Author: Rob Port

When given the chance, citizens of Virginia decided not to give their state government more tax dollars even as the state faced budget shortfalls. RICHMOND — State lawmakers can rule out Virginian’s offering up more of their hard-earned money to fix the $1.4 billion budget shortfall Gov. Tim Kaine announced this week. At least that […]

With the seemingly never-ending primary season soon drawing to a close something rather unexpected has happened. Talk radio hosts like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, usually the standard bearers of right-wing thinking, have been getting flak from what used to be their stalwart political constituencies over their criticism of John McCain (and other candidates like […]

Whenever liberals start carping about “tax cuts for the rich,” I respond by saying that with “the rich” paying nearly all of the taxes in this country it’s sort of hard to give the “poor” any tax relief at all. After all, you can’t exactly cut or rebate something that doesn’t exist in the first […]

Is it Hsu all over again for the Democrats? AUSTIN (AP) – Authorities raided the offices of an influential Democratic donor on Friday, prompting accusations by the donor’s attorneys that the raid was politically motivated. The state attorney general’s office said it was assisting the Nueces County district attorney in the criminal investigation of Mauricio […]

The Associated Press dug back through their archives and found some answers Huckabee gave to a questionnaire they sent him when he was seeking a seat in the House in 1992. He said some pretty controversial things about the AIDS issue it turns out. Here’s the three key quotes: “If the federal government is truly […]

If we don’t keep quite about Chavez appointing himself dictator for life, we don’t get any oil. Personally, I say let him try. Oil revenues make up a big chunk of where Chavez’s government gets its revenues. While on one hand this means that we Americans are funding this cruel thug by buying his oil, […]

As it turns out, the people of Venezuela apparently don’t want a dictator-for-life. CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has lost his lead eight days before a referendum on ending his term limit, an independent pollster said on Saturday, in a swing in voter sentiment against the Cuba ally. Forty-nine percent of likely voters […]

“The American Revolution has ceased to be a story that we tell in our popular culture.” That’s a quote from New York Historical Society Curator Richard Rabinowitz, answering a question in a recent Associated Press article about the forgotten history of Marquis de Lafayette, a man instrumental in helping our American revolutionaries succeed in throwing […]

It’d be funny, if it weren’t so sleazy. But then, “sleazy” is just what you come to expect with the Clintons. DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign admitted late Friday that a staffer spoke to potential questioners at a recent event, but denied that the New York Democrat had any knowledge […]

Their reasoning? Mukasey would respect a law that bans waterboarding. Here’s Schumer justifying his position: “I deeply oppose it,” Schumer said of waterboarding. “Unfortunately, this nominee, indeed any proposed by President Bush, will not agree with this. I am, however, confident that this nominee would enforce a law that bans waterboarding.” Here’s Feinstein doing the […]

Of course, that isn’t always true. There are the Paris Hilton’s of the world who live extravagantly on the riches amassed by their smarter, harder-working ancestors. And there are those who simply luck into wealth or collect it through nefarious means. But, generally, the reason the guy in the “rich” part of town has a […]

He’s gone way ahead of Giuliani among church-going Republicans. Fred Thompson may have failed to impress Beltway insiders when he finally launched his run for the White House last month, but he is winning over a critical segment of the Republican coalition, new polling suggests. Conservative Christians favor Thompson by a 10-point margin over his […]

North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan, and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, are backing a bit of legislation that would ban the sale of goods in the United States made in what they define as “sweat shops.” They’re masking the initiative in terms of wanting to help exploited international workers, but really this is all about […]