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Remember how ACORN used fake names when they were soliciting cotes for Barack Obama? Now there’s another Democratic Party organization soliciting voter registration that is under suspicion, this time in Ohio. FieldWorks, a private Washington, D.C. based firm that works

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been the top outside spender on Democratic campaigns this election cycle, illustrating how tied to unions President Obama is and how much he will owe them should he win election. The SEIU has

Thursday evening in Chicago, black grassroots activists fed up with manipulation of their suffering by city leadership turned out to protest a fundraiser for President Obama held by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Speaker of the General Assembly Michael Madigan. 

According to Wade Rathke, founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), unions should start plastering Wikipedia with pro-union propaganda. Rathke suggested that unions “draft folks from the communications departments of various national and international unions for

The reasons to “un”-elect President Barack Obama are myriad.  His has a litany of failings that is massive and nearly all-encompassing. One of the most important reasons to dispatch this President is his governing via Executive Order and regulatory fiat

A Service Employees International Union (SEIU) whistleblower has revealed that the organization forced him to work for Democratic political campaigns — even those of candidates for whom he was ineligible to vote. Mallory Factor, the author of the best-selling book Shadowbosses:

Daily Caller: In a case that could have wide-ranging implications for the political future of the Service Employees International Union, a former SEIU organizer told a right-to-work group and a best-selling author recently that the union forced him and other

After his meteoric ascent to the top of the American political arena in the country’s history, we are now in the midst of witnessing one of the most stunning collapses of any man ever to hold the office of President

With Ohio looking extremely close, the AFL-CIO’s voter registration efforts may provide the margin of error for President Obama if he can somehow eke out a victory. Earlier this month, the AFL-CIO said it had registered over 450,000 voters across

After insisting that voter fraud does not occur and insinuating Republicans were racist for using claims of voter fraud to suppress the vote in liberal areas, Democrats are now asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate potential voter fraud

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations affiliate on democratization and human rights, will send out 44 “observers” to the United States on Election Day to monitor polling and political activities. In particular, these “election

With the presidential election coming down to the wire, and many right-leaning Democrats and Independents either undecided or suffering from “buyers remorse,” it’s no coincidence four conservative movies are all out in the same condensed time frame. Stephen K. Bannon’s

Before the Democratic National Convention, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Democrats would not finance the convention with special-interest money or corporate donations. She went on to say they did not need such money because convention organizers had “exceeded” the

PolitiFact Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s left-wing “fact checking” operation, has been invaluable to leftist Sherrod Brown for its writers’ attacks on his U.S. Senate challenger, conservative Josh Mandel. PolitiFact Ohio’s biased work has been the foundation for multiple Brown ads

Steve Wynn has it right. He recently told a television news anchor that he’s afraid of the president, that he can’t stand the idea of being put down by a president who has ‘never created any jobs’ and that he’ll

The Second Presidential Debate featured repeated claims by each candidate that the other was not telling the truth–as well as at least one claim of fact by the moderator that turned out to be false. There were even questionable claims

Documents detailing multiple legal threats from the AFL-CIO and Florida Democratic Party operatives indicate a new effort to keep citizens from acting as election observers and assisting in the maintenance of their local voter rolls.  Two Florida voters were in

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, otherwise known as the Obama Rag, is now tacitly encouraging voters to commit voter fraud. How? In various neighborhoods around Cleveland, Cincinnati and Milwaukee, there are billboards reading, “Voter Fraud is a Felony! Up to 3

The coal miners of Ohio, unlike some workers who are intimidated by their unions, are unafraid of standing tall and confronting the Obama Administration head-on. Last Wednesday, more than 500 coal miners who work at the Beallsville, Ohio Century Mine,

For over a hundred years, Catholics have been a core constituency of the Democratic Party, along with urbanites, minorities and unions.  This year, for the first time ever, a Democratic Presidential candidate is running directly against the public policy goals

Barack Obama may not like asking for money, but the hundreds of people willing to pay upwards of $40,000 a pop to attend star-studded fundraisers in his honor show there are plenty willing to reach deep into their pockets on

HealthBridge Management and CareOne, related companies that own and operate nursing homes in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and two other states, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the New England Health Care Employers Union, also known as Service Employees International

By NICHOLAS PAPHITISAssociated PressATHENS, GreeceUnemployment in Greece hit a record high of 25.1 percent in July as the country’s financial crisis continues to exact its heavy toll, official figures showed Thursday. All indications are that unemployment in Greece will continue

Texans in State Senate District 10 need to get to the polls on Election Day and vote the conservative Dr. Mark Shelton to replace Liberal Wendy Davis. The district’s demographics are in Dr. Shelton’s favor, and he’s exactly the conservative we

There’s a small crack in Barack Obama’s core constituency: not all black Americans are sure of voting for him in 2012. This could hurt him badly in swing states like North Carolina and Virginia; North Carolina has the largest percentage

Outside of a Elizabeth Warren debate Wednesday night in Springfield, Massachusetts. Cameraman “Did you guys get fined if you weren’t there?” Union member “Yeah,” Cameraman “How much did you get fined?” Union member “A hundred and fifty…t’s two-fifty if you

As someone who watches the media as closely as anyone can for a living, and hasn’t been at all surprised by a single moment of the media’s appalling behavior this campaign season, I have to admit that thanks to some

In a clear threat to the voters of California, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District implicitly warned that if either Propositions 30 or 38 aren’t passed, the children of the city will miss the last two months

A new poll in Iowa found 68 percent of Iowans support Photo ID legislation that would require voters to present a photo ID before voting in state elections. Only 29 percent of those surveyed opposed.  According to the Iowa Republican,

The origin of the “spread of progressivism” in our youth can be traced  backed to academia. For decades college professors have spouted the big government doctrines of John Rawls, Karl Marx, Paul Krugman, and FDR. The professors have been and

Friends and supporters of Samantha Pawlucy are planning to rally outside her high school when she returns on Tuesday. Pawlucy says she was bullied and harassed by a teacher and students for wearing a pro-Romney shirt. The sixteen year old

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which employed Sherrod Brown’s wife Connie Schultz from 2007 until she was caught filming Josh Mandel in 2011 at a Tea Party rally and subsequently resigned from the paper, has, shockingly enough, endorsed Brown in his

The government sector unions that have funneled millions of dollars this election cycle to left-leaning groups and candidates have “no plans” to help a pro-Mitt Romney student who says she was victimized by a union member teacher for her political

President Barack Obama’s supporters, incredulous at their candidate’s defeat in last night’s debate, and worried about the September jobs report, are reaching for phony economic arguments across the networks and social media today. Some are familiar arguments from Obama’s own

(AP) Judge halts Pa.’s tough new voter ID requirementBy MARC LEVYAssociated PressHARRISBURG, Pa.A judge postponed Pennsylvania’s controversial voter identification requirement on Tuesday, ordering the state not to enforce it in this year’s presidential election but allowing it to go into

Anyone who thinks the Obama administration won’t release the Blind Sheik needs to look at what happened early Saturday morning and then think again. Under cover of darkness and without prior announcement convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Khadr was quietly shipped