May 6, 2013 – promises--you can keep the healthcare  insurance you have, healthcare costs will go down, unemployment won't go above 8%, the national … Instead of working with Congress to find real savings in a bloated bureaucracy,  President Obama tried scoring political points by … Bloomberg News reported that there were more than enough air traffic controllers to operate without flight delays if furloughs were…

May 4, 2013 – The coverage of those "local" cases has been national and intense, and should be. … Result: What was once recognized as a low crime now has become a kind of political sacrament. … To criticize abortion, whether its legal, moral or political aspects, has become a kind of 21st-century heresy.…

May 3, 2013 – The Cook Political Report, which closely tracks House and Senate races, calls all four contests pure "toss ups." … The widely-followed Rothenberg Political Report rates the West Virginia race somewhere between a toss-up to "Tilt Republican." … Right now, it's painfully clear that the Obama economy is slowing down and the national news media seems to be stepping up its criticism…

May 2, 2013 – McAuliffe served as the national finance director of the Carter re-election campaign. … He was director of finance for the Democratic National Committee, then director of finance for the Democratic Congressional Campaign … Basically, McAuliffe has all of Romney's political vulnerabilities on this front, but without the success.…

May 17, 2013 – CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson -- last heard from explaining that although her bosses have been supportive of her Benghazi reporting … Thursday, an administration official who was part of the Benghazi response told CBS News: "I wish we'd sent it." … These revisions removed potentially damaging intelligence details for specifically political reasons. …

May 17, 2013 – At a news conference this week, Obama was dismissing Republican criticisms about the administration's multiple explanations of the … Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks as nothing more than a political "side show." … because it strikes at the heart of our democratic, political system.…

May 17, 2013 – Imam Rauf has said it would be dangerous for our national security if we did not allow him to build the mosque at the site where thousands … Crowley defended this luxury junket on Fox News. … It doubtless contributed to the major political shifts of that tumultuous year. But we have not heard much about Imam Rauf since.…

May 16, 2013 – about the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi, a fact that was eliminated from administration talking points for overtly political … He gave a lengthy answer about the seriousness of national security leaks, which everyone understands.  … The CIA officials, who had initially cited national security concerns in an attempt to delay publication, no longer had those worries…

May 16, 2013 – scandals this week, is reminiscent of the scandal-plagued Clinton White House in the 1990s, many of which were pushed into the national … The following is an excerpt from The Right Frequency: The Story of the Talk Radio Giants Who Shook Up the Political and Media Establishment … “Despite our political differences, Bernie, I offer this letter of encouragement and urge you to do the right thing.…

May 16, 2013 – tried to dismiss the little matter of Benghazi (Cont'd and To Be Cont'd) by saying: "There's an ongoing effort to make something political … Indeed there is, and it started immediately after the terrible news from Benghazi arrived -- indeed, as the terrible news from Benghazi … Anyone who went through the long national nightmare that was Watergate (R.M.…

May 15, 2013 – When news broke last week that the IRS had applied heavier scrutiny to conservative groups seeking non-profit status from 2010-2012 … get audited three times after the Obama campaign attacked him by name, and that he's not alone: VanderSloot, who was also national … Re-read those items, then recall that the IRS has told the American public that their targeting efforts were not motivated by political…

May 15, 2013 – the improper methods employed within her division were executed by "low level workers" in Cincinnati who weren't motivated by "political … And don't citizens have more cause than ever to be leery of ideas like national gun registries?  … Parting quotation: "What we are witnessing is nothing less than a dramatic reversal of the nation’s political narrative."…

May 15, 2013 – "Some of the proposals were less than ideal," writes US News, "one that was ultimately enacted into law raised the regressive payroll … Townsend proposed a scheme, supported by a national sales tax, whereby people “over the age sixty would receive two-hundred dollars … The combination of Sinclair’s gubernatorial showing, Long’s political ambitions and the outpouring of support for the Townsend plan…

May 14, 2013 – Feeding the conflagration is evidence of the executive branch exploiting the levers of government to bully its political opponents … The suggestion that none of this was motivated by political bias is risible and insulting. … time line, the original story has completely disintegrated:  The politicized monitoring commenced in March 2010 (just as the national…

May 14, 2013 – Perhaps “Gosnelled” the verb will survive in the political lexicon. … “Shame on the news, such as on it is,” Levin said. “The Pretorian Guard news agencies, you’re a pathetic joke. … Talk radio rarely breaks news.…

May 14, 2013 – ABC News first reported that the now famous Benghazi "talking points" used by U.N. … Oh, did I fail to mention that CBS News President David Rhodes is the brother of Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes? … One of the Articles of Impeachment of Nixon concerned his misuse of the IRS to undermine political enemies.…

May 13, 2013 – The Tea Party News Network’s sister organization, TheTeaParty.net was one of the largest and most prominent groups. … The assumption all along had been that behind the IRS harassment was a political motivation. … In March 2012, the New York Times editorialized in favor of using the IRS as a political weapon.…

May 13, 2013 – I’ve got news for Barack Obama. In America, serving God and serving country are not mutually exclusive. They never have been. … “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports,” he said. … human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. … [R]eason and experience both forbid us to expect that national…

May 13, 2013 – It's this kind of flair that has characterized Sanford's political career, both his six years in Congress and eight as governor. … He survived to serve out his second term as governor, but departed as what seemed to be permanently damaged political goods. … When the National Republican Congressional Committee pulled its support from Sanford's race following the news that he trespassed in…

May 12, 2013 – -based blog considering this appeared just two days after Hicks testified and major news outlets haven’t been able to find a detractor … The only thing worse than national media is local media, but Kyle is an exception. … Stonewalling and lying made political sense before the election, but why they’ve allowed these questions to remain unanswered and to…

May 11, 2013 – Conservatives quickly imputed a political motive to CBS News' internal drama, but the Daily Caller has uncovered a connection that … That reporting revealed that President Obama’s deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes — brother of CBS News president David Rhodes … CBS News' shows and producers?  Not so much.…

May 11, 2013 – scandal in U.S. political history. … If a Fox News anchor lied for a Republican President their career would be over. … But no one in the national media even questioned Clinton or Crowley.…

May 11, 2013 – The antagonists are veteran Democratic politicians or their political organizations (Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Ed Markey), and the … National Democrats and their media cohorts have noticed the trend, concentrating firepower on the new Republican rock stars in a way … If one were to describe a scene to the average cable news-watching American in which an elderly, white senior senator lectured a young…

May 30, 2013 – The political, cultural and business leaders convening in Switzerland this week are the latest group to express pointed concern over … And a poll of Davos participants conducted by Bloomberg News found that more than half believe income inequality is bad for economic … As our contributor at Political Calculations wrote back in October of 2011: [I]f people with very high income earning potential…

May 30, 2013 – what is the country supposed to make of our president's rambling stream-of-consciousness billed as a Major Policy Address at the National … The president is also going to call off his war on Fox News, the AP and any other journalistic enterprise that doesn't toe his line … To quote the same response the president made to a heckler at this empty performance of his at the National Defense University, "these…