On December 9, House Republicans did what they’d done multiple times throughout 2009. They released an open letter to President Obama, laying out their ideas for a “No-Cost Jobs Plan.” It included, among ideas like scaled-back energy regulation and a temporary tax break for corporations repatriating More…
The troubled–but still sold out–National Tea Party Convention got more bad news after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said the for-profit nature of the event might prevent her from attending. Meanwhile, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)–who promoted the event at the December premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film”–has More…
Foes of Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) are pouncing on this interview, in which host Jimmy Cefalo gives the governor a chance to distance himself from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) — an early endorser of Marco Rubio, Crist’s primary opponent — and Crist whiffs. But it’s not as bad as More…
Ken Vogel has an essential story looking at the not-so-secret, but rarely examined, collegiate conservative fund network that trained James O’Keefe, Stan Dai, and the other plotters in the Mary Landrieu phone tampering scandal. The Leadership Institute and the Collegiate Network helped O’Keefe and the others get trained and More…
President Obama called on Congress to repeal the ban on openly gay people serving in the military last night. The path to doing so runs through the Senate Armed Services Committee, where Defense Secretary Robert Gates — who applauded the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” line in Obama’s State of the More…
The obvious thorn in the side of Republicans — who’ve made a habit of blasting the deficit spending of the Democratic majority under President Obama — is that the GOP majority under President George W. Bush never once balanced its annual budgets. As a result, the national debt More…
Zachary Roth has details on the recent history of the Pelican Institute, the libertarian Louisiana think tank that brought James O’Keefe into the state before the alleged bungled Landrieu phone plot. That the institute “went after ACORN” is totally unsurprising — what conservative or libertarian group hasn’t? — but More…
Before James O’Keefe recorded his undercover ACORN videos he cut this Yes Men-ish video for Right.org, in which his “Taxpayers Clearing House,” mimicking the Publisher’s Clearing House, conducted a series of stunts to attack the bailouts. They drove up to the homes of ordinary people, seemingly awarding them enormous More…
What’s happening on James O’Keefe’s Facebook wall? Almost exactly what you’d expect.
A friend passes on a copy of the inaugural issue of The Centurion, the conservative paper James O’Keefe started at Rutgers University — before he worked for a year at the Leadership Institute, helping conservatives on other campuses start their own publications.
The issue is after the jump, and it’s More…
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