Mike Adams John Edwards’ old campaign manager, Josh Stein, is the current North Carolina Senator in District 16. He’s also among the most extreme and dangerous politicians in the state. Among the reasons he is dangerous are a) his assertion that killing unborn children is a fundamental constitutional right and b) his suggestion that Senate […] Read More → 
Haley Barbour almost certainly isn’t running for office again in Mississippi, but the former governor, one-time Republican National Committee chief and influential Washington lobbyist is playing a prominent role in the state’s battle for the GOP Senate nomination. Barbour is the patriarch of a politically savvy family driving Sen. Thad Cochran’s bid for a seventh […] Read More → 
New laws requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls were enforced in two Southern primaries on Tuesday, but with mixed results. In Alabama, there were few hitches, but a razor-tight U.S. Senate race in Mississippi could hinge on provisional ballots, some of them cast as a result of a new voter ID law. […] Read More → 
Democrats in Republican-leaning states have a simple strategy for dealing with President Barack Obama’s upcoming power plant restrictions before the mid-term elections: Fight them, with the White House’s blessing. The new rules, popular with the Democratic Party’s base, are one of Obama’s highest domestic priorities for his second term. But they are complicating the lives […] Read More → 
Democrats in Republican-leaning states have a simple strategy for dealing with President Barack Obama’s upcoming power plant restrictions before the mid-term elections: Fight them, with the White House’s blessing. The new rules, popular with the Democratic Party’s base, are one of Obama’s highest domestic priorities for his second term. But they are complicating the lives […] Read More → 
TOP OF THE TICKET The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, fended off a tea party challenger on Tuesday to set up an expensive November contest against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes. Grimes and McConnell won their parties’ nominations as Kentucky and five other states held primary contests ahead of November’s mid-term elections. Also picking […] Read More → 
Voters in six states will choose candidates on Tuesday for some of November’s top congressional election races, including another round of crucial U.S. Senate primaries between the Republican establishment and Tea Party favorites in Kentucky, Georgia and Oregon. Tea Party candidates are fighting an uphill battle in all three U.S. Senate contests, which could be […] Read More → 
A Mississippi blogger has been jailed on exploitation-related charges for posting photographs of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran’s bedridden wife to the Internet after gaining access to her in a nursing home. Clayton Kelly, 28, is accused of sneaking into St. Catherine’s Village, a continuing care retirement community in Madison, Mississippi, where Cochran’s wife Rose has […] Read More → 
Senator Rand Paul WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Rand Paul today released the following statement regarding his measure to make future aid to the Palestinian government conditional upon agreeing to a ceasefire and recognizing the right of Israel to exist: “The recent announcement of a Fatah-Hamas unity agreement brings both danger and opportunity to the peace process, […] Read More → 
Ted Kennedy Jr. has had his famous name bantered about for years as a potential candidate for high political office as he worked for the disabled, campaigned for others and gave a stirring eulogy for his father. Now the son of the late U.S. senator from Massachusetts has decided to make his first bid for […] Read More → 
Mike Adams “We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.” - Ernesto “Che” Guevara. When I first started writing about campus free speech issues for Town Hall in 2003, I complained that most college administrators were ignorant of the constitution. One of my readers, Jim Collins […] Read More → 
In a move cheered by Republicans nationwide, former Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Scott Brown on Friday declared he wants to “to stop complaining and get involved again” by formally joining the race against Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Brown’s decision gives the GOP a top-tier contender who, win or lose come November, helps his party’s national […] Read More →