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Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren yesterday won a clear road to an Election Day showdown with U.S. Sen. Scott P. Brown, capturing the Democratic nomination with enough votes to avoid a primary election with her Democratic challenger Marisa DeFranco. “I’ve got just one thing to say – Are you ready?” Ms. Warren shouted from the […]
June 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
The Newark mayor’s real blunder wasn’t criticizing Obama’s campaign ads. It was giving Mitt Romney a pass. Cory Booker is a famous man of action. The mayor of Newark shovels walkways in heavy snowstorms. Recently, he rushed into a burning building to save a woman. Sunday night he was at it again, this time working […]
May 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Once a moment of national unity, the political battle over Osama bin Laden’s death intensified Monday as presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to minimize the role President Barack Obama has carved out for himself in killing the terrorist leader. The president’s re-election campaign has raised questions about Romney’s willingness to assassinate the mastermind […]
May 1st, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Ann Romney (the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney) on Thursday fired back at a prominent Democrat who said she didn’t understand the economic concerns of women because she had “never worked a day in her life.” In a sharp rejoinder to Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney took to Twitter to defend her […]
April 13th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Keith Olbermann said he “screwed up” by taking a job with Current TV, but he plans to make the channel pay for firing him. In Olbermann’s first TV interview since he was dismissed last week by Current, he was asked by David Letterman to assess his chances of getting any money due him. After reportedly […]
April 5th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering Saturday at a Virginia hospital after receiving a heart transplant – his office said. Cheney was in the Intensive Care Unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church – his office said. Cheney, 71, who served as vice president in the George W. Bush administration, has had a […]
March 25th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
A Mitt Romney campaign adviser’s comments Wednesday that the front-running Republican candidate for president could reset (“like an Etch A Sketch”) his stands on issues if he becomes the GOP nominee brought a stinging response from the head of the nation’s largest reproductive rights group, who said women voters will not accept flip-flops on issues […]
March 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
The Trayvon Martin tragedy demonstrates two things. Most people (including the media) are ignorant of how the criminal justice system really works. Secondly, they are gullible and will believe anything, no matter how outlandish, especially if a so-called expert is involved. Why hasn’t George Zimmerman (who admitted shooting and killing Trayvon Martin) been arrested? Arresting […]
March 21st, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Before the results are announced for the Republican caucuses in Kansas, it was confirmed that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney would pick nine delegates in Guam and another nine in the Northern Mariana Islands. Although the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam will not garner much attention akin to Saturday night’s […]
March 11th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Mitt Romney will win the Michigan Republican primary, FOX News Channel projected Tuesday night. The victory is a badly-needed win for Romney – who needed to quell doubts within the Republican Party about his ability to compete against President Barack Obama in the fall general election. With 71 percent of precincts reporting, Romney was ahead […]
February 29th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off