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Allen West ‘dejected’ that Romney doesn’t ‘stand for something’ on immigration
Tea party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL) is feeling bummed out because presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney does not “stand for something” by promising to deport young undocumented immigrants. During an interview with CBS host Bob Schieffer that aired Sunday, Romney had refused to say if he would undo…
Romney says gas station’s touch-screen ordering is ‘amazing’
It doesn’t take a lot to impress Mitt Romney. At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Sunday, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told a crowd that he had been astonished by a touch screen computer used to order food at the Wawa gas station chain. “Where do you get your…
Republican rep.: Young immigrants ‘had a say’ in crossing border
A Republican representative from Texas says that he opposes President Barack Obama’s policy of halting deportations for some young undocumented immigrants because 16-year-old kids “have a say” in whether or not they cross the border with their family. “Well, you are also talking about people that came over 16 years…
CNN host scolds heckler: Obama’s race is ‘the elephant in the Rose Garden’
CNN host Don Lemon on Sunday suggested that Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro may not have heckled President Barack Obama last week if the commander-in-chief had not been black. Munro claimed on Friday that he had thought the president had finished delivering an official statement on immigration policy when he…
Former Obama professor: The president ‘must be defeated’ in 2012
Harvard Law School professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger hopes that his former student, President Barack Obama, is defeated at the polls this November — and he’s calling for that defeat to come at the hands of the very people who elected him. In a little-noticed video published online last month that…
Americans: Supreme Court decision on health reform will be political
With the US Supreme Court set to rule within days on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms many Americans are fearful of the political fallout of the decision. While the nation’s nine top justices are meant to base their decisions on the framework provided by the centuries-old…
Pro-Democratic activists to trail Romney campaign bus with “Every Millionaire Counts” tour
The activists at MoveOn.org have launched a plan to have presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney trailed around the country by a Cadillac with a fake dog, dubbed Seamus II, on the roof. Romney’s multi-state bus tour was already successfully derailed on Saturday, when 150 to 200 protesters — some…
Romney: Too busy to watch wife’s dressage horse in the Olympics
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says he won’t be giving reporters a chance to photograph him watching his wife Ann’s dressage horse perform ballet at the Summer Olympic Games in London. It was reported last week that Ann Romney’s horse, Rafalca, had earned a spot on the U.S. equestrian…
Romney vows to do ‘the opposite’ of Obama on Middle East policy
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has said he will do “the opposite” of Barack Obama when it comes to Israel, returning to a line of attack that seeks to portray the president as no friend to America’s traditional Middle East ally. Speaking via videolink to religious conservatives attending the Faith…
Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis: Colleague ‘did the right thing’ by heckling Obama
Daily Caller contributor Matt Lewis on Sunday said that his colleague, reporter Neil Munro, “did the right thing” by shouting at President Barack Obama during an official statement about immigration policy. For his part, Munro claimed he had thought the president had finished speaking when he began yelling questions in…
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