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Boehner: People probably won’t love Romney
Speaker of the House John Boehner wants you to vote for Mitt Romney, though he concedes you might have to hold your nose to do so. According to Roll Call, an unidentified woman during a question and answer session last week asked Boehner, “Can you make me love Romney?” “No,”…
Cafe owner dies hours after serving Obama breakfast
AKRON, Ohio — An Ohio woman collapsed and died hours after serving US President Barack Obama breakfast at her restaurant on Friday. Josephine Ann Harris, the 70-year-old owner of the “Ann’s Place” diner in Akron, complained of fatigue and a tingling feeling after Obama left the premises and was rushed…
Rove’s Crossroads GPS buys $25 million ad blitz to attack Obama on jobs
WASHINGTON — Crossroads GPS has purchased a $25 million ad blitz in nine battleground states to attack President Barack Obama’s record on jobs and the debt, the advocacy group supporting Republican Mitt Romney said Friday. The wave of advertisements, which roll out on July 10 and run through early August,…
Lame duck Congressman Thaddeus McCotter unexpectedly resigns
Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) resigned late on Friday following a term of nearly ten years in Congress that had ended with what he himself described as a “nightmarish month and a half” marked by scandal and ridicule. In his resignation statement, McCotter explained that his office will continue to operate…
Brad Pitt’s mother endorses Mitt Romney in local paper
Brad Pitt's mom endorses Mitt Romney, slams Obama (via The Christian Science Monitor) Actor Brad Pitt and his mom don’t see eye to eye on politics. Jane Pitt came out in support of Mitt Romney in a letter to the editor of the Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader on Tuesday. As a…
Fox Business contributor: Market won’t improve until polls ‘suggest Mitt Romney is going to win’
A paid contributor for Fox News and Fox Business on Friday advised that the stock market would not start to improve until that it was obvious that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney was going to be the next president of the United States. Following reports that the unemployment rate remained unchanged…
Evangelical radio host: ‘Tax the atheists who don’t go to church’
The director of issues analysis at the anti-LGBT rights group American Family Association (AFA) is proposing that the government pass a law requiring that every American go to church or pay a tax penalty. During his Thursday Focal Point radio program, Bryan Fischer backed a listener’s proposal to have an…
Obama raps China, Romney in debut campaign bus tour
President Barack Obama heralded his first re-election campaign bus tour with a new trade blast at China and fresh accusations his White House foe Mitt Romney helped send US jobs abroad. Obama set off through bellwether Ohio on his sleek, black, armored bus, touting his rescue of the US auto…
Republican lawmaker tells worker wanting higher minimum wage to ‘get a job’
A worker in Florida got an earful from Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL) on Wednesday when he asked the congressman to support a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. “Jesse Jackson, Jr. is passing a bill around to increase the minimum wage to 10 bucks…
Herman Cain quotes Chris Rock to slam ‘white people’s Independence Day’ joke
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday rebuked Chris Rock for “holding onto the past” because the comedian called the Fourth of July “white people’s Independence Day.” Rock drew the ire of conservatives on Twitter on Wednesday when he tweeted, “Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren’t free…
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