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PICKET: Siena poll shows Hochul with 4 point lead over Corwin in NY 26
A new Siena poll shows Democrat Kathy Hochul leading Republican Jane Corwin by four points in New York's 26th district special election .
PICKET: NY 26 GOP Candidate Jane Corwin defends platform
Western New York businesswoman and Republican Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, the GOP candidate running in New York's 26th Congressional District special election, gives a preview of the political environment GOP'ers running in 2012 will likely end up facing. From handling attacks on her support of the budget plan proposed by Congressman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, to fending off a third party candidate who could very well eat into her numbers at the polls on Tuesday, Ms. Corwin is provides a clear picture on her stances.
PICKET: GM says it doesn't endorse Shanghai GM's involvement in Chinese Communist propaganda
GM insists that it does not endorse the marketing activities of their company's Chinese joint venture that sells GM cars and promotes Communist propaganda filmmaking.
PICKET: GM denies any 'organizational ties' to 'joint venture' Shanghai GM
GM's inclusion of Shanghai GM all over annual reports and press releases makes it terribly tough to believe the U.S. automaker is not tied to SGM and to treat SGM as just a random separate company who came out of nowhere and is running around using the Cadillac logo to help promote a Communist film is just as un-believeable.
PICKET: (video) Rep. Allen West on Obama: 'I can't stand the guy'
Congressman Allen West, Florida Republican, went after President Barack Obama on Saturday, saying he couldn't "stand the guy."
PICKET: GM's Cadillac logo sits on Chi-Com hammer and sickle banner
As a follow up to my previous post, a disturbing banner that included not just the Communist hammer and sickle symbol but U.S. tax-payer funded GM's Cadillac logo as well. The image was captured in April by China Auto Web. The banner is promotion for the GM sponsored Communist propaganda film "The Founding of a Party."
PICKET: GM sponsors and celebrates soon to be released Chi-Com propaganda film
In late 2010, General Motors agreed to sponsor a propaganda film celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP made film titled (translated to English) “The Birth of a Party” or “The Great Achievement of Founding the Party" is set to premiere all over the Communist nation on June 15.
PICKET: Gingrich's old habits come back to bite him
Newt Gingrich appears confused as to who he is trying to impress in the 2012 GOP presidential primaries.
PICKET: Ryan on Gingrich criticism: 'With allies like that who needs the left?'
Wow, that was fast. Former Republican Speaker of the House and now GOP primary presidential candidate Newt Gingrich found himself in hot water with Republicans and conservatives, when the Georgia Republican told NBC's Meet The Press host David Gregory:
GREEN: Obama hits the links rather than honor police dead
President Obama left the White House this morning a little after 9:30 am. He wasn’t on his way to the Capitol building, where grieving friends and families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty hold a yearly commemorative service. Though he was invited to recognize the fallen and offer condolences by speaking at the annual Peace Officers’ Memorial Service, he instead spent this fine Sunday playing a round of golf with aide Ben Finkenbinder, White House trip director Marvin Nicholson and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
(video) PICKET: Oil CEO's: Raising taxes on our companies will not reduce price at the pump
During a Senate finance committee hearing with American oil companies, Senator Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican and ranking member of the committee, asked the oil executives present if the price at the gas pump would rise if their companies were hit with higher taxes.
ROBBINS: The return of the DC snipers?
There is reason to believe that post-bin Laden al Qaeda may abandon its former leader's fixation on large scale attacks and resort to the type of terrorism that held Washington, DC in the grip of fear for three weeks in October, 2002.
PICKET: (video) NY 26 candidate Jack Davis responds to assault on GOP volunteer
Following a video that showed self-professed tea party congressional candidate Jack Davis, who ran as a Democrat three times prior for New York's Congressional 26th district seat, Mr. Davis responded to a video showing him hitting a GOP volunteer.
PICKET: (video) Fake tea party candidate hits GOP volunteer
Self-proclaimed and obvious fake tea partier, Jack Davis, a congressional candidate in New York's 26th district, hit a cameraman when the questioner asked Mr. Davis why he was absent from a political debate.
PICKET: (Video) Schumer: Tax increases won't cost American jobs
Senator Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, in an interview with Bloomberg Television's Al Hunt on Wednesday, said that higher taxes wouldn't cost jobs.
