DeMint backtracks on promise to butt out of GOP primaries

Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is receiving criticism for getting involved  in the 2012 GOP Senate primaries after promising fellow Republicans he wouldn’t try to play kingmaker this year the way he did in 2010.

Republicans on Capitol Hill were angry with DeMint after his PAC donated $500,000 to the Club for Growth, a conservative group that helped Indiana State Treasurer Richard Murdock defeat moderate Senator Dick Lugar,who had served in the US Senate for almost four decades.

DeMint denies that he intended for his donation to go toward beating Lugar, however.

By /// May 17, 2012

Romney’s support in North Carolina soars after Obama’s same sex marriage endorsement

Voters in North Carolina last week approved a state constitutional amendment to define marriage between a man and women.  The amendment passed with 61 percent support, which proved the same sex marriage issue is a deal breaker for North Carolinians.

With the latest Rasmussen Reports poll showing presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney surging ahead of the Barack Obama, it is undeniable that the president’s post-referendum announcement of his support for same sex marriage did not play an issue in the recent poll results, which may have seen the April jobs report may have contributed to Obama’s sliding numbers.

By /// May 16, 2012

Susan B. Anthony List video depicts Obama’s own “War on Women”

The Susan B. Anthony List released a video today titled “Womanhood,” a more accurate depiction of the so-called Republican “War on Women.” In this video’s dystopia, any divergence from the Obama Administration’s conformist concept of what it means to be a “real woman” earns a summary rejection of an “Application for Womanhood.”

Democrats who have claimed that it is the Republicans have started a “War on Women” because the GOP stands up for voices who do not believe that the government should pay for contraception is based on a false assumption that all “real” women expect their birth control to be paid for.

By /// May 16, 2012

Rand Paul compares Ron Paul revolution to Grateful Dead concerts

The Cato Institute held a discussion Tuesday evening with Brian Doherty, author of “Ron Paul’s rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired” and Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to discuss the Ron Paul’s libertarian movement and its undeniable impact in this election.

Brian Doherty reflected on the first time he met then-former Congressman Ron Paul at University of Florida in 1988 when Paul the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president. There was only about 100 people in attendance curious about the 3rd party candidate. He compared his most recent run in with Congressman-again Ron Paul at UCLA when there was over 7,000 in attendance, and those who were there because not because they were curious, but because they knew about and believed in his message.

By /// May 16, 2012

Obama In History Meme Pokes Fun at Obama’s Inflated Sense of Self-Importance

President Obama has decided to one-up the past Presidents of the United States by changing their biographies on the White House website.

The purpose of the website’s biographies page is for students to easily access their histories, but Obama made the biographies more complete by adding a sentence about himself in many of them.

For example, President Calvin Coolidge biography now reads, “President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.”

By /// May 15, 2012

Liberal commencement speakers outnumber conservatives

A survey of commencement speakers for the top 100 universities in America shows that liberal bias in colleges is stronger than anticipated.

Young America’s Foundation 19th Annual “Commencement Speakers Survey” reveals that 71 liberal speakers compared to ten conservative speakers have either spoke or are scheduled to speak for the graduation ceremonies.

By /// May 15, 2012

War on Women hurts Obama’s support among women

After Democrats accused Republicans of a War on Women, a new poll shows that they may have a problem of their own in that demographic.

A New York Times poll released on Monday shows that Obama’s support among women has dropped five points in the last two months from 49 percent to 44 percent. Romney’s support from women has risen from 43 percent to 46 percent.

By /// May 15, 2012

Leading Senators: The Taliban is not interested in peace

Despite President Obama’s recent attempts to negotiate with the Taliban, leading members of the Senate foreign affairs committees strongly believe terrorists affiliated with the Taliban are still a threat.

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Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), fresh off a tour of Afghanistan, said on Fox News Sunday that the Taliban continues to be a threat to Afghanistan and the Middle East.

“The Taliban has a shadowy presence with shadowy governors and controlled a third of the land which people live on and expanded in the north and northeast,” said Feinstein, who is a member of the Senate Committee on Intelligence. “While we were there in one province they closed 14 schools in 17 districts and then they killed five education officials and wounded others, and now the latest assassination of someone who was a leader in the peace council.”

By /// May 13, 2012