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  • newGiving Romney a Run for His Money
    President Obama never mentioned Mitt Romney in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, but his message was meant to let him have a good Buffetting.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:20am -
  • newWhat You Can Learn From Mitt's Tax Return
    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's 2010 filing is a case study in tax planning. Here is a guided tour.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:11am -
  • newTax Rule Opens Rich Vein for Debate
    The application of a favorable tax treatment to some of Mitt Romney's income from Bain Capital is a source of debate among tax lawyers sifting through murky reaches of the tax code.
    - 9 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 4:53am -
  • newRubio, Hotly Wooed, Plays It Cool
    Florida senator and conservative favorite pursued by Romney and Gingrich measures his every move.
    - 9 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 4:48am -
  • newNovelty in North Carolina; After Giffords
    Items from the campaign trail, in On the Stump.
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:46am -
  • Unfriendly Fire Slows Gingrich
    Blistering attacks by top Republicans recall intraparty war over Goldwater.
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:23am -
  • Florida's Seniors Take Center Stage
    If Mitt Romney wins Florida's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, older voters are sure to deserve a big share of the credit.
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:06am -
  • Strassel: Mitt Keeps Missing the Message
    If Romney wins Florida, it won't be because he's becoming a more effective candidate.
    - 13 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:11am -
  • Obama Brings Message to Michigan
    The president visited Michigan on the last stop on a five-state tour that White House officials said was government business but that also resembled a campaign trip.
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:16pm -
  • Santorum's Main Backer Plans to Keep on Funding
    While Rick Santorum is in Florida seeking to revive his presidential campaign, a man in Wyoming might hold the key to extending his candidacy, and the entire fight for the Republican nomination.
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:49pm -
  • Gingrich Surges Past Romney
    Jan. 22-24 Newt Gingrich is outpacing Mitt Romney by a comfortable margin among GOP voters, but also is showing evidence of vulnerabilities that could hurt him in a general election, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 11:48pm -
  • New Hampshire Headquarters
    As the Republican presidential hopefuls powered toward the New Hampshire primary Monday, a peek inside the state headquarters of top candidates showed campaign signs, balloons, and lots of telephones.
    - 19 days ago, 9 Jan 12, 10:34pm -
  • A College That Thrives on Politics
    Saint Anselm College, a tiny Benedictine institution, remains mostly under-the-radar except every four years during New Hampshire's first-in-the nation presidential primary.
    - 22 days ago, 6 Jan 12, 2:00pm -
  • GOP Candidates on the Issues
    Read where each Republican hopeful stands on major issues in the campaign. Click on a candidate's picture or name to see all issues in one place.
    - 39 days ago, 20 Dec 11, 11:35pm -
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  • newAbbreviated Pundit Round-up: Why Newt lost his groove

    Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Why Newt lost his groove

    Visual source: NewseumHave you seen this true story of heroism on 9/11 in lower Manhattan? The spontaneously organized boatlift evacuation rescued a half a million people in 9 hours - more than Dunkirk in WW II over 9 days. Ordinary people doing ex…
    - 42 mins ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:47pm -
  • newOpen Thread for Night Owls: Austerity plans right-wingers want for here make Brits' life miserable

    Open Thread for Night Owls: Austerity plans right-wingers want for here make Brits' life miserable

    While the U.S. economy continues to make modest improvements but tens of millions of Americans still suffer from extremely grim employment figures, the situation in Britain shows no signs of any improvement whatsoever.In fact, Brad DeLong writes, t…
    - 9 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 4:30am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: New polls offer mixed messages in the Mitt-Newt GOP cage match

    Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: New polls offer mixed messages in the Mitt-Newt GOP cage match

    Mitt Romney is resurgent!(Unless he's not.)Even if he's not, though, the schedule favors Mitt Romney. After all, he is coming up on a series of contests in places like Arizona and Michigan, where he should have a real advantage.(Unless he doesn't…
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:45am -
  • Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

    Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

    From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…Oh, Rachel. You had me at "PolitiFact, you are fired."From Wednesday night's show:"PolitiFact, you are fired. You are a mess. You are fired. You are undermining the definition of the word "fact" in the English lang…
    - 13 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:02am -
  • Open thread: Newt Gingrich, psychiatry and outrage

    Open thread: Newt Gingrich, psychiatry and outrage

    A Fox News "psychiatrist" suggests that Newt Gingrich's multiple affairs might make him a "strong president." Hunter isn't buying it.Mark Sumner will say: Meet George Jetson ... the future isn't what it used to be.Armando will consider whether Occ…
    - 14 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:00pm -
  • Mitt Romney turning off independents

    Mitt Romney turning off independents

    Mitt Romney measures his ... support from independents (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Via Greg Sargent, check out these numbers for Mitt Romney among independents:November:Romney viewed somewhat or very negatively by 22% of independentsRomney led Oba…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:48pm -
  • Mitt Romney's campaign selectively whitewashes inconvenient statements from official transcripts

    Mitt Romney's campaign selectively whitewashes inconvenient statements from official transcripts

    Romney's staff deleted email records as governor ... and inconvenient portions of transcripts as a candidate Here's one more way in which Mitt Romney's campaign is showing a willful disregard for the truth: When it sends reporters transcripts of…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:30pm -
  • Wall Street donors swamp all others in election spending

    Wall Street donors swamp all others in election spending

    This is enough to turn your stomach.FIRE stands for the finance, insurance, and real estate sector, or in other words, Wall Street. The Sunlight Foundation study reveals that in the past two decades, the number of donors giving $10,000 or more from…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:11pm -
  • Today in Newt

    Today in Newt

    YOUR AD HERE (Eric Thayer/Reuters)Everyone seems to be of the opinion that Newt Gingrich did poorly in this latest debate. Apparently "everyone" includes Newt and his staffers: Their excuse for his lackluster performance this time around, was that…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:00pm -
  • Union membership edged up by 49,000 in 2011

    Union membership edged up by 49,000 in 2011

    (DonkeyHotey based on a WWII poster)The 49,000-worker increase in overall union membership in the U.S. in 2011 isn't much. It's not much in raw numbers, and despite it the union membership rate edged down from 11.9 percent in 2010 to 11.8 percent…
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:15pm -
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  • newA Gloomy Gingrich Struggles to Snap His Slide in Florida

    A Gloomy Gingrich Struggles to Snap His Slide in Florida

    Delray Beach, Florida “Three nuclear weapons properly placed in Israel is a second Holocaust,” Newt Gingrich tells a room full of Jews. “If you’re going to go to Yad Vashem, if you’re going to say never again,” he adds gravely, peering ou…
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:00pm -
  • Political Pictures of the Week, Jan. 21-27

    Political Pictures of the Week, Jan. 21-27

    TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
    - 13 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:53am -
  • Medical Malpractice Memo Depicts Obama’s Precarious Balancing Act on Health Reform

    Medical Malpractice Memo Depicts Obama’s Precarious Balancing Act on Health Reform

    It’s no secret that passing health care reform was a balancing act from beginning to end. For President Obama, keeping the legislation alive meant making sure congressional Democrats stayed happy, along with for-profit industries like insurers and…
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:25pm -
  • Fly Newt to the Moon

    Fly Newt to the Moon

    The emergence of a debate about colonizing the moon might be the goofiest-sounding idea in Republican primaries since Herman Cain proposed an electrified fence along the southern border. The difference is that returning to the moon is an idea that re…
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:01pm -
  • Below Low

    Below Low

    I wonder if all those neoconservatives and assorted heroes who also style themselves as American patriots will tolerate this sort of rhetoric from Newt Gingrich, who is clearly groveling for Sheldon Adelson’s continued support. It seems to me that…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:25pm -
  • Political Words of the Week: Lunch Meat and Space Travel

    Political Words of the Week: Lunch Meat and Space Travel

    The American political lexicon is always evolving, and during campaign season, new phrases are as common as retirees in Boca Raton. Here are some of the words that have worked their way into the conversations this week. Self-deportation (n.): the act…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:00pm -
  • Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Dr. Phil

    Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Dr. Phil

    On Friday, the President added a new line to his regular “fair share” repertoire on tax burdens and wealth distribution. “We do not begrudge wealth in this country. We aspire to financial success,” he said in a Michigan speech on college tuit…
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:51pm -
  • Q&A: George Romney Biographer Dan Angel

    Q&A: George Romney Biographer Dan Angel

    In 1964, Dan Angel became a participant observer of Michigan Governor George Romney’s re-election campaign. He served as Lenore Romney’s escort and drove the governor’s press vehicle in order to gather research for a Ph.D dissertation at Purdue…
    - 22 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:30pm -
  • Armageddon for Newt

    Armageddon for Newt

    One of the wonderful things about our bloated, endless, tedious, miraculous presidential campaigns is that sooner or later you find out just exactly who these pretenders are. Thursday night in Jacksonville, after 18 debates in which his bluster camou…
    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:36pm -
  • Morning Must Reads: Clip

