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Former Obama Admin Aide Rapes 2 Women, Gets No Jail Time for INSANE Reason May 10, 2015 By Colleen Conley FacebookTwitterMore926 With the aid of a complicit media, liberals have become untouchable when it comes to nefarious and even criminal behavior under the Obama Administration. A serious double standard now exists; conservatives involved in scandals and crimes are still held accountable, while Democrats, more often than not, get a free pass. Case in point: last year, Donny Ray Williams, a former Democrat congressional aide, pleaded guilty to raping two women. According to reports, in 2010, Williams subdued his first victim,...

Thompson, 70, is the biggest Republican name in the race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl. If this election were taking place a decade ago, he would likely win the primary going away. But the new GOP is a party of strong partisans, where dealmakers like Thompson are no longer in vogue. So, if he is going to win over a new generation of Republican voters, Thompson will have to shake his image as a big-government Republican and Washington insider. "Is Tommy nimble enough to pivot to the right and position himself as a staunch conservative?" said Charles Franklin,...

MADISON, Wis. — Former two-term Republican congressman Mark Neumann announced Monday that he will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl. Mr. Neumann is the first to officially announce his candidacy in the 2012 race, but several other prominent Republicans and Democrats are expected to announce soon. One of them, former Gov. Tommy Thompson, a Republican, released a statement welcoming Mr. Neumann into the race and urging him to focus his campaign on the policies of President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat. “Republican voters deserve a primary campaign based...

Faced with increasing unemployment and a stagnating economy, Senate Democrats have refused to pass a budget for over 800 days, content instead to distract with proposals that would throw the country’s fiscal health into further decline. Last week, Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) called on Department of Transportation officials to throw the weight of the federal bureaucracy behind his legislation that would repeal current antitrust law and unfairly burden railroads with new regulatory regimes. By going after one of America’s most productive and oldest industries, the Senator shows aggressive regulatory fiat seems to be a siren song few lawmakers in search...

The 18 Senators Who Approve Breaking The Internet To Protect Hollywood from the not-cool dept Last fall, we noted that the Senate Judiciary Committee had unanimously voted to approve COICA, a bill for censoring the internet as a favor to the entertainment industry. Thankfully, Senator Ron Wyden stepped up and blocked COICA from progressing. This year, COICA has been replaced by the PROTECT IP Act, which fixes some of the problems of COICA, but introduces significant other problems as well. A wide cross section of people who actually understand technology and innovation have come out against PROTECT IP as written...

Will Russ Feingold try to get back into the Senate, now that his longtime colleague Herb Kohl has decided to retire? Or will he inadvertently bigfoot other Democrats and damage prospects for a Democratic hold on the seat? Feingold said that he’s considering all of these questions in the first indication that he has an interest in defending the open Wisconsin seat: “I am looking at it, but I feel I should take some time to think this through,” said Feingold, the former senator who was defeated last fall for re-election after three terms. “For me the question right now...

Rep. Paul Ryan is reaching out to potential Senate candidates in Wisconsin, informing them he's unlikely to run for Herb Kohl's seat next year, according to two sources familiar with the conversations. The House Budget Committee chairman, who was in Chicago Monday defending his polarizing debt reduction plan in front of the city's Economic Club, told one prospective candidate he was "leaning heavily against a run," an adviser confirmed to POLITICO. Another consultant said that the congressman conveyed he was "95 percent sure" he would not enter the race for the open seat. That percentage, of course, leaves him a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Minnesota Republican congressman Paul Ryan says he might decide as early as this week whether to run for Senate to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl.

I’m paraphrasing slightly. “In over two decades of service in the Senate, Herb Kohl has done much to help the great state of Wisconsin and the lives of its residents. While Senator Kohl and I have had our policy disagreements in the past, he has always had my respect. It has been a privilege to work with him over the years, and I wish him the best in his future endeavors. I was surprised by Senator Kohl’s announcement and want to take some time over the next few days to discuss this news with my family and supporters before making...

