Political parties raised a record £26.3m in donations in the run up to May's general election, the Electoral Commission says.

Public pensions are an apropos topic on the day of the State of the Union Address (#SOTU) when President Obama will be doing one of the things he does best which is pandering to the unions! This pandering will be particularly evident in an election year when the Obama reelection campaign is looking to raise a record dollar amount of political contributions! The ticking time bomb! Most if not all o...

THE Tories raised £1.45 million in significant donations during the first week of General Election campaigning – nearly twice the amount banked by Labour.

From LifeSiteNews By Kathleen Gilbert A coalition of University of Notre Dame alumni have unveiled a campaign to withhold donations to their alma mater in an attempt to oust University president Fr. John Jenkins, who is standing by his invitation to President Obama to speak and receive an honorary degree at this year's commencement exercises. Citing the invitation, as well as Jenkins' "o...

The actual numbers ( as opposed to the PR) have finally come out on President Obama's ridiculous budget, and they aren't pretty: The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates. Budget office figures released Monday would add $89 billion to the 2009 red ink -- ...

The internet generation who made Obama’s campaign possible through a mass of micro-transactions have struck again. During the past 24hours over $100,000 has been raised by over 1,500 donors keen to ensure that the President doesn’t back down on his plans for a health care reform, after his Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Sunday that a public option was &qu...

Make no mistake: Obama has landed.  The US President's arrival at Stanstead yesterday makes almost all of the frontpages and is leading most news coverage.  One of the many questions on the lips of Labour-minded people I speak to is whether all this is helping or harming Gordon Brown.  With much of the other G20 coverage focusing on either splits between the countries or compro...

The Barack Obama record is a record of utter economic failure! People will tell you that Barack Obama came into office inheriting a tough situation. That the legacy left by President Bush is the root cause of all of this country's problems. They will say that our current economic crisis is certainly not due to any of the policies of this President. That no mere mortal man could have overcome ...

President Barack Obama named a White House cybersecurity coordinator to bring greater focus to the defence against internet attacks, ending a protracted search that has raised questions in some quarters about the potential effectiveness of the role

Barack Obama is the first politician to harness the power of the Internet. He - and his team - realised the power of YouTube, when other politicians still regarded it as a medium for people to upload drunken videos of themselves. Many others had never heard of it.  Obama understands the power of the small donation.  It is far better to get a hundred donations of $10, than to get one dona...