    Morning Must Reads: Clip

    The economy grew at a 2.8% clip in the final quarter of 2011. Romney opens up a 9-point lead on Gingrich in Florida. He was spring-loaded every time Newt attacked in last night’s debate: But incorrectly claimed all his Fannie and Freddie investment…
    - 24 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:45pm -
  • American coal: A burning issue
    A FREIGHT train, its dozen cars loaded with coal covered in a light dusting of snow, snaked through the narrow valley, sometimes following the two-lane highway and sometimes crossing it. The valley was silent and snowy, and though…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:02pm -
  • Immigration laws: Caught in the net
    ALABAMA’S immigration law, boasted Micky Hammon, an Alabama legislator and one of its co-authors, “attacks every aspect of an illegal immigrant’s life. They will not stay in Alabama…This bill is designed to make it difficult for them to live…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:02pm -
  • Lexington: The union’s state is dire
    IT IS becoming hard to remember that Barack Obama’s speeches were once described as inspiring, visionary and transformational. His state-of-the-union message on January 24th was none of those things. Then again, circumstances we…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:02pm -
  • California’s ports: The fickle Asian container
    INTO San Pedro Bay they pull, the huge ships from Asia, each with thousands of containers full of lawn chairs, toys or iPads. As they enter the bay they go left, to the Port of Los Angeles (America’s largest), or right, to the P…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:02pm -
  • Rick Perry quits the race: Back in the saddle
    That way, dear IT WAS a well-earned thumping. When Rick Perry, governor of Texas, entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination last August, he was instantly considered a heavyweight. But within weeks he had cheerfull…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:02pm -
  • The Republican nomination: Newt’s (fleeting?) moment
    WHEN the Titanic steamed serenely into its iceberg 100 years ago, those on board could at first not believe that the great ship would go down. Mitt Romney is at least not making that mistake. After his astonishing defeat in South…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:02pm -
  • Andrew Cuomo: Next, walk on water
    Among the illustrious FOR four years New York was adrift. When Eliot Spitzer, a crusading lawyer, became governor in 2007, his uncompromising ways caused political gridlock in Albany, the state capital. Just over a year later, he w…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:02pm -
  • Online piracy: Stopping SOPA
    AFTER this week a lot more people will know that SOPA stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act. Some 30m-40m of them, estimated Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, could have gone to the English-language version of his website on Jan…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • Red-light cameras: You’re on film
    ABOUT one in five Americans lives in one of the roughly 700 counties or cities that have signed contracts with private firms to install street cameras to record drivers who speed or run a red light. In theory, those systems sound like a good idea. Kn…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • Bankrupt schools: Studying on a shoestring
    I hope I still have a teacher THE Chester Upland school district is one of the poorest in Pennsylvania. It gets about 70% of its budget from state funds (richer school districts get most of theirs from local property taxes). Most o…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • Lexington: The Palmetto primary
    HE MAY have been a fine ambassador to China, but in the end Jon Huntsman did not have either the killer instinct or the common touch to win really big in politics. When he broke into Mandarin to make a point about China, he only u…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • Optimal tax rates: Soak or swim
    DOES raising taxes on those who are doing well economically stifle growth and slow down the recovery? That depends on how rich people behave when their taxes rise. Do they work less when they are allowed to keep a smaller chunk of…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • Mexico’s drug war: Not so fast
    Unintended consequences “YOU don’t lose guns. You don’t walk guns. You don’t let guns get out of your sight,” said Carlos Canino of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in an angry interview with…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • Executive clemency: The pardoner’s tale
    “THE governor shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons,” states the constitution of Mississippi. But until his final days in office, Haley Barbour did not make much use of it. He granted no pardons or other forms of clemency at all during…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • Income inequality: Who exactly are the 1%?
    MITT ROMNEY is not the first multi-millionaire to seek the presidency, nor the richest. Ross Perot, the record-holder, spent some of his billions earned from computer data on losing bids in 1992 and 1996. Since then men who owe th…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • Rebalancing America’s forces: The downgrading of Europe
    Networking, NATO-style THE new “strategic guidance” announced by Barack Obama on January 5th, has triggered a wide-ranging debate about the future of American military power. On the right, critics have lambasted it as “declin…
    - 16 days ago, 12 Jan 12, 4:04pm -
  • Harsh laws: Another one in the net
    ONE of the unforgettable experiences to be had in California is to go whale watching in Monterey Bay. Nancy Black, a licensed marine biologist, is one of the scientists who lead these commercial outings, besides doing her own whal…
    - 16 days ago, 12 Jan 12, 4:04pm -
  • Guantánamo: No way out
    GEORGE BUSH wanted to close it. So did John McCain. And Barack Obama promised to do so within a year of taking office. But nearly three years since then, and ten years after the first inmates stepped through its barbed-wired gates in January 2002, th…
    - 16 days ago, 12 Jan 12, 4:04pm -
  • The recovery and the election: That 2004 feeling
    WITH an election less than a year away and the structural headwinds holding back job growth, time is not on the president’s side. Or so this newspaper warned in October 2003. The fact that George Bush junior went on to be re-elec…
    - 16 days ago, 12 Jan 12, 4:04pm -
  • The New Hampshire primary: Mitt Romney marches on
    NEW HAMPSHIRE is the Khyber Pass of American primary elections, but on this occasion there was no ambush and all the candidates got through. The state is famous for its upsets, but instead of felling the front-runner it enabled Mi…
    - 16 days ago, 12 Jan 12, 4:04pm -
  • newGingrich professes shock at Romney’s ‘dishonest’ debate performance
    MIAMI — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich spent Friday struggling to fend off the perception that his presidential campaign has stalled after a flat debate performance on Thursday and fresh polling data showing his support slipping in Florida.Rea…
    - 9 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 4:30am -
  • newRomney says Gingrich is ‘like Goldilocks’
    ORLANDO – After getting the better of Newt Gingrich in Thursday night’s debate, Mitt Romney is trying to rub it in.  The increasingly confident, and increasingly punchy, former Massachusetts governor took a fresh swipe at the former House spea…
    - 11 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 2:47am -
  • newObama ally suggests administration is undermining Endangered Species Act
    The Obama administration is setting too high a threshold for listing an imperiled plant or animal under the Endangered Species Act, according to Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass).Markey, one of the White House’s closest congressional allies, late Thu…
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:52am -
  • newRick Perry’s back in Texas, and some wonder if he’s lost political power there
    Yes, to the non-Texan eye, it looks like Republican Gov. Rick Perry has slunk home from his last rodeo, having humiliated himself and his home state with a presidential run that will go down in history as one big “Oops.”Read full article >>
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:44am -
  • Obama, Biden rally Democrats at annual retreat
    CAMBRIDGE, Md. — President Obama and Vice President Biden on Friday worked to rally congressional Democrats preparing to do battle with Republicans leading into the 2012 election.In remarks at the annual House Democratic retreat near the shore of…
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:23am -
  • Newt Gingrich’s tweet-worthy week | @MentionMachine
    Want to get attention on Twitter? Win big in a Republican primary, then propose colonizing the moon.It is working for Newt Gingrich. Gingrich was mentioned more times on Twitter and in the media during the past week than any of his other Republic…
    - 13 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:10am -
  • Mitt Romney on Space Coast promises ‘commitment to American exceptionalism’ — not moon colonies
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The day after Newt Gingrich came to Florida’s Space Coast to lay out an ambitious plan to establish a U.S. colony on the moon, Mitt Romney journeyed here to offer a plan of his own.Read full article >>
    - 14 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:15pm -
  • What would Mitt Romney’s offshore account filings show?
    Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has said it filed disclosures required by the Treasury Department involving the Romney family’s offshore holdings, but the campaign has not responded to requests from The Washington Post since Wednesday for cop…
    - 14 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:00pm -
  • Walter Isaacson leaving BBG, says he’s busy with ‘big writing project’
    Walter Isaacson, who penned a best-selling book about the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, resigned Friday as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors to work on another book.“I'm taking on another big writing project, so I won't be a…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:17pm -
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  • Mike Huckabee: Newt Gingrich ad ‘not authorized’
    Mike Huckabee doesn’t want to be in ads, the DCCC outraised the NRCC, Gingrich is still up in national Gallup polling and Rick Santorum’s biggest backer has an open checkbook. Make sure to sign up to get “Afternoon Fix” in your e-mail inb…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:11pm -
  • The GOP empire strikes back at Gingrich
    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The revenge of the Republican establishment is a sight to behold. From one corner to another, those who have tangled with Newt Gingrich, who feel aggrieved toward Newt Gingrich or who fear Newt Gingrich have amassed to stop him…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:25pm -
  • Aneesh Chopra leaving the White House, likely to run for Virginia lieutenant governor
    Aneesh Chopra, tapped to serve as the first White House chief technology officer, is stepping down and is widely expected to announce that he will run for lieutenant governor in Virginia, according to Democrats familiar with his plan, but not author…
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:35pm -
  • House Democrats to Obama: ‘Let’s stay together’
    CAMBRIDGE, Md. — House Democrats have a message for President Obama: Let’s stay together.As Obama took the stage at a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay here to deliver remarks at the annual Democratic retreat, he told the more than 10…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:36pm -
  • 7 former lawmakers lobbied for groups that received earmarks, report says
    Sometimes earmarking government money pays off for U.S. lawmakers — even after they’ve left office.A new report has found seven former lawmakers who have lobbied Congress on behalf of organizations that they funded while in office. Citizens for…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:20pm -
  • Obama outlines incentive plan to rein in college tuition costs
    ANN ARBOR, Mich. — President Obama offered a plan Friday to reduce the costs of higher education by increasing the amount of federal grant money available for low-interest loans and tying it directly to colleges’ ability to reduce tuition.Read f…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:31pm -
  • Santorum pushed to limit malpractice awards but sought larger payout for wife
    On the campaign trail, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he will push to limit payments to victims in medical malpractice lawsuits, which he blames for unnecessarily driving up health-care costs. And over the course of his two decades in…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:17pm -
  • Florida primary playlist: A Fix List!
    If you ever read this blog, you know that we love lists. And primaries, and music. We’re trying to bring that all together by making playlists for every primary state. But we need your help. Suggest your Florida-related songs using the hashtag #f…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:12pm -
  • In Florida, GOP candidates praise Marco Rubio, a favorite for running mate
    It seemed like the softball question of the night when the Republican candidates for president were asked at Thursday’s debate to name a Hispanic politician they would appoint to their Cabinet.Of course, the near universal answer was Sen. Marco Ru…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:01pm -
  • President Obama talks about Jan Brewer exchange with Diane Sawyer
    In an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer to air Friday night, President Obama downplayed the exchange between him and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) earlier this week that distracted attention from his post-State of the Union tour of swing states.Rea…
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:50pm -
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  • Newt Gingrich still badly outspent in Florida ads
    Despite new infusions of cash, former House speaker Newt Gingrich is still being crushed in Florida television ad spending by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.With the primary coming up on Jan. 31, Gingrich and his supporters are being outs…
    - 22 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:57pm -
  • Blitzer was wrong: Candidate spouses aren’t a ‘lighter subject’
    Wolf Blitzer, you boob.A presidential candidate’s spouse is the ultimate human credential, often the best clue we have about who the aspirant is as a person. Though we sometimes pretend otherwise, a spouse is also a top adviser in her own right (o…
    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:23pm -
  • Paul pursued strategy of publishing controversial newsletters, associates say
    Ron Paul, well known as a physician, congressman and libertarian, has also been a businessman who pursued a marketing strategy that included publishing provocative, racially charged newsletters to make money and spread his ideas, said three people w…
    - 24 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:29pm -
  • Obama exchange with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer reveals his testy side
    AURORA, Colo. — President Obama’s raw exchange with the governor of Arizona on an airport tarmac this week did more than overshadow his carefully stage-managed road trip to trumpet his State of the Union goals.Read full article >>
    - 2 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:56am -
  • Obama-backed car battery company files for bankruptcy protection
    Ener1, an electric car battery company that the Obama administration awarded a $118 million stimulus grant to expand its operations, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday after being unable to repay pressing debts.Read full article >…
    - 2 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:56am -
  • Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich financial documents
    The past few days have seen the release of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s 2010 federal tax return and 2011 estimated 1040 form, former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s 2010 tax return, and Gingrich’s 2006 contract with Freddie Mac.…
    - 4 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 5:46pm -
  • The Biggest Political Donations of All Time
    Anyone who counts out Newt Gingrich after his lackluster performance in Thursday night’s Republican debate is overlooking an important fact: He has the support of perhaps the most lavish individual donor in the history of presidential politics.…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:30pm -
  • Let Me Finish
    JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—These are boom times for hecklers. Republican members of Congress have scaled back public town hall meetings, chastened by the screams that embarrassed the old Democratic Congress. Powerful Democrats, meanwhile, get “mic-checke…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:30pm -
  • Romney Fights Back
    Mitt Romney may not drink, but he was loaded when he entered last night’s debate in Jacksonville, Fla. He went after Newt Gingrich immediately and relentlessly. He scolded him, rendered him momentarily mute, and took answers about other topics and…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:31am -
  • Inside In
    The Republican presidential candidate with the line of credit at Tiffany’s is making fun of the candidate with the Swiss bank account. The one who got wealthy working the inside Washington game is whaling away at the one who got wealthy working the…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 11:42pm -
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  • Unleash the Crowds
    TAMPA, Fla.—On Tuesday, in his post-debate interview with Fox News, Newt Gingrich wanted to talk about nothing more than the debate itself. The most-recent Florida Q-and-A session was the driest and oddest in months. Why was there a question about…
    - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 10:00pm -
  • Insider Trading and Spilled Milk
    There are years when the State of the Union is used to gird America for war and years when it doesn’t much matter. A long speech can pack in proposals that are law already (a ban on congressional insider trading!) and lines that were demo’d, then…
    - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 6:30am -
  • The Swing States of Our Union Are Strong
    In the 2011 State of the Union, the president used the phrase "win the future" or a variant over and over and over again. A year later, the future is not won, but the slogan has lost. "Built to last" was the message for the 2012 State of the Union s…
    - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 6:09am -
  • Mewt Gromney
    Florida is a haven for retirees, and Newt Gingrich seemed like one during the GOP debate in Tampa Monday night. Instead of the firebrand he’s been in the previous seventeen outings, he was in a constant state of repose, ducking attacks, tolerating…
    - 4 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 6:28am -
  • The Presidential Horse Race
    The press is routinely accused of covering political campaigns as if they were horse races: so preoccupied with who’s up or down in the polls that it ignores the substance of the campaign. President Obama made the claim in so many words last month,…
    - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 6:32pm -
  • Tribe of Newt
    COLUMBIA, S.C.—A lone Democratic consultant wandered the halls of the downtown Hilton, gawking at Republicans who had come to fete Newt Gingrich. The consultant had spent his day giving Swedish conservatives a course in local politics. What to tell…
    - 6 days ago, 22 Jan 12, 5:52am -
  • newNewt Gingrich stung by GOP insiders' barbs

