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Congressman Barney Frank Marries Partner Jim Ready

Congressman Barney Frank Marries Partner Jim Ready

Rep. Barney Frank marries longtime partner in Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank and his long-time partner Jim Ready were married Saturday evening in Newton, Mass., in a ceremony officiated by Governor Deval Patrick. More than 300 people [...]
Ethics Violator Rep Charles Rangel Wins Democratic Primary

Ethics Violator Rep Charles Rangel Wins Democratic Primary

Rangel Overcomes Early Hole, Declares Victory In Democratic Primary Seeking 22nd Term, Congressman Says Voters Believed He Could Still Do It NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A number of hotly-contested races were held Tuesday on primary day, including [...]
Known Terrorist Hani Nour Eldin Visits President Obama

Known Terrorist Hani Nour Eldin Visits President Obama

Obama Administration Hosts Terrorists–Again by Joel B. Pollak In April, Breitbart News reported that the White House had hosted members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood–the radical, anti-woman, anti-American, anti-Israel [...]
Uruguay Plans To Legalize Marijuana

Uruguay Plans To Legalize Marijuana

Uruguay in plan to legalize marijuana By Jude Webber in Buenos Aires Uruguay’s leftist government has announced plans to legalize marijuana in a bid to halt rising crime. The announcement, by the government of veteran former rebel leader [...]
Democrat Gary Ackerman : Voters Have Gotten Dumber

Democrat Gary Ackerman : Voters Have Gotten Dumber

Retiring Dem: ‘The People Have Gotten Dumber’  By DANIEL HALPER Retiring congressman Gary Ackerman, a Democrat from New York, reflects on his time in Congress. Obama suggests we keep “Washington” out of the arguments [...]
Democrats Not Attending Democratic National Committee Convention

Democrats Not Attending Democratic National Committee Convention

Bucking Convention Some Democratic incumbents in need of independent voters are skipping the DNC By Dan Hirschhorn Vulnerable Democrats looking to distance themselves from President Obama have found an easy way to bolster their independent [...]
Why Is White House Hiding Details Of Agent's Death?

Why Is The White House Hiding Details Of Agent’s Death?

Obama asserts executive privilege on some Fast and Furious documents By Tom Cohen, CNN updated 2:49 PM EDT, Wed June 20, 2012 Washington (CNN) — An extraordinary House committee hearing debated a contempt measure against Attorney General [...]
President Obama Is Scared Of Republican Donors

President Obama Is Scared Of Republican Donors

Obama Camp Demands the Names of Crossroad GPS Donors By Danny Yadron President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign filed a complaint the Federal Election Commission Tuesday demanding that Crossroads GPS, the well-funded Republican advocacy [...]
Roger The Rocket Clemens Acquitted of Perjury

Roger The Rocket Clemens Acquitted of Perjury

Roger Clemens acquitted of all charges in federal perjury trial Published June 18, 2012 Associated Press WASHINGTON –  Roger Clemens has been acquitted on all charges by a jury that decided he didn’t lie to Congress when he denied [...]
Ron Paul Supporters Stronger Than Ever

Ron Paul Supporters Stronger Than Ever

Paul backers seek state path to national impact Published June 16, 2012 Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa –  Ron Paul has given up on becoming president. Yet supporters still clinging to the slim-to-none hope of nominating the libertarian-leaning [...]
Sheriff Joe Arpaio Will Still Arrest Illegal Young Immigrants

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Will Still Arrest Illegal Young Immigrants

Sheriff Joe Arpaio talks to ABC15 about illegal immigration change Posted: 6:34 AM By: Associated Press   WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants [...]
President Barack Obama Needs Illegal Votes

President Barack Obama Needs Illegal Votes

Obama administration to offer Immunity to younger immigrants Published June 15, 2012 Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to [...]
Defense Cuts Would Beat The War Drum Says General

Defense Cuts Would Beat The War Drum Says General

Mandated defense cuts could lead to war, top US military official says Published June 13, 2012 The top U.S. military official suggested Wednesday that scheduled Pentagon budget cuts could lead to war. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint [...]
Democrat Ron Barber Wins Arizona Special Election

Democrat Ron Barber Wins Arizona Special Election

Democrat Ron Barber wins Arizona special election to fill Giffords’ seat Published June 13, 2012 PHOENIX –  Democrats avoided a second election loss in as many weeks Tuesday as Democrat Ron Barber defeated Republican Jesse Kelly [...]
President Barack Obama Didn't Take Economy 101

President Barack Obama Didn’t Take Economy 101

Obama says private sector ‘doing fine,’ then Standard & Poor keeps downgrade, negative outlook Published June 08, 2012 Just hours after President Obama declared the private sector was “doing fine” — a comment [...]
Roseanne Barr Hollywood California Blacklisting Liberals

