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Meet Jonathan Gruber, a professor at MIT and an architect of Obamacare. During panel event last year about how the legislation passed, turning over a sixth of the U.S. economy to the government, Gruber admitted that the Obama administration went through "tortuous" measures to keep the facts about the legislation from the American people, including covering up the redistribution of wealth from the healthy to the sick in the legislation that Obamacare is in fact a tax. The video of his comments just recently surfaced ahead of the second open enrollment period for Obamacare at Healthcare.gov. "You can't do it...

On September 4, 2012, Mitt Romney may have lost Virginia and the Presidential election. But Republicans could still win easily. This election will turn on two questions Bill Clinton is pounding on: Who caused the disastrous economic collapse in 2007 and 2008? Will putting a Republican back in the White House give us another economic crash? Republican strategists and consultants have been running away from these questions. Bill Clinton passionately blamed Republicans at the Democrat National Convention. Republicans are aiming for “just enough to squeak by.” But “good enough” is almost never good enough. Now on September 4, Virgil Goode...

THEY REALLY ARE STUPID...AND RACIST Our side tends to vote on values and policy without regard to race. The other side is the racist party that continues to divide us. Listen to these amazingly stupid voters in Harlem. They are, of course, voting for Obama because he is black.

Voters across Hampton Roads are making their way to polling places today, and many are eager to vote in the hot 2nd District Congressional race. Problem is, some of them are not in the 2nd District. Chesapeake Registrar Virginia W. Garrett said she’s received calls about the fact that candidates Scott Rigell and Glenn Nye are not on the ballot.

WASHINGTON – The public panned it. Republicans obstructed it. Many Democrats fled from it. Even so, the session of Congress now drawing to a close was the most productive in nearly half a century. Not since the explosive years of the civil rights movement and the hard-fought debut of government-supported health care for the elderly and poor have so many big things — love them or hate them — been done so quickly.

As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack Obama is relying on a small team of advisers who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of a new Obama administration. Following is part of a series of profiles of potential members of the administration. The New Team A series of profiles of potential members of the Obama administration. Name: Jamie Gorelick Being considered for: Attorney general Would bring to the job: A wide-ranging Washington résumé that spans corporate, legal and national security affairs. Ms. Gorelick (pronounced Guh-REH-lick) was the No. 2 official at the Justice Department in...

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Some Riverside County residents called for greater candidate scrutiny Thursday following the revelation that the apparent winner of a school board seat in this week's election is a convicted felon doing time in prison for a parole violation. Romoland school board candidate Randy Logan Hale, 40, of Homeland, violated his parole and was returned to prison Sept. 21. Even so, he was able to capture 831 votes, according to unofficial results from Tuesday's election, and appeared to win one of three vacant seats on the school board. Kevin Dale, 33, of Homeland, said he found Hale's election "hilarious." Situations like...

Republicans, Democrats Disagree On What To Do With Money One day after voters agreed to let the state keep an extra $3.7 billion in taxes...Democrats and Republicans were already disagreeing on how to spend it. GOP Gov. Bill Owens said the money should be used to shore up transportation, fix crumbling schools, hold down college tuition increases and strengthen police and fire pensions. Democrats said the state should restore Medicaid programs and ... Referendum C suspends the tax limits in the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, a constitutional amendment, for five years, allowing the state to keep money that otherwise would...

Drive for Refs C, D got big donations as voting loomed Two wealthy Democrats who helped their party take over the legislature donated more than half a million dollars to Referendums C and D in the final days of the most costly ballot campaign in Colorado history. But donations of $280,000 from heiress Pat Stryker and $250,000 from software guru Tim Gill weren't revealed until Wednesday, the day after the election. It was the first time in the campaign that the pro-Ref C camp did not release its donors early - a tactic opponents said was intended to shore up...

The city of Houston's main pension program has a billion-dollar funding shortfall because benefits have been boosted so high that many employees will earn more in retirement than they received while working, according to a report obtained by the Chronicle. A few will retire as millionaires. To properly reduce the shortfall, taxpayers would have to put nearly $100 million extra into the fund next year, according to an analysis prepared for the pension's board. Further, the city cannot reduce the benefits for any employee who already has worked five years, thanks to a Texas constitutional amendment passed by voters last...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2002--Books & Company is pleased to announce that former Vice President and best-selling author Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, will make an appearance in conjunction with the new release of their books, "Joined at the Heart" and "The Spirit of Family," on Monday, November 25, at 7:00 p.m. Books & Company is located in the newly remodeled Brookwood Village. Al and Tipper Gore have long considered family their bedrock and have spent many years studying the nature of the American family. Combining personal insight and expert opinions, historical and global perspectives, "Joined at the...