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  • Johnson Files Antitrust Suit To Appear in Debates (Libertarian candidate)

    09/30/2012 6:48:39 PM PDT · by CedarDave · 26 replies
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | September 29, 2012 | Michael Coleman
    Washington — Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson isn’t going out without a fight. The former New Mexico governor this week took his case for inclusion in the presidential debates to U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Johnson’s presidential campaign filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the Commission on Presidential Debates is colluding with the Republican and Democratic parties to prevent third-party candidates from participating. “It’s antitrust. We’re being excluded by a private organization, and it is fundamentally unfair,” Johnson told the Journal on Friday. The first presidential debate is Wednesday. Two more debates are scheduled for Oct. 16 and Oct....
  • Gary Johnson Gains Support And May Take Ohio Out of Play for Romney

    09/28/2012 10:57:46 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 109 replies
    The usual wisdom is that, as election day grows closer, support for third-party candidates tends to shrivel as the voting public heeds the tribal war drums and comes home to Team Red or Team Blue in a ritualistic display of political masochism that could be topped only by the sight of actual hair-shirted flagellants lined up to enter the polling booths. That third-party shrinkage may not be happening this year, though — or not yet, at least. A new poll from Ohio shows Gary Johnson gaining support, even as press reports emphasize the hold-your-nose-quality in which both major-party candidates marinate,...
  • Gary Johnston could be bad news...for Obama.

    09/23/2012 8:36:32 AM PDT · by Signalman · 19 replies
    Self | 9/23/2012 | Self
    The prevailing wisdom is that Gary Johnson would pull votes away from Romney. But I disagree. Johnson's libertarian philosophy is, in reality, quite attractive to a lot of libs, especially younger ones. Johnson is strongly in favor of legalizing marijuana. I can see many college students, Occupy types, and gray-bearded aging 1960s hippies liking that message. And I think a lot of them, who you would normally expect to vote for Obama, will vote for Johnson. I think Johnson being in the race could be a significant positive for the GOP.
  • Anti-gunners skipping the important facts, naturally(Empire shooting)

    08/27/2012 5:41:48 AM PDT · by marktwain · 14 replies
    Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 26 August, 2012 | Dave Workman
    In their zeal to exploit Friday’s shooting near the Empire State Building in New York City, anti-gunners are deliberately overlooking some facts and adding their own agenda items instead. Kudos to the Seattle Times for not picking up on the rhetoric in its selection of stories about the incident to publish. Then, again, one might wonder if the Times is just playing down the event because the “mass shooting” that had initially been reported now has been revealed to have been caused by police gunfire, not dead gunman Jeffrey T. Johnson. His pistol was an old Star .45-caliber semi-auto, a...
  • Media Feature: The Beginning of the End for Ron Johnson at JCPenney

    08/23/2012 8:27:28 AM PDT · by george76 · 21 replies
    MarketWatch ^ | Aug. 22, 2012 | JON C. OGG
    the poor turnaround that Ron Johnson has engineered at JCPenney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP). Our take is that this is the beginning of the end and is a prelude to Ron Johnson's termination. Shares have gone from $60 five years ago to under $25 again, and the 52-week range is $19.06 to $43.18. Johnson has been on the job now for just under a year ... Perhaps chimpanzees could have done as well. Howard Davidowitz, of the retail consulting firm Davidowitz & Associates, said on Bloomberg TV that Ron Johnson will "be a goner" in another nine months if this...
  • Sen. Ron Johnson calls for Akin to step aside

    08/20/2012 9:51:43 AM PDT · by Arthurio · 54 replies
    Ron Johnson . . . By Kathryn Jean Lopez August 20, 2012 12:26 P.M . . . calls for Akin to step aside after his controversial comments. Akin will be on Mike Huckabee’s radio show today.
  • Chad Johnson arrested after allegedly head-butting his wife