    Newt Gingrich stung by GOP insiders' barbs

    Republican insiders are rising up to cut Newt Gingrich down to size, testament to the GOP establishment's fear that the mercurial candidate could lead the party to disaster this fall. The gathering criticisms are...
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:00pm -
  • newCourt rejects bid to hold up new voting districts

    Court rejects bid to hold up new voting districts

    State Senate district lines drawn by a citizens' commission must be used in this year's elections, the California Supreme Court ruled Friday in rejecting a Republican group's request to put the new boundaries on hold...
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:00pm -
  • newRedevelopment rescue bill likely dead

    Redevelopment rescue bill likely dead

    The funeral is officially four days away, but Redevelopment has already been put to rest in California. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, essentially said as much this week, telling reporters...
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:00pm -
  • newObama pushes college cost reduction plan

    Obama pushes college cost reduction plan

    President Obama offered a plan Friday to reduce the costs of higher education by increasing the amount of federal grant money available in low-interest loans and tying it directly to colleges' ability to reduce tuition....
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:00pm -
  • newGOP candidates make their pitches to Latino voters

    GOP candidates make their pitches to Latino voters

    The Republican presidential rivals courted influential Latino voters in South Florida on Friday with promises to improve immigration laws and focus on Latin America, as a new poll suggests Mitt Romney is regaining his...
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:00pm -
  • newAfghan lawmaker blasts early French withdrawal

    Afghan lawmaker blasts early French withdrawal

    (01-28) 01:47 PST KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan lawmaker has sharply criticized France's plans to hand over security in her troubled province to Afghan troops within a few months, saying that her country's forces...
    - 4 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 9:47am -
  • newMega Millions winning numbers

    Mega Millions winning numbers

    (01-27) 23:17 PST ATLANTA, (AP) -- Here are the winning numbers selected Friday evening in the Mega Millions lottery: 03-05-30-36-48 (three, five, thirty, thirty-six, forty-eight) Mega Ball: 23 (twenty-three) ESTIMATED...
    - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 7:17am -
  • newRomney, Gingrich focus on Hispanic voters in Fla.

    Romney, Gingrich focus on Hispanic voters in Fla.

    (01-27) 21:08 PST DORAL, Fla. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney urged conservatives to back off aggressive anti-immigration policies as the Republican presidential candidates vied for Hispanic votes Friday, a day...
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:08am -
  • newWinning numbers drawn in 'Megaplier' game

    Winning numbers drawn in 'Megaplier' game

    (01-27) 20:13 PST Austin, Texas (AP) -- The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Megaplier" game were: 4 (four)
    - 9 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 4:13am -
  • newKy. to review how to restore bridge struck by boat

    Ky. to review how to restore bridge struck by boat

    (01-27) 19:48 PST Louisville, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky's governor said Friday there will be an immediate review of ways to restore an aging traffic bridge in the western part of the state after a five-story-high cargo boat...
    - 10 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 3:48am -
  • newPanetta cites key intelligence on bin Laden raid

    Panetta cites key intelligence on bin Laden raid

    (01-27) 18:40 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL...
    - 11 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 2:40am -
  • newArcing power lines caused big Nov. 18 fire in Nev.

    Arcing power lines caused big Nov. 18 fire in Nev.

    (01-27) 18:20 PST Reno, Nev. (AP) -- Fire investigators have confirmed arcing power lines caused the wind-blown blaze that destroyed dozens of homes in Reno in November. The brush fire caused about $7.6 million in...
    - 11 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 2:20am -
  • newJustice Dept. turns over docs in Fast and Furious

    Justice Dept. turns over docs in Fast and Furious

    (01-27) 18:14 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Justice Department has turned over nearly 500 additional pages of emails and other material to a House committee that has been investigating a controversial smuggling probe...
    - 11 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 2:14am -
  • newGOP insiders rise up to cut Gingrich down to size

    GOP insiders rise up to cut Gingrich down to size

    (01-27) 18:04 PST Orlando, Fla. (AP) -- Republican insiders are rising up to cut Newt Gingrich down to size, testament to the GOP establishment's fear that the mercurial candidate could lead the party to disaster this...
    - 11 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 2:04am -
  • newObama meets with George H.W. and Jeb Bush

    Obama meets with George H.W. and Jeb Bush

    (01-27) 17:53 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama met with former President George H.W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in the Oval Office on Friday, joining in a bipartisan gathering in an election year....
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:53am -
  • newSenegal's president cleared to run for 3rd term

    Senegal's president cleared to run for 3rd term

    (01-27) 17:31 PST DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Senegal's highest court ruled Friday the country's increasingly frail, 85-year-old president could run for a third term in next month's election, a deep blow to the country's...
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:31am -
  • Venezuelan gets 14 months in Conn. fraud cover-up

    Venezuelan gets 14 months in Conn. fraud cover-up

    (01-27) 17:17 PST BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A real estate manager who tried to cover up a Connecticut-based pyramid scheme involving hundreds of millions of dollars from a Venezuela state pension fund has been sentenced...
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:17am -
  • A political tip sheet for the rest of us

    A political tip sheet for the rest of us

    (01-27) 17:02 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, for Friday, Jan. 27, 2012: WHAT HAPPENED: _ FOCUS ON FLORIDA: Republican presidential candidates Newt...
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:02am -
  • Banks closed in Tenn, Fla, Minn; 7 failures in '12

    Banks closed in Tenn, Fla, Minn; 7 failures in '12

    (01-27) 16:36 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators on Friday closed banks in Tennessee, Florida and Minnesota, lifting to seven the number of U.S. bank failures this year following 92 closures in 2011. The number of...
    - 13 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:36am -
  • Paul denies report that he approved newsletters

    Paul denies report that he approved newsletters

    (01-27) 16:35 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Friday flatly denied a Washington Post report that he was deeply involved in the company that produced provocative, racially charged...
    - 13 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:35am -
  • McCain: Send Gingrich to the moon
    John McCain says Florida voters should send Newt Gingrich to the moon and Mitt Romney to the White House.
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:39pm -
  • Texans billed $800K for Perry's security
    Texas taxpayers were billed nearly $800,000 for security while Rick Perry traveled to early voting states while running for president.
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:12pm -
  • Santorum backer has 'open checkbook'
    The wealthy mutual fund manager says he has an "open checkbook" for anybody running against President Obama.
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:04pm -
  • Romney, Gingrich slam Obama
    A day after fiercely attacking each other in a GOP debate, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich criticized President Obama as they spoke to Hispanic ...
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:41pm -
  • Study: College freshmen move left on issues
    A major study finds a growing number of college freshmen say they're middle-of-the-road in politics, but more than 70% say they support same-sex ...
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:29pm -
  • Kelly won't run for Giffords' seat in House
    Mark Kelly says he will not run for wife Gabrielle Giffords' congressional seat, and vows she will one day return to public service.
    - 22 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:35pm -
  • Poll: Romney leads Gingrich in Florida
    Mitt Romney has opened up a 9-point lead on Newt Gingrich in a new Florida poll, released just four days before the state's GOP primary.
    - 24 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:43pm -
  • Sen. Rubio: GOP sometimes harsh in rhetoric
    Sen. Marco Rubio says the GOP is sometimes "too slow in condemning" harsh rhetoric aimed at illegal immigrants. He spoke to the high-profile ...
    - 24 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:38pm -
  • Live blog: GOP candidates spar in Fla. debate
    The 19th GOP presidential debate featured some lively exchanges on immigration, taxes and Cuba. We live blogged the event, held just a few days ...
    - 2 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:31am -
  • Romney amending financial reports
    Mitt Romney will amend his financial disclosure forms to show he earned interest from a Swiss bank account that is now closed.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 11:29pm -
  • Seniors frustrated by GOP campaigns in Fla.
    Senior citizens in Naples say they don't hear enough from the GOP candidates on Medicare and Social Security.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 7:56pm -
  • Bob Dole blasts Newt Gingrich
    Former GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole is unleashing a torrent of criticism at Newt Gingrich, saying he was a "one man band" who always wanted ...
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 6:59pm -
  • Rep. Barney Frank to get married
    Rep. Barney Frank, the most prominent gay member of Congress, is getting married.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 5:03pm -
  • Ron Paul raises money to 'end the TSA'
    Ron Paul appears headed toward reaching his latest fundraising goal: $250,000 to help end the Transportation Security Administration.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:38pm -
  • Jeb Bush: GOP needs to woo Hispanic voters
    Former Florida governor Jeb Bush urges GOP presidential candidates to take four steps to win back Hispanic voters. A key point: Reframe the immigration ...
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 3:09pm -
  • newCal State threatens to withhold $7 million from Northridge campus

    Cal State threatens to withhold $7 million from Northridge campus

    Cal State says CSUN must reduce current enrollment to abide by budget-related targets or risk losing the funding.Students and faculty at Cal State Northridge are protesting new budget-related restrictions that are aimed at reducing enrollment and are…
    - 5 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • newClamor grows to rein in California pension benefits

