has not changed, we have the same problems of insecurity and violence,

On September 12th, the Center for Responsible Lending, a left-wing group advocating for greater regulation of the banking industry hosted a national “messaging” conference on “bank reform,” with a special emphasis on curtailing “payday lending”. A centerpiece of the conference

A study conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington has concluded that warmer sea and land temperatures along the Pacific coast in North America over the past 100 years are due to weak winds–and not

Per a new Politico report, “Democrats love to cast Republicans as the party of big money, beholden to the out-of-touch billionaires bankrolling their campaigns. But new numbers tell a very different story — one in which Democrats are actually raising more big

Immigration reform has not happened under President Obama because Democrats have wanted to keep immigration as a political wedge issue, according to pro-immigration reform Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL).  “The Democratic Party leadership has been very strong, has pressured the Democrats

Move over, Scott Brown. The strategy of hitting Democrats on immigration in elections is working for Republicans who employ it nationwide–even in liberal Massachusetts, where another poll shows GOP gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker tied in a close race with Democrat