The nonpartisan money-in-politics-tracking Website, OpenSecrets.org, has an eye-opening roundup of the money spent in support or opposition the Employee Free Choice Act, introduced in Congress yesterday.
The bill, which would allow employees to form a union if they can gather signatures from a majority of workers, rather than More…
Last night voters in Illinois’ heavily Democratic 5th congressional district voted in a primary for candidates to replace former Rep. Rahm Emanuel, now the White House chief of staff.
Mike Quigley won the Democratic primary, while Rosanna Pulido won the GOP primary.
Who’s Rosanna Pulido? She was a founder More…
Two can play at this game!
President Obama garnered headlines Friday, when he used his massive email list from the campaign to promote his legislative agenda for the first time, in support of the stimulus package working its way through Congress.
Not to be outdone, Obama’s former More…
Speaking of House seats … the math geek readers of Swing State Project have released their latest round of data on congressional districts, calculating the respective vote tallies for President Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain in almost every district in California, Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania. An analysis of More…
I noticed that Patrick Hynes, a Republican consultant who previously worked as the liaison to bloggers for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign, was sending out e-mails with good news (or “in case you missed it” minor news) about Michael Steele, candidate for Republican National Committee chairman.
“I am helping More…
Sen. George Voinovich, the two-term Republican from Ohio, announces his retirement. Michelle Malkin proclaims victory.
When I think of George Voinovich, I think of his inane blubbering about the shamnesty debacle. Blubber, blubber.
I hadn’t watched John Ziegler’s interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin about the mean mainstream media because one of the fringe benefits of the Obama-Biden victory was the right to not listen to Sarah Palin. Watching it now, though, is jarring.
The through-line of the Palin iconography that materialized More…
Via Wonkette, which is going to war against a PUMA (the “Party Unity My Ass” anti-Obama “Democrats”) blog, I see that Harriet Christian wants to be appointed to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat in New York. More to the point, she wants to bash Caroline Kennedy. Hey, who More…
Michelle Malkin, taking umbrage at Matthew Yglesias’s assertion that there aren’t many conservative bloggers with reporting skills (“Bullcrap.”), suggests the work of Bay Area-based Zombie.
Internet journalist/blogger and Little Green Footballs regular Zombie (not “conservative” per se, but rather anti-sharia/anti-jihad/anti-anti-American/anti-extremist Left) did extraordinary work digging up documents
Over the last few days, in discussing his plans for stimulating the nation’s limp economy, President-elect Barack Obama has placed strong emphasis on green investment. That includes a green jobs program, which could invest up to $100 billion in projects with energy efficiency and clean More…
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