By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  November 8th at 07:12 AM  | 

As we prepare to honor U.S. veterans on Sunday, it needs to be acknowledged that under the Obama administration, the backlog of veterans’ disability claims jumped by 179 percent. That translates into 883,949 outstanding claims, according to Veterans Administration (VA) statistics. This represents a near-record high, with 65.8 percent of claims having been backlogged for 125 days or more. Also tragic is the fact that | Read More »

By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  November 6th at 07:30 AM  | 

The U.S. presidential election has already spurred a couple dozen lawsuits over the past six months.  These particular lawsuits have revolved around photo ID requirements and limited poll hours. However, a new torrent of litigation, beginning on election day, is looming over who gets to vote and which ballots will be counted. Voter rights advocates and attorneys may initially head to court to try to | Read More »

By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  November 4th at 02:35 AM  | 

Mitt Romney drew a crowd of 30,000, in West Chester, Ohio on Friday night.  The massive crowd included Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Ohio Governor John Kasich and Speaker of the House John Boehner. Additional star power was injected into the event with an appearance by musician Kid Rock, who opened the event with a 40-minute concert. Kid Rock ended his | Read More »

By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  November 1st at 08:13 PM  | 

Updated – 11/2/2012 According to Rasmussen tracking, conducted through telephone surveys, seven of the 33 Senate races are hotly contested and too close to call at this time. Toss Up Races Connecticut Democratic Congressman Chris Murphy now holds his biggest lead yet over Republican Linda McMahon–Murphy with 48% of the vote to McMahon’s 47%. One percent (1%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) | Read More »

By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  November 1st at 09:30 AM  | 

Taxmageddon is a dreadful combination of expiring pro-growth tax policies from 2001 and 2003, the end of the once-temporary payroll tax cut, and some of Obamacare’s 18 new tax hikes. It will be the largest tax increase to ever hit the U.S. This drastic tax increase begins on January 1 and represents $500 billion over the course of just one year. Here’s a per person | Read More »

By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  October 31st at 02:16 PM  | 

Nathan Vardi’s Forbes magazine article, “Mitt Romney: The Most Expensive Political Career in American History” makes the observation that, “lots of people pay a high price for getting into politics, but no one has likely given up more, at least financially, than Mitt Romney.” Forbes has estimated that Romney would be worth approximately $2 billion had he remained at Bain Capital instead of running for | Read More »

By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  October 29th at 02:16 PM  | 

Last month, Ray Smith was hoping to get together with his son, Sean, whom he had not seen for 15 years. But, it became devastatingly apparent, after seeing a story on CNN about the four Americans killed in Libya, that he would never see his son alive again.  “I seen all these coffins come off the plane,” Smith recalled. “Four of them. Then I saw | Read More »

By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  October 25th at 01:58 PM  | 

“SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden”, a movie backed by longtime Democratic contributor and major Obama supporter, Harvey Weinstein, has apparently been recut in order to heighten Obama’s role in the movie. The movie will debut on the National Geographic channel two days before election day.  And, it’s   scheduled to be released the next day on Netflix. The movie focuses on the | Read More »

By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  October 24th at 12:35 PM  | 

On Tuesday, the Obama campaign released a 20 page pamphlet which outlines President Obama’s second-term agenda–which is essentially the same as his first-term agenda. Mike Allen, of Politico writes:  “This is a re-packaging of the plans the president has previously announced of manufacturing, education, energy.” And, CNN’s Jessica Yellin commented that “there’s not anything significantly new in here.” Yellin went on to say: “He’s just | Read More »

By: Candice Lanier (Diary)  |  October 19th at 04:49 PM  | 

Originally  published on 10/9/2012   In preparation for the upcoming presidential  debate on foreign policy, let’s examine key areas of the president’s foreign policy as compared to Mitt Romney’s stated foreign policy goals.   Iran   The Obama administration continues to refuse to set “red lines” for Iran, apparently unmoved by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent speech to the United Nations.   The sanctions | Read More »