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  • newSantorum Wins in Missouri, Minnesota
    Santorum won both the Missouri primary and Minnesota caucuses, dealing Republican presidential front-runner Romney a setback in two Midwestern states.
    - 55 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:22am -
  • newDemocrats Court Big Donor for PAC
    Obama's allies are courting a Hollywood billionaire to help fund an independent group backing his re-election, after the White House dropped its reluctance to embrace this new breed of political action committee.
    - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:52am -
  • Obama and the Catholic Vote
    Catholic voters represent the ultimate swing vote, so Obama has to be worried about reaction to his move to compel Catholic employers to offer contraception services in insurance policies.
    - 19 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:14am -
  • Michael Medved: Presidential Fathers and Sons
    For the seventh consecutive election, the next president will either be a privileged son or a man with no relationship with his biological father.
    - 2 days ago, 6 Feb 12, 5:40am -
  • Romney Wins Nevada GOP Caucuses
    Mitt Romney's win capped a pivotal week that saw him regain his front-runner status on the strength of a hard-fought win in Florida.
    - 2 days ago, 6 Feb 12, 1:14am -
  • What January Says About February
    With January behind them, the remaining Republican presidential hopefuls move on to a scattered set of caucuses and primaries in states where the terrain seems to offer clear advantage to Mitt Romney, Dante Chinni writes.
    - 5 days ago, 3 Feb 12, 5:53pm -
  • Florida Exit Polls
    See who voted and how in Florida's Republican primary.
    - 6 days ago, 1 Feb 12, 10:02pm -
  • 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.
    - 8 days ago, 31 Jan 12, 2:49pm -
  • Swing Nation
    The Wall Street Journal is visiting three swing counties in swing states—Florida, Ohio and Colorado—periodically this year to gauge how the election campaign is unfolding.
    - 9 days ago, 30 Jan 12, 3:50pm -
  • 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.
    - 49 days ago, 20 Dec 11, 11:35pm -
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  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #11

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #11

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 56 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:21am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #10

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #10

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:56am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #9

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #9

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:38am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #8

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #8

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:14am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #7

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #7

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:53am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #6

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #6

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:30am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #5

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #5

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:09am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #4

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #4

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:46am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #3

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #3

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:22am -
  • newDaily Kos Elections liveblog thread #2

    Daily Kos Elections liveblog thread #2

    Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morningTonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty…
    - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 1:48am -
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  • newObama Administration’s Contraception Ruling Fits with Re-Election Needs

    Obama Administration’s Contraception Ruling Fits with Re-Election Needs

    According to a memo published by the moderate think tank, Third Way, and highlighted by The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, the 2012 election will come down to a fight over truly independent voters who cast ballots for Obama in 2008. If Obama can hang o…
    - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 6:20pm -
  • Obama Flip-Flops on Super PACs. Now He Is Consistent.

    Obama Flip-Flops on Super PACs. Now He Is Consistent.

    Reversals in politics are typically cast as character blights. So for politicians preparing major flip-flops, the best defense is often a character-defining offense.  Mitt Romney loves to tell a story about his principled realization that abortion s…
    - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 5:50pm -
  • Obama’s Prospects in Swing States Deteriorated in 2011

    Obama’s Prospects in Swing States Deteriorated in 2011

    Most Americans won’t have the power to choose the next President because they live in states so tilted towards one end of the political spectrum that the election outcome, barring calamity, is not in doubt. Mitt Romney doesn’t really have a chanc…
    - 15 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 3:11pm -
  • Morning Must Reads: Donation

    Morning Must Reads: Donation

    In a reversal, Obama signals donors to start funding the super PAC started by his former aide. Democrats return $200k in donations from the family of a fugitive seeking a pardon. Geoffrey Stone on why money is speech. Obama swing voters: young, femal…
    - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:18pm -
  • On Reagan’s 101st Birthday, Republican Revisionism

    On Reagan’s 101st Birthday, Republican Revisionism

    Monday, Feb. 6, was Ronald Reagan’s birthday, and once again Republicans paid homage to the Gipper — perhaps the only Republican, apart from Abraham Lincoln, about whom no GOPer dares speak ill. Reagan is to Republican candidates what Kim Il Sung…
    - 18 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 12:00pm -
  • With Tuesday Caucuses, Santorum Gets a Second Chance to Shine

    With Tuesday Caucuses, Santorum Gets a Second Chance to Shine

    It’s drawn none of the hype lavished on the early GOP primaries, but more delegates are technically on the table in the Tuesday, Feb. 7,  nominating contests than on any other day so far this cycle. For the first time, the spotlight will be shared…
    - 20 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:00am -
  • ‘Runway to Win’: 18 Pieces of High-Fashion Merch the Obama Campaign Is Peddling

    ‘Runway to Win’: 18 Pieces of High-Fashion Merch the Obama Campaign Is Peddling

    Obama may be campaigning against income inequality, but he’s asking his supporters to fork over some serious cash to support the message. His re-election fundraising initiative,“Runway to Win,” is selling election-themed designer clothing and a…
    - 21 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:00am -
  • Prosecutor Preet Bharara in His Own Words: Battling ‘a Creeping Culture of Corruption’

    Prosecutor Preet Bharara in His Own Words: Battling ‘a Creeping Culture of Corruption’

    For this week’s cover story, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who has been making high-profile busts on Wall Street, gave TIME a rare and extensive on-the-record interview at his Manhattan offices on January 24…
    - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 7:49pm -
  • What Will Mitt Romney Talk About if the Economy Gets Better?

    What Will Mitt Romney Talk About if the Economy Gets Better?

