
Allen raises issue with defense cuts
Republican Senate candidate George Allen went on the attack on the Obama administration on Monday on a key Republican talking point regarding defense budget cuts.

Republican Senate candidate George Allen went on the attack on the Obama administration on Monday on a key Republican talking point regarding defense budget cuts.

Once again, both parties’ platforms show how out of touch they are with the American people. Consistently, according to PolingReport.com, the American people list economic, fiscal, job-related and health care issues as most important, garnering around 80% of the vote collectively.

U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine addressed the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night.

I joined more than 100 other millionaires from more than 50 cities in signing a Voices for Progress letter to Congress strongly opposing prolonging these special tax breaks. We who have the most income need these breaks the least —and it’s just not right to ask others to pay for them.

Who cares about Mitt and Ann Romney’s tax returns? They have lots of money, big deal. They use tax shelters and loopholes to keep as much of their money as possible; again no surprise. The public does not care much. Democrats will show the inequality in taxation rates; already know it, so what. Why not…

Author Matt Cauley purports to aim through his new book “Unwrecking America” to provide a blueprint for getting America back on track by creating a new, centrist view of national management.

Brian Moran’s father was a successful high-school football coach, and Moran, the chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party, remembers what his dad had to say about what it took to win high-stakes games on the gridiron

Tim Kaine had held a modest lead in the last several Public Policy Polling surveys of Virginia voters looking at the U.S. Senate race. Now that modest lead is gone

You want to know what’s wrong with this country? It’s not that we can’t agree on what direction we need to go in to get business running as close to full capacity as possible, get our kids the best educations, make sure that we all have access to the best health-care system in the world, and the rest

That’s what Democrats are saying to themselves as the Tuesday deadline approaches for Missouri Congressman Todd Akin to withdraw from a Senate race with Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill
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