    Clamor grows to rein in California pension benefits

    Gov. Jerry Brown pledges to cut spiraling costs, but key parts of his rollback plan apply mainly to future workers. Activists want quicker action.Gilbert Robles retired as a state parole agent at age 53, able to collect a $101,195 annual pension —…
    - 5 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • newCalifornia high court backs panel's new state Senate districts

    California high court backs panel's new state Senate districts

    Even if a GOP-backed proposal to scrap the new plan qualifies for the November ballot, the map produced by a citizens commission is 'clearly the most appropriate' for the election, the court says.The California Supreme Court decided unanimously Frida…
    - 5 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • newSan Fernando's acting chief personally asked for ticket's dismissal

    San Fernando's acting chief personally asked for ticket's dismissal

    Lt. Jeff Eley, who has been put on leave, sought dismissal of a running-a-stop-sign citation that one of his officers had issued to a local congressional aide, records show.San Fernando's acting police chief personally asked a court to dismiss a runn…
    - 5 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • new2 key aides leave Austin Beutner's campaign for L.A. mayor

    2 key aides leave Austin Beutner's campaign for L.A. mayor

    The high-level political consultants, who have advised Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, resign just days after Austin Beutner gives a major policy speech attacking City Hall.Two high-level political consultants have left the campaign of Los Angeles mayora…
    - 5 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • San Fernando's acting chief put on leave in ticket-fixing probe

    San Fernando's acting chief put on leave in ticket-fixing probe

    The city is investigating his handling of a citation that an officer gave to a congressional aide. A video of the traffic stop — apparently from the officer's patrol car — surfaced on YouTube.The acting police chief in San Fernando has been place…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • More college freshmen see getting good job as key goal, poll finds

    More college freshmen see getting good job as key goal, poll finds

    The UCLA survey asks first-year students to select reasons they are pursuing higher education. The 85.9% who cite job concerns is the most in the 40 years the question has been asked.Seeing their parents struggle with unemployment and other money wor…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • L.A. redistricting panel unveils proposed council boundaries

    L.A. redistricting panel unveils proposed council boundaries

    One district stretches deeper into the San Fernando Valley, another is removed from the Valley and a third separates Westchester and LAX. Politicians, community advocates and neighborhood leaders complain.Los Angeles' Redistricting Commission unveile…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • Poll shows strong support for Jerry Brown's tax hike proposal

    Poll shows strong support for Jerry Brown's tax hike proposal

    Voters overwhelmingly back funding for education and raising levies on the wealthy. 'We're in a good place,' governor's strategist says.Gov. Jerry Brown has California voters right where he wants them — hating the notion of whacking schools even mo…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • Democratic lawmakers sue controller over his withholding of their pay

    Democratic lawmakers sue controller over his withholding of their pay

    John Chiang said the newly passed budget was not balanced last summer and thus did not pay salaries. Suit seeks to curb his power, not to win reimbursement.Reporting from Sacramento -- Democratic lawmakers sued state Controller John Chiang on Tuesday…
    - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 8:00am -
  • newEric the ‘house’ dick
    WASHINGTON — US Attorney General Eric Holder introduced New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman yesterday to help lead a new federal group investigating mortgage-backed securities abuses that led to the national housing-market collapse.Schneid…
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:25pm -
  • newBattling Bam’s tuition-fight $ong
    WASHINGTON — President Obama took his “class warfare” to the University of Michigan yesterday, warning the nation’s universities that he would cut their federal aid if they “jack up tuition” every year.“We are putting colleges on notic…
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:20pm -
  • newFresh Newt slap
    DORAL, Fla. — Down in the polls with the biggest political prize yet on the line during next week’s primary here, Newt Gingrich attacked Mitt Romney as “blatantly dishonest” as the two clashed over immigration policy in pursuit of Hispanic vo…
    - 2 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 11:10am -
  • newRedistrict veto due
    ALBANY — Calling them too political, Gov. Cuomo yesterday promised to veto the district maps proposed by the state Senate and Assembly.“The maps are unacceptable,” Cuomo said yesterday. “I think anyone who looks at the maps will see the poli…
    - 2 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 11:06am -
  • newAndy feeling the Dem love
    Gov. Cuomo was hailed as a rising star yesterday after speaking to the Democratic Governors Association — even as his battle over New York teacher evaluations continued.“The nation should follow Gov. Cuomo’s balanced approach,” said Ed Rende…
    - 3 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 10:55am -
  • new‘Termination’ morass
    The process for disciplining teachers is so arduous and drawn out that many principals have simply given up on it, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.Indeed, just 96 of the city public-school system’s 75,000 teachers faced termination hearings last yea…
    - 3 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 10:05am -
  • newJudge ‘tiers’ apart 3% pension kick-in
    One of the city’s rare victories in persuading Albany to corral pension costs has been overturned by a Manhattan judge, The Post has learned. In a little-noticed decision issued on Jan. 20, state Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead struck down a re…
    - 3 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 10:05am -
  • newNo NY vets parade
    Mayor Bloomberg says there will be no city parade for Iraq War veterans in the foreseeable future because of objections voiced by military officials.The mayor said officials in Washington “think a parade would be premature while we still have so ma…
    - 7 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 6:54am -
  • newParents’ principal protest
    In a rare move, dozens of parents and teachers took their complaints about a Queens principal to the streets yesterday after their elementary school plummeted in citywide rankings from the top third of schools to the bottom third in just two years.Th…
    - 7 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 6:05am -
  • newSafir’s new gig is ‘Sirius’
    Former Police Commissioner Howard Safir is getting his own radio show.Sirius XM Radio announced yesterday that Safir will host a limited-run, six-week series called “The Badge with Howard Safir,” in which he’ll offer “insights on the drama, h…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:42am -
  • newMitt up by 9 pts. in Fla.
    TAMPA, Fla. — The flap over GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s tax returns — his low tax rate, Swiss bank account and off-shore tax havens — didn’t turn off Florida voters, new polls revealed yesterday.Romney jumped to a 9-point lead ov…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:40am -
  • newAy, shoppers! Navy Yard anchors aweigh
    The final hurdle to bring a long-awaited supermarket and retail center to the Brooklyn Navy Yard is now cleared. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer announced yesterday that the feds will transfer ownership of the yard’s 6-acre Admiral’s Row site to the…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:38am -
  • Romney and  Gingrich sport pins and patriotism on campaign trail 
    Republican presidential candidates are pinning at least part of their White House hopes on pins themselves.
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:23pm -
  • Romney and  Gingrich sport pins and patriotism on campaign trail 
    Republican presidential candidates are pinning at least part of their White House hopes on pins themselves.
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:23pm -
  • Brewer releases letter to Obama
    "Dear Mr. President, Welcome to Arizona!” So begins Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s private letter to President Obama, which she has now made public.
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:00pm -
  • Taking back Florida: Romney opens up lead against Gingrich
    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened up a significant 9-point lead against rival Newt Gingrich in the Sunshine State, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
    - 22 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:33pm -
  • GOP debate: Romney, Gingrich continue war
    Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich traded haymakers Thursday in a testy Republican debate - but the ex-Speaker couldn’t land the KO insiders say he needed with Florida’s crucial primary fast approaching.
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:28am -
  • Republican Party is elephant-sized mess
    This is something Andrew Cuomo, who will run for President himself someday, told me because he watches the same Republican campaign we all do, sees a campaign that does more to reelect Barack Obama than any speech he gives or any news about an improv…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:00am -
  • Gov. Cuomo: Bet the farm on the Giants 
    Gov. Cuomo’s new solution to save the state: Bet big on Big Blue. “Bet all your money on the Giants,” Cuomo advised Thursday when asked about next weekend’s Super Bowl rematch against the favored New England Patriots.
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:30am -
  • Obama says dustup with gov overblown 
    PRESIDENT OBAMA brushed off his tiff on the tarmac with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer as “not a big deal.” He told ABC News that the attention the encounter has garnered is a “classic example of things getting blown out of proportion.”
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:29am -
  • Mitt, Newt take last jabs at Fla. confab 
    Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich traded haymakers Thursday in a testy Republican debate just days before the crucial Florida primary.
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:03am -
  • Cuomo vows to veto GOP’s redistrict plan 
    ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo vowed to veto the Legislature’s redrawn district lines unveiled Thursday.“At first glance, these lines are simply unacceptable and would be vetoed by the governor,” Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said. “We need a better pro…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:22am -
  • Rent high, vote low 
    JIMMY McMILLAN thinks the final vote tally was too damn low.
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:10am -
  • Joe Biden appears to adopt foreign accent while discussing loss of U.S. jobs
    Joe Biden seems to have had yet another foot-in-mouth moment. In just under 30 seconds, the vice president Thursday appeared to adopt a foreign accent twice while talking about the departure of call-center jobs overseas at an event in Rochester, N.H.…
    - 2 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:48am -
  • Conservative group launches $5M media campaign against the media
    A conservative political committee has launched a $5 million ad campaign — targeting the media. Brent Bozell, founder and president of the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center (MRC), kicked off the "Tell The Truth 2012" campaign on Thu…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 10:43pm -
  • MTA chief: We need to expand subway stations
    With the subways bursting at the seams, the MTA needs to expand stations in the century-old system, authority Chairman Joseph Lhota said Thursday.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 9:22pm -
  • Bloomberg defends Ray Kelly
    Mayor Bloomberg said Thursday that NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s appearance in an anti-Muslim movie hurt the police department’s credibility but rebuffed calls for the top cop’s resignation.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 8:58pm -
  • Gay pol Barney Frank getting married
    Retiring Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank, a gay pioneer in Congress, plans to marry his longtime partner Jim Ready of Maine.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 8:31pm -
  • Boehner & Ochocinco tweet: The Speaker & the spiker
    Chad Ochocinco and John Boehner are exchanging words — on Twitter. The mercurial football veteran, known for his prolific, humorous and often touching social media ability, sparked a conversation with House Speaker John Boehner on Twitter after spo…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 6:52pm -
  • Brewer after heated tarmac exchange with Obama: He’s ‘thin-skinned’  
    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer isn't exactly impressed with President Obama's toughness, calling him "thin-skinned" following their contentious exchange at a Phoenix airport on Wednesday.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 6:44pm -
  • Brewer-Obama: Rare semi-private moment
    The best part of the already-famous tarmac moment between Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama Wednesday is that even though everyone in the free world by now has seen the picture of Brewer pointing her finger at him, none of us knows w…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:59pm -
  • Rescued American hostage tells dad ‘I’m OK’
    The husband of freed American hostage Jessica Buchanan hailed his “amazing wife” and her heroic rescuers after Navy SEAL Team 6 saved her from armed Somali kidnappers.
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:58pm -
  • GOP race-baiting masks class warfare
    It's commonplace to note that Newt Gingrich's dog-whistle appellation that Barack Obama is the “food stamp president” is both racist and politically cynical. But the stereotyping of black government dependency also serves the strategic end of dis…
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:50pm -
  • The current crop of GOP liars
    Americans are still struggling to come to terms with the loss they felt as the wackier GOP candidates fell by the wayside. For pure entertainment value, the mendacity they offered on the campaign trail couldn't be beat.Who can forget Herman Cain worr…
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:47pm -
  • A designer of perfect homes no one can live in
    Photographs of tiny houses -- like the ones Derek "Deek" Diedricksen regularly shares on his blog -- tend to fascinate even those of us who might never be moved to try amateur carpentry ourselves. But open the new, expanded edition of Diedricksen's b…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:45pm -
  • The U.S. economy: Still staggering forward
    On Friday, the U.S government released its first guess at the rate of U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2012: 2.8 percent. How one feels about this -- complacent, discouraged or ecstatic --  depends entirely on the context.Complacency:…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:39pm -
  • The Democrat Mitt Romney voted for
    An unlikely name crept into Thursday night's Republican debate in Florida: Paul E. Tsongas, a one-time Massachusetts Democratic senator and 1992 candidate for president who passed away 15 years ago this month.Romney, who exercised his right as a regi…
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:59pm -
  • Immigration rattles the Republicans
    In the past 48 hours, immigration politics and the fight for the Latino vote hijacked the 2012 campaign. First came Wednesday’s tarmac dust-up between President Obama and Republican Gov. Jan Brewer during the first of three stops the president made…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:21pm -
  • Is it OK to steal “Downton Abbey”?
    In an otherwise civil discussion of "Downton Abbey's" second season, actor Hugh Bonneville let loose on an interviewer who casually let it slip that she'd gone online and viewed a pirated version of the British period drama's Christmas special, which…
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:49pm -
  • America’s permanent dead zones
    Recent headlines of a brighter economic picture have given many people hope that the economy is not in another free fall. GDP growth did tick upward in the last quarter. But for many communities the picture is enduringly dark, because unemployment ra…
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:48pm -
  • Sundance: A great gay film, or just a great film?
    PARK CITY, Utah -- When we first meet Erik (Danish actor Thure Lindhardt), the New York documentary filmmaker who is the protagonist of Ira Sachs' film "Keep the Lights On," he's got his hand down his pants and is describing himself to a stranger on…
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:42pm -
  • The shame and pride of joining food stamp nation
    "Mister Cook!  Chris Cook?  Mr. Cook!  Window three!"I walk through the pasty government-issue fluorescent light and bureaucratic cinderblock waiting room, ushered into the inner sanctum of welfare benefits review. I feel oddly privileged, s…
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:00pm -
  • Newt Gingrich: Anti-poverty crusader?
    Newt Gingrich has made criticism of President Obama as a "food stamp president" who wants to "maximize dependency" of the poor on the government one of the central themes of his campaign.So it comes as a bit of a surprise that a top anti-poverty advo…
    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:00pm -
  • The predictable aftermath of the anti-CAP smear
    I've written several times about the coordinated smear campaign to brand writers at the Center for American Progress as "anti-Semites" in order to punish them for defying mandated orthodoxies on Israel and to deter others from doing so. While that sm…
    - 24 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:54pm -
  • Overconsumption won’t save America
    In 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on an airstrip in the Canary Islands. According to accident investigators, those who survived the initial blast in one plane had time to escape before a fire consumed the wreckage. But eyewitnesses reported that many…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:00pm -
  • The self-destruction of Newt Gingrich
    The fundamental problem, to use the sort of language he prefers, for Newt Gingrich at Thursday night’s debate was that his instincts were at odds with his main imperative.Gingrich took the stage with his Florida prospects dimming by the minute. Pol…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:05am -
  • I’m fixated on my wife’s past
    Help! I've been married for nearly 25 years, and I can't stop obsessing over my wife's past sexual history.When we first started seeing each other, she was married, I was married and we were both having affairs with other people. She told me in very…
    - 2 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:00am -
  • Posters that rival the London Underground
    [caption id="attachment_237001" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Samuel Insull - 1920"][/caption]The thought of Chicago in the 1920s usually conjures up images of gangsters, Prohibition and other Roaring 20s clichés, but there was another mo…
    - 2 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:00am -
  • Pick of the week: Surviving a parents’ nightmare, with wine and sex
    Channeling personal trauma into creative work is pretty much what artists do, as Dr. Freud and Vincent van Gogh could have told you. In the case of French actress and director Valérie Donzelli’s striking and imaginative film “Declaration of War,…
    - 2 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:00am -
  • The strange, spiritual life of Leo Tolstoy
    There are two principal models for biography in our culture, and perhaps the first decision the biographer has to face is which of the two will best suit the subject in question. First, there is the Boswellian model: the massive tome (or tomes) conta…
    - 2 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:00am -
  • Both sides win in Brewer-Obama tiff
    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer yesterday engineered the creation of a photograph of herself wagging her finger at the president, then went on a brief media tour calling the president "thin-skinned" and promoting her book.The president took a trip to Arizona…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 10:10pm -
  • Too many debates spoil the party
    Debates. Lots of debates. Enormous numbers of debates. Debate-o-rama, debate-ilicious. And another one coming Thursday!Yes, there have been plenty of debates this year, enough that we’ve heard calls to eliminate some of them next time around. For t…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 8:30pm -
  • WH Dumps Constitution for Contraception

