Kyle Bell

New Yorkers support the Occupy Wall Street protests by a wide margin: Sixty-seven percent of those who responded to a Quinnipiac University survey said they agreed with the Occupy Wall Street protesters, who are upset that banks were allowed to earn huge profits after being bailed out during the recession, while average Americans remained under [...]

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This is what freedom looks like in America. Speak up against the rich and you get beat down (literally). As reported by a local Fox station in New York: While covering the Occupy Wall Street protests on Wednesday night, Fox 5 photographer Roy Isen was hit in the eyes by mace from a police officer [...]

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We’re now just two weeks away from the midterm elections. Today, we’re going to have a look at the Northeast: Connecticut Incumbent: Chris Dodd (D) – Retiring Challenger(s): Linda McMahon (R), Richard Blumenthal (D) Prediction: Leans Democrat Linda McMahon joins several other wealthy Republican businesswomen that have run for office this year (California’s Meg Whitman [...]

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9:10 p.m. (9/15): Lamontagne has conceded the race for the GOP’s Senate nomination. In other news from yesterday’s primaries, a new poll out of Delaware shows that Democrat Chris Coons leads Republican Christine O’Donnell 50-34. That’s a bigger lead than he had in previous polls and may seem to indicate that even some Mike Castle [...]

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Prognosticators out there, particularly conservative ones, will have you believe that last night’s dual election victories by Republican candidates in the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races signal massive losses for Democrats in the 2010 midterms. Certainly it is hard to make the case that an 18 point loss in Virginia and a 3 point [...]

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“Let me first apologize to my wife.” A phrase that is heard all too often these days. We saw it with Senators Larry Craig (R-ID) and David Vitter (R-LA). We’ve seen it more recently with Senator John Ensign (R-NV). None of these men have resigned from office (Craig chose not to run for re-election in [...]

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In a recent interview with Christianity Today, a leading voice for the Republican Party not only disavowed gay marriage, he also went so far as to say that he would not allow gay people around his children. Joe the Plumber (aka Samuel Wurzelbacher) spoke out on the topic when asked what he thought about the [...]

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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer should resign. No ifs, ands, or buts. Democrats should be a party that holds itself to a higher standard than the Republican Party of Senator David Vitter (who was also caught in a prostitution ring just last year), Senator Larry Craig (tap footing in male restroom stalls for sex) and [...]

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Senator Barack Obama scored a historic win tonight in the Southern state of South Carolina. With 99% of precincts reporting, he currently holds a commanding lead of his chief rival, Senator Hillary Clinton. The former First Lady was hurt by the negative campaign tactics employed by her campaign and her husband. Their outright lies about [...]

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Throughout 2007, Rudy Giuliani was the Republican “front-runner”, crowned by none other than the same media that proclaimed Hillary Clinton the Democratic nominee. When voting started he fell faster than a rock – or a Howard Dean scream. Yet where has the media been in covering the meteoric decline of Rudy Giuliani? Virtually none of [...]

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