Ben Carson Says The Power of God is Behind His Presidential Campaign
Carson pulls out the old “God wills it” to sanctify his presidential campaign, saying critics fail to understand the power of God
Carson pulls out the old “God wills it” to sanctify his presidential campaign, saying critics fail to understand the power of God
His address to the media was most likely one of the better speaking efforts he’s given in his career. There was a sincerity that was truly honest. Biden really had no reason to gild any of his comments.
Biden seemed intent on running as the Democrat who would befriend Republicans, and that idea wasn’t going to attract Democratic voters.
Voters are less pessimistic about Bernie Sanders’ ability to run the country, than they are about any of the other announced candidates.
House Republicans are pushing back against Paul Ryan after the boy who would be speaker demanded that he only work a part time schedule that includes no weekends.
Fox News proclaimed that Joe Biden is running for president, only he isn’t, and the Republican propaganda machine got the story wrong.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid announced that Senate Democrats have sent a letter to the Republican National Committee demanding that the RNC pay the taxpayers back for their Benghazi investigation.
Vice President Joe Biden committed the most selfless act of his political career when he decided not to run for the Democratic nomination.
A new Monmouth University poll dropped some seriously bad news for Republicans. Just a day ahead of her testimony in front of the House Select Benghazi Committee, 59% of Americans are sick of hearing about Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Impassioned #FeelTheBern supporters proclaimed Sanders the Democratic debate winner but the numbers tell a different story
Conservatives are freaking out and accusing Paul Ryan of being a Dem favorite and Obama’s “new partner”.
Ted Cruz picked up the endorsement of notorious bigot Sandy Rios, wowed the haters at a Texas megachurch, and won the Tea Party caucus in NC
With his ego running on overdrive, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) demanded that House Republicans unify behind him or else they will have to look elsewhere for a new messiah.
Bernie Sanders is calling for the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into ExxonMobile after internal memos revealed the oil giant engaged in corporate fraud by denying climate change.
Jim Webb announced on Tuesday that he was no longer seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2016.
Ways and Means Democrats are sounding the alarm on yet another Republican debt ceiling game of chicken with its head cut off (that would be the Republicans, running around blindly and hysterically in circles, pretending they haven’t lost their heads). Yes, that’s right, tomorrow is the day they vote on their “China First” bill (H.R. 692), which is basically a plan to default on America but pay China.
Democrats caught Republican Benghazi Select Committee members in a stone cold lie when Trey Gowdy and Lynn Westmoreland claimed that Congress did not have access to Amb. Ted Stevens’ emails.
President Obama is stopping a Trump inspired Republican bill that would crack down on sanctuary cities dead in its tracks by vowing to veto the legislation.
A federal judge has granted approval for a Canadian corporation to begin mining for uranium in the Grand Canyon National Park
Even though his own network had just reported on Elijah Cummings’ letter to Trey Gowdy, Scarborough ignored it and repeated his Hillary lies
Trump is still atop the Republican polls, and the party has only itself to blame for his continuing political resiliency.
The GOP and Religious Right have been throwing fake Founding Father quotes at us for years. John Oliver hilariously rips this industry apart
It was a bad day for gun nuts running the NRA as the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan largely upheld tough upholding tough gun safety laws in New York and Connecticut, including restrictions on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
In a press briefing today, Press Secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged that “the amount of time and energy that Republicans have spent trying to make it more difficult for people to — for eligible voters to cast a ballot is mind-boggling.”
Alabama Congressman Mo Brook (R) wants to start impeachment proceedings against Hillary Clinton on day one, if she is elected president.
President Obama’s job approval rating has gained six points since July and 11 points over the past year.
Yes, Republicans have released more secret information in their efforts to undermine 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy “accidentally” released the name of a CIA source.
A new CNN/ORC poll has found that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders leads Donald Trump by 9 points and is statistically tied with Ben Carson in potential general election matchups.
Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi have released a damning 124 page report that finds no evidence of wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton, but a mountain of proof that the Republican led investigation is a partisan sham.
Trump is shining a light on exactly what Americans have to look forward to if they elect a Republican president; foreign policy incompetence
Mike Huckabee has dug his way into a hole only an extremist can dig, and he may not be able to get out of it as his campaign bleeds money
Jeb Bush pulled off an epic faceplant on CNN when he was was asked why he blames President Obama and Hillary Clinton for Benghazi, but doesn’t his brother for 9/11.
The petition to have NBC dump Donald Trump as the host of the November 7 episode of SNL is spreading like wildfire, and 115,000 Americans are demanding that Trump be dumped.
