Sep 19, 2010 – Given the current political climate, it is almost as if the rest of the country has embraced its inner West Virginia. … All of the Democrats’ national committees are spending money here in a year in which they are spread thin by a discontented, disconnected … Little attention was paid to the Third District’s race until news that longtime Rep.…

Oct 7, 2010 – Carter pointed to political motivations by Kennedy: “I felt like he went after me. I was the incumbent president…. … Carter got the awful news as he was celebrating Christmas with his family in the White House. … Of course, Reagan was a Republican; Carter was Kennedy’s own political flesh and blood.…

Oct 7, 2010 – Pollster and political prognosticator Charlie Cook is projecting that 204 House seats will remain Democratic, 185 will remain Republican … It's intriguing that a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey released Tuesday "finds that only 29 percent of likely U.S. voters … say they are more likely to contribute time or money to a political campaign this year," down nine points from April.…

Oct 6, 2010 – pass himself off as an independent voice, hoping that voters will forget his support for the government takeover of healthcare, a national … Unlike in 2008, the once-popular Democrat is now a political liability who won’t be there to carry Schauer across the finish line. … He supported the failed trillion-dollar stimulus, the National Energy Tax, the government takeover of health care, and record deficit…

Oct 6, 2010 – So why in the world does the tone of news coverage suggest all kinds of political problems ... for conservatives, as if they were the … That is "news" only if the reporter assumes she's an extremist who's political poison to every other Republican she touches. … National news stories and local negative ads go hand in hand.…

Oct 4, 2010 – Plans for National Coming Out Day are going well all across North Carolina – especially at UNC-Charlotte (UNCC). … Conservative students at UNCC are planning a Conservative Coming Out Day in response to National Coming Out Day. … In the wake of the IUPUI cupcake controversy, a student told a local Fox News station "I don't want to topple anybody at all.…

Oct 3, 2010 – Now, with the national mood dramatically different years past, Hill will finally have to answer for his consistent support of Washington … Rated a “Toss Up” by political handicapper Charlie Cook, this race is definitely one to keep an eye on. … Todd promises to fight for job creation, attention to fiscal responsibility, 2nd Amendment rights and national defense. …

Oct 1, 2010 – News & World Report that such talk of requiring constitutionality is "just plain wacky." … Andrew Jackson vetoed the reauthorization of the national bank in 1832 because he believed it was unconstitutional. … "In fact, it has said that certain constitutional questions like war and peace are left to the political branches to decide."…

Oct 1, 2010 – Waking up to how voters have received his record in this R+5 district, it’s no surprise McIntyre – in the words of Democrat National … has only led to higher unemployment, but he continues to rubber-stamp his party’s runaway spending spree, which has pushed our national … A race that was considered “Safe Democratic” in January is now considered competitive by the Cook Political Report.…

Oct 1, 2010 – Fair enough, if she wanted to present the news that the National Bureau of Economic Research has declared the recession officially … But my guess is that many of us who have for years tuned in with our fellow political junkies to view a spot of good-natured political … He heads the polling and political information firm InsiderAdvantage.…

Sep 29, 2010 – Those of us who love the sport insist that baseball's status as our distinctive "national pastime" means that a visit to any major … particularly true if your favorite team has been going through a lousy season that mirrors the nation's own recent economic and political … condition that have become a staple of news media and political discourse.…

Sep 29, 2010 – The Economist argued this is ultimately good news for planet Earth. … This is good news, if it works out so niftily. … Reuters quoted Wu Yushao, deputy head of the China National Committee on Aging, as saying that the increase in aged people "will be…

Sep 28, 2010 – The real story behind the Democrats' retreat, downplayed or all but ignored by the national news media, is that nearly three dozen … But the spectacle of Democrats fleeing Washington this week to save their own political hide, while the American economy struggles…

Sep 28, 2010 – Congress last week was a clear sign that ironic rot (if you've got a better term, let me know) is sinking into the foundation of our political … some of the best (and occasionally the worst) criticism of American politics and is revered on the left as somehow newsier than news … On Oct. 30, Colbert's "March to Keep Fear Alive" will join Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" on the National Mall.…

Sep 28, 2010 – With news of President Obama's plan to swarm the heartland this week to re-energize his base, one wonders whether he's finally heard … His personal approval rating is higher -- mystifyingly -- but that is doubtlessly small comfort to Democratic congressmen, whose political … gutter, with our federal government 1 1/2 steps through the bankruptcy door, nationalized medicine merely a heartbeat away, our national…

Oct 16, 2010 – When liberals conspired using Journolist to set a news agenda, it was obvious they had done so. … Details magazine, the National Enquirer, Gawker.com and others mentioned the story. … When the left went gunning for the Kochs, they jumped right to quasi-legit news outlets.…

Oct 15, 2010 – Political chess moves, in spades:Confident of keeping a seat, Senate Republicans are canceling $4 million in TV ads for Florida's Marco … This AP report brings nearly unalloyed good news for Republicans:(1) Rubio is in such good shape, the NRSC feels liberated to move … This indicates national Republicans feel confident that there won't be any Kendrick Meek/Charlie Crist funny business down the stretch…

Oct 15, 2010 – LAS VEGAS -- It has been an interesting "homecoming" from our most recent Fox News "embed" with U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan … When programming resumed, it was for a news update. … On the screen was a recap of America's commander in chief making a political speech at George Washington University.…

Oct 15, 2010 – A generation ago, the national Republican Party was under the command of the late Lee Atwater. … With its personal-political attacks on opponents, the GOP back then knew how to play the roughest brand of political warfare anyone … He heads the polling and political information firm InsiderAdvantage.…

Oct 14, 2010 – allegedly suggesting anyone with white hair should ever be asked to sacrifice in the interest of fiscal balance, economic vitality or national … But normal ways of thinking do not apply in the political arena. In truth, those benefits will keep growing at a brisk clip. … Something has to give.The good news is we're all living longer.…

Oct 13, 2010 – The good news is that it's apparently not racist to call Obama arrogant anymore. … When a man runs as a national redeemer and says his biggest failing is a messy desk, that should be a warning sign that he likes himself … Rahm Emanuel, as he was fleeing for the healthier and more civic-minded political environment of Chicago's backrooms, said, "I want…

Oct 12, 2010 – From a new Pew poll of Hispanics, The Washington Post reports: "There is good news and bad news for Democrats. ... … As political analyst Steve Sailer, who looked deeper into the Pew poll, discovered: "Actually the Pew findings are even worse for the … Finally, demand a national moratorium on all immigration, until unemployment among all of our Americans falls to 6 percent.…

Oct 12, 2010 – As more and more news surfaces on Democrat Gary McDowell, voters have been painted a disturbing picture.  … The First District itself is traditionally conservative and the Cook Political Report rates it as as R+3. … The district has rarely lent support to Democrats at the national level.…

Oct 11, 2010 – . – In front of the remarkably preserved home of President Harry Truman in Independence, Mo., a young National Park Service tour guide … She pays only peripheral attention to what’s going on politically on the national level; she says she always votes but never along … Not since the financial panic of 1893, during President Grover Cleveland's midterm year, has the potential for such a huge political…

Oct 11, 2010 – A few weeks ago, Goldberg made news getting invited by Fidel Castro to visit Cuba to spend a couple days chatting it up with him. … criticism that he sat for three days serving up soft balls to Castro, never once asking him about oppression or the hundreds of political … Freedom House, which provides annual ratings of political rights and civil liberties in 194 nations around the world, ranks Cuba among…