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The former mayor of Detroit, Democrat Kwame Kilpatrick, was convicted on racketeering charges Monday, and could be looking at 20 years in prison.  According to NBC News, “prosecutors said he presided over a breathtaking profit machine by rigging contracts and demanding bribes.” Kilpatrick was convicted of at least six other criminal counts and acquitted of… Continuă lectura The fall of Kwame Kilpatrick

CNN released a poll this morning taken between 11/2 and 11/4. Among likely voters, it projects that the election is tied 49 percent Obama/49 percent Romney (page 2). Looking at the poll by party affiliation, it also projected that 93 percent of Democrats, 1 percent of Republicans and 37 percent of Independents would vote for… Continuă lectura CNN’s latest poll deconstructed: Does it really show a Romney victory?

Romney political director Rich Beeson, senior advisor Russ Schriefer, and pollster Neil Newhouse held a conference call Wednesday afternoon to discuss their view of the presidential race.  All pronounced themselves happy with Mitt Romney’s current position.  ”We’re very confident and very happy with where we are,” said Schriefer. Beeson was encouraged by the general advantage… Continuă lectura The Romney campaign discusses the state of the race

With the unprecedented budget explosion of means-tested, welfare-related entitlements, does Team Obama think it can buy the election? It’s a cynical question. But I wouldn’t put it past that cynical bunch. Remember Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt’s close aid? It was Hopkins who argued tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. Sound familiar? And… Continuă lectura Is Obama buying the election with his welfare explosion?

All Mitt Romney needs to do in the next debate Monday is go through this list of blunders and the president will be reduced, once again, to stammering through ponderous answers. 1. Benghazi security Four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador, are dead after being sent into harm’s way in service to their country without adequate… Continuă lectura Top 10 Obama foreign policy blunders

“But don’t forget, you put $90 billion – like 50 years worth of breaks – into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1. I mean, I had a friend who said, you don’t just pick the winners and losers; you pick the losers.”  –  Mitt Romney to Barack Obama, during the… Continuă lectura Your “green energy” bankruptcy of the day: Satcon Technology

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced this week he was beefing up his campaign with some top brass: more than 300 retired general and flag officers, who will serve in a consultant role on his campaign’s military advisory panel. The list, which contains more than two dozen retired four-stars, includes Gens. James Conway and Paul… Continuă lectura Romney campaign enlists over 300 military generals

The Hollywood Women for Obama Club wants you to vote with your “lady parts.” I want the women of America to vote with their lady smarts. The latest ad from a trio of Tinsel Town actresses spreads one of the stupidest lies about Mitt Romney this election cycle. Fantasyland needs a fact check. According to… Continuă lectura Hollywood’s hysterical ‘cancer screening’ lie for Obama

As predicted, during his second presidential debate with Mitt Romney, President Obama repeated several claims he has made on the stump, even though they had already been reviewed by us (and others) and pronounced: BUNK. Perhaps the most brazen example was the president’s claim that “We have increased oil production to the highest levels in… Continuă lectura Crowley covers Obama’s fudged facts

Barack Obama may have come out swinging hard, but the second presidential debate of 2012 was no game-changer. That was the opinion of three seasoned professors and pollsters who talked to Human Events moments after the close of the stormy encounter between Obama and Mitt Romney Tuesday at Hofstra University in New York Tuesday evening.… Continuă lectura Romney may have swayed undecideds on economy