    WH Dumps Constitution for Contraception

    Kevin O'Brien, Cleveland PDThousands of people spent Monday in Washington, D.C., protesting 39 years of legalized murder and commemorating more than 50 million American children lost to abortion. The protesters come every year, correctly refusing to…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:28pm -
  • Climate-Change Deniers' Greatest-Hits

    Climate-Change Deniers' Greatest-Hits

    Ed Kilgore, Washington MonthlyIn a world full of doubt and contention, there are a few things, other than the proverbial items of death and taxes, you can count on to be completely reliable. And one of those is the ideological mendacity of the editor…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:15pm -
  • Has Obama Learned Nothing in Three Years?

    Has Obama Learned Nothing in Three Years?

    John Stossel, FOX BusinessHas Barack Obama learned nothing in three years? Last night, during his State of the Union address, he promised "a blueprint for an economy." But economies are crushed by blueprints. An economy is really nothing more than pe…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:14pm -
  • GM Is a Better Job-Creator Than Steve Jobs

    GM Is a Better Job-Creator Than Steve Jobs

    Paul Krugman, NY TimesMitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana’s governor, made the Republicans’ reply to President Obama’s State of the Union address. His performance was, well, boring. But he did say somet…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:13pm -
  • Elliott Abrams, NRO Caught Misleading on Gingrich

    Elliott Abrams, NRO Caught Misleading on Gingrich

    Jeff Lord, SpectatorAs Ronald Reagan used to say: Well...Yesterday we took note of former Reagan State Department official Elliott Abrams' piece over at NRO that went after Newt Gingrich on his relationship with Reagan. While voting regularly wi…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:12pm -
  • Romney Is Back on Track for GOP Nomination

    Romney Is Back on Track for GOP Nomination

    John Whitesides, ReutersMitt Romney is back on track.Less than a week after a stinging setback in South Carolina, Romney moved ahead of rival Newt Gingrich again in Florida polls on Thursday and turned in his strongest debate performance yet in a see…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:11pm -
  • Santorum's Debate Win Helps Romney

    Santorum's Debate Win Helps Romney

    John Podhoretz, New York PostThe crazy Republican race just got a whole lot crazier — and a whole lot clearer — because of what happened in last night’s Florida candidate showdown.After nine months of debating, someone finally score…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:09pm -
  • Health Care Law Defense Will Haunt Mitt Romney

    Health Care Law Defense Will Haunt Mitt Romney

    Patrick Caldwell, TAPLast night's GOP debate was a smashing success for Mitt Romney. For once, he had been properly coached on answers to rebut Newt Gingrich. He turned the tables on the former speaker, using the same confrontational tone that G…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:08pm -
  • GOP Base Is Sick of Establishment Losers

    GOP Base Is Sick of Establishment Losers

    Michael Graham, Boston HeraldWho’s Mitt Romney hiring as his top advisers — Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong Un?According to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, a “top Romney adviser” says that if Mitt loses Florida on Tuesday, “we&rsq…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:14pm -
  • Gingrich Insurgency Tests Party's Old Guard

    Gingrich Insurgency Tests Party's Old Guard

    Richard Stevenson, NYTThe Old Guard of the Republican Party has suddenly surfaced with some acid criticism of Newt Gingrich and warnings that he would be crushed in November, seeking to impose some discipline on an electorate that seems to be flirtin…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:13pm -
  • Is the Bernanke Fed Undermining the Recovery?

    Is the Bernanke Fed Undermining the Recovery?

    Stephen Gandel, TimeBen Bernanke is playing chicken with the real economy.By most measures, the U.S. economy in the past few months seems to be improving. The unemployment rate has been falling. Manufacturing appears to be perking up. U.S. car compan…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:11pm -
  • Did Twitter Just Commit Social Suicide?

    Did Twitter Just Commit Social Suicide?

    Mark Gibbs, ForbesStarting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country "” while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparentl…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:11pm -
  • Exchange w/Brewer Reveals Obama's Testy Side

    Exchange w/Brewer Reveals Obama's Testy Side

    Nakamura & Weiner, WPPresident Obama's raw exchange with the governor of Arizona on an airport tarmac this week did more than overshadow his carefully stage-managed road trip to trumpet his State of the Union goals.The discussion revealed a test…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:04pm -
  • Romney's Moon Mockery vs. Lunar Tunes Newt
    Toby Harnden, Daily Mail
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:56pm -
  • Romney Resisting Reform to Save Dollar

    Romney Resisting Reform to Save Dollar

    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:38pm -
  • Republican Candidates Pander on Immigration

    Republican Candidates Pander on Immigration

    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:37pm -
  • Gabby Giffords' Farewell

    Gabby Giffords' Farewell

    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:36pm -
  • Obama Touts Fairness, Practices Crony Capitalism

    Obama Touts Fairness, Practices Crony Capitalism

    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:34pm -
  • Siri Has a Dirty Little Secret

    Siri Has a Dirty Little Secret

    Paul Farhi, Washington PostLike a few million other people this past holiday season, we bought an iPhone 4S, with its much-hyped Siri feature. The vocal interface allows users to speak all kinds of commands into the phone (“What’s the wea…
    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:25pm -
  • Why Newt Soared But Could Sour

