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LAS VEGAS, Nevada — With his status as a GOP presidential front-runner so newly acquired, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain has both the most to gain and the most to lose on Tuesday night during CNN’s Western Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, say GOP strategists. “As a new member of the ‘top tier’ […]
Though Herman Cain’s success is regularly dismissed as a passing fad, Republican campaign strategists tell The Daily Caller that a narrow but navigable path to the GOP nomination actually exists for the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO. The most likely scenario is for Texas Gov. Rick Perry to stumble and for Cain to firmly grasp the […]
Are Newt Gingrich’s movies educational? Political advertisements? For profit? A little of everything? Gingrich made the movies before he declared he would run for president, but his campaign website and his wife Callista’s blog reference the films and their public screenings in early primary states such as Iowa, Florida and South Carolina. Gingrich made between […]
Gene Policinski of the First Amendment Center effectively tackles the problems with Reps. John Conyers and Donna Edwards’ proposed amendment to overturn our Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC: …Few likely would debate the motive that Conyers and Edwards say is behind the proposed amendment: fair elections, honest government. But good intentions don’t […]
An article today about Jim Bopp, one of our attorneys for Citizens United v. FEC and a warrior for free speech: “It’s so complicated to win big victories that you have to go after these cases piecemeal,” said David Bossie, president of Citizens United, the Washington-based advocacy group that hired Bopp to bring the case […]
Served up on a Kaiser: “This tax document clearly shows that George Kaiser greased the wheels to gain favor with the Obama Administration for the purpose of receiving a half-billion dollar taxpayer-funded loan for Solyndra,” Citizens United president David Bossie told The Daily Caller. “It is evident that this was a pay-to-play scheme that reaches […]
Citizens United v. FEC remains an enigma to the liberal New York Times in “Citizens United Case Yields an Unexpected Result” but they do get this right: … Citizens United takes the libertarian view that people may be trusted to evaluate the messages they hear and need not be sheltered from the responsibility of critical […]
From Nick Gillespie on the AFL-CIO’s hypocrisy in creating a Super PAC on Reason’s Blog: …What “changes in the law”? The Citizens United decision, which struck down laws regulating independent political messaging by for-profit and non-profit corporations on First Amendment grounds. If you don’t remember it as being about a documentary that was censored by […]
Hugh Hewitt writes about President Obama using the decision he excoriated in 2010 for the 2012 elections in the Examiner: When President Obama broke with long-standing tradition and blasted the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United even as members of the court sat before him at the 2010 State of the […]
From Kitchen Cabinet: Citizens United and its great leader Dave Bossie is one of the greatest friends to The Kitchen Cabinet, and continually encouraging of our efforts to unite economically-conservative women across the nation. If you don’t have “Fire From The Heartland” featuring Michele Bachmann, it’s a must for your video library. “Heartland” is a […]
How’d you become a conservative? I had my formative teenage years during Jimmy Carter’s presidency. If there’s anything that can get a person to focus on the good things that represent America, it’s living through that. We had two cars, one with an odd license plate and one with even license plate. Whichever car needed […]