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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that when the First Amendment says “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech” that it actually meant that. At issue was a movie made by Citizens United – a corporation – that attacked Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Because Citizens United is a […]

So much for the “reality-based community.” Here’s The Nation editor Katrina vanden  Heuvel in The Wall Street Journal offering advice to President Barack Obama in the wake of the Democrats’ loss of their 60-seat supermajority in the Senate on Tuesday. And here's a no-brainer: After a year of being knifed by the GOP at every […]

At least I hope he isn’t. STEPHANOPOULOS: Robert Gibbs was saying that you were surprised and frustrated by the vote [in Massachusetts to elect Republican Scott Brown]. Is that accurate? OBAMA: Well, I think not last night, but certainly I think a lot of us were surprised about where this was going, about a week […]

UPDATE Had to swap out the video because some moron added some bolshevik storytelling graphic to it and ruined it. This one appears to be unadulterated.

So, you’ve got a huge political contest in your backyard that’s garnered interest from across the United States and if you can get through to your Web site, this is what you see: I’m not sure what that blank box in the top middle is supposed to have in it – if anything, but there […]

But only to note that President Barack Obama has done a full-flop on the benefits of independent politicians.

There’s lots of ways that the media can inject their biases into their coverage. Several years ago my case study of how The New York Times buried the lede in the the race for a Maryland Senate seat got me a mention in a media criticism textbook. But burying bad news deep down in a […]

Martha Coakley is the attorney general of the state of Massachusetts and the Democratic nominee to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy in Tuesday’s special election. Coakley shouldn’t be given any position of public trust – even dogcatcher – as Pulitzer Prize winner Dorothy Rabinowitz noted last week in the Wall Street Journal. I strongly encourage you […]

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing – a fact demonstrated by Mark Sherman of the Associated Press reporting on this morning’s Supreme Court session. Scalia (yes, Scalia) invokes foreign law in court By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jan 12, 2:45 pm ET WASHINGTON – Supreme […]

Jillian Bandes, a columnist over at Townhall.com, has a piece up likening the upcoming Senate race against California Democrat Barbara Boxer as a potential repeat of the Dede Scozzafava debacle in NY-23 last year in which RINO Scozzafava split the conservative vote allowing the Democrat to win the House seat. With memories of NY-23 fresh […]