    Why Newt Soared But Could Sour

    David Paul Kuhn, RealClearPoliticsIt's no longer a race between Mitt Romney and Not Romney. Newt Gingrich's resurgence is rooted in the candidate he is, rather than the candidate he is not.Gingrich has proven able to win with a broader coal…
    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:21pm -
  • newReuters Acknowledges Rubio Hit Piece is a 'Fiasco' and a 'Disgrace'
    After Daily Caller blogger Matt Lewis eviscerated a harsh Reuters story on Florida senator Marco Rubio, the wire service was forced to make five corrections. Now Reuters is attempting damage control and conceding the story is regrettable: One senior…
    - 26 mins ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:03pm -
  • newObama's Promises
    I didn’t vote for Barack Obama. But like a lot of Americans, I was hopeful about his presidency. Just as it took a Republican to thaw our relationship with China, it will probably take a Democrat to reform our entitlement programs. Again and again,…
    - 57 mins ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:32pm -
  • newPax Americana
    Father Father Father (continue to) Help Us People killin’, people dyin’Children hurt and you hear them cryin’Can you practice what you preachAnd would you turn the other cheekFather, Father, Father help usSend some guidance from above ‘Cause peop…
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:15pm -
  • newRUSH: Was Elliott Abrams Deceived on NEWT?
    Was Elliott Abrams Deceived on Newt? January 27, 2012 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I mentioned his name yesterday --Jeffrey Lord was in the political office of the White House during the first term of Reagan, maybe both terms. Jeffrey Lord now writes at th…
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:00pm -
  • newNewt, the Media and Momentum
    If Newt Gingrich is elected president of the United States this year, he will owe it all to John King and to his former wife, Marianne. Let's go back to the recent presidential debate in South Carolina. There stood Gingrich, gripping his podium, star…
    - 2 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 11:59am -
  • newLunar Colonies and Mitt Romney's Incredible Smallness of Vision
    COMMENTARY | During the Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday night, the subject of Newt Gingrich's moon colony idea came up. During the exchange, Mitt Romney especially revealed a smallness of vision and an ignorance of the…
    - 2 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 11:30am -
  • new3d Model of the US Constitutional Republic
    I've developed a 3D model of the US Constitution. The linked video is the first attempt to use the model in the defense of Ordered Liberty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMy0Z-RAu6g&feature=share I'm looking for feedback. Thank you, Representative D…
    - 2 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 11:00am -
  • newChristie to the 1%: Please Occupy New Jersey
    Christie to the 1%: Please Occupy New Jersey Now that the governor has controlled state spending, he's pushing tax reform and hoping to steal businesses and residents from neighboring blue states. By JAMES FREEMAN Garden State Gov. Chris Christie has…
    - 3 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 10:57am -
  • newTea Party Leaders Endorse Gingrich: High Risk, Low Reward
    In throwing their support to Newt Gingrich, a group of Florida tea party leaders risk throwing away their clout and credibility, observers of the movement say. "The Florida Tea Party Coalition With Newt" endorsed the former House speaker on Thursday,…
    - 3 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 10:54am -
  • newStrangers help woman chase down robbery suspect: 'I was tired of being a victim'
    Linette Kossow had just boarded the 36/Broadway bus in the Loop and was rifling through her bag for coupons when a man behind her reached over her shoulder, snatched her wallet and bolted out the rear door. “I was screaming as loud as I could, ‘Hey…
    - 4 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 9:53am -
  • newTexas Dems, minority groups near huge win with redistricting settlement
    The Texas state attorneys defending the state’s GOP-drawn redistricting plans from court challenges have reached out to settle litigation, according to sources in the state. The settlement would give minority groups and Democrats what they’ve been…
    - 4 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 9:46am -
  • newConfirmed: Romneycare = Obamacare
    The Beacon Hill Institute study found that, on average, Romneycare: •    cost the Bay State 18,313 jobs; •    drove up total health insurance costs in Massachusetts by $4.311 billion; •   
    - 4 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 9:22am -
  • newRomney Supervised Medical Testing Company Guilty Of Massive Medicare Fraud
    Romney Supervised Medical Testing Company Guilty Of Massive Medicare Fraud In 1989, Bain Capital purchased controlling interest in Damon Corp., a medical testing company located in Needham, Massachusetts. During the time that Bain held its ownership…
    - 4 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 9:02am -
  • newThe Drudge-Romney axis . . .
    . . . of online media manipulation isn’t exactly new. In fact, it goes back well before Romney’s 2008 campaign got underway in earnest. It seems to date back to sometime in 2005, when RNC operatives arranged a meeting between Matt Drudge and Matt R…
    - 5 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 8:19am -
  • newChina Wants Manned Moon Base(least we have forgotten or missed this news)
    ........."China is expected to complete its first exploration of the moon in 2010, and will establish a base on the moon as we did in the South Pole and the North Pole," said the program's chief scientist, Ouyang Ziyuan, according to the official Peo…
    - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 7:43am -
  • newInside the real Birdsong tunnels: Never-before-seen images of the mines dug by British
    Full title: Inside the real Birdsong tunnels: Never-before-seen images of the mines dug by British 'clay-kickers' under German lines in First World War Flanders fields today bears little sign of the four years of war that claimed so many thousands of…
    - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 7:39am -
  • newFormer IDF Chief: Israel Must Prepare for War
    Ashkenazi: Israel must not cut its budget because shifting strategic realities demand it prepare for war. Former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi warned, Thursday, that Israel could not afford to cut its defense budget and should prepare itself for…
    - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 7:20am -
  • newMURDER IN BETHANY: CARINA SAUNDERS
    OKLAHOMA CITY -- A key witness in a murder case fears for her life, according to her attorney. Oklahoma City attorney David Slane represents a woman who says she witnessed the brutal murder of Carina Saunders.
    - 6 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 7:10am -
  • newRomney Was Manager and Board Member of Corp Guilty of Medicare Fraud (More info - the sauce thickens
    Debating in Tampa Florida this month, Mitt Romney strongly denied that his investment company Bain Capital did "any work with the government like Medicaid and Medicare." However, under Romney's "supervision," Bain purchased and ran the Damon Corporat…
    - 7 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 6:57am -
  • newCuban Communists to consider term limits for leaders
    HAVANA—Cuba's Communist Party will consider reforms this weekend that could impose term limits on its leaders in what would be a striking change on an island that Fidel Castro ruled for 49 years and was succeeded by his brother. President Raul Castr…
    - 7 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 6:49am -
  • newGDP on Recession Track
    In contrast to popular belief, recessions typically start with GDP in positive territory.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newObama Has No Credibility on Energy
    The extraction industry has accounted for the bulk of the economy in my neck of the woods and we’ve had a tough time making a go off it here since the results of the 2008 Presidential Election.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newPax Americana
    Earlier this week, I began an interview on Fox Business by asking the guest if the market had entered into some kind of Pax Romana period.
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  • newEconomists Finally Get One Thing Right for 2011: Obama a Failure
    If Obama made as many easy economic decisions as he has had vacations this year, we’d be seeing decent economic growth. In fact, if we could get Obama to take more vacations and not make ANY decisions, it’s likely real unemployment-U6- wouldn’t…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newSince Obama’s Class-Warfare Tax Policy Is Failing in Illinois, Why Does He Think It Will Work for the Entire Country?
    close your eyes and envision a different map. Instead of American states, imagine a map of the world. And think what it will look like if Obama succeeds in imposing all the tax increases he has endorsed.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newMitt Romney: Trail Blazer
    You’ve got to hand it to Mitt Romney (and his acolytes). At the very least he’s a Republican trailblazer.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newBaloney Budget Reform
    I don’t recall ever agreeing with the left-liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), but their new paper on the drawbacks of the federal government switching to biennial budgeting is a good read.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newA Big Dividend is a Good Thing to Waste
    It's a large-cap stock with a current yield over 4%, and possibly a good addition to a growth & income stock portfolio.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newWhat Economic Downturn? The Death Business is Booming
    As the U.S. economy continues to shudder, Americans find themselves in a tight spot. 2011 was the worst year on record for home sales, unemployment claims rose markedly in the 4th quarter, and the high energy prices we have endured are set to worsen…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newDepressing, Ain't It?
    You know what's really depressing? The fact that your job is really depressing.
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  • newThe Best Way to Invest in Biotech Stocks
    Sadly, for every biotech stock that takes off sharply, another half-dozen plunge to new lows because of nature of these cash-constrained business models.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newA Missed Opportunity
    The official Republican response to the President’s State of the Union Address was fine—as far as it went. But Gov. Mitch Daniels missed a golden opportunity to put before the American people a better vision of family, faith, and freedom.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newAmerican Laws for American Courts
    Shortly before Newt Gingrich's decisive victory in South Carolina last week, he was asked a critical question by a Palmetto State voter: Would he support a Muslim candidate for president?
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newOn Risk, Follow the Iron Lady
    "what we have done, and what we have left undone, in thought, word, and deed" on a national level determines as much as anything else our margin of safety.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newHow Good Are Earnings Forecasts?
    Well, if you go by our chart below, which we constructed by sampling data we obtained from S&P roughly one-year apart (at the dates indicated) and mostly looking one-year-ahead in time, the answer is: not good at all!
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newGDP Weaker Than Expected
    While fourth quarter GDP growth was a bit weaker than expected, a trend that will probably extend into first quarter data, we think the groundwork is in place for a gradual acceleration of the U.S. and global economies in 2012.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newInflation or Delfation? But Wait...
    When such illustrious proponents of hyperinflation such as Marc Faber, Peter Schiff, and even the venerable Warren Buffett seize the microphone and take such a convincing position, it is very difficult for a deflationist such as myself to compete and…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newWhere Do I Put My Cash?
    The same as a corporation, once you pay your bills you need to figure out where to put any excess cash that you have.
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newMitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Déjà Vu
    Is this a rerun? Why does the Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich political drama feel so eerily familiar? Alas, this schismatic plot has been acted out before on the stage of GOP presidential politics; except the original cast weren’t named Mitt and New…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • newObama's Low-Ball Vision
    There is a growing consensus around the country for full-fledged reform of the personal and corporate tax codes.
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  • newKissing Mitt
    This should settle it: Gene Simmons of KISS is for Romney.Hat tip: Big Hollywood. Also, the video is rated PG-13.
    - 1 hour ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:29pm -
  • newA Curious Statement in <I>The Spectator</I>
    Sir Harold Evans is a veteran and acclaimed journalist. His official bio says, “In 2001 British journalists voted him the all-time greatest British newspaper editor.” It should be safe to assume he doesn’t write things that are blatantly untrue…
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:44am -
  • Jeffrey Lord's Distortion
    Jeffrey Lord manages a two-fer in this piece: he slyly smears Elliott Abrams for allegedly prostituting himself for a job in a Romney administration on the basis of no evidence whatsoever. And he misrepresents the Newt speech he defends. Read Lord an…
    - 13 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:38am -
  • Congress Had Plenty of Say in Reagan Foreign Policy
    I’ve got no quarrel with Charles Krauthammer’s argument that then-backbencher Newt Gingrich is dramatically overstating his role in President Reagan’s foreign policy — just as I think (along with John Hood and Steve Hayward) that Newt detract…
    - 13 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:18am -
  • Can't We All Get Along? Never!
     I am amazed at the furor out there this year; write that Newt’s shameful infidelity nevertheless probably does not ipso facto disqualify him, given what we’ve known in the past about some other presidents, and you get a flurry of pro-Romney in…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:44pm -
  • A Big Day Tomorrow on Radio Free Kudlow
    Once again NR’s Bob Costa will be joining Larry and a great line-up — including Senator Ron Johnson, James Pethokoukis, Brian Wesbury, John Ryding, David Freddoso, Jim LaCamp, Bob Froehlich, Steve Moore, and John McIntyre — to discuss hot topi…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:16pm -
  • 'What Kind of Man'
    Newt Gingrich released a new attack ad against Mitt Romney today:Keep reading this post . . .
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:35pm -
  • Krauthammer's Take
    From Fox’s Special Report with Bret Baier Thursday, January 26, 2012 On Gingrich’s relation to Reagan in light of Nancy Reagan’s remark in 1995 that “Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:28pm -
  • The <i>Times</i> and the Muslims
    The NYPD once again finds itself in the crosshairs of the New York Times. On Tuesday, theTimes resurrected a year-old story from the Village Voice about the showing of my documentary film The Third Jihad to officers participating in an NYPD training…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:00pm -
  • The Elliott Abrams--Jeffrey Lord Dispute
    I’m genuinely puzzled.Rush Limbaugh kicked off his show today by reading from Jeffrey Lord’s piece accusing Elliott Abrams of quoting Newt Gingrich out of context. Lord’s post at the American Spectator blog is a response to Abrams’ piece her…
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:48pm -
  • Deck of Cards
    Perhaps Mark Krikorian or one of our fellow Cornerites could help me out on this. Last night, explaining his position on illegal immigration, Mitt Romney said this:The answer is we’re going to have a system that gives people who come legally a car…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:50pm -
  • Re ‘RINO’
    Mona, I get some of the same mail you do, from people who think that Newt is the Last Word in Conservatism. I’m learning, more and more, that political perceptions have a great deal to do with style. If you slash and shout, many people think of you…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:27pm -
  • Priorities
    The megalomania of Olympic officialdom is no secret, but I have to say that this took me aback:MILAN — Italy’s Olympic committee president has urged the government not to drop Rome’s bid for the 2020 Games amid concerns over the country’s…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:01pm -
  • I'm Losing to the Moon!
    The moon!There’s still time to vote, I think.
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  • 'Putting Aside Ron Paul'
    You may have noticed on the last couple post-debate homepage polls we begin with “Putting aside Ron Paul . . . .” I’ve seen sundry complaints about this in e-mail, comments, and social media, so I figured it was worth explaining.We’re not tr…
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  • Persepolis in Tunisia
    The green wheel turns… Via the GuardianKeep reading this post . . .
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  • Gingrich's Earmark Record
    In my piece today, I look at how Newt Gingrich fundamentally changed the role earmarks played in congress. Before Gingrich, House members on the Appropriations committee requested them. But it was Gingrich who spearheaded making earmark requests the…
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  • 'The Last WASP'
    My column on Romney today, although some of the specific examples were overtaken by the debate last night.
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:19pm -
  • A Major Victory for Religious Liberty and Freedom of Conscience
    So far, 2012 has been a good year for religious liberty in federal court. Two weeks ago the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that religious organizations have a First Amendment right to choose their ministers — even in the face of federal nondiscrim…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:10pm -
  • RINO
    Getting lots of mail accusing me of RINOism. Why is it that people who support Newt believe they are backing the more conservative candidate? Where is the evidence that Gingrich is more conservative than Romney? Gingrich has supported embryonic stem…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:07pm -
  • newWill Reporters Be This Craven?
    TPM Reader MJ gets the plan ... Romneyworld is not pushing the 50% angle because they really believe it, clearly. They're pushing it because they know it will muddy the waters on the issue, since mainstream media reporters are constantly...
    - 12 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 1:51am -
  • newPresented By:
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  • Romney: Actually, I Kind of Pay 50% Tax
    I'm pretty surprised that Mitt Romney's team let their guy go down this path. Or maybe it's just him. Stung by the 13.9% tax rate story and goaded on by some conservative columnists, Mitt Romney is now saying that his...
    - 13 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 12:20am -
  • The Quest for the Mantle of Saint Ron
    In the absence of a validated shroud or holy relics, who's winning the all-important ex-Reagan staffer primary? Click here to find out....
    - 14 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:02pm -
  • Oooops. Brewer Story Not Holding Up Well
    We're at 3 out of 4 now. The other witness to the alleged Brewer/Obama 'confrontation' says that the whole thing wasn't tense at all. I keep hearing anchors at MSNBC and CNN repeating her story, even though both witnesses now...
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:44pm -
  • Newt Bags New Endorsement
    With few establishment endorsements, Newt Gingrich has just gotten the nod from incarcerated former Rep. Duke Cunningham who tells Newt he'd have the felon vote locked down....
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:18pm -
  • The Obvious Uncovered
    Ron Paul knew about and signed off on the racist newsletters, says former Secretary who still supports him....
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  • Not So Quick Reax
    I found last night's debate so messy and scattered that I had a hard time knowing quite what to make of it. But here's my take. As a debate, I thought it was terrible. Very disorganized. The moderation was close...
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  • Hate Mail
    Things you probably shouldn't do when accused of a race motivated attempted bombing: Correspond with a noted white supremacist leader from prison....
    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:08pm -
  • Grandmas Are Awesome!
    The Jacksonville Republican debate boiled down into 100 uproarious seconds....
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  • Wow
    TPM's "Not-So-Veiled-Insult-Of-The-Night Award" goes to Fred Thompson for his remarks about Bob Dole....
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:56am -
  • Best Moment So Far
    Romney says he never saw the Romney ad he said he approved....
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:16am -
  • Florida Debate Live Blogging Pt.3
    9:13 PM: It's not worth getting angry about? What did that even mean? 9:13 PM: Dead to rights. It's amazing that it took 19 debates but Santorum finally got Romney dead to rights on his plan being more or less...
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  • Worst Debate Ever?
    A lot of these debates have been pretty bad. But this strikes me as the most disjointed debate I think I've ever seen. The moderation is poor. The candidates seem to be the campaign equivalent of punch drunk. What do...
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  • Florida Debate Live Blogging Pt.2
    8:53 PM: I think this debate is a bigger mess than any of the previous ones. 8:56 PM: Newt started off strong but this extended digression on space and moon states. Just not happening. 8:59 PM: When I was a...
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  • Every Last Debate Detail
    Every last nugget of debate information at TPMLiveWire....
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  • Combo!
    I pay a 40% combo tax and charity rate....
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:41am -
  • Nope
    There's a lot of evidence that Romney's 'blind trust' isn't that blind....
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  • Antibiotics for treatment of asthma
    My doctor said antibiotics along with corticosteroids are the new line of defense against asthma. I have been on and off the z pack this winter and the antibiotic helps when I am on them. New research has suggested that asthma is caused by bacteria.…
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  • Ron Paul signed off on racist newsletters in the 1990s, associates say
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ron-paul-signed-off-on-racist-newsletters-sources-say/2012/01/20/gIQAvblFVQ_story.html?wpisrc=al_politics_p---Quote---Ron Paul, well known as a physician, congressman and libertarian (http://www.washingtonpo…
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  • 2 More Walker Staff Members Arrested - Corrupt Politics as Usual for Repiggy's
    January 27, 2012 10:00 AM Two More Former Walker Staffers Charged; One Makes Deal As Informant (http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/two-more-former-walker-staffers-charg)By Susie Madrak *I likey the part about the INFORMANT !!!----------------…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:41pm -
  • Biden predicts second Obama term, Dem majority in House
    Vice President Biden on Friday predicted re-election for himself and President Obama, along with a regained majority for Democrats in the House of Representatives.More... (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/27/10251430-biden-predicts-demo…
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  • Obama touts higher ed reforms in Michigan
    The White House insists that the three-day, five-state tour upon which President Obama embarked on Wednesday was intended to sell his State of the Union message, and wasn't directed toward campaign purposes.More... (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_…
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:43pm -
  • Webhead & Mrs. Webhead leave for cruise in 17 Hours