Kohls and Mrs. Fields Stop Donating to Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Washington, DC -- Strike two more corporations off of the list of companies that make financial donations to the Planned Parenthood abortion business. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/01/03/kohls-and-mrs-fields-stop-donating-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz/

Republicans happily pointed out an ominous parallel in Democratic polling of Wisconsin Senate races Tuesday. The Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling released a survey showing Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) in a "pretty solid position" with a 50 percent approval rating. Moreover, the Dec. 10-12 survey shows him with leads over potential GOP rivals Rep. Paul Ryan, former Gov. Tommy Thompson and state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen ranging from 6 to 13 points. And if Kohl decides not to run for reelection in 2012, as some have speculated, and Russ Feingold opts to make a bid, the defeated senator has a...

Throughout the afternoon and evening, a project known as the Littoral Combat Ship will be making news in Wisconsin. I’ve been working with the U.S. Navy on this matter for some time. And I want you to have facts and figures about why this is great news -- both for our national security and for working men and women in our state. The Navy has announced its intent to accelerate plans to buy Littoral Combat Ships, including ten ships to be built by Marinette Marine over the next five years. This will get these valuable ships to our sailors faster,...

Barack Obama’s approval ratings have rapidly declined as more of his hard-Left agenda hits the table and the economy begins to decline, but Obama’s not the only person who has that problem. Eric Ostermeier at Smart Politics looks at polling numbers from Survey USA and finds that almost everyone in the Senate has lost ground with voters. However, net approval for Democrats has declined twice as much as Republicans: Herb Kohl (D-WI) has seen the biggest net drop, at minus 23 points during this span. Overall, these 25 Senators have seen their collective +24.8-point net approval rating in January fall...

Video being promoted online at aging.senate.gov and through emails from Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl's office to constituents. His take on healthcare "reform."

Former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said that he'll announce his political intentions at the state Republican Convention in Appleton in May. Thompson, in a satellite interview from Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, continues to fuel speculation that he might run for governor again or the U.S. Senate, WISC-TV reported.

John Kerry -- who, as I recall, served in Vietnam, and in his life ran for president -- yesterday "yesterday attacked Republicans for having an 'orthodoxy of view' and overly inserting religion into politics, accusing them of using God as a justification for appointing conservative judges." Now, I have sat here and I have said until I'm blue in the face that the Democrats are doing everything they can to keep people of faith off the bench. They don't want religious people as judges. They just don't, and you know why: Because they're afraid of them. They're afraid of their...

MILWAUKEE (AP) U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl has hired a Democratic organizer to begin coordinating his run for re-election in 2006. The Wisconsin Democrat said Tuesday that he hired Michael Teter to start putting the campaign together. Kohl, who turned 70 Monday, announced over the weekend that he is seeking a fourth six-year term in the Senate. The millionaire owner of the Milwaukee Bucks was first elected in 1988 and won re-election in 1994 and 2000. Teter was Wisconsin field director for the Democratic Party's campaign last year.

Soros' "Reform" By James O. E. Norell First Freedoms | May 28, 2004 If there were an illustration accompanying the word "hypocrisy" in the dictionary, it would be an engraving of globalist billionaire George Soros. Soros, one of the richest men in the world, backed campaign finance reform with huge cash donations to a wide variety of Washington "reform" special interest groups to accomplish what his funding conduit called an effort "to reduce the corrupting influence of very large donors" and to ban pre-election "issue advocacy" ads by groups like the NRA. Now, arch-reformer Soros is pouring perhaps as much...

Filed at 6:27 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Midwestern U.S. senators asked the Federal Trade Commission on Friday to investigate the region's soaring gasoline prices and whether consumers are being gouged at the pump. The average national price for regular unleaded gasoline is up 54 cents a gallon from a year ago and the seventh highest on record at $1.66 a gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Department. Fuel costs are up even more in the Midwest, where Senators Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio want to know if oil companies are trying to...

WASHINGTON, May 23 — A federal district judge who has been criticized for some of his rulings and for his membership in an all-male club was endorsed for an appeals court post today. The approval came after three Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave President Bush's nominee their support. The nomination of Judge D. Brooks Smith for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, now goes to the full Senate, where a heated debate is likely. In the vote today, the nominee got all nine Republican votes. Since the committee has 10 Democrats, he...