Today’s Commentary was filmed on the new FR "ActionCam" (I’m open to a new name for the cool all-digital Sony CamCorder I just bought). It is a two minute introduction to our four-column series on the candidates for the GOP nomination for the Presidency, that starts with this column from State Senator Mark Wyland on behalf of his candidate, Mitt Romney. Have a great day!… Read More

Check out this humorous piece up on the Capitol Weekly site today! Democrat State Senators Correa, Calderon, and Negrete Mcleod were locked out of their Capitol offices by "The Don" Perata for attending a fundraising event for Democrat Caucus "moderates".

According to CW:

Perata declined to discuss the issue. "I never talk about the politics of the caucus," he said.

Hmmm.… Read More

A Flashreport reader would be surprised the LA Times documented something we’ve long known. The really BIG money in politics comes from very rich liberals.

The Times ran their piece back Feb 27 and we did a little of our own research. 68% of the largest individual contributors are liberal Democrats. Those donors gave over 61 million from 2003 to 2006. The very strange Stephen Bing, who inherited all his money,flushed at least 14.18 million into zany liberal projects and candidates. That14 million is but a part of his largess. We don’t know how many millions he gave to 527’s. For example, Bing just gave over $ 50 million for pass tax hiking Prop 87, the Oil Tax.

Someof the rich liberal elite inherited their money. They’ve never worked a day but they are ready to back candidates who will try to run your life.They include Ann Gerry Earhart [Getty heiress] , Susan Packard and Frank Orr [Technology heirs], Anne Bartley [San Francisco heiress], James Hormel [ food heir] and Julie Packard [ technology heir].

Of the 20 top contributors only 6 are Republican. Of the 6 only one family inherited its money. The others are… Read More

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Congressman Buck McKeon represents part of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties. He recently penned this column about school choice. Read it at Townhall here.… Read More

In Jon’s, commentary on Friday he referenced a story in the Hill that talked about a big loophole concerning earmarks that the Democrats left in the rules package.

Here is what the rule actually states (From page 34 of the House rules):

9. (a) It shall not be in order to consider— (1) a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee unless the report includes a list of congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the bill or in the report (and the name of any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to the committee for each respective item included in such list) or a statement that the proposition contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits;

In the earmark section of the changes to the House rules that were passed by the Democrats at the beginning of this year, they inserted the section above in order “to bring transparency to the earmark process,” but it… Read More

John Pesching, a principal with the consulting firm Meridian Pacific, will be officially announced tomorrow as a senior advisor to the John McCain for President campaign, assisting with their efforts in the important Golden State. In this capacity, John has told me he will be volunteering his time. I’ve known John for a long, long time and I he will be strong go-to person in California for McCain’s campaign. John has a long, storied career in Republican politics, going all of the way back to beginnings when he worked in the Reagan White House (his photo helping then President Reagan with a weekly radio address is among the thousands on the walls at the Reagan Library). John spent several years as Executive Director of the California Republican Party before going on to serve seven years as the Western Regional Political Director of the Republican National Committee, giving him a lot of experience to lend to McCain’s effort not only here, but in a host of other states on this end of the country. I worked closely with John during the 2000 election cycle when he worked for the RNC, and I was… Read More

As the Republican race for the Presidential nomination starts to unfold, there will be a lot of individual times that you scratch your head, and wonder about why a candidate says something about a particular issue. I can certainly tell you that I have heard from a lot of grassroots GOP donors and activists who feel that how a candidate conducts themselves in their personal life is an important indicator of how they will perform in an office of public trust – and I agree. I will admit that it makes it more challenging for me to place my faith in a candidate and what they are telling me when they have been unfaithful to their spouse. I’m a realist — and the sobering and unfortunate fact is that over half of the marriages in the United States end up in divorce — and amazing and startlingly depressing figure. It is also the case that infidelity occurs in many of these instances.

But there is also truth to the statement that the two best times to judge someone’s character is when everyone is watching them, and when no one is watching them. I don’t pretend to know or care to know the… Read More