    Webhead & Mrs. Webhead leave for cruise in 17 Hours

    We are so excited. 7-day Eastern Caribbean Cruise to St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and Nassau. 3 full days at sea.*Shore Excursions:*_*Orient Beach @ St. Maarten*_ - A short drive from Dutch St. Maarten brings you to one of the trendiest beachfront re…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:13pm -
  • Brewer releases copy of letter to Obama
    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, R, sustained a controversy stemming from her confrontation of President Obama on an airport tarmac by releasing a copy of the letter she handed to the president on Phoenix.More... (http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/201…
    - 22 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:55pm -
  • Romney solidified after latest debate
    First Read: Newt Gingrich put on the defensive in the final Florida debate but Romney made some unforced errors of his own.More... (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/27/10250388-first-thoughts-romney-owned-gingrich-but-problems-linger)
    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:59pm -
  • FACT CHECK: Debate over 'ghetto language' ad
    Mitt Romney accuses Newt Gingrich of calling Spanish a "ghetto language." Close, but not quite. Gingrich denies doing so and said he merely promoted the use of English, "period." That's even more of a stretch.More... (http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.c…
    - 24 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:34pm -
  • Tired and broke, Santorum heads home to do taxes
    The former Pennsylvania senator is leaving Florida just days before the Tuesday primary that even he expects to deal him a third consecutive loss.More... (http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/27/10249732-tired-and-broke-santorum-heads-hom…
    - 24 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:34pm -
  • Gingrich funder brings additional baggage
    Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul bankrolling Newt Gingrich’s super PAC isn’t trying to “buy” a presidency, his top political consultant tells NBC News.More... (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/27/10249298-gingrich-f…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:47pm -
  • Mandatory Thursday Malloy Truthseeker thread! + a new Kitty gif