    08/11/2012 9:18:28 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 19 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | August 11, 2012 | Chuck Schilken
    Miami Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence Saturday night after allegedly head-butting his wife in front of their house. Johnson was arrested after police arrived on the scene and found Evelyn Lozada with lacerations on her forehead. He told police the two of them had accidentally bumped heads. According to police, Lozada confronted her husband after finding a receipt for condoms, which started a "heated argument."
  • Obama Team Believes 3rd Party Candidates Can Help In Battle Ground States

    <p>President Barack Obama’s re-election effort is paying close attention to two candidates mounting third-party campaigns for the presidency, believing they could draw votes from Republican rival Mitt Romney and help Obama win a few tightly contested states.</p> <p>One candidate is Virgil Goode, a former conservative Virginia congressman who is running as a member of the Constitution Party. The other is Gary Johnson, a former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico who is the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee.</p>
  • Romney campaign blasts ‘eccentric, odd’ Mayor Boris Johnson of London

    07/27/2012 12:20:06 PM PDT · by C19fan · 58 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | July 27, 2012 | Toby Harden
    A Romney campaign official has blasted Boris Johnson, the London Mayor, as an ‘eccentric, odd fellow’ whose public attack on the Republican candidate was ‘unbecoming’ and an indication of his bias towards President Barack Obama. The official said that Prime Minister David Cameron’s ‘wisecrack’ about it being harder to stage an Olympic Games in London than ‘in the middle of nowhere’ – an apparent reference to Salt Lake City, where Romney oversaw the 2002 Winter Olympics – was ‘probably appropriate, albeit awkward’ and unfortunate for Romney ‘Johnson on the other hand lived up to his reputation as an eccentric, odd...
  • Man shot at Offutt AFB after police chase

    06/04/2012 5:13:14 PM PDT · by US Navy Vet · 18 replies
    The Omaha World-Herald ^ | 04 June 2012 | By Roseann Moring
    A man is in extremely critical condition after he led sheriff's deputies on a chase through Offutt Air Force and was shot by authorities. Sarpy County Sheriff Jeff Davis said he believes an Offutt civilian officer shot the man as he was attempting to leave the base. The identity of the man, who was taken by helicopter to Creighton University Medicval Center, was unknown, as was the name of the officer who shot him, Davis said. Davis said deputies tried to pull over the man's blue Honda sedan on Highway 73-75 about 3:15 p.m. because they believed the car was...
  • Mark Levin: The Senate GOP establishment is trying to disenfranchise conservatives

    04/21/2012 10:07:01 PM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 39 replies
    Right Scoop ^ | April 18th | Mark Levin via Right Scoop
    Levin talks about what he says few have the guts to talk about, and that is how the Senate GOP establishment, McConnell, is trying to minimize conservative Sen. Ron Johnson who has made it clear he isn’t in the Senate to buddy up with the leadership, but rather to represent his constituents and fight for conservatism. And on the other hand, the establishment types like McCain are teaming up with one of the go-along-to-get-along increasingly liberal senators, Dick Lugar, to help him defeat a great conservative he’s running against. So while they claim to be conservative, what they really want...
  • In Pivot to Messaging, Ron Johnson Looks to Purge Staff (GOP-E Looking to purge Johnson)

    04/18/2012 6:25:41 PM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 13 replies
    Roll Call ^ | April 12th | Meredith Shiner
    Freshman GOP Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.) is looking to purge nearly his entire Washington, D.C.-based legislative team, according to multiple Republican sources familiar with the situation. Johnson's frustration with his legislative staff has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Washington for months, those close to Republican Conference politics said.
  • Latest Doc Dump Shows GSA's Johnson Planned to Meet with Solyndra but Changed Mind

    04/12/2012 2:44:03 AM PDT · by Libloather · 1 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 4/11/12 | John Parkinson
    Latest Doc Dump Shows GSA's Johnson Planned to Meet with Solyndra but Changed MindBy John Parkinson | ABC OTUS News – 8 hrs ago The House Energy and Commerce committee released documents late Wednesday that show former General Services Administration administrator Martha Johnson had planned to meet with Solyndra in California at the same time GSA employees attended a lavish Las Vegas conference, but she changed her mind just days before her trip. An investigation into that conference and other wasteful spending at GSA led to Johnson's resignation earlier this month. Johnson did not attend the Solyndra meeting scheduled for...
  • ObamaCare's Costs Are Soaring