Roseanne Barr Hollywood California Blacklisting Liberals

Green Party Roseanne In The Rose Garden? The ‘domestic goddess’ has plans for cleaning up the White House. By Hunter Walker   “I’m loving it,” said Roseanne Barr, recently announced presidential candidate. “I find [...]
Puerto Rico International Airport Raided For Smuggling Cocaine and Heroine

Puerto Rico International Airport Raided For Smuggling Cocaine and Heroine

  Puerto Rico International Airport Raided by Feds in Drug Smuggling Operation Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico –  Federal agents raided Puerto Rico’s international airport Wednesday, arresting at least 33 people for allegedly [...]
Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters Faces Ethics Charge Helping Husband's Bank Involvment

Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters Faces Ethics Charge Helping Husband’s Bank Involvement

Ethics panel moves ahead on Maxine Waters investigation By JOHN BRESNAHAN | 6/6/12 1:29 PM EDT The House Ethics Committee will move forward with its case against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.), continuing its probe after an outside [...]
Ron Paul PaulFest Threatens Republican Momentum

Ron Paul PaulFest Threatens Republican Momentum

Paul supporters say RNC is blocking festival plans Published June 05, 2012 Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. –  Ron Paul supporters are unhappy that Republican National Convention organizers aren’t letting them throw a festival honoring [...]
Congressman Darrell Issa Exposes Attorney General Eric Holder Fast & Furious Scandal

Congressman Darrell Issa Exposes Attorney General Eric Holder Fast & Furious Scandal

Issa: Wiretaps show ‘immense detail’ about questionable Fast & Furious tactics Published June 05, 2012 A House investigative committee said Tuesday it has obtained new information from wiretaps related to the Obama administration’s [...]
United States Navy Raises Alarms With Their Stealth Destroyer

United States Navy Raises Alarms With Their Stealth Destroyer

Planned stealth destroyer could underpin US Navy’s China strategy Published June 04, 2012 Associated Press SINGAPORE –  A super-stealthy warship that could underpin the U.S. navy’s China strategy will be able to sneak up on [...]
Rep. David Rivera, a Southern Florida Republican

Rep. David Rivera A Southern Florida Republican Introduces Alternative Dream Act

Florida Pol Introduces GOP Alternative to DREAM Act (And It’s Not Marco Rubio) By Roque Planas The Republican Party is officially dreaming. Rep. David Rivera, a Southern Florida Republican, introduced a conservative alternative to the [...]
Ciro Rodriguez leading Democrats in 23rd

Former U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez Enter Runoff With State Rep. Pete Gallego

Ciro Rodriguez leading Democrats in 23rd By Gary Martin Updated 07:19 a.m., Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Former U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez advanced to a runoff with state Rep. Pete Gallego early Wednesday in a bid for a rematch with U.S. Rep. [...]
Former Black Caucus Member Artur Davis Switches to Republican Party

Former Black Caucus Member Artur Davis Switches to Republican Party

Artur Davis, Former Black Caucus Member, Switches to GOP by Mike Flynn Artur Davis was first elected to Congress from Alabama in 2002. The Harvard Law School grad was quickly tapped as a rising star among Democrats. He became a Senior [...]
The Downfall of Giant Moveon.org Liberal Machine

The Downfall of Giant Moveon.org Liberal Machine

MoveOn warns ‘We might have to pull the plug’ May 30, 2012 — 1:35 PM MoveOn, a giant in the progressive political world and an early endorser of Barack Obama in 2008, warns that it might have to “pull the plug” on key [...]
Low Bexar County Voter Turnout

Low Voter Turnout In Bexar County Primary Races Disappointing

Only 1 in 9 cast votes in Bexar primary races By John W. Gonzalez Updated 11:39 p.m., Tuesday, May 29, 2012 The weather wasn’t much of a factor, polling glitches were few and many competitive races were on the ballot, but only about [...]
Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas)

Congressional Incumbents In Texas Face Strong Challengers Due To Record

Congressional incumbents from Texas face grass-roots challengers, super PAC By Paul Kane, Tuesday, May 29, 5:53 PM A pair of veteran House incumbents from Texas were facing strong challenges in Tuesday’s primary, setting the stage for [...]
President Barack Obama Secret Kill List

President Barack Obama Playing God Secret Kill List

President Barack Obama Playing God Secret Kill List Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will By JO BECKER and SCOTT SHANE Published: May 29, 2012    WASHINGTON — This was the enemy, served up in the latest [...]
Democrat Silvéstre Reyes (D-TX), Texas 16th Congressional District

Texas Congressman Democrat Silvéstre Reyes of El Paso Accepts Drug Money for Donations

Texas Congressman Faces Questions over Political Donations from Alleged Trafficker By Joseph Kolb Published May 24, 2012 El Paso, TX –  A Texas congressman who co-authored the $1.4 billion dollar aid package for Mexico to fight the drug [...]
President Barack Obama off on Thrifty Spending Claim Mitt Romney

President Barack Obama Spending Truth

Fact Check: Obama off on Thrifty Spending Claim  Saturday, 26 May 2012 08:42 AM The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars. To back it [...]