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One of the country's most popular Republican governors on Thursday called for an independent investigation into the allegations made against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and said the Senate should hold off on a vote. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker made the comments as Professor Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh sexually and physically assaulted here. "The accusations brought against Judge Kavanaugh are sickening and deserve an independent investigation," Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker tweeted. "There should be no vote in the Senate." Baker, who faces re-election this November, is one of only a few Republican governors,...

Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador confronted MSNBC “Hardball” anchor Chris Matthews over his insistent claims that Republican “terrorists” were threatening a government shutdown to defund Obamacare. Labrador reminded Matthews that his one-time boss, former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, was partially responsible for a number of government shutdowns while Ronald Reagan was president — and yet Matthews had never referred to O’Neill as a terrorist as he has with Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

The moment that made Gingrich was when he got Tip O'Neill so all fire mad that Tip made statements in violation of House rules and had his words "taken down," a major parliamentary slap on the hindquarters. You can watch the C-SPAN video here: Tip O'Neill's words taken down. Now, this week we've heard the RINOs try to slam Gingrich's attitude to Reagan's foreign policy vis-a-vis the communists, trying to claim that when the liberals in the House were criticizing Reagan's policy and threatening to cut off funding for the Contras, Gingrich was right along them agreeing with it. How...

A federal judge in Houston has thrown out the 20-year-old arms smuggling conviction of a former CIA agent, outlining in scathing terms how federal officials knowingly used a false affidavit at his trial and concealed the act through years of appeals. Edwin Wilson was convicted in Houston in 1983 of smuggling arms to Libya at a time when the threat of Libyan terrorism was major news. Congress was mounting investigations into controversial CIA activities around the globe, and CIA administrators were actively trying to deflect criticism. Wilson, now 75, has been in prison ever since, serving a 52-year sentence. His...

By 2012, our national debt will be larger than the entire U.S. economy, according to the International Monetary Fund. So what's on the front burner in Washington these days? Zoning issues in lower Manhattan! Is it OK to put a Muslim community center close to Ground Zero? I don't know, but local authorities don't seem to mind. That should settle it, but what Sarah Palin calls the "9/11 mosque" has somehow become a headline-grabbing controversy. On Friday, President Obama insisted that Muslims have the "same right to practice their religion as anyone else" and can build a mosque near the...

WHAT WOULD Tip think? House Speaker Thomas P. ``Tip" O'Neill Jr. goes down in political history as the Big Dig's big booster. The legendary Democrat from North Cambridge stoked it with federal dollars, spurred by his belief that it was a transportation necessity and an economic boost. Today, Thomas P. O'Neill III, the late speaker's son, represents Bechtel Corp. -- the company that helped supervise the project from dream to reality to fiasco. This summer, tons of concrete crashed down from a connector tunnel ceiling, killing a woman. Since then, everything about Boston's Big Dig, from design and construction to...

NPR.org, April 2, 2005 · "Tip O'Neill was correct," says Father Tom Reese, editor in chief of America, the Catholic weekly magazine. "All politics is local... even in the Catholic Church." Reese suggests that instead of focusing on the possible papal candidates as a bookie would look at horses in the starting gate, try to think about the election from the point of view of the electors, the cardinals who cast the votes. "Each cardinal is thinking, how will this candidate go over in my diocese?" Reese says. "If you're from the Third World, you're concerned with people who are...

In the midst of a Sports Illustrated/CNN Sports blog entry about the NCAA men's basketball tournament, Boston Globe Magazine writer Charles Pierce, who in a 2003 article touted how if Mary Jo Kopechne had lived, "Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age," denounced columnist and CNN commentator Robert Novak. Pierce castigated Novak as "a mendacious lycanthrope" and warned CBS, which is carrying the tournament: "If you use him as a talking-head anywhere on your network, you've sacrificed credibility for celebrity in a big way." Novak is a big college basketball fan. Mendacious means untruthful and...

...The third rail has been losing its juice for years. Bush came out in favor of individual accounts during his race in 2000. And, in the 2002 congressional elections, in every race where Social Security was a major issue, candidates favoring reform won. In fact, those results are simply a reflection of the strong and continued public support for reforming Social Security. A recent poll for the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that 56 percent favor letting workers invest some of their Social Security contributions in the stock market, compared to only 36 percent opposed. Another survey by Rasmussen Reports...

The Gipper And the Tipper Looking from the other side. By Chris Matthews EDITOR'S NOTE: This article appears in the June 28, 2004, issue of National Review. I held a unique vantage point on Ronald Reagan. For six years I was top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, otherwise known as Ronald Reagan's No. 1 rival. Before that I was a presidential speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, the man he beat to win the White House. I first met President Reagan himself in the Speaker's ceremonial office. It was the president's "holding room" for the 1982 State...

WASHINGTON - A jaunty Ronald Reagan once offered a ribald champagne toast to his political nemesis, the late U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, during a private White House party to celebrate O'Neill's 70th birthday.      ``Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you didn't have one, too, I would give mine away and go to hell with you,'' deadpanned Reagan.      Friends say O'Neill was moved to tears, but stepped outside the White House soon after the party ended and launched into a tirade against Reagan.      The story from two decades ago is a cherished part of Bay State...

The Kerry-Kennedy-Haiti Connection By Cliff Kincaid March 26, 2004 It wasn't a big story when John Kerry said that he would have risked U.S. lives to maintain Marxist Jean-Bertrand Aristide in power in Haiti. And except for columnist Robert Novak, there hasn't been any discussion of why Kerry chose such a controversial course of action. Novak noted evidence of "Aristide's gold-plated U.S. connections." He explained, "He is close to Kerry's influential friends, the Kennedy family of Massachusetts, and is the unconditional favorite of the Congressional Black Caucus." Novak noted that Aristide spent millions on U.S. lobbyists and lawyers, and that,...

According to a Chris Matthews sound bite, Robert Byrd was nicknamed 'Sheets' by House Speaker, Democrat, Tip O'Neill. What a canvas. Make it as big as you wish. One small can of spray paint will print just about any message. Something like 'Byrd has LONG history in the KKK' would work. Take a picture of your work and post it on the net! The sheets could be sent to the NAACP, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, or DC.