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Rep. Gerry Connelly (D-Va.) declared Thursday that CNN's Jim Acosta was "deliberately set up" by President Trump in a "staged" event involving an intern on Wednesday that led to the CNN correspondent getting his press pass suspended by the White House. Connelly's comments were made to TMZ outside of Congress on Thursday. "Do you think he’s going to have a better relationship with all these reporters?" Connelly was asked. "I would not argue that he’s going to have a better relationship with the reporters, given the fact he pulled Jim Acosta’s White House press credentials yesterday in kind of a...

The national GOP’s director of evangelical outreach is quitting, and lodging complaints about what he calls the party’s “tone deaf attitude” toward a crucial Republican voting bloc. Chad Connelly, who served as the Republican National Committee’s director of faith engagement for the last four years, announced his resignation in an email circulated to close friends late Thursday. He complained that religious outreach has not been prioritized at the RNC under the leadership structure implemented by President Donald Trump’s White House. “The treatment I received from the new political department has been disrespectful, antagonistic and unacceptable,” Connelly wrote in an email...

The IRS scandal is so bad that Democrats are unleashing total war in an attempt to beat back a full airing of the abuse. The old adage, "The best defense is a good offense," is all the more valid when the major media outlets are on their side. It is not necessary to have any actual facts to use as rebuttal for the indefensible; it is enough to simply throw a cloud of dust, so as to discredit any charges - in the eyes of supporters and media sycophants. President Obama's absurd contention to Bill O'Reilly that there was "not...

The election in Virginia's 11th congressional district was one of the closest in the Nation. For that, I am grateful and I have you to thank. You made this run possible. You are the reason we performed as well as we did. And I am humbled and honored to have had your enormous support. Over 220,000 votes were cast, and less than 1,000 votes separate the two candidates. In this situation, Virginia law says that there should be a recount if I request it. In fact, the election is so close that the General Assembly has determined that the Commonwealth...

KOKOMO, IND.—Appearing at an afternoon news conference today with the White House auto czar and the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Senator Evan Bayh and Congressman Joe Donnelly today (May 28, 2009), strongly endorsed the administration’s decision to open up a major new source of credit for Indiana dealerships that sell cars, recreational vehicles, boats and manufactured homes.

<p>When Vice President Dick Cheney shuttled across the state Monday on Air Force Two, raising as much as $500,000 for the Republican Party and its candidates, taxpayers footed most of the bill.</p> <p>The campaigns of GOP Senate candidate Mike McGavick and House hopeful Doug Roulstone will reimburse only a tiny fraction of what it cost to fly Cheney to Washington, drive him around in motorcades, put him up for the night, pay the salaries of traveling staff and provide Secret Service protection.</p>

FEMA Katrina Funeral Contractor Desecrated CorpsesThursday, 15 September 2005, 2:15 pm Article: Jason Leopold Division of Funeral Corp. Charged With Desecrating Corpses Hired to Collect Deceased Victims of Hurricane Katrina By Jason LeopoldA funeral services company which recently learned that one of its subsidiaries is negotiating a lucrative contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove dead bodies in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, paid $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit several years ago alleging the company desecrated thousands of corpses, and dumped bodies into mass graves.Moreover, the company paid $200,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that sought...

He shows up at busy intersections and roads from Portland to Calais, wearing a George W. Bush mask and dancing a herky-jerky jig as he entertains motorists and draws attention to his anti-Republican message. The dance is the "Wiener Boy Shuffle" (W is for Wiener), and the man behind the mask is none other than Tom Connolly, the lawyer who made Bush's drunken driving conviction public before the 2000 election. Enjoying his masked anonymity, Connolly has chosen to take the road less traveled with a mix of guerrilla theater and political satire.

Receive FREE updates by email: New Developments In The Salvati Case By Notra Trulock November 12, 2003 Earlier this year, Accuracy in Media reported on the case of Joseph Salvati, who spent nearly thirty years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. False, uncorroborated testimony by an FBI informant convicted Salvati in 1968 of murder. Salvati was finally freed in 1997 after Boston WBZ-TV reporter Dan Rea uncovered old police records that exonerated him. Salvati was framed by an informant recruited by two FBI agents working out of the Boston office, Paul Rico and Dennis Condon....

SEATTLE - So, it's not just me. Read Joel Connelly's column in Friday's Seattle P-I. Read Ellen Goodman's column in the Seattle Times Friday. Or, just give my friend Mikey a call. Mikey stopped me yesterday to comment on how viciously strident conservative broadcasters have become. How Limbaugh, Hanity [SIC]and O'Reilly, for example, figure that if we don't support President Bush in EVERY instance, on EVERY issue, at ALL times, then we are un-American. That's it's not enough to merely mistrust liberals or moderates, we must disdain them, or we are un-American. That if we don't let right-wing anally-conservative broadcasters...

DENVER - The federal prosecutor who successfully fought off the appeals of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is leaving the U.S. attorney's office to join a private law practice. Sean Connelly joined the law firm of Hoffman Reilly Pozner & Williamson, U.S. attorney spokesman Jeff Dorschner said Friday. Connelly was a member of the prosecution team that won the 1997 convictions of McVeigh and conspirator Terry Nichols. As a special attorney and assistant U.S. attorney, he defended the government's case in the appellate court. "He has an outstanding legal mind, and his presence will sorely be missed," U.S. Attorney...