Ron Paul’s surge in the Iowa state polls is more than just an exaggeration. Surveys now have him taking the state with first place two weeks before the Iowa caucus begins, and that success has the establishment running scared. During the election season leading up to 2008, a grassroots campaign in support of Texas Congressman Ron Paul posed a serious threat to the other GOP hopefuls during the months... 

In his interview with CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria, George Soros had some lamenting to do. He told Zakaria that Obama “has lost control of the [county’s ecnomic] agenda” and as a result it’s been left “in the hands of the Republican Party”. Though Soros thinks the GOP will be successful in its pursuit of cutting services and denying any tax increases, he thinks those developments... 

President Obama warned of stopped Social Security checks and issued a formal veto threat Tuesday to the Republican spending plan currently being debated in the House, setting the stage for a potential government shutdown next month. Democrats in the last congress did not pass a budget at all, so the government has run on a series of stopgap spending extensions since October. The current one expires... 

Hands up: Those who raised their hands agree that President Obama is in fact a Muslim, as it has been alleged. Nearly half of the members in a focus group of Republicans put together by Fox News say they don’t trust President Barack Obama’s response to the Egypt crisis because they believe he’s a Muslim. The Iowa-based group were asked by influential Republican ‘message guru’... 

A Rasmussen poll released Monday indicates that Congressman Ron Paul has a better shot of beating Obama in the 2012 presidential election than Sarah Palin would, should both decide to run on the GOP ticket. As Paul is seemingly on the verge of announcing another presidential bid, The poll shows that more American voters would side with Ron Paul is he were to be pitted against Obama than would vote... 

It sounded conciliatory, even friendly, brimming with the outward trappings of a shift to the center, but President Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union speech was, at its core, an unmistakably partisan challenge to congressional Republicans. Obama, facing a chamber full of Democrats and Republicans mingling together in a show of bipartisan comity, began by telling the new GOP majority in the... 

Mitt Romney New Hampshire Republicans elected a tea party figure as their leader and rejected the establishment-backed candidate, a sign that activists in this early voting presidential state have embraced the anti-government message that helped them make major gains in November’s election. Former gubernatorial candidate Jack Kimball edged businesswoman Juliana Bergeron in a race that pitted... 

The end of the year means a turnover of House control from Democratic to Republican and, with it, Congress’ approach to immigration. In a matter of weeks, Congress will go from trying to help young, illegal immigrants become legal to debating whether children born to parents who are in the country illegally should continue to enjoy automatic U.S. citizenship. Such a hardened approach – and... 

A group of tea party activists are firing back at a gay conservative group, claiming that they don’t speak for the movement. Last week, POLITICO reported on a letter that GOProud and several tea party activists sent to GOP congressional leaders urging them to pursue fiscal issues over social ones. Now, another group of tea party activists released their own letter to Republican leaders, calling... 

Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter is the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue the federal government if Congress passes health care reform. Legal experts say the measure, signed Wednesday, will likely be struck down. But Idaho’s new law reflects growing frustration with President Barack Obama’s health-care proposal. Legislation...