    Mandatory Thursday Malloy Truthseeker thread! + a new Kitty gif

    Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/ralps/political photos/Manimals.jpg Call the program LIVE 9PM - midnight ET 877-99Malloy - New Number These 3 stations say they have Mike on from 9pm to midnight eastern & It seems as though these 3…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:02am -
  • NBC/WSJ poll: Gingrich leads Romney, but badly trails Obama
    Newt Gingrich leads Mitt Romney among Republicans, but he is the weakest of the GOP presidential hopefuls against President Obama, according to an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday evening.More... (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:47am -
  • Gingrich, Romney on the attack in Fla. debate
    Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney engaged in another face-to-face confrontation Thursday during a debate in Florida.More... (http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/26/10245131-gingrich-romney-suit-up-for-florida-debate-showdown)
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:47am -
  • Sweathog dies
    Welcome back Kotter was one of the best shows ever. The cast was a great group of people. May "sweathog" rest in peace. http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=698890
    - 2 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:19am -
  • Arizona: Brewer Sets Special Election to Replace Giffords
    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) issued a proclamation this evening establishing the dates for the primary and general election to replace former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) in the Tucson-area 8th district.
    - 14 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:34pm -
  • Warning From Moon Base Newt
    Red Alert! As much as we at HOH love former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s idea for some serious commercial space activity development on the moon, we would be remiss if we didn’t point out some of the risks.
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:58pm -
  • Cubans Grill Gingrich
    While the rest of the universe remains consumed with moon base relocation plans, the quaint little voting bloc known as the Cuban-American community is muy bravo with GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s painfully obvious pandering.
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:57pm -
  • Park Service Prepares to Move Occupy Protesters
    Three days after House Republicans grilled Interior Department officials for allowing what they called camping in McPherson Square, the National Park Service is threatening eviction for some Occupy DC protesters in Freedom Plaza.
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:40pm -
  • Facebook 'Friends' Another Republican
    Facebook has hired another Republican, adding to its already GOP-heavy Washington, D.C., staff.
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:09pm -
  • GOP Senators Disagree on Boycott of Cordray Hearing
    After flirting with a possible unified boycott, most Senate Republicans on the Banking Committee are expected to attend a Tuesday hearing at which Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Richard Cordray will testify.
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:52pm -
  • DCCC Outraises NRCC by $7 Million in 2011
    The National Republican Congressional Committee raised $2.7 million in December and had $15.2 million in cash on hand at the end of year.
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:51pm -
  • House Democrats, Obama Summon Spirit of Al Green
    CAMBRIDGE, Md. - President Barack Obama pushed House Democrats today to score some legislative victories and hang tough against Congressional Republicans in their pursuit to regain the majority in 2012.
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:21pm -
  • North Carolina: Rep. Howard Coble Announces Re-Election Bid
    North Carolina Rep. Howard Coble (R), 80, announced today that he will run for re-election to a 15th term.
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:48pm -
  • Newt's Been Mooning Since 1981
    We at HOH have uncovered a bill, introduced in 1981, by former Speaker and current space visionary Newt Gingrich wherein he lays out the Government of Space. You’re welcome, Earth.
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:36pm -
  • Gingrich Fundraising Also Raises Ethics Questions
    As Newt Gingrich and his allies scramble to raise enough money to compete with Mitt Romney in Florida's costly GOP primary, they're relying on political players who carry almost as much ethics baggage as the former Speaker himself.
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:05pm -
  • Arizona: GOP State Senator Enters Race to Replace Gabrielle Giffords
    Arizona state Sen. Frank Antenori (R) this morning announced his candidacy to succeed former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D).
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:03pm -
  • Carnivores to Meat and Greet All Next Week
    Fear not, Capitol Hill denizens. The slow-moving, ravenous masses you’ll likely encounter ambling around town next week — their lips and chins perma-smeared with sanguine sauces, their bellies distended from consuming epic amounts of animal flesh…
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:30pm -
  • D.C. Officials Make Case for Statehood in New Hampshire
    A delegation of local officials and activists spoke in the Granite State today on the subject of D.C. statehood, two weeks after a snowstorm thwarted the group's first attempt to testify before a New Hampshire House committee.
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:21pm -
  • Biden Rallies the Faithful at Democratic Retreat
    CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Vice President Joseph Biden told House Democrats today that the tough votes that cost them the majority in 2010 will return them to majority status in 2012.
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:13pm -
  • 'Main Man Manch' to Visit 'Energizer Bunny'
    Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk’s (R) best buddy, “My Main Man Manch,” will visit him in the hospital, the Chicago Tribune reports.
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:32pm -
  • Bob Etheridge Eyeing Return to N.C. Politics
    Thursday’s earthquake in North Carolina Democratic politics opened a lot of doors for politicians aspiring to higher office. Enter stage right: former Rep. Bob Etheridge (D), who lost a close race to freshman Rep. Renee Ellmers (R) in 2010.
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:06pm -
  • Tom Corbett Backs Steve Welch Against Bob Casey
    Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) gave businessman Steve Welch his backing this week in the crowded GOP primary to take on Sen. Bob Casey (D) this year.
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:15pm -
  • House Conservatives Using Retreat to Focus on Battles Ahead
    PHILADELPHIA - House Republican conservatives huddled here for the annual Heritage Foundation Members Retreat on Thursday, hoping to recharge their ideological batteries in advance of what is expected to be a bruising year in Congress and on the camp…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:01am -
  • North Carolina Democratic Bench Keeps Shuffling
    Will the last endangered Democratic official in North Carolina please turn out the lights? Today saw a flurry of news regarding several Tar Heel State Democrats who face tough re-election battles this year.
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 3:03am -
  • newAfghanistan ‘Outside the Wire’
    Air Force Major Christy Barry speaks with Afghan national army officers.On her second deployment to Afghanistan, Capt. Felisa Dyrud, U.S. Air Force Academy Class of 2006, landed in front of live cameras in a Kabul television studio, in full camo f…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:00am -
  • newMitt will gladly pay you Ruby Tuesday for a ribeye steak today
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:00am -
  • newPants on (three-alarm) Fire
    In recent weeks, these pages have contained thousands of words on the laughable bias and general incompetence of the mainstream media’s cherished “fact checking” columns. We’ve gone back to the well so many times we risk becoming the Baby J…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:00am -
  • newThe Plague
    I read an essay by a senior editor at the Atlantic recently that began, “I finished up Middle-march two days ago, and had a good debate about it on Twitter.”
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  • newBetween Hard Power and Soft
    Mexico City policemen protest against corruption.NEWSCOM
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  • newCloudy With a Chance of Weapons and Gold
    The machine guns roared, pouring tens of thousands of bulletsinto the night's blackness. Suddenly: Ka-WHOOOMP! WAAHHHMP!WHA-OOOOMP!! Enormous fireballs flashed into yellow-whiteexistence, mutating into billows of orange flame 100 feet high. Thepu…
    - 2 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 11:46am -
  • newKevin White, R.I.P.
    Former Boston Mayor Kevin White passed away tonight at the age of 82. He had been afflictedwith Alzheimer's Disease for more than a decade.White had Boston's top job for sixteen years. First elected in1967, White won wide praise the following yea…
    - 9 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 4:43am -
  • newTune In
    I'm very pleased to announce that I'll behosting TheRoss Kaminsky Show on Denver's NewsRadio 850 KOA, thepremier talk station in Colorado, and one of the iconic radiostations in the western United States, having been around since the1920s. The…
    - 11 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 2:38am -
  • Americans for Tax Reform Responds to Coburn
    As readers will recall, we had an exchange earlierin the week revolving around Senator Tom Coburn's views ofNewt Gingrich. In the doing we heard from Dr.Coburn's office and publishedtheir view, with a mention of Grover Norquist's American's f…
    - 14 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:53pm -
  • Musharraf Postpones Return to Pakistan
    Pervez Musharraf has postponed plans to return to Pakistan to re-launch hispolitical career. Earlier this month, the former Pakistani militaryruler had announced he would end more than three years of self-imposedexile in London and Dubai.Howeve…
    - 16 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:58pm -
  • Reaganite Foreign Policy
    The Elliot Abrams business Jeff uncovers does raise some interesting historical points:1. Some who bill their foreign policy preferences as"neo-Reaganite" today were fairly critical of Reagan's actualforeign policy in the 1980s, even as they rema…
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:46pm -
  • In Response to Jennifer Rubin… on Iran
    This morning, Jennifer Rubin lambasted the Obama administration's "fecklessIran policy." Fair enough. I agree the president's approach hasproven disjointed, at best, and "rudderless," at worst. Waging ashadow war in the global economy against a d…
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 8:38pm -
  • Vanderbilt Drops the Ball on Religious Freedom - UPDATED: Vanderbilt Replies
    Religious groups at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee arebanned from making leadership decisions based on religion, thanksto rules set forward by officials enforcing its "nondiscriminationpolicy." According to the administration, "membership in r…
    - 18 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:29pm -
  • 'An Absolutely Stunning Piece'
    That's what Rush Limbaugh has called Jeff Lord's Elliott Abramsitem posted below, spending the entire first half hour of his showtoday discussing and reading from the item, which certainly raisesdisappointing questions about Abrams. Was he used, o…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:33pm -
  • Elliott Abrams Caught Misleading on Newt
    As Ronald Reagan used to say: Well...Yesterday we took note of former Reagan State Department official ElliottAbrams' piece over at NRO that went after Newt Gingrich on hisrelationship with Reagan. While voting regularly with Reagan as ayoung c…
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:28pm -
  • The Day Ahead: Friday, January 27
    Obama-backed car battery company, Ener1, files for bankruptcyprotection (WaPo)After a strong debate performance, 3 overnight FL polls showMitt Romney bounced back (HuffPo)Former Sen. Bob Dole attacks Newt Gingrich (NationalJournal)Mark Levin de…
    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:00pm -
  • More Reason to Cut Aid to Egypt
    Recall that in late December, Egyptian authorities raided theoffices of numerous nongovernmental organizations, including theInternational Republican Institute and the National DemocraticInstitute, which are funded mostly by US taxpayers through t…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:44pm -
  • Florida Fireworks Finale
    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Newt Gingrich tried to defend his claimthat Mitt Romney is "the most anti-immigrant candidate" in lastnight's Republican presidential debate here, an accusation thatRomney called "inexcusable" and "repulsive."Gingrich did no…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:10am -
  • A Little Bit Ghetto
    Early in Thursday's Republican presidential debate, CNNmoderator Wolf Blitzer caught Mitt Romney flatfooted on one of hisanti-Gingrich ads. The ad accuses Newt of calling Spanish a"language of the ghetto." What, Blitzer asked Romney, did you mean…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:09am -
  • Newt's Rubio Rumble
    Although Florida Senator and rising Republican star Marco Rubiohas repeatedly refused to endorse a candidate in the Republicanprimary, his words this week have done great and perhapsunrepairable damage to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich'…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:09am -
  • Raking Fire on the Stern
    While reading a tale of adventure and combat on the highseas, say a novel by Patrick O'Brian or C.S. Forester, I can recalla vivid description of two ships of the line, engaged in a deadlyduel, in which one of the vessels manages to inflict a part…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:08am -
  • The Republicans' Wasted Angst
    Republicans need to chillax.Especially within the Republican establishment, some apparently arehaving anxiety attacks about how the primaries are unfolding.Here's what the panic prone seem to be overlooking -- ifthe election were held tomorrow, C…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:08am -
  • Waiting for the Coup
    In Pakistan there is an acceptance of the necessarydominance of the military. In fact, the armed forces are about theonly instrument of government on which the nation can count -- atleast that's the perception that appears to prevail. As oneextre…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:07am -
  • Stalking the Talk
    What do Rush Limbaugh and I have in common? Well, besides forsimilar political beliefs, mutual friends and determination not toput weight on in middle age. Survey says: we are both "A voters" inthe rolls of registered Republicans in Florida, which…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:07am -
  • A Separation
    It's been a while since I've seen an Iranian film, thoughI am always eager to see them. Most in recent years have shown theinfluence of Abbas Kiarostami (ATaste of Cherry), who has a highly visualstyle with long, slow takes and spare dialogue. As…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 11:02am -