Herman Cain swept Michele Bachmann into a very close embrace during a rally of Christian home-school advocates at the Iowa Capitol on March 23. Des Moines Register: Now that Herman Cain’s chief of staff is drawing attention to them, observations by Iowa conservative radio host Steve Deace about the presidential candidate’s behavior are getting national [...]
Bashir’s response? To question Claver’s faith… via Mediaite: … On Thursday afternoon’s edition of MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, Herman Cain warmup act and founder of RagingElephants.org Apostle Claver was taken to task over his racially incendiary comments. “What are you doing as a Christian minster stirring up racial conflict — posters that say that the GOP [...]
Fox News: Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York — operating as New York Communities for Change — have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers to blame disgruntled ex-employees for leaking information in an effort to explain away a FoxNews.com report last week on the group’s involvement in Occupy Wall [...]
Associated Press: RICHMOND, Va. (Associated Press) — The FBI says a Tennessee man has been charged with threatening the family of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia. Agents arrested 62-year-old Glendon Swift of Lenoir City on Wednesday. He is accused of leaving two voicemail messages at Cantor’s office in suburban Richmond on the evening [...]
Los Angeles Times: REPORTING FROM ATHENS — George Papandreou, Greece’s beleaguered prime minister, has accepted an opposition proposal to form a temporary unity government that would secure approval of Europe’s latest bailout plan, senior officials said Thursday. The interim government would shepherd the bailout plan through parliament and then hold early elections, the officials said. [...]
Real Clear Politics: Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel appeared on “The Ed Show” to push Herman Cain and the National Restaurant Association to release one of the alleged victims from their confidentiality agreement so Herman Cain will stop “smearing” her.” Transcript: “I would say this sort of parlor game of trying to guess who the source [...]
The Hill: Herman Cain’s chief of staff on Thursday walked back accusations that rival Rick Perry’s campaign was responsible for the leak of accusations of sexual harassment against him, saying that he would “accept” the claim by a former staffer now affiliated with the Perry campaign that he was not behind them. “Until we get [...]
Muslim brotherhood… The Weekly Standard: An interesting bit from White House reporter Tangi Quéméner’s latest pool report from the G-20 in Cannes, France: [President Obama] entered the room at 1:15 and took to his left, heading to Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy. They chatted for a few seconds before British Prime minister David Cameron joined [...]
November 3, 2011: “60 Minutes” reporter Steve Kroft asks Pelosi about conflict of interest while she was Speaker. He challenges her on her conflict of interest while Speaker and facilitating financial reform while being involved with credit card companies.
The Hill: Pivoting off the Occupy Wall Street movement, unions are planning coordinated protests Thursday for a financial transactions tax. Organizers estimate more than 1,500 union members from more than 20 labor groups, including the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of County, State and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Communications Workers of America (CWA), will be [...]
Excerpted from Newsbusters: United Steelworkers international president Leo Gerard: GERARD: You’re damn right Wall Street occupiers speak for us. They do in Pittsburgh, they do in Chicago, they do in Oakland, they do in San Francisco, they do all across the country. And I think what we need is, we need more militancy. SCHULTZ: What [...]
Politico: POLITICO has learned that one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s received a payout of about $45,000 as part of her settlement — significantly more than the two or three months’ salary Cain initially recalled the woman obtained. The woman who received [...]