CNN’s Jake Tapper tried to get Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to criticize the policies of Bernie Sanders as unrealistic, but Clinton defended Sanders’ perspective and ambitious vision.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said that Democrats will be releasing a report that contains witness testimony that disproves the Republican Benghazi allegations against Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on the Republican tire fire today by refusing to say that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is a true conservative on Meet The Press.
During an interview on ABC’s This Week, Bernie Sanders went to town on Donald Trump after the billionaire lied and claimed that Sanders would raise taxes to 90%.
In one fell swoop, the President took a concrete step to reduce all current and future threats to the Arctic region. The Administration cancelled new lease sales in the so-called “Polar Bear Seas,” the Chukchi and Beaufort, just off the north Alaskan coast.
Four Papa John’s Franchisees in New York City have agreed to a 500,000 dollar settlement to pay back 250 employees whose wages were stolen.
Paul compared Sanders’ European-style socialism to the communist regimes of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot as though they are identical
Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Patakai and Lindsey Graham all spent more than they raised in the 3rd quarter.
The U.S. Forest Service has failed to stop Nestle from stealing millions of gallons of California’s rapidly vanishing groundwater
President Obama passionately spoke about justice, and promised to fight for real criminal justice reform in the weeks ahead.
During an interview on HBO’s Real Time, Bill Maher and Bernie Sanders teamed up to show that the United States is already quasi-socialist and that Americans love their socialist programs.
Now that the Department of Justice has created a new position to combat domestic terrorism, conservatives, as predicted, are hopping mad. Their response is to do some Republican math to transform themselves from the threat to the victims. Breitbart was quick to pick up the story of course, and warn that Obama sees veterans as…
Every week Friday Fox Follies documents 7 days worth of Fox “News” shenanigans, tomfoolery, and pettyfoggery. As The Phony War on Christmas season is almost upon us, FFF noticed that Fox “News” is also engaged in phony wars on The President; Women; The Democrat [sic] Party; The Supreme Court; Hillary Clinton; The Blacks; The Gays; The First Amendment; Working People; and, as always, the Truth.
Hillary Clinton spent her latest interview on CNN treating the partisan Benghazi investigation like the joke that it is. When Jake Tapper tried to ask a question about her emails, Clinton laughed in his face.
Party Vice Chair R.T Ryback accused DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz of making statements that were “flat-out not true,”
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus admitted that the Republican Party will be “cooked” and in a hole for a long time if they don’t win the White House in 2016.
NBC is facing an intense backlash as more than 16,000 Americans have signed a petition demanding that the network dump Donald Trump as the host of the November 7 episode of Saturday Night Live.
Cummings has not announced his candidacy, but a WA Post shows that he would lead a three-way primary race by double digits.
Here is a statistic that strikes a blow against Citizens United and should worry the billionaire class who are attempting to purchase control of the United States government. Bernie Sanders raised $41.4 million, and 99% of his donors can give to his campaign again.
Slavery may have been A-OK with the authors of the Old Testament, but it’s not with the Constitution, a fact Huckabee pointedly overlooks
The Reproductive Fact ACT that forces faith-based crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to stop lying and stop posing as medical providers.
Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin said the DOJ’s “highest priority is combatting terrorism, both international and domestic.”
The Democratic debate as energized Bernie Sanders supporters as the Democratic candidate raised an amazing $3.2 million in three days this week all from small donors.
Jeb Bush has now inserted jokes about the Redskins team name into his speeches, arguing that only the term “Washington” is prejorative.
The Republican Party is responding to the successful Democratic debate by crumbling into a chaotic mess as both of the top two GOP candidates, Ben Carson and Donald Trump, are threatening to boycott the next Republican presidential debate.
Republicans have a real problem. They can’t find anyone for the job of Speaker. The base hates anyone with any pragmatism, no matter how nuts they seem to the rest of the country. Even their budget king, Paul Ryan, is facing steep criticism as a possible speaker, and he doesn’t even seem to want the job.
It turns that there are some Fox News lies that can land that can land a person in prison. Wayne Simmons is facing up to 35 years in prison after he lied about working for the CIA for 27 years.
What Ivanka needs to realize is that it is not that her father is blunt, but that the content of his speech is both racist and misogynist
After a 4.8 million dollar Pro-Bush ad blitz in New Hampshire, Jeb’s polling numbers have moved in the wrong direction, dipping 0.3 percent.
The national media has covered up much of the racist behavior at a recent Trump rally in Virginia. What the media left out of the story is that immigration protesters were physically attacked and spit on by Trump supporters.
John Boehner’s approval rating went up by 12 points with Independents and 11 points with Democrats after he announced that he was quitting Congress, but his disapproval rating remains higher than his approval rating. It’s clear that the American people are happy to see Boehner go.
