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World Premiere! The Ballad of Harry Reid

By: Mark Tapscott 03/09/11 12:03 PM
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says "thousands of people would not exist" were it not for the Cowboy Poetry Festival held every year in northern Nevada and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities I never knew NEH created people by sponsoring poety slams, but maybe Reid knows something the rest of us don't! Read More

Harry Reid calls cuts to "cowboy poetry festivals" heartless

By: J.P. Freire 03/08/11 12:33 PM
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is so upset about Republican spending cuts that he's brought out the big guns: Accusing the GOP of being so heartless they would de-fund the National Endowment for the Humanities, which underwrites a cowboy poetry festival in his state: Read More

Dirty Money Watch: Rep. Bennie Thompson

By: Commentary Staff 03/07/11 10:05 PM
WHO: Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. WHAT: Thompson received $1,000 from General Motors' Political Action Committee. WHY IT'S DIRTY: General Motors was the recipient of a $60 billion taxpayer bailout last year that has not been paid back, so the automaker has no right to curry congressional favor at Americans' expense. Read More

Lugar may become the oldest story in town - out-of-touch incumbent loses re-election bid

By: Mark Tapscott 03/03/11 3:01 PM
Way back when, he was President Nixon's "favorite mayor." Now he's President Obama's "favorite Republican." He is Sen. Richard Lugar, R-IN. Here's something else he may be about 18 months from becoming - the former senior senator from Indiana. Read More

Challenger Denny Rehberg leads Sen. Jon Tester in Montana poll

By: Susan Ferrechio 02/24/11 10:47 AM
A new poll shows Sen. Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, trailing his challenger in the 2012 election matchup. Rep. Denny Rehberg, the state's at-large Republicans member of Congress, appears to have a three point lead over Tester, according to a poll conducted by 47 North Communications. Read More

'Don't know' leads Texas GOP Senate field

By: David Freddoso 02/23/11 8:48 AM
More than half of Texas Republican primary voters are undecided about whom they would nominate to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tex, according to a Texas Tribune poll released yesterday. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst comes in second at 27 percent, with everyone else (including all of the conservative favorites) in single digits, probably the result of name recognition. Read More

Unions' investment in Senate Democrats pays off in TSA vote

By: Mark Tapscott 02/16/11 3:27 PM
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Dirty Money Watch: Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.

By: Mark Hemingway 02/15/11 9:05 PM
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Dirty Money Watch: Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.

By: Mark Hemingway 02/14/11 9:05 PM
WHO: Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y. WHAT: Towns received $1,000 from General Motors' Political Action Committee. WHY IT'S DIRTY: General Motors was the recipient of a $60 billion taxpayer bailout last year that has not been paid back, so the automaker has no right to curry congressional favor at Americans' expense. Read More

Toomey: "The really smart guys, they knew I couldn't win."

By: David Freddoso 02/10/11 9:06 AM
Conservatives began the annual CPAC conference in Washington, D.C. this morning, with Rep. Michelle Bachmann's early and boisterous pep talk leading off. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., spoke later in the morning to highlight the fact that he won his seat last year by running a serious campaign, and that this had not required any ideological compromise. Read More
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