As you may have heard, the IRS claims Lois Lerner’s emails are gone forever. Apparently Lerner was storing her archived email on her local drive when it crashed and could not be recovered. I’m certainly not the first to suggest
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the majority whip who was elected on Thursday to be the next House majority leader, is viewed as the “go-to” guy for Silicon Valley who listens to the industry’s concerns “100 percent” of the time. Of
Amid new reports claiming that Louis Lerner’s emails sought by Congress pursuant to claims the IRS targeted Tea Party groups are lost forever, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued a blistering statement alleging that such federal
New York Magazine’s “Science of Us” vertical admits that Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s Tuesday attack against the Heritage Foundation is riddled with inaccuracies but still insist he was right. In a post titled “Real-Life Muslims Like Saba Ahmed Pose an Existential
Yesterday Dana Milbank wrote a column claiming a Heritage panel on Benghazi had devolved into “ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering.” This being Dana Milbank it was inevitable there would be serious
On Monday, the Koch brothers launched a new super PAC for the 2014 midterm elections. According to Politico, the Freedom Partners Action Fund “aims to spend more than $15 million in the 2014 midterm campaigns,” which is reportedly “part of
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sending Vice President Joe Biden to Central America to discourage illegal immigration to the United States is a welcome step, but President Obama needs to do more to confront the flood of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children flooding
The House Appropriations Committee has drafted a budget for the Internal Revenue Service for Fiscal Year 2015 – and Republicans are already using it as a vehicle for cracking down on the agency. The bill makes several prohibitions and provisions
I’ve long been a student of a phenomenon I call “manufactured credibility,” in which the Internet makes it easy to fake popularity and approval for everything from books and consumer products to politicians. One of my early writings on the
Writing for the New York Times about the game-changing Tea Party victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Tuesday, David Carr credits local media, along with conservative talk radio and Breitbart News, for reporting on the potential for an upset
The Supreme Court is due to decide whether the owners of Hobby Lobby craft supplies stores can be forced by the federal government to include in their employee health insurance forms of contraception that are against their religious beliefs. The
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor stated on ABC’s This Week that he didn’t want to be a lobbyist after his primary defeat last week. Cantor said that he was “gratified” by multiple people who had reached out to him with
With revenue and membership dropping, losses in court cases, all on top of internal dissension and even some splintering, the nation’s two largest education unions, the National education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, are struggling to map out
Deadline reports that less than 10 months after President Obama appointed her to the Board of Trustees for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shonda Rhimes will return the favor in July with $32,4000 a ticket fundraiser at Rhimes’
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) has officially entered the race for House Majority Leader, and will face Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for the chance to succeed Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), who lost his congressional primary this week and will be stepping
AUSTIN, Texas–Polls show Texas statewide Republicans are holding or expanding their lead over their Democrat opponents while the Wendy Davis Gubernatorial Campaign announced it is shaking up its management tree again. This time Davis is replacing the campaign manager, Karin
Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is now the sole candidate for the position of House majority leader following an announcement on Thursday from Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) that he has dropped out of the race. Sessions’ announcement comes just two days
Soon-to-be former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was not just reportedly unavailable to the constituents in his own district, Cantor made himself reliably unavailable to Capitol Hill reporters when his staff stopped his weekly pen and pad pressers with reporters
Wendy Davis is replacing her campaign manager as her bid to become Texas’ next governor is suffering. According to the Associated Press (AP), Davis announced on Wednesday that her campaign has struggled against Greg Abbott, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who is leading
A colleague, watching outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) face the press after announcing that he would step down in the wake of his surprise primary defeat, wondered aloud what Cantor’s place in history would be. Cantor himself seemed
Silicon Valley billionaire and Napster co-founder Sean Parker has announced he’s moving into politics with a new social media network platform called Brigade Media, which will act as a sort of LinkedIn for civic life and political engagement via Facebook.
On Air Force One, today, Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest took questions from reporters about House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s stunning loss, yesterday, and after admitting that he is not “an expert in Republican primary politics,” he went on to prove
A dozen or so senior GOP senators gathered with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) headquarters to raise funds for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) on Tuesday evening. Noteably, none of them seemed too proud
Former Politico reporter Reid Epstein just jumped to the Wall Street Journal but seems to have taken the worst of Politico’s instincts with him. In an uncharacteristically bizarre WSJ piece, Epstein attempts to manufacture from thin air a political controversy
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) failed to congratulate or even acknowledge Dave Brat in his concession speech last night. Neither did Cantor offer Brat his support in November’s general election against his Democratic opponent, or call Brat to concede
In response to Brat Wins in Virginia – Cantor Goes Down!: Some may think that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s primary loss in Virginia is a win for the tea party, and for those local tea party activists in Richmond
Lindsey Graham coasted to an easy victory in the South Carolina U.S. Senate Republican primary Tuesday, avoiding a runoff by surpassing the 50-percent margin required by law to claim the nomination. With 71 percent of the precincts reporting, Graham had
That private Washington fundraiser for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes with Harry Reid, last Thursday, is making all kinds of headlines – none of them good. The Politico reported that Grimes didn’t mention coal in her speech, after promising
On June 10 Obama took part in Q and A session hosted by Tumblr in which he said “mass shootings have become run of the mill” and the U.S. is “the only developed country… where this happens.” Canada is “developed;”
California Senator Dianne Feinstein is admitting that the White House has kept her at a distance after she criticized the Obama Administration for ignoring Congress when the Bowe Bergdahl deal was made. Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that although she had disagreements with President Obama during her time at the State Department, she was largely proud of her career. In her new book Hard Choices, Clinton expresses disagreements with Obama
Fox News host and national conservative radio personality Sean Hannity endorsed state Sen. Chris McDaniel over incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Monday, saying the race is “too important” and McDaniel is “too good” a candidate not to. Noting, “I mostly
On June 9, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the Senate needs to pass expanded background checks in light of the June 8 Las Vegas shooting, although the facts are still out on how or when the attackers acquired
Politico’s Mike Allen dismissed Hillary Clinton’s new memoir Hard Choices as a “newsless snore” at the beginning of a week of news dedicated to the release of her political memoirs. “WELCOME TO HILLARY WEEK!” Allen announced in his Politico Playbook
The new buzz in the Beltway is the emergence–or, rather, return–of the “reform conservatives.” Politico’s David Nather reports that these “policy wonks” share a desire to “move the GOP beyond its Reagan-era script of cutting taxes and shrinking government and
CNN recently announced the promotion of “Crossfire” producer David Chalian as its new political director — the same David Chalian fired by Yahoo News in 2012 for saying that the GOP was “happy to have a party with black people
JACKSON, Mississippi — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is gathering his K Street army to help stop the Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel and re-elect 42-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS). “The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent out an
In a video from Politico, war hero and former Sen. Bob Dole (R-KA) discussed his 1996 presidential campaign against then President Bill Clinton. Dole said he was mocked for being the oldest first-time presidential nominee at the age of 73
World War II veteran and former Republican 1996 presidential candidate Bob Dole said that Hillary Clinton’s age will matter if she runs for president in 2016. Dole, who turns 91 next month, was 73 when he ran for president with
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reveals in her new book that Barack Obama’s team asked her to attack Alaska Governor Sarah Palin after Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) chose her as his running mate in the 2008 presidential race. The
