Kyle Bell

Herman Cain made an ass of himself when he was asked about his position on Libya and could not come up with an answer that was remotely acceptable for a presidential candidate. Now one top Tea Party leader (and a former Cain supporter) is calling on him to leave the race: After two weeks of [...]

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The Arizona Supreme Court has stood up for fair elections today with a ruling that overturns the actions of Governor Jan Brewer and Republicans in the state senate. Arizona Republicans were upset that the map did not give them enough of an advantage. The map would have had four Republican-leaning districts and only two Democratic-leaning [...]

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Democrats and Republicans often get into arguments about the size and role of government. Liberals believe in a strong role to protect the most vulnerable in society while conservatives favor the private sector, stressing personal responsibility. Both sides should at least agree that fixing America’s broken economy is the country’s top priority and that an [...]

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Herman Cain’s free fall is likely to continue after an embarrassing interview where he fumbled on a question about Libya. Even though four women have come out claiming that Cain had sexually harassed them (including an $80,000 settlement with two of the women), he appears to be in the race for the long haul, albeit [...]

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It doesn’t get a lot of attention in that so-called “liberal” media, but the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been under assault by police officers since day one. At an Occupy Oakland rally two Iraq veterans were injured, including one critically from a projectile to the head. Now it’s the campus police at UC Berkeley’s [...]

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American voters soundly defeated a series of extremist measures that looked to take away collective bargaining rights for public employees (including police officers, firemen and teachers) in Ohio, same-day voter registration in Maine, and legally defining personhood as beginning at conception in Mississippi. The Ohio and Maine laws were passed after Republicans took control of [...]

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Eight of the top ten contributors to Mitt Romney’s campaign for president are Wall Street banks or large financial institutions. The list includes influential names like Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. Coincidentally each of these firms want Wall Street reform to be repealed, passed in 2010 under President Obama and a Democratic [...]

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In the ever-changing Herman Cain sexual harassment saga: The settlement given to a former female employee after an alleged sexual harassment by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain reportedly amounts to $35,000. Cain initially denied knowing of a settlement but quickly backtracked, saying that the settlement amounted to a severance package lasting roughly a few months. [...]

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The GOP Congress is doing what no other employer in America would ever allow: Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have unveiled a plan that would allow the GOP Congress to have one week off for every two weeks of work. While relatively common to have fewer workdays during an election year, the 2012 [...]

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Rick Perry has done everything he can to disqualify himself from the presidency: proposed a flat tax, came out as a birther, called Social Security a Ponzi scheme and has difficulty stringing together coherent sentences. The Perry tax plan, which calls for a flat tax of 20 percent on income, would more than double taxes [...]

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