Alaska Win Gives Republicans Another U.S. Senate Seat
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 16th, 2014 12:08 am by HL
Alaska Win Gives Republicans Another U.S. Senate Seat
Becky Bohrer, RealClearPolitics
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mark Begich couldn’t pull off another election surprise as voter disapproval of President Barack Obama helped push him and other Democrats out of office. Republican Dan Sullivan, a Marine Corps reservist and assistant secretary of state under President George W. Bush, defeated the first-term incumbent as part of a wave in which Republicans picked up eight seats and regained control of the Senate. Another Senate race is yet to be decided in Louisiana. The Alaska race was too close to call on Election Night last week, with Sullivan up by about 8,100 votes, but…
Big Truthy Is Watching (Some of) You
Michelle Malkin, RealClearPolitics
This week, President Obama launched a prominent social media campaign on behalf of “net neutrality” and urged the FCC to “keep the Internet free and open.” The man has gall. This is the same speech-squelcher in chief whose administration snooped on reporters; vengefully audited tea party pro-life activists and conservative election watchdogs and slow-walked the probe into the IRS witch hunt against them; entertained a government scheme to monitor story selection in TV newsrooms; and forked over $1 million to a researcher building a Twitter-snooping database. On Monday, House Committee on…
Ben Carson Preps for 2016; What Obama Hears; Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Good Morning. It’s Thursday, November 13, 2014, two weeks from Thanksgiving Day. President Obama is still in Asia; today, he’s attending the East Asia Summit in Burma. Here at home, members of Congress, new and old, arrived back on Capitol Hill where ascendant Republicans must cool their jets for a few more weeks while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid convenes a final session of the Democrat-controlled upper chamber. On the agenda: a vote on the Keystone pipeline, lingering immigration legislation, and a slew of pending presidential appointments, including a new attorney general…
An Accord the Planet Needed
Eugene Robinson, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — The minute we glimpse a flicker of hope in the fight against climate change, Republicans in Congress announce their intention to snuff it out. Fortunately for the planet, it seems they can’t. This week’s stunning announcement of a long-range agreement between the Obama administration and the Chinese government over carbon emissions is the best environmental news in years. Not to sound grandiose, it means the world still has a chance to save itself from unmitigated disaster. The significance of the accord, which was doggedly pursued by Secretary of State John Kerry, is not just…