    For the better part of two years, Mitt Romney has been relentless. “Four years ago, candidate Obama came to Nevada, promising to help,” he said in his victory speech after the Nevada caucuses on Saturday night. “Today, Nevada unemployment is ov…
    - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 7:07pm -
  • The Republican nomination: The big bellwether swings for Romney
    AT A polling station nestled among the mansions and marinas of the Miami suburb of Coral Gables, a tanned couple in designer sunglasses paused on their way back to their Porsche to explain how they voted in Florida’s Republican…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 4:03pm -
  • Gang violence: Turf wars
    THEY are, typically, young Hispanic or black males; but the victims of gang killings are no more likely to be involved in drugs or other crimes than their non-gang slain counterparts. According to a new study by the Centres for Di…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 4:03pm -
  • Fund-raising: The money primary
    Adelson gave Gingrich this much THE fund-raising reports that the candidates recently filed for the final quarter of last year give a sense of their relative financial muscle. As of December 31st, Mitt Romney had $20m on hand, havi…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 4:03pm -
  • The economy: A hair of the dog
    AFTER three years of stagnant loan growth, The Peoples Bank in Coldwater, Ohio, has noticed a change. Clients who two years ago would not have qualified for a loan now find that they can. One customer who was working for only 35 hours a week two year…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 4:03pm -
  • Chinese college students: Making ting tong cool
    Annoying Ms Wallace LAST March, Alexandra Wallace, a blonde Californian who was attending the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), was so annoyed by “these hordes of Asian people” filling up her campus and talking on t…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 4:03pm -
  • Unionisation: Another one takes the plunge
    INDIANA, like many manufacturing states in the Midwest, has long felt the pain of seeing jobs go overseas. In his seven years as Republican governor, Mitch Daniels’s response has been to offer a strong diet of pro-business legislation. In the past…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 4:03pm -
  • Lexington: The classes drift apart
    JUST because he belongs to it himself does not make Newt Gingrich wrong when he grumbles that America is run by an out-of-touch elite. If you want evidence, the data can now be found in a book published this week by Charles Murray…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 4:03pm -
  • 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…
    - 13 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…
    - 13 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:02pm -
  • 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…
    - 13 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…
    - 13 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…
    - 13 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…
    - 13 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…
    - 13 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:02pm -
  • 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…
    - 20 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…
    - 20 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • 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…
    - 20 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…
    - 20 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…
    - 20 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…
    - 20 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:07pm -
  • newSantorum declared winner in Missouri, Minnesota
    - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:16am -
  • newIt’s deja vu as Congress tackles payroll tax cut extension again
    It’s Groundhog Day in Congress, where lawmakers appear to have glimpsed their shadows and are entering a newly intense period of negotiations over whether to extend the payroll tax cut that is shaping up to be remarkably similar to a bruising Decem…
    - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:17am -
  • newAs Massachusetts governor, Romney had an unremarkable record on jobs
    An overheated industry has gone bust. A tepid economy is not producing enough jobs. And a successful businessman promises he can use his private-sector experience to jump-start the economy.This is presidential candidate Mitt Romney now, but it was a…
    - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:10am -
  • newObama campaign fears being sharply outspent by GOP super PACs
    The Obama campaign, which shattered all records for political fundraising in 2008, has concluded that it could be dramatically outspent this year by the GOP nominee and allied conservative groups, which are able to tap a deep well of money unavailabl…
    - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:05am -
  • newCapitol Assets: Some legislators send millions to groups connected to their relatives
    Some members of Congress send tax dollars to companies, colleges and community groups where their spouses, children and parents work as salaried employees, lobbyists or board members, according to an examination of federal disclosure forms and local…
    - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 1:59am -
  • newEarmark investigation: Rep. Norm Dicks and Puget Sound
    In January 2007, Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) became chairman of a congressional subcommittee that gave him the power to secure millions in federal funds to environmental projects in his district.Six months later, the congressman requested millions of…
    - 5 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 1:14am -
  • newKomen vice president resigns as details emerge on Planned Parenthood debate
    The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation faced additional fallout Tuesday from its decision to restore funding to Planned Parenthood as a top official resigned and details emerged about the contentious internal discussions that led to the controver…
    - 5 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:53am -
  • newFederal Diary: House Republicans target federal workforce
    The federal workforce was targeted on two fronts Tuesday as House Republicans pushed to limit employees’ annuities and for greater privatization of airport security screening operations. After a sometimes passoniate debate, the Oversight and Gover…
    - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:42am -
  • newPower grid updates left system vulnerable to cyberattacks, auditors say
    A rush by the Energy Department to use stimulus money to modernize the country’s power grid has left the system vulnerable to cyberattacks, the agency’s internal watchdog found.Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman found “shortcomings” in th…
    - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:30am -
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  • newThe State Department: Better at diplomacy than real estate?
    Back in 1999, we bitterly opposed the sale of the spectacular Chelston estate, residence of the U.S. consul general in Bermuda. “The absolutely perfect diplomatic appointment, the one we’ve dreamed of for years, is about to be diminished forever…
    - 7 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:08pm -
  • newKaren Handel and the other side of the Catholic coin
    You remember the most important of all Saul Alinsky‘s ‘Rules for Radicals,’ right? Sure you do; it’s #13, that people generally don’t swing into action unless they are convinced that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the…
    - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:34pm -
  • newWhite House seeks to soothe concerns over contraception rule
    The White House sought Tuesday to soothe concerns over a controversial birth control rule that has led to Republican attacks and tension among close allies of the administration.The efforts followed mounting criticism from Catholics and other faith…
    - 11 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 7:07pm -
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  • California Proposition 8 same-sex-marriage ban ruled unconstitutional
    A federal appeals panel in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that California’s Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional, a decision that could lead to the Supreme Court’s consideration of the controversial social issue.Read ful…
    - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 5:58pm -
  • Newt Gingrich’s claim that George Soros ‘approved’ Mitt Romney
    “We can’t afford two George Soros approved candidates this fall.” — Voiceover from Newt Gingrich campaign ad, referring to Mitt Romney and President Obama, Feb. 2, 2012Read full article >>
    - 15 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 3:00pm -
  • Payroll tax negotiations heat up again
    House and Senate negotiators appointed to reach a compromise over how to pay for extending the expiring payroll tax cut will hold a key meeting Tuesday morning.Ongoing discussions between the 20-member conference committee, as well as House and Sen…
    - 19 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:00am -
  • Sen. Richard Shelby earmarked money for project near his building
    Over the past decade, Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) has directed more than $100 million in federal earmarks to transform Tuscaloosa’s core into a place that local officials say benefits everyone who lives, works and plays in the area.Read full a…
    - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 2:10am -
  • Congressional investigators find ‘reason to believe’ Buchanan broke ethics laws
    Congressional ethics investigators concluded there “is substantial reason to believe” that Florida’s Rep. Vern Buchanan, one of the top Republicans in the House, violated ethics laws by failing to report his position with a half-dozen firms, ac…
    - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 8:34pm -
  • Democrats’ chances of retaking the House improve
    Democrats have been saying for a long time that the House could be in play in 2012, and now some Republicans are starting to join them.“For Democrats to take 25 seats, they will need a wave,” former congressman Tom Davis wrote in an op-ed in The…
    - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 8:27pm -
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  • Obama on Super Bowl Sunday: ‘I deserve a second term’
    President Obama said Sunday that he deserves to be reelected because his administration has made progress on the economy, but he acknowledged there is much more work to do.“I deserve a second term, but we’re not done,” Obama said during a pre-…
    - 2 days ago, 5 Feb 12, 10:12pm -
  • Clint Eastwood Gives America a Pep Talk
    Did the first Obama re-election ad run during the Super Bowl? You might have missed it since the president wasn't even mentioned. It was a Chrysler ad, although even that wasn’t obvious. Instead, more than 111 million viewers were greeted by that t…
    - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 11:38pm -
  • Mitt Wins Nevada With Friends and Family
    LAS VEGAS—“It’s a very scripted process,” warns Mary Burgar, our caucus captain. “I apologize in advance if it looks like I'm reading from something. It’s because I’m reading from something.”
    - 3 days ago, 5 Feb 12, 2:07am -
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  • Nevadans Know How To Fix America
    ELKO, Nev.—“I know how to fix it,” says Bill Crabb.
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  • Who Cares About the Poor?
    Mitt Romney is now being protected by the Secret Service. Unfortunately for him, they were not in a position to jump in front of his comments Wednesday morning. The day after his Florida triumph, Romney told CNN: “I’m not concerned about the ver…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 1:30am -
  • Not That Kind of Smoke-Filled Room
    Potheads had high hopes for President Obama’s Google+ hangout on Monday. The Web superpower had invited citizens to submit questions for the president via YouTube, and it encouraged people to vote on the questions they’d like Obama to answer in a…
    - 6 days ago, 1 Feb 12, 10:50pm -
  • What Will Happen if Obama Wins Again?
    ORLANDO, Fla.—“We cannot survive four more years of this!” moaned Kelly Clem-Rickon. She was one of Newt Gingrich’s Hillsborough County co-chairs, assigned to keep a Tampa crowd cheering and cheerful while the candidate made his delayed way o…
    - 6 days ago, 1 Feb 12, 7:43pm -
  • Inevitability Restored
    Newt Gingrich promised Florida voters the moon and he crashed to earth. Mitt Romney won the crucial state big with 46 percent of the vote, beating Gingrich by 14 points. In Brevard County, where Gingrich's pledge to build a lunar colony might have wo…
    - 7 days ago, 1 Feb 12, 3:56am -
  • Mute Gingrich
    Newt Gingrich is angry and that makes Mitt Romney sad. The former speaker is slipping badly in the polls in Florida and unloading on his way down. He's called Romney "deceitful," "maniacal," and "misleading." He’s also rendered a historical verd…
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  • Pipe, Baby, Pipe
    THE VILLAGES, Fla.—Newt Gingrich’s schedule, 72 hours before the Florida primary, goes like this: church, parking lot of a retirement mega-city, church. His only speech of the day is here, in a grove of tidy homes and souped-up golf carts. As the…
    - 8 days ago, 30 Jan 12, 7:46pm -
  • 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.…
    - 11 days ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:30pm -
  • newFighting Sioux backers hand in petitions

