By JACK SPENCER | Michigan Capitol Confidential

LANSING – Former Vice President Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, but apparently President Barack Obama wants voters to believe he created trash collectors and bus drivers.

By Michael Noyes | Montana Watchdog
HELENA – By all accounts the Republicans will likely have already chosen a presidential candidate by the time Montana voters go to the polls in June.
“Historically speaking, the nomination is usually decided long before Montanans cast a vote,” state Republican Party Chairman Bowen Greenwood said.
That doesn’t mean Republicans in [...]

Kansas Watchdog exclusive
Here is a collection of videos and links about President Obama’s speech in Osawatomie on Tuesday.
Speech
History Shines Light on Obama’s Choice to Speak in Osawatomie, Kansas Watchdog, Dec. 4, 2011.
‘The defining issue of our time’ — President Obama speaks in Osawatomie, Osawatomie Graphic, Dec. 7, 2011.
Obama declares ‘make or break moment for middle class’ in [...]

By Gene Meyer
Kansas Reporter

OSAWATOMIE — President Barack Obama traveled Tuesday to this small northeast Kansas community’s high school gym to decry a growing division of wealth in the United States that he said is creating a “make or break moment for the middle class.”
Don Davis, who for 20 years has been cutting hair in a 115-year-old storefront barber [...]

By Earl Glynn
Kansas Watchdog
Osawatomie — On a cold Sunday morning 400 to 500 people were in line at least 90 minutes early to get tickets to hear a speech by President Obama on Tuesday. Some would later be disappointed.
Mayor Phil Dudley was happy that more people might be visiting his town due to the [...]