An examination of events surrounding daily news topics.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published August 7, 2009 Comments
Seniors have done enough for their country, so don’t mess with their doctors and end-of-life care is the crux of a new ad from the 60 Plus Association.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published August 6, 2009 Comments
If right-wing protesters are going to show up and yell at their elected officials during town hall meetings, left-wing activists need to start coordinating with those representatives and provide "cover" for them says a 4-page memo distributed by Health Care for America Now!, a group supporting President Obama's recommended plans.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published August 4, 2009 Comments
The woman who caused the White House to start asking people to report information on the Web about “health insurance reform that seems fishy” doesn’t think she did anything wrong.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 31, 2009 Comments
A group seeking to overturn Maine’s recently enacted law permitting gay marriage dumped nearly double the number of signatures needed to get their referendum on the November's off-year ballot to the Secretary of State Friday morning.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 28, 2009 Comments
The conservative Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol had a zippy retort to MoveOn.org after they used his name in an email solicitation to motivate supporters to lobby their senators to vote on health care legislation before August recess.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 28, 2009 Comments
"The Obama Administration has found a way to cut $100 million from the federal budget and one of the items on the chopping block is an office inside the Department of Labor that helps manage oversight of labor unions, among other things.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 27, 2009 Comments
A national group of GOP lawyers are petitioning the Senate to oppose President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court on the heels of South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s announcement he would vote in her favor.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 24, 2009 Comments
The Democratic National Committee’s plan to rile up their liberal supporters and open their wallets for the party by making an enemy out of GOP Sen. Jim DeMint isn’t working so well.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 21, 2009 Comments
The Associated Press claims Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin will soon be found guilty of violating her state's ethics rules, citing a report leaked to their offices from the State Personnel Board on one of the 19 etthics complaints filed against her.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 21, 2009 Comments
David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, is trying to reclaim his reputation after being accused in a Politico news story last week of engaging in a "pay-to-play" scandal.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 21, 2009 Comments
President Obama says the fight over health care “isn’t about me” and partisan politics, but he’s using his bully pulpit to target one of his fiercest GOP critics.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 20, 2009 Comments
Is pork for the poor the sort of fatty government spending everyone is supposed to hate? The Obama Administration hopes not.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 20, 2009 Comments
Don’t ever try to come between a woman and her hairdresser -- especially if that woman happens to be Gov. Sarah Palin.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 16, 2009 Comments
An arm of General Motors has asked surviving GM dealers to put in writing their opposition to bipartisan legislation that would restore franchise agreements to dealers the government issued pink slips to earlier this year, sparking accusations of “coercion” from one of the bill’s chief proponents.
By Amanda Carpenter — Published July 11, 2009 Comments
The ethics complaints against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are still rolling in after she announced she'd be stepping down from office at the end of the month.