    Fighting Sioux backers hand in petitions

    (02-07) 21:13 PST Bismarck, N.D. (AP) -- Is it the return of the Fighting Sioux? Supporters of the University of North Dakota's nickname turned in more than 17,000 signatures Tuesday night to cap a petition drive to...
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  • newRomney intensifies fight for social conservatives

    Romney intensifies fight for social conservatives

    (02-07) 21:02 PST DENVER (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shifted his focus from the economy to abortion, religious freedom and gay marriage in recent days, part of an intensified effort to win over...
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  • newJubilant Santorum wins Minnesota, leads in Colo.

    Jubilant Santorum wins Minnesota, leads in Colo.

    (02-07) 20:51 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- A resurgent Rick Santorum won Minnesota's Republican presidential caucuses with ease Tuesday night and reached for victory in Colorado, raising fresh questions about front-runner...
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  • newHouse GOP unveils insider trading ban bill

    House GOP unveils insider trading ban bill

    (02-07) 20:36 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- House Republicans have introduced their version of a bill to ban insider trading by thousands of federal officials and prevent lawmakers convicted of a crime from collecting their...
    - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:36am -
  • newSantorum picks up delegates with win in Minnesota

    Santorum picks up delegates with win in Minnesota

    (02-07) 20:14 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum's victory in the Minnesota Republican presidential caucuses has netted him at least 13 delegates to the party's national convention. Minnesota had 37 delegates at stake...
    - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:14am -
  • newWinning numbers drawn in 'Megaplier' game

    Winning numbers drawn in 'Megaplier' game

    (02-07) 20:13 PST Austin, Texas (AP) -- The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Megaplier" game were: 4 (four)
    - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:13am -
  • newPaul says GOP result 'opens up the door'

    Paul says GOP result 'opens up the door'

    (02-07) 19:49 PST Golden Valley, Minn. (AP) -- Republican Ron Paul said front-runner Mitt Romney's inability to brush back challenges in votes Tuesday "opens up the door" to him and others looking to deny the former...
    - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:49am -
  • newSantorum wins Minnesota caucuses