    03/20/2012 8:16:26 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 10 replies · 1+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 20, 2012 | RON JOHNSON
    One year after the passage of ObamaCare, this paper published an op-ed I wrote ("ObamaCare and Carey's Heart") about how America's health-care system saved my daughter's life, and describing how implementing this law will limit innovation, lead to rationing, and lower the quality of care. Now, two years out, I would like to focus on the budgetary disaster. As a candidate, Barack Obama repeatedly claimed that his health-care plan would lower annual family health-insurance premiums by $2,500 before the end of his first term as president. But the Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported that the average family premium has increased...
  • George Parr inherited his father's political dynasty (1948 Dem Voter Fraud)

    03/16/2012 9:36:58 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 13 replies
    Corpus Christi Caller ^ | Wednesday, September 7, 2011 | Murphy Givens
    A Senate runoff election between Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson in 1948 was a fierce contest. For five days after the election, Stevenson believed he had won the closest senatorial election in American history. Out of nearly a million votes cast, he had a 112-vote lead.
  • Andrew Breitbart

    03/04/2012 9:15:59 PM PST · by Sarah · 15 replies
    vanity ^ | March 5, 2012 | vanity
    "Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark." Samuel Johnson This quote just made me think of Breitbart. It's so unfair.
  • Ignorant or lying? An open letter to Rep. Hank Johnson(gunwalker)

    01/26/2012 9:32:12 AM PST · by marktwain · 5 replies
    Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 25 January, 2012 | David Codrea
    Rep. Johnson, I won’t begin this with letter with the salutation “Dear,” because I only have contempt for you, and the disgusting responses you gave to The Daily Caller when they asked you about the Congressional investigation into the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” international criminal conspiracy (see article for video--Examiner.com does not accomodate the html code to embed it here). Has Guam tipped over and capsized yet? And have you “fl[own] a space shuttle” through the “gun show loophole” yet—you know that “hole in our gun control laws” you lie about when you say “untold thousands of unlicensed private weapons...
  • Gary Johnson to drop out of GOP primary to run as Libertarian

    12/21/2011 5:09:33 AM PST · by iowamark · 17 replies
    Politico ^ | 12/20/11 | REID J. EPSTEIN and GINGER GIBSON
    Gary Johnson will quit the Republican primaries and seek the Libertarian Party nomination instead, POLITICO has learned. The former two-term New Mexico governor, whose campaign for the GOP nomination never caught fire, will make the announcement at a press conference in Santa Fe on Dec. 28. Johnson state directors will be informed of his plans on a campaign conference call Tuesday night, a Johnson campaign source told POLITICO. The move has been expected for weeks — Johnson had run a New Hampshire-centric effort that never got him past a blip in the polls. He appeared at only two nationally televised...
  • Senate approves two-month extension of payroll tax holiday

    12/17/2011 7:45:54 AM PST · by afraidfortherepublic · 18 replies
    The Hilll ^ | 12-17-11 | Alexander Bolton
    The Senate on Saturday morning approved a two-month extension of the payroll tax holiday, the centerpiece of President Obama’s jobs agenda, setting up Congress to revisit the contentious issue next year. The legislation would also extend unemployment benefits and freeze scheduled cuts to doctors’ Medicare reimbursements until March. It was approved by a vote of 89-10. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) voted against the package. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) did not vote. The...
  • Former Obama lawyer admits deceiving Congress

    12/10/2011 7:09:07 AM PST · by Perdogg · 47 replies
    Remember the Gerald Walpin affair? Republican Sen. Charles Grassley does. Walpin was the inspector general of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the organization that runs the AmeriCorps service program. In June 2009, Walpin received a call from Norman Eisen, who was then the Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform. Eisen told Walpin he had an hour to either resign or be fired. Eisen's call appeared to violate the 2008 Inspectors General Reform Act, which is designed to protect inspectors general from political interference. The Act requires the president to give Congress 30 days'...