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Wisconsin State Supreme Court Angers Big Labor by Upholding Walker’s Law

This is big news: Acting with unusual speed, the state Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to all but end collective bargaining for tens of thousands of public workers. The unions, Democrats and their liberal allies are, as you might expect, apoplectic with rage. For example, Ed Schultz on MSNBC was even […]

BREAKING: Democrats Call on GOP Candidate to Denounce PAC Video

A new viral video ad criticizing Democrat Janice Hahn’s support for a “gang intervention” program has drawn a swift response from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Within hours of the debut of the online ad — sponsored by the Turn Right USA political action committee — the DCCC posted an online petition “calling on Republican […]

Left-Wing Groups Getting Psyched Up for ‘Netroots Nation’ Event in Minneapolis

Between 1999 and 2005, George Soros donated $535,000 to Alliance for Justice (AFJ), which has also received major donations from liberals like Ted Turner and Barbra Streisand. One of AFJ’s main activities is to help Democrats block the appointment of conservative judges (they supported filibusters of President Bush’s nominees) and to push for the creation […]

Democrat Janice Hahn Stars in the New Viral Video Smash Hit of the Summer!

Janice Hahn is the Democrat running for Congress in the July 12 special election in California’s 36th District, to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Jane Harman. As a member of the Los Angeles City Council, Hahn promoted a program to use taxpayer money to hire convicted criminals as “gang intervention specialists.” Predictably, Hahn’s […]

BREAKING: David Brooks Is a Douchebag

This news is perhaps not shocking to regular readers of the New York Times‘ token “conservative” columnist, but if we ever needed smoking-gun proof, his column today is like RINO fingerprints covered with country-club DNA: I’m registering a protest because for someone of my Hamiltonian/National Greatness perspective, the two parties contesting this election are unusually […]

New York Times: ‘Media Colonoscopy’ of Palin E-Mails Was ‘Not a Witch Hunt’

Clay Waters at NewsBusters calls attention to an article by New York Times writer Jeremy Peters: The New York Times and The Guardian sent reporters armed with scanners and then solicited readers’ assistance. Politico enlisted a dozen editors, reporters and interns who worked as a team from their Northern Virginia newsroom “plowing through” the documents, as […]

The CNN Debate: Tokyo Survived

Having declared that the debate in Manchester, N.H., would result in Herman Cain stomping the other candidates “like Godzilla stomped Tokyo,” I’m now prepared to admit that the result was not quite so one-sided. However, I don’t get CNN at the house — some glitch in the cable service limits my choices to Fox and MSNBC […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.14.11

TOP NEWS GOP Contenders Pile On President, Spare Romney United in criticism of Obama, differing only in how to clean up his mess Obama On Weiner: “If It Was Me, I’d Resign” Hoyer: Weiner’s behavior “bizarre and unacceptable” Obama Tries To Goose Economy Without Congress Trying to make nerdy cool from the bully pulpit POLITICS […]

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