    Santorum wins Minnesota caucuses

    (02-07) 19:41 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Former Sen. Rick Santorum has easily won Minnesota's Republican presidential caucuses, relegating Mitt Romney to third place behind Texas congressman Ron Paul. With 36 percent of... Presented By:C…
    - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:41am -
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    (02-07) 19:34 PST MINNEAPOLIS, (AP) -- Rick Santorum wins Minnesota Republican presidential caucuses
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  • newSantorum wins Missouri GOP presidential primary

    Santorum wins Missouri GOP presidential primary

    (02-07) 18:50 PST Jefferson City, Mo. (AP) -- Rick Santorum has won the Missouri Republican primary, a nonbinding election that carries bragging rights but does not award any delegates in the race for the presidential...
    - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:50am -
  • newAssembly speaker has plan to cut college tuition

    Assembly speaker has plan to cut college tuition

    California students from middle-income families would receive massive breaks on tuition and fees at the state's colleges and universities under legislation Assembly Speaker John Pérez plans to introduce Wednesday at the... Presented B…
    - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:03am -
  • newSenate struggles to pay for highway programs

    Senate struggles to pay for highway programs

    (02-07) 18:01 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Senate was scheduled to take up a bill to extend federal highway and transit programs later this week even though Democrats were still struggling Tuesday to find a way to pay...
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  • newSenate struggles to pay for highway

    Senate struggles to pay for highway

    (02-07) 16:47 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Senate Democrats say they plan to take up a bill to extend federal highway programs next week, even though they are still figuring out how to pay for them. The Senate Finance... Presented By:Chica…
    - 5 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:47am -
  • newAP Enterprise: Brown bank regulator an insider

    AP Enterprise: Brown bank regulator an insider

    (02-07) 16:41 PST Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Jerry Brown's appointee to head the department that oversees banking, financial and consumer regulations in California led a trade association that fought against... Presented By:Chica…
    - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:41am -
  • newAppeals court throws out same-sex marriage ban

    Appeals court throws out same-sex marriage ban

    (02-07) 16:37 PST San Francisco (AP) -- Same-sex marriage moved one step closer to the Supreme Court on Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled California's ban unconstitutional, saying it serves no purpose other... Presented By:Ch…
    - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:37am -
  • newAriz Supreme Court bars candidate from running

    Ariz Supreme Court bars candidate from running

    (02-07) 16:13 PST PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a ruling that barred a woman from running for a city council seat because she doesn't speak English proficiently. The state's highest court...
    - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:13am -
  • newChavez's opponents gear up for Venezuela vote

    Chavez's opponents gear up for Venezuela vote

    (02-07) 15:57 PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Outmatched time and again at the polls by President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan's opposition leaders are trying a new strategy to unseat the populist leader this year, holding... Presented By:C…
    - 6 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:57pm -
  • newObama's inner geek: robots to flying marshmallows

    Obama's inner geek: robots to flying marshmallows

    (02-07) 15:11 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- For a president who promotes technology at every opportunity, Barack Obama often strikes an awed, self-effacing pose in the presence of technicians, scientists and high tech...
    - 7 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:11pm -
  • newWhite House hinting compromise on birth control

    White House hinting compromise on birth control

    (02-07) 15:06 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hammered by Republicans and the Catholic Church, the White House hinted at compromise Tuesday as it struggled to calm an election-year uproar caused by its rule requiring religious... Presented By:…
    - 7 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:06pm -
  • newObama's inner geek: robots to flying marshmallows

    Obama's inner geek: robots to flying marshmallows

    (02-07) 15:00 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- For a president who promotes technology at every opportunity, Barack Obama often strikes an awed, self-effacing pose in the presence of technicians, scientists and high tech...
    - 7 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:00pm -
  • Proposal to establish rights for domestic workers splits lawmakers

    Proposal to establish rights for domestic workers splits lawmakers

    Proponents say it would extend basic protections to more employees, but opponents say it would drive up costs.Reporting from Sacramento -- Maria Moctezuma's workday began at 6 a.m. and often ran until midnight when she was nanny, housekeeper and cook…
    - 22 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 8:00am -
  • Ruling expected on constitutionality of gay marriage ban

    Ruling expected on constitutionality of gay marriage ban

    A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to decide Tuesday whether California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, violates the federal Constitution.Reporting from San Francisco -- A federal appeals court is…
    - 22 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 8:00am -
  • Ex-mayor of Rosemead admits guilt in bribery case

    Ex-mayor of Rosemead admits guilt in bribery case

    John Tran, 36, admits to shaking down a developer for more than $10,000 while on the City Council. He also resigns from the school board and withdraws from an Assembly race.A former Rosemead city official who made a run for state Assembly has agreed…
    - 4 days ago, 4 Feb 12, 8:00am -
  • Catholics plan counterattack on new contraception coverage

    Catholics plan counterattack on new contraception coverage

    Church vows to use courts and legislation to fight 'un-American' requirement for religious employers to provide contraception to workers with government-required health insurance.The Catholic Church reacted strongly Friday to a White House defense of…
    - 4 days ago, 4 Feb 12, 8:00am -
  • California lawmakers keep school buses rolling

    California lawmakers keep school buses rolling

    The California Legislature restores $248 million for home-to-school transportation. Gov. Jerry Brown had eliminated school busing money after state revenues fell short of projections.School buses are likely to keep rolling for now, as the Legislature…
    - 5 days ago, 3 Feb 12, 8:00am -
  • Lobbyists set spending record in Sacramento

    Lobbyists set spending record in Sacramento

    Labor, business and other interests spent more than $285 million in 2011, new documents show. The California Teachers Assn. spent the most, $6.5 million, as schools battled cuts.Reporting from Sacramento -- Businesses, unions and other interests set…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 8:00am -
  • Ruling on redistricting a wake-up call for California GOP

