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*Susan Rice, currently the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will replace Tom Donilon as President Obama’s national security adviser – a position not subject to Senate confirmation. Rice has been at the center of a firestorm over early accounts of the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which later proved to be [...]
*Sen. Rand Paul faced a skeptical audience at Howard University in Washington on Wednesday, as he tried to sell students at the HBCU on the positive history between the Republican Party and the African-American community. Paul (R-Ky.) insisted under questioning that he “has never wavered” in his support of the 1964 Civil Rights Act — [...]
*Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) criticized first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama’s recent spring break vacation to the Bahamas because it took place during the federal budget belt-tightening of sequestration. Appearing on an Iowa radio show, King agreed with a caller named Carla after she said she found the Obama girls’ vacation “really hard to stomach” [...]
*Dr. Ben Carson — who during his speech at February’s National Prayer Breakfast criticized some of President Obama’s economic policies — hinted Saturday that he might be interested in a 2016 presidential run. Speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, Carson continued his attack on Washington and the rest of the United States, and [...]
*A Republican senator from Illinois said Thursday he had asked permission from the mother of slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton to name his gun-safety legislation after the girl. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill) said in a statement that he met with some Illinois families who lost loved ones to gun violence and asked the permission of [...]
*Colin Powell went in on his own Republican Party during an interview on “Meet the Press” Sunday, calling out some “former governors” as using racist statements to describe President Obama and noting that there is a “dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party.” “What do I mean by that?,” he explained. “What [...]
*(Via AJC.com) – The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” House Republicans notified lawmakers that the chamber will vote Monday evening on other bills. They say that will be their only votes of the day. President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said [...]
*UN Ambassador Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration for Secretary of State, saying the criticism surrounding her comments on Benghazi had become an “irresponsible distraction.” “I am fully confident that I could serve our country ably and effectively in that role,” Rice wrote in a letter to President Obama today. “However, if nominated, [...]
*Kelsey Grammer seems to believe that his political leanings are to blame — not just for the cancellation of his Starz series “Boss,” but also for his Emmy snub earlier this year after earning a Golden Globe for the role. “It’s hard to figure,” Grammer told Jay Leno. “It may have to do with several [...]
*(Via Politico) – Rep. Jim Clyburn on Tuesday slammed critics of Susan Rice for questioning her competence, saying that Sen. John McCain “can’t hold a candle to her intellectually” and expressing anger about “code words” being used to tear down the U.N. ambassador. “To call her incompetent, a Ph.D., Rhodes scholar being called incompetent by [...]
*A super PAC ad running Ohio hopes it can woo African American voters with a new ad suggesting their loyalty to the Democratic Party is misguided, and that they should vote Republican because Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, too. [Watch below.] According to Salon, the Empower Citizens Network has an ad in the Columbus area [...]
*No one got to see this video of Donald Trump treating the President of the United States like one of his contestants on “The Apprentice” until now. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] It was supposed to run on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, but that day was cancelled dur to [...]
*President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and supporting committees brought in more than $114 million last month – the first time the incumbent has outraised his opponent, Gov. Mitt Romney, since April. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Obama’s Campaign Manager Jim Messina announced the figure for August late Sunday night, reports CNN.com. Romney’s campaign brought in [...]
*An attempt to change part of the Democratic Party Platform at the last minute on Wednesday lead to an awkward moment on the convention floor. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] In video sure to end up in GOP television ads, Democrats tried to reinstate a reference to God and the identification of Jerusalem as the [...]
*Lil Wayne’s new mixtape “Dedication 4” just hit the streets and the buzz has zeroed in on his Young Money rapper-singer Nicki Minaj, who seems to endorse GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in one of the tracks. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] “I’m a Republican voting for Mitt Romney, you lazy b—-es are f—ing up [...]
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