Citing American slavery to make a point about contemporary politics can be downright tricky business, as some public figures have recently learned firsthand. Take Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who’s running for the Senate seat previously held by Secretary of State John Kerry. He caused a kerfuffle by citing, in the same breath, the […]
For more than a decade, Republicans have looked to Karl Rove for the solution. Now, a growing number see him as the problem. Read more at Bloomberg.com here.
(CNSNews.com) – Conservative leaders are voicing their support for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after the freshman senator came under fire from some Senate colleagues and liberal pundits for his tough questioning of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel, criticism that included equating Cruz with the late anti-communist Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wisc.) Read more at CNSNews.com […]
A bubbling feud between conservative activists and a small band of Republican operatives in Washington has just gotten a lot nastier. In a morning interview with a conservative radio talk show, Jonathan Collegio, a spokesman for Republican super-PAC American Crossroads, dubbed conservative author L. Brent Bozell III a “hater” for his frequent criticism of GOP […]
WASHINGTON — Their battle with Democrats will have to wait. For now, Republicans have their hands full fighting one another. The strategist Karl Rove and his allies are under withering criticism for creating the Conservative Victory Project, their effort to help rebuild the Republican Party and win control of the Senate. Their pledge to take […]
ALBANY — The leader of Citizens United, the Washington, D.C.-based group behind the landmark Supreme Court decision on independent campaign spending, sharply criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s gun law in a speech Monday at the Holiday Inn. Read more at the Saratogian here.
David Bossie, president of Citizens United, the conservative activist group that prompted the eponymous Supreme Court decision, called the president’s decision to accept corporate cash “cynical” and “hypocritical.” “He talks out of both sides of his mouth,” Bossie said. “I’ll be interested to look back to see what those companies are getting back in return.” […]
“Conservatives are going to want to make sure that the American people, using the [McAuliffe candidacy] as a vehicle, remember” the Clinton-era scandals of the 1990s, said Citizens United head David Bossie. Read more at Politico here.
Prominent conservative leaders, including former attorney general Edwin Meese III, Ken Blackwell of the Conservative Action Project, Brent Bozell of ForAmerica, Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, David Bossie of Citizens United, Gary Bauer of American Values, Jim Backlin of the Christian Coalition of America, Richard Viguerie of […]
President Obama is making a mockery of the seriousness of our spending and debt problems with his role in the fiscal cliff negotiations. There had been talk earlier in the week of a deal involving $1.2 trillion in tax increases and $400 billion in delayed Medicare cuts. This would have been a terrible bargain, but […]
First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams represented the New York Times, ahem, Corporation, in the Pentagon Papers case and went on to represent Mitch McConnell on the side of Citizens United in that case. When the NYT editorial board bastardized the legal reasoning in the former iconic free speech case to justify bashing the latter, Abrams […]
Justice Samuel Alito defended the 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission on Thursday night, jabbing at critics of the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority opinion but also admitting the success of their public relations campaign. Read more at Law.com here.