    Ruling on redistricting a wake-up call for California GOP

    The 7-0 court decision shows how out of sync the party has been. Its problem is not the shape of new districts but the size of a shrinking membership.Now that the state Supreme Court has delivered the Republican Party a 7-0 smack-down, California can…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 8:00am -
  • Gov. Brown names panel to dismantle L.A. redevelopment agency

    Gov. Brown names panel to dismantle L.A. redevelopment agency

    The three people will unwind hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, complex land deals, employee obligations and loans overseen by the agency.The three people chosen Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown to dismantle Los Angeles' sprawling, half-century-…
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  • Berman, Sherman among those reporting campaign funding

    Berman, Sherman among those reporting campaign funding

    Rep. Howard Berman raised more than $1 million in the last three months of 2011, according to campaign reports, for a total of $2.9 million. His opponent, Rep. Brad Sherman, reports having $3.7 million on hand.Reporting from Los Angeles and Sacrament…
    - 6 days ago, 2 Feb 12, 8:00am -
  • California needs to find $3 billion by March

    California needs to find $3 billion by March

    Controller warns that the state could be in the red by then. Republicans and Democrats snipe over the severity of the problem.Reporting from Sacramento -- State lawmakers moved to avoid a cash crunch Tuesday as the controller warned that California c…
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    • newSantorum wins Missouri, Minnesota
      The promise of a big night for Rick Santorum Tuesday held true, with The Associated Press declaring the candidate the victor in Missouri and Minnesota.
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    • newRussian deal to end uprising in Syria keep Assad in power
      Days after blocking a U.S.-backed peace plan at the U.N., senior Russian officials pushed for reforms Tuesday during an emergency meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, promoting a settlement to end the uprising without removing him from power.…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:44am -
    • newObama calls to praise Coughlin and Giants
      President Obama, who’s looking for a repeat of his own unlikely 2008 victory, called Giants coach Tom Coughlin with congratulations for doing it first.
      - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:42am -
    • newGov pension reform plan ripped in ad 
      ALBANY — New York’s unions are striking back against Gov. Cuomo’s push for pension reform with a new radio ad blitz that dubs the plan an attack on the middle class.
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    • newDiNapoli: Cuomo budget a power grab
      ALBANY — State Controller Thomas DiNapoli in a new report Tuesday accused Gov. Cuomo of using his budget proposal to make a transparency-killing power grab.
      - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:25am -
    • newQueens rails against proposed legislative districts
      Queens residents and lawmakers packed into a public hearing Tuesday to rail against proposed legislative districts they claim fractures neighborhoods and dilutes their political voice. “You have taken the 24th Assembly District and sliced and diced…
      - 7 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:49pm -
    • newProp. 8 ruled unconstitutional: What happens now?
      A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that California's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. But the battle seems far from over. Here's what you need to know:
      - 11 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 7:42pm -
    • Rick Santorum  looks to be taking Newt Gingrich’s spot as GOP’s top not-Romney candidate: polls 
      Tough luck, Newt: It looks like Rick Santorum has taken the former Speaker’s spot as the GOP presidential race's top not-Romney candidate.
      - 13 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 5:19pm -
    • Komen Foundation VP Karen Handel resigns after Planned Parenthood funding flap 
      The Komen foundation’s new pro-life vice president — who became a flashpoint in the furor over the charity nixing grants to Planned Parenthood — was forced to resign Tuesday.
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:22pm -
    • Obama seeks $500 million to battle Alzheimer's
      The NIH currently spends $450 million a year on Alzheimer's research -- but the president wants to spend $50 million more.
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:20pm -
    • Change of heart: Obama asks donors to support his Super PAC
      On second thought, President Obama would like that Super PAC money after all. The Commander-in-Chief is doing a 180 and asking top fundraisers to support an independent political action committee backing his reelection.
      - 16 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 2:08pm -
    • Eastwood defends Super Bowl ad: I am not affiliated with Obama!
      Clint Eastwood is hitting back with Magnum Force at GOP critics contending his Super Bowl commercial was a nod to President Obama.
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    • Open tax returns alarm pols 
      ALBANY — State lawmakers raised privacy alarms Monday about a secret deal giving nearly every employee of the Inspector General’s office access to tax returns of state employees.
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    • Church groups must leave schools 
      ALBANY — Church groups are staring down eviction from city schools after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver spiked a Senate bill to let them stay — instead starting work on his own rescue plan. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ALBANY — Church groups are starin…
      - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 3:57am -
    • Hoekstra: My Super Bowl ad wasn't racist
      A Michigan politician didn’t back down after critics slammed a so-called racist ad he ran during the Super Bowl featuring an Asian girl telling viewers: “We take your jobs.”
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 11:20pm -
    • Eastwood’s ad a game of political football  
      Dirty Harry made President Obama’s day. The political world was abuzz Monday over Clint Eastwood’s inspiring Super Bowl ad for Chrysler, in which the gravelly-voiced actor hails the rebirth of Detroit’s auto industry — and echoes Obama’s po…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 10:04pm -
    • Oops! Politician posts link to The Onion
      Rep. John Fleming needs to check his sources. The Republican congressman from Louisiana linked to an article from satirical website The Onion about Planned Parenthood’s $8 billion “Abortionplex” on his Facebook page Friday.
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 8:41pm -
    • Giants join prestigious list of ticker tape parade honorees
      When the New York Giants have their triumphal ticker tape parade Tuesday, they will follow in the footsteps of other champion athletes, pioneers of air and space travel, heads of state, brave warriors — and Albert Einstein. Yes, that Albert Einstei…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 8:16pm -
    • Mexico selects female presidential candidate
      Mexico's ruling political party selected a woman as its presidential candidate on Sunday, an historic move that puts Josefina Vazquez Mota in the running to be the country's first female president.
      - 2 days ago, 6 Feb 12, 5:38pm -
    • Obama beats Mitt Romney for first time in new poll
      Bolstered by a drop in unemployment, a new survey shows President Obama may be able to keep an important job — his own.
      - 2 days ago, 6 Feb 12, 5:37pm -
    • Rick Santorum’s odd “badge of honor”
      February is supposed to be Mitt Romney's month, but there's a real chance that tonight will belong to Rick Santorum. Three states are holding nominating contests, and Santorum is well-positioned to win two of them -- with an outside chance of posting…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:36pm -
