An entrepreneurship major and graduate of Belmont University, Wes believes that small business, innovation, and creative thinking are required to solve problems and improve our world.
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In 2007, Ron Paul captivated grassroots activists everywhere with his darkhorse campaign for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. He was an obscure, ten-term Congressman from Texas who had never gotten a single bill passed and who was called "Dr. No" on Capitol Hill for frequently ending
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Either this has been one of the strangest elections in recent history, or else having the Internet around has simply made it possible to nationally ruminate over the strange goings-on in elections throughout the country. Here are ten of the weirdest moments during the 2010 midterm elections: 1. Demon Sheep
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Here's an interesting statistic: at the University of California, a journalism project called the California News Service performed an analysis of the past 10 U.S. Congressional elections in California and determined that incumbents have won 97% of their races. That's one reason why earlier this
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Why would conservatives in California oppose a proposition that supporters are calling the Stop Hidden Taxes initiative? Because it doesn't do a thing to address California's runaway spending and skyrocketing deficit. In fact, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office concluded it would add an additional
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California's most famous U.S. Representative, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is taking heavy fire from all sides going into the November mid-term election. With an immminent takeover of the House by Republicans (some estimates put as many as 99 Democratic seats in danger of a Republican victory, with
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Last week, I covered the flip-flopping and mixed signals coming from the feminist organization NOW in the aftermath of a scandalous voicemail message which inadvertently caught someone on California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown's campaign using the word "whore" to describe a woman, his Republican opponent, Meg
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Last week, California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown (D) came under fire when a voicemail inadvertently recorded a private conversation in which a Brown aide suggests that Republican candidate Meg Whitman is a whore for cutting a deal with police over law enforcement pensions, and Jerry Brown approves. (The Los Angeles
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Barely a month after his record-breaking "Randslide" victory in Kentucky's Republican Senate Primary, Rand Paul came to Washington DC for a fundraiser with his father, Congressman Ron Paul and Senator Jim Bunning, the man whose U.S. Senate seat Paul would be vying for in November&
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When the U.S. House Republicans unveiled their 21-page Pledge to America to set the legislative agenda in the likely event that they take control of the House this November, they ignited a firestorm of controversy on the Right. Other than the cautious approval of The National Review, most responses
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The year was 1994. Leading by 5% on Gallup's generic ballot poll, the Republican Party was poised to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. In fact, the Democrats had run the House for all but four of the
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"I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now." That's what President Obama heard from a middle class, African-American woman at a townhall
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California's Employment Development Department released its latest numbers Friday, showing sustained job losses in California for the third straight month. California employers cut over 33,000 jobs last month, nudging the state's unemployment rate upward from 12.3% to 12.4%. The Los Angeles Times reports