Democratic lawmakers last week made long overdue diplomatic overtures to the gay and lesbian community by signaling their readiness to repeal the controversial ban on gays serving openly in the military known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
But for all the Congressional jockeying, the repeal may ultimately be stymied by President Barack Obama's failure to lead on the issue. The onus of repealing the ban rests ...
In the days following the Virginia Democratic primary, most people were left scratching their heads wondering how it was that Creigh Deeds had won so decisively. No one really saw it coming, as I remember. People knew Deeds was surging towards the end, but there was little empirical evidence.
However, I remember the one graph that showed the clearest evidence was one of Google ...
Senator Barbara Boxer Monday hit the campaign trail to tout jobs "created by the stimulus" in California by the Democrats' $800 billion economic recovery package, attracting ridicule from Republican Carly Fiorina's campaign who accused the junior Democratic senator of an "effort to deceive voters into thinking she's actually done something for California."
With the expansion of California's State Route 905 as her backdrop, Senator Boxer insisted "that ...
My first bylined article at Tucker Carlson's new online venture, The Daily Caller, spotlights the decline in morale among Steele aides as the beleaguered party chief incites one controversy after the next.
A morsel, though do read it in its entirety:
Defecting to the GOP Hill campaign committees after a series of high-profile blunders by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, veteran Republican bundlers and donors are ...
In what constitutes a staggering blow to President Obama's goal of shuttering the Guantanamo Bay military detention facility, a new report by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) says one in five former detainees have returned to militant activity following their release.
But as with each successive challenge to the Obama White House, when all else invariably fails, the President and his aides blame the former ...
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has diverted nearly half a million in contributions from her political action committee to her son's political consulting firm from 2001 to 2009, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.
Boxer and Associates, owned by son Douglas Boxer, has in the last 8 years profited to the tune of $497,409.17, $36,000 of which was from last year alone as the politically-vulnerable Boxer ...
Elected on a pledge to deny Beltway lobbyists the undue influence they have previously been afforded, President Barack Obama's inaugural year in office is on pace to be the most lucrative yet for influential K Street lobbyists.
According to figures collected by Politico, Washington's influence peddlers will likely shatter last year's record of $3.3 billion spent on lobbying Congress and the White House.
President Obama's record is ...
Seen as a prelude to the White House honoring President Barack Obama's pledge to shutter the controversial detention facility by January 22, Administration officials last week quietly repatriated twelve Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Among those released were six Yemenis, four Afghanis, and two Somalis, many of whom have been in American custody for the last eight years.
The decision to close Guantanamo--by transferring and trying in civilian court or ...
Senator Al Franken today caused a stir among his colleagues, breaking from the Senate's long-held standards of collegiality when the gavel-wielding Minnesota Democrat denied Senator Joe Lieberman an additional minute to finish his remarks.
Lieberman--who has been vilified by progressives for rejecting the controversial public option, most recently by MoveOn today--was interrupted by Franken when his remarks exceeded the allotted ten minutes.
"I'm sorry. The senator has ...
Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) "categorically" pledged in September to oppose abortion coverage mandates in the health care legislation presently before Congress, but with the Hatch-Nelson amendment on the immediate horizon some now fear the Wisconsin Democrat may hedge on his promise.
"We should not be using health care reform to provide government access to abortion," said Kohl--who NARAL awarded a 100% pro-choice rating--at a health care ...
Embattled Athens County, Ohio Democratic Chairwoman Susan Gwinn was indicted Monday on two counts of election-related bribery, special prosecutors announced today.
Gwinn, who last month was charged with six felonies for campaign finance crimes and money-laundering, became the subject of a voter fraud investigation after an email from College Democrats Vice President Kellie Galan surfaced in which students were promised a cash bounty for every voter ...
There is a troubling story unfolding in Queens, New York, in which school officials and local Democrats have charged College Republicans with stoking racism and xenophobia.
Siraj Wahhaj, a radical Muslim cleric who authorities in 1995 identified an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trace Center bombing, was last week invited to Queens College to speak on the subject "How Islam Perfected Thanksgiving."
Wahhaj, a year after ...
On Wednesday, I appeared on MSNBC opposite Adam Serwer of The American Prospect to debate President Barack Obama's failure to make good on a campaign pledge central to his shallow promise of "change:" the closure of Guantanamo Bay and the 'necessary' dismantling of the Bush-era detention policies.
Despite Serwer's protestations, there is very little question that President Obama has a Gitmo problem.
This Administration is battling significant ...
President Barack Obama admitted Monday to a group of students in Shanghai, China that, while billed as the most tech-savvy President in history, he doesn't use Twitter.
When asked by a student if he was aware of China's firewall blocking the popular micro-blogging service, Obama forewent his tech savvy reputation, saying, "I have never used Twitter but I'm an advocate of technology and not restricting internet ...