    • Climate change denial’s new offensive
      If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet -- as…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:29pm -
    • I was wrong on military commissions
      The U.S. Defense Department specializes in euphemism. “Limited kinetic action” is a polite way of saying “war” and “collateral damage” does not sound as blunt as “dead children.”  When I was chief prosecutor for the military commissi…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:00pm -
    • Syria’s bloody turning point
      BEIRUT, Lebanon — Abu Yaman used to work at the oil refinery in Homs, where production helped Syria maintain cheap subsidized heating oil and fuel, as well as free health care and 24-hour electricity.Today, Abu Yaman’s refinery has become a milit…
      - 15 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 2:57pm -
    • Steve Kornacki on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”
      Keith Olbermann was back in his usual seat on "Countdown" Monday night. First up: a segment on on Barack Obama's improving poll numbers and reelection outlook with Salon's Steve Kornacki:Continue Reading...
      - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:12pm -
    • Jesus versus the GOP
      There has never been a more loudly Christian group of presidential candidates than this primary season’s GOP contenders. From the start, the campaign has been an exercise in Christian one-upmanship. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann set the standard…
      - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:00pm -
    • Saul Alinsky: The activist who terrifies the right
      "I am for the Declaration of Independence,” declared Newt Gingrich at a recent campaign appearance, but President Barack Obama “is for the writing of Saul Alinsky. I am for the Constitution; he is for European socialism." Gingrich is not alone in…
      - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:00pm -
    • Obama’s fear of leading by example
      It's official: Barack Obama has decided -- not for the first time -- that leading by example is just too risky.On January 27, 2010, in one of the most celebrated moments of his presidency, Obama stood in the rostrum of the U.S. House and called out t…
      - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 12:51pm -
    • The (real) secret to hot sex
      Looking for the hot new position that will transform your sex life? The bedroom technique that will bring ultimate satisfaction? Look no further.Not that sex therapist Marty Klein is actually selling any of those things -- but his new book, "Sexual I…
      - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:15am -
    • The eerie photographs of a famed painter
      [caption id="attachment_256291" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Bauhaus, March 26, 1929. Gelatin silver print, 7 1/16 x 5 5/8 in. Credit: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. © Artists Rights Society, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn."][/caption]Hitler dec…
      - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:00am -
    • My ex went to prison for sex crimes
      People assume the wife knows. Not really. I found out about my former husband’s descent into pedophilia at the same time the rest of the world did -- on the 10 o’clock news.My mind could not comprehend what my eyes were seeing. I studied his mug…
      - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:00am -
    • Karl Rove’s hissy fit: “Offended” by Chrysler ad
      I admit it: Chrysler's "Halftime in America" Super Bowl ad reminded me of President Obama's best recent speeches. Actor Clint Eastwood, the face of rugged American individualism, talked about "tough eras" and "downturns" and "times when we didn't und…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 11:22pm -
    • The GOP primary season’s real winner
      In an interview with Matt Lauer that aired before the Super Bowl, Barack Obama argued that "I deserve a second term." And if the election were held right now, he'd probably get one.A new ABC News/Washington Post poll that shows the president opening…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 9:16pm -
    • Wall Street’s song of Obama woe
      There are at least three different ways to read Gabriel Sherman's fascinating and provocative report on Wall Street's incredible shrinking profits in New York magazine, "Is This the End of Wall Street as They Knew It."1) As a vehicle for excessive sc…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 9:12pm -
    • Charles Dickens and the Facebook generation
      On Feb. 7, 1812, Portsmouth, England, received Charles John Huffam Dickens — a pomegranate-colored, squealing, slick-haired baby boy. Portsmouth is (and was) a teeming small city. In 1812 it was a major port for the British Royal Navy. Today, it ha…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 9:00pm -
    • Downward mobility, the new normal
      January’s increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger and more disturbing story – the continuing downward mobility of the American middle class.Most of the new jobs being created are in the lower-wage sectors of the economy – hospita…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 8:39pm -
    • The screwed generation: Libertarian, not liberal
      There is an old adage that says, "If you're young and conservative you have no heart, if you're old and liberal you have no brain." The idea is that young people tend to make decisions more on idealistic views or out of passionate attempts at charity…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 8:26pm -
    • The truth about Newt’s favorite punching bag
      And now, a word about a good American being demonized, despite being long dead. Saul Alinsky is not around to defend himself, but that hasn’t kept Newt Gingrich from using his name to whip up the froth and frenzy of his followers, whose ignorance…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 8:00pm -
    • Can childbirth cause PTSD?
      It's the P in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that seems to trip people up. The idea that when the crisis has passed and you're ostensibly well and safe, you might still be jumpy and tearful, anxious and withdrawn. What's the matter with you, a…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 7:00pm -
    • What David Brooks gets right about the left
      As he often does, in his column Friday New York Times columnist David Brooks offered what looks like a “nonpartisan” analysis.  Social movements, he warned, are suffering because everyone thinks they should make up their own belief system. Unles…
      - 1 day ago, 6 Feb 12, 6:26pm -
    • newSantorum's Wins Raise New Doubts About Romney
      Jim Rutenberg, NYTHis candidacy all but dismissed just days ago, Rick Santorum won the Minnesota caucuses and a nonbinding primary in Missouri on Tuesday, raising fresh questions about Mitt Romney’s ability to corral conservative support.…
      - 59 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:18am -
    • newHow the GOP Could Squander Its 2012 Opportunity
      Josh Kraushaar, NJBy Josh Kraushaar "Against the Grain" is a weekly column for National Journal Daily.Last March, I argued that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), facing…
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    • newThings Suddenly Looking Up for Obama
      Dana Milbank, Washington Post
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    • newObama's Halftime Hypocrisy
      David Harsanyi, Washington ExaminerOn Super Bowl Sunday, America was treated to the most expensive political commercial in history -- brought to you by Chrysler -- called "It's Halftime in America."In a series of vapid non sequiturs, Clint Eastw…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:36am -
    • newGovernment Can't Make Us Happy
      John Stossel, FOX BusinessIn the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. This was a radical idea. For most of history, most people didn't think much about pursuing happiness. They were…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:26am -
    • newAmerica's Secret Weapon

