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A Plea to Speaker John Boehner

Speaker Boehner, America is standing on a stool with a noose around her neck. And Obama is kicking the stool. For the next two years, you’re the only man who can stop him. We have to spend less. This is not an abstract concept. This is not a political statement. This isn’t last time. This is math. [...]

TSA Running the DNC

If you’re a convention delegate, guest, hell maybe even a member of the media or President Obama’s Finance team, it’s you are going through the 4th street entrance to enter the Time Warner Arena. Attendees are then forced to take their credentials from the protective pastic sleeve twice, causing many to tear the top hole [...]

African-Americans on CNN Call Biden’s “Chains” Comments Racist

Today, CNN provided ample coverage to Biden’s remarks at a campaign speech yesterday. In direct repudiation of Roland Martin’s commentary on AC360, not a single African-American would defend Vice President Joe Biden’s “put y’all in chains” comments made in Danville, Virginia. Many went so far as to characterize Biden’s remarks as racist or having racial [...]

VIDEO: President Obama Fesses Up on $716 BILLION Medicare Cut for Today’s Seniors

President Obama has protested claims that Obamacare cut Medicare’s funding by even a penny. Fact-checkers like Factcheck.org, Politifact, and Bloomberg News said that Romney and the GOP’s claim that Obamacare cuts Medicare by $500B. The Obama campaign has recently been everywhere on the issue as the Romney campaign has continued to highlight it against the [...]

Soledad O’Brien’s Gaffe Sets Off Flurry of Wikipedia Edits [UPDATED - Page Now Locked]

Yesterday, after CNN’s Soledad O’Brien was caught using an e-mail featuring Talking Points Memo’s post “The Myth of Paul Ryan the Bipartisan Leader,” her Wikipedia page immediately reflected her newest display of partisanship: Within minutes, not only was the new addition deleted, but the entire “Criticism” section was as well. This set off a flurry [...]

Caught: Soledad O’Brien Uses Liberal Blog to Attack Ryan Plan

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien is no stranger to controversy or rightful journalistic scrutiny. She’s frequently been exposed for reading Wikipedia or talking points on the air, always disparaging a conservative guest on her program. Tonight, she was the substitute host for Anderson Cooper, a program that boasts of its reputation for “keeping [politicians] honest.” During her [...]

TEXT: Barack Obama’s Floor Speech as a State Senator on Welfare Reform

STATE OF ILLINOIS 90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 60th Legislative Day May 31, 1997 First of all, what I’d like to do is just commend both Senator Syverson, as well as the Governor’s Office, for entering into good-faith negotiations on what is a huge bill that hasn’t received too much attention. There hasn’t been too much [...]

Release: National Bloggers Club Exploring Legal Options with Darby against Neal Rauhauser

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 2, 2012Contact: Ali A. Akbar, [email protected] (emails will be reviewed by system and then a volunteer), (888) 308-3606, ext. 4   DEMOCRAT OPERATIVE ACCUSES ACTIVIST BRANDON DARBY OF “SWATTING” BLOGGERS; National Bloggers Club PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR DARBY AND ALL LEGAL RECOURSE AUSTIN, TX — Democratic operative and self-proclaimed “hacker” Neal Rauhauser [...]

Evidence Suggests Court Originally Voted to Strike Down Obamacare

Blogger Lawrence B. Solum read Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissenting opinion in today’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act, and finds interesting typos suggesting Scalia may have originally written his opinion as a concurrence rather than a dissent: After a preliminary read of the opinions in the Health Care Cases (National Federation of Independent Business v. [...]

SCOTUS Reaffirms Citizens United Decision

In another day of Supreme Court decisions, with everyone waiting with bated breath for the Court’s ruling on ObamaCare, the Court chose instead to rule on other high-profile cases, including a case questioning Montana’s campaign finance rules. In a 5-4 decision, the Conservative majority declined to allow the Liberal minority to essentially force a re-hearing [...]