**Written by Doug Powers According to a new poll, Richard Mourdock now leads 36-year incumbent Republican Senator Dick Lugar by a 48-38 margin. Lugar is lobbying Democrats — yes, Democrats — in an attempt to stop the bleeding. In February, Lugar had a 20-plus point lead on Mourdock, but now there’s a sense of RINO [Continue]

**Written by Doug Powers “Don’t overturn the health care law or else _____ will happen” part deux: Medicare’s payment system, the unseen but vital network that handles 100 million monthly claims, could freeze if President Barack Obama’s health care law is summarily overturned, the administration quietly informed the [Continue]

**Written by Doug Powers Open for discussion while we put on a hard hat and watch out for a Friday afternoon document drop of some sort, here’s the latest jobs data: The nation’s economy added 115,00 jobs in April while the unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 8.1 percent. The figures are lower [Continue]

**Written by Doug Powers * As with any U.N. climate conference, standard “hold on to your wallet” rules apply. While you’re doing that, try and predict the size of this carbon footprint: Some of the main proposals in a draft text for negotiation at a U.N. sustainable development conference next month are being watered down [Continue]

**Written by Doug Powers May Day made it the perfect time to go to an Occupy protest and ask the obvious: On Tuesday, The Blaze went down to Malcolm X park in Washington D.C. which played host to the much-touted Occupy May Day protests. We were interested in finding the answer to one question: “So, [Continue]

What did I say yesterday? For the Left: Through narrative, all things are possible. If the White House just keeps telling enough stories, Team Obama thinks it can spin its way into a second term in office. Today’s fable comes in the form of a slick web feature at BarackObama.com called “The Life of Julia.” [Continue]

…you better come prepared with ammunition. Tonight on Hannity, Juan Williams tried to deflect attention from the endemic violence and anarchy of the Occupy movement by talking about the “racism in some parts of the Tea Party” and “jokes about monkeys and the president.” I asked him to name names. His response? 1) You [Continue]

**Written by Doug Powers About a year ago, around the time of his comments concerning the Paul Ryan plan and the subsequent rebuke in Dubuque, Newt Gingrich was having an incredibly rocky start to his campaign. Back then, Charles Krauthammer said stick a fork in him, he’s done. But Gingra Din had no intent of [Continue]

**Written by Doug Powers CNN’s ratings have been sinking so fast that this spring they came very close to beating James Cameron to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. As a matter of fact, April was CNN’s lowest rated month in over ten years: It’s no April Fool’s joke — last month CNN delivered its [Continue]

**Written by Doug Powers From the “imagine if there was a Tea Party connection to this” file, we find this… Arrests have been made in a bomb plot sting in the Cleveland, Ohio area: Five men charged with plotting to bomb a bridge linking two wealthy Cleveland suburbs placed what they thought were real explosives [Continue]