      America's Secret Weapon

      Walter Russell Mead, American InterestThe quest for a new social model has to start with economics. America could survive without growing prosperity and rising standards of living, but it would not flourish "” and it would not be living up…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:02am -
    • newForeign Policy Team Preps Romney for World Stage

      Foreign Policy Team Preps Romney for World Stage

      Scott Conroy, RCPOn paper at least, Mitt Romney has a long way to go before he can even think about sealing the Republican nomination.But with several world trouble spots flaring up in recent weeks, Romney's foreign policy team is operating at a…
      - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:28am -
    • newThe Race Issue Rises Again

      The Race Issue Rises Again

      Glenn Thrush & Donovan Slack, PoliticoThe issue of race and American politics, never far beneath the surface during Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign, is making a loud, overt and surprisingly early appearance in the 2012 presidential race.An…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:20pm -
    • newWashing the MSM's Race-Baiting Hands

      Washing the MSM's Race-Baiting Hands

      John Nolte, Big JournalismOops. My headline mistakenly reads “cracker” journalism.What I meant to write was ”crack” journalism – but in a completely sarcastic way.At the top of Politico’s front page…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:19pm -
    • newObama Officials: Reformer Image Not Undercut

      Obama Officials: Reformer Image Not Undercut

      Greg Sargent, Wash PostThe Obama campaign’s announcement that they will support Dem Super PACs raises two question. First, does this move undercut Obama’s image as a progressive reformer? And second, will Obama aggressively campaign on a…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:14pm -
    • newIndiana May Be Tipping Point Against Big Labor

      Indiana May Be Tipping Point Against Big Labor

      Shikha Dalmia, ReasonLast week, Indiana became the first state in a decade (and the first state in the Rust Belt) to adopt a right-to-work law. This means that Indiana’s working men and women, like their comrades in 22 other states, will no lon…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:12pm -
    • newIs Republican Party Facing an Enthusiasm Gap?

      Is Republican Party Facing an Enthusiasm Gap?

      Huma Khan, ABC NewsAs the caucuses and primaries pick up pace, with Colorado and Minnesota taking center stage today, many are wondering whether the initial enthusiasm surrounding the Republican race is waning, given the remarkably low turnout in the…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:11pm -
    • newPoor Tim Pawlenty

      Poor Tim Pawlenty

      William Kristol, Weekly StandardCampaigns are populated by hacks and trade in cheap shots. But the hacks are usually paid staffers, and the cheap shots are part of their job description. It's sad to see a respected former governor reduced to low…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:10pm -
    • newRomney Camp Brushes Off Tonight's Results

      Romney Camp Brushes Off Tonight's Results

      Katrina Trinko, NROFacing the prospect of winning only one of the three states (Colorado) voting tonight, the Romney campaign is working to frame tonight’s results as irrelevant.“It is difficult to see what Governor Romney’s opponen…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:09pm -
    • newCan Romney Seal Deal w/Christian Right?

      Can Romney Seal Deal w/Christian Right?

      Harry Enten, The GuardianMitt Romney won an impressive 29-percentage point victory in Saturday's Nevada caucuses. For some analysts, the triumph suggested that Romney is well on his way to winning the nomination. For me, the win was expecte…
      - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:13pm -
    • newGOP Candidates Blitz Minnesota

      GOP Candidates Blitz Minnesota

      Baird Helgeson, Minneapolis Star TribuneThe Republican presidential race has taken on a white-hot intensity here as Minnesotans prepare to caucus Tuesday night, with major candidates scurrying across the state hoping to gain an edge that could reshap…
      - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:12pm -
    • newPlanned Parenthood's Hostages

      Planned Parenthood's Hostages

      George & Snead, Wall Street JournalThe Susan G. Komen Foundation, an organization dedicated since 1982 to fighting, and one day curing, breast cancer, decided to extricate itself from the culture wars by discontinuing grants to Planned Parenthood, th…
      - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 6:29pm -
    • A Fairness Quiz for the President

      A Fairness Quiz for the President

      Stephen Moore, Wall Street JournalPresident Obama has frequently justified his policies"”and judged their outcomes"”in terms of equity, justice and fairness. That raises an obvious question: How does our existing system"&rd…
      - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 6:07pm -
    • Romney Risks Talking His Way Out of Race

      Romney Risks Talking His Way Out of Race

      - 15 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 3:21pm -
    • Komen Learns That Choice Is Fine, Unless It Isn't