There is one example of a state that leads the nation in economic growth, job creation, and the ability to govern for all the people. This week, in a seriously stunning editorial by a very conservative newspaper they readily admit and praise California with its Democratic super-majority and governor as the model the rest of the nation and Republicans in Congress should follow.
The Fox & Friends crew loves handouts to the wealthy but spend to help working class Americans and all they see are freebies to buy votes
A second House Republican has confirmed that the purpose of the House Select Committee is to target and get Hillary Clinton.
The political version of Nashville is Martin O’Malley. His script is consistent, intelligent and would be good for America, a country that politically has declined to fourth-world status. If you watched CNN’s somewhat bizarre Tuesday night debate, you know of what I speak.
12 year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by police for having a toy gun.
15.3 million people watched the Tuesday night debate, far exceeding the previous record of 10.7 million viewers for a Democratic debate.
The former Secretary of State took on the what was thrown her way without breaking a sweat or sounding defensive. And she gave the women watching a precious moment where they see a sexist narrative batted away and taken apart coolly and thoroughly until it deflated.
There is one presidential candidate who had Americans turning to Google every time he spoke. Bernie Sanders has toppled Donald Trump as the most Googled candidate.
Speaker of the House John Boehner has lost to President Obama on every major crisis, so it isn’t surprising that Boehner is planning one final cave on the raising the debt ceiling before he leaves office.
Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society admits what she opposes is “sex for recreation, sex for mere pleasure”
Mike Huckabee blasted a racist tweet about Koreans out during the Democratic debate.
A popular storyline in the mainstream media after the Democratic debate is centered around how Hillary Clinton righted her campaign with a strong debate performance, but the reality is that Clinton has been trending upwards for weeks, and her campaign was never sinking.
Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are very upset because Sen. Bernie Sanders refused to do their dirty work for them by attacking Hillary Clinton for her use of private email.
A majority of the CNN focus group who watched the first Democratic debate said that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) won the debate over former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton.
Despite the fact that the UCC shooter was a self-described “conservative” and “Republican,” Jerry Boykin says Right Wing Watch inspired him
Bernie Sanders defends Hillary Clinton on the emails, and four other reasons to be glad that you watched the CNN Democratic debate.
Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton did well, while the other Democrats were left behind. Here are tonight’s winners and losers from the CNN Democratic debate.
While Anderson Cooper was grilling Hillary Clinton about her emails, Bernie Sanders jumped in and said that this might not be good politics but, “the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.”
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton clashed early in the Democratic debate with a contrast in how they view capitalism.
Join PoliticusUSA’s Sarah Jones for a live Twitter blog of the first Democratic debate on CNN.
A new Morning Consult national poll found that 54 percent of Democratic voters support Clinton, with 22 percent backing Sanders.
In a Benghazi scandal that rises to the very top of the House, Speaker John Boehner has been busted as the force behind the push to direct the Benghazi Committee to investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding Social Security and Medicare cuts in exchange for his vote to raise the debt ceiling.
Conservative columnist David Brooks condemned his own party, writing, “Republicans came to see themselves as insurgents and revolutionaries, and every revolution tends toward anarchy and ends up devouring its own.”
The first reaction of House Republicans after a GOP whistleblower confirmed that their Benghazi investigation was a sham was to attack the whistleblower and the network that interviewed him. CNN has pushed back and called out Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) for lying.
In a conversation with author Marilynne Robinson about faith and the role that fear plays in our politics, President Obama called Fox News by name for demonizing him and making the President seem scary.
The CNN Democratic debate will not feature Donald Trump, which means that the debate will actually be about politics and policies. Here are five things that you should keep an eye on as you watch tonight’s debate.
In the “Waaaah! You won’t let us persecute you” category today is Ben Carson, fresh from expressing his rapture ready credentials. Carson, already infamous for opening his mouth to let the stupid out at every opportunity, told Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg yesterday that his imaginary “anti-Christian” sentiment in the U.S. is due to people “buy[ing]…
Kasich dismissed criticism of his attitude as “silly” and said “difficult” changes are necessary in order to stabilize Social Security
Ben Carson said Sunday that Muslims with nukes tip the world toward the biblical “end of days,” not religious fanatics like him
The Supreme Court could decide as early as Tuesday whether to hear a challenge to Highland Park, Illinois’ municipal assault weapons ban.
Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton wants to put chickenhawk Dick Cheney back into a position of political power.
Ex-Benghazi investigator Todd Podliska’s attorney is claiming that House Select Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-OK) has violated several federal laws.
Sen. Bernie Sanders picked up his second congressional endorsement today, as Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) endorsed the Independent for the Democratic nomination.
With the Republicans in the House desperate for a new leader, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has suggested that former vice president Dick Cheney be the next Speaker of the House.