With confusing agendas but an overall dissatisfaction in the way our government is being run, are there any two groups more alike than Tea Party conservatives and the Occupy Wall Street protesters? Probably. There probably are, actually.
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ALBANY—Here's Doug Hoffman's latest campaign ad, featuring an endorsement from Fred Thompson.
"America's in trouble. So when your grandchildren ask you why you didn't do something, be able to tell them you voted for Doug Hoffman," Thompson, an actor, former Tennessee senator and presidential candidate tells voters in the race to replace Read More
ALBANY—Bill Owens, the Democratic Party's candidate to replace John McHugh in Congress, just released his second ad. It shows him driving around, talking to a cameraman.
(His principal opponent, Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, has not released an ad.)
"I'll vote to cut waste and invest the savings in growth jobs, like clean energy. Read More
Fred Thompson, Alan Keyes and Duncan Hunter’s names will not be removed from the Republican primary ballot in New York City, despite an effort by some Board of Elections commissioners in Albany on Friday, and despite the fact that the county boards may take them off.
As I reported then, the state Republican Board of Read More
From the AP:Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson quit the Republican presidential race on Tuesday, after a string of poor finishes in early primary and caucus states. "Today, I have withdrawn my candidacy for president of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort," Read More
Still, it's noteworthy just how awfully Read More
Fred Thompson toyed with the media and won himself about 10 minutes of free and unfiltered national television airtime. The former Tennessee senator is on pace to finish a distant third or fourth place in South Carolina and his campaign hinted to the media that he might drop out on the spot (and possibly endorse Read More
Afterward, he caught an overnight flight on the Hucka-plane to New Hampshire, where, around dawn, he filed a story for Good Morning America.
That Read More
McCain came into Michigan in the same position Romney was two weeks ago. Back then, Romney was poised to score lead-off victories in both Iowa and New Read More
But by Tuesday night, after the results from what is only the third major contest of the nominating season Read More
The Fox News debate is underway and Ron Paul is nowhere to be found.
The broadcast began without an explanation for his exclusion and comes after a week of stonewalling by Fox, which refused to answer questions from the news media, the Paul campaign and even the New Hampshire Republican Party, which withdrew its sponsorship of Read More
The occasion was Paul's keynote address at the annual convention of the Free State Project, a group of libertarians who are essentially trying to colonize New Hampshire. The Read More
Twenty years ago, Bob Dole slipped up in a debate on the Saturday night before the New Hampshire primary -- he refused to sign a "no new taxes" pledge -- and saw the momentum from his Iowa triumph promptly fizzle out, handing a campaign-saving come-from-behind victory to George H.W. Bush.
Mitt Romney, whose once overwhelming New Read More
This morning, Rudy Giuliani addressed a conference of robotics enthusiasts at a competition called “For Inspiration & Recognition of Science and Technology.” ("A unique varsity sport of the mind,” reads the competition literature. “Designing and building a robot is a fascination real-world professional experience.”)
While Giuliani did receive a warm response, the attendees were ultimately there Read More
