Her Honor? Women Could Become Mayors of Los Angeles, New York
Neither of the nation’s two largest cities, New York and Los Angeles, have ever had female mayors, but that could change big time this year, as both cities have strong female candidates with a chance of becoming mayor, in races where the incumbents are term-limited…. Read More »
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Sec. Kerry Promises Foreign Service Officers They Will Be Protected
ARLINGTON, Va. — Secretary of State John Kerry gave new Foreign Service officers a final pep talk today before they are deployed overseas, many to what are termed “high-threat” posts, like Afghanistan and Libya, where there have been recent fatal attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions…. Read More »
Christie Stars in NJ Tourism Ads, Dems Cry Foul
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his family are starring in television commercials that are part of a publicly funded $25 million tourism campaign to encourage people to visit the Jersey Shore after Superstorm Sandy, but Democrats say they are simply taxpayer-funded campaign ads. The… Read More »
GOP Lieutenant Governor Candidate in Va. Compares Planned Parenthood to KKK
This weekend, Virginia Republicans found their candidate for lieutenant governor in E.W. Jackson, a Chesapeake, Va. pastor who has compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and also suggested that black Americans are being enslaved by the Democratic Party. “It is time to end… Read More »
The Note: A Scandal’s Second Wind
By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES PFEIFFER CALLS IRS ACTIVITY ‘INEXCUSABLE’: White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC’s GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS yesterday that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service is “irrelevant,” but called the behavior “outrageous and inexcusable.” “I… Read More »
Obama Optimistic Despite ‘Shortage of Common Sense’ in DC
ATLANTA — President Obama said today he remains optimistic about the prospects for his second term agenda despite what he called a “shortage of common sense” in the nation’s capital. “We’ve got good, common-sense solutions that we can implement right now. The bad news is,… Read More »
Obama Strikes Personal Tone in Commencement Speech on Race, Manhood
ATLANTA — President Obama said today that he is motivated by the knowledge that “but for the grace of God … I might have been in prison,” in a commencement address at historically black Morehouse College, where he spoke frankly about race and young men’s… Read More »
George Will: Impeachment Talk Is ‘Silly’
Below you can find some of the notable comments made Sunday on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” Appearing on today’s show was Obama senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., and Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. Plus, our… Read More »
Republicans Informed of IRS Investigation Last Year
Much has been made of the fact that senior Treasury Department officials were told about the investigation into the treatment of tea party groups in June 2012 — months before last year’s the Presidential election. Republicans who requested the investigation were also told about it… Read More »
Michelle Obama Makes Light of President’s Failures in Graduation Speech
Delivering her only speech at a high school graduation this year, first lady Michelle Obama joked about the failures her husband, President Obama, has encountered in life as she told a graduating class of high school seniors in Nashville, Tenn. today that in order to… Read More »