      Komen Learns That Choice Is Fine, Unless It Isn't

      - 15 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 3:20pm -
    • newWolfenbarger tapped to be Air Force's first female four-star
      WASHINGTON — Air Force Lt. Gen. Janet C. Wolfenbarger would become the highest-ranking woman officer ever to serve in the Air Force if a nomination forwarded Monday by President Barack Obama is approved by the Senate. Wolfenbarger would lead Air For…
      - 20 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:57am -
    • newPoland Requests F-16 Support and Additional Weapons Munitions
      The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress Feb. 2 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Poland of F-16 support and munitions, as well as associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $447 millio…
      - 22 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:55am -
    • newMarines 'assault' US beaches in amphibious drill(with Iran in mind? OP Bold Alligator)
      Marines 'assault' US beaches in amphibious drill By Paul Richards (AFP) – 1 day ago CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina — With beach landings, 25 naval ships and an air assault, the United States and eight other countries are staging a major amphibious ex…
      - 25 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:52am -
    • newAyaan Hirsi Ali:The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World
      We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are bei…
      - 32 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:45am -
    • newGoldman Sachs's CEO Shows Gay Marriage Is A No-Risk Trade [$$Billions For Gay Marriage?]
      Goldman Sachs's CEO Shows Gay Marriage Is A No-Risk Trade Lloyd Blankfein's decision to join the Human Rights Campaign's gay marriage lobbying effort is welcome – but not 'brave' Jason Farago 7 February 2012 The Human Rights Campaign, the largest an…
      - 33 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:44am -
    • newAriz. Supreme Court bars candidate from running
      PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a ruling that barred a woman from running for a city council seat because she doesn't speak English proficiently. The state's highest court ruled that Alejandrina Cabrera's name shouldn't…
      - 42 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:35am -
    • newGingrich Floats Possibility of ‘Open Convention’
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:13am -
    • newOil and Gas Boom Lifts U.S. Economy
      NAMPA, Idaho—The staccato of nail guns echoes across a cavernous building here as workers piece together manufactured houses with easy-to-clean linoleum floors and rugged interiors for muddy oil-field workers. There is no oil and gas production in I…
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:48am -
    • newProp. 8 defenders will appeal decision upholding Hollywood, S.F. attack on marriage
      Defenders of Marriage will Appeal Latest Decision Against Proposition 8 Alliance Defense Fund Defenders of marriage in California will appeal Tuesday’s ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that upheld a district judge’s decision…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:36am -
    • newOh my: White House having second thoughts on new contraception rule? (Keep up the pressure!!)
      How dangerous is this for them? Dangerous enough that even Chris Matthews, who was last seen praising Obama’s beatific smile as worth 10 points in the booth this November, is talking about how “frightening” it is that the state might s…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:35am -
    • newObama to Return Major Donations Tied to Fugitive
      Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama’s re-election campaign. The…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:30am -
    • newCleave to the Constitution
      Many – if not most – Americans are ignorant of the Constitution. That is tragic since it is the law. If another law is written but differs with the Constitution, it should become void. If the president issues an executive order doubling the pay of…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:30am -
    • newDespite weak economy, crime in Los Angeles County still declines (safest in decades)
      There were thousands fewer crimes reported in 2011 than 2010 in areas the LAPD and Sheriff's Department patrol. The trend puzzles some but reinforces a common police view that other factors are at play. Even since the economy began stalling several y…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:14am -
    • newSantorum declared winner in Missouri, Minnesota
      DENVER — Rick Santorum had a breakthrough night on Tuesday by winning the Missouri primary and the Minnesota caucuses, breathing life into his struggling campaign and slowing Mitt Romney’s march to the Republican presidential nomination. Early retu…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:12am -
    • newReforming Legal Immigration
      Jennifer Wedel (an “avid Republican”!) got the drop on President Obama the other day by asking him why, with so many American engineers like her husband unemployed, he wants to import even more engineers from abroad. Obama responded that industry t…
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    • newEisenhower's Family Objects to Memorial Design
      A memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower is scheduled to be unveiled on the Washington Mall in 2015, but first a thorny dispute needs to be resolved between Eisenhower's family and renowned architect Frank Gehry. Ike's relatives think Gehry's design—which…
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    • newQantas A380 Out Of Service After Cracks Found In Wings
      <p>SYDNEY – Qantas Airways Ltd. (QAN.AU) said Wednesday it has taken one of its Airbus A380 superjumbos out of service after cracks were discovered in its wings.</p>
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    • new'Your days are numbered,' U.S. official tells al-Assad
      (CNN) -- As violence raged in Syria, U.S. officials made clear Tuesday that the United States has lost patience with President Bashar al-Assad. "Your days are numbered," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said in comments directed at th…
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    • newSantorum Wins Missouri Primary (Wall Street Journal)
      By MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN And NEIL KING JR. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum handily won Missouri's primary election Tuesday night and was showing signs of strength in Minnesota's caucuses, threatening to deal national front-runner Mitt…
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    • newProtesters Ask Haiti Leader to Show Travel Docs
      PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A small band of protesters called Tuesday for Haitian President Michel Martelly to prove he's eligible for office as they destroyed posters that bore images of the leader. The 100 or so demonstrators said Martelly should…
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    • newDid Mass. Constitution Authorize Romney to Mandate Health Insurance
      You can now divide Americans into two groups: Those who believe government rightfully has the power to force people to purchase goods and services they do not want and those who don't.
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    • newClay Soldiers
      It's a blessing to have a job these days, but we shouldn't have to leave it up solely to divine intervention.
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    • newRunning As a Businessman Could Be Romney's Curse
      Mitt Romney has based nearly his entire presidential campaign on his experience as a businessman. "I spent my career in the private sector," Romney told Fox News in late November. "I think that's what the country needs right now."
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    • newBogus Busts: New York City Continues Its Illegal Crackdown on Pot Smokers
      Thirty-five years ago, New York's legislature decriminalized marijuana possession. Numbers released last week show the New York Police Department continues to flagrantly flout that policy, wasting resources on a pointless, unjust and illegal crusade…
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    • newAfghanistan: Moving Toward a Distant Endgame
      Talks, as distinct from negotiations, in which specific terms are hammered out, have gone on for some time now. Several previous attempts have ended in failure, including one instance when the supposed representative proved to be a fraud.
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    • newExtremism in Defense of Equality
      The more often liberals speak on the topic of same-sex marriage, the more illogical their arguments become.
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    • newGold Markets Slide
      As I sit here and try to think of a time when we weren’t talking about Greece, it seems to me it’s just a convenient excuse for taking profits.
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    • newThe Welfare Badge of Honor
      No matter which way you look at it, these are the only explanations for those who have decided to bid adieu to the working world.
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    • newObama's Halftime Hypocrisy
      On Super Bowl Sunday, America was treated to the most expensive political commercial in history -- brought to you by Chrysler -- called "It's Halftime in America."
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    • newGovernment Can't Make Us Happy
      In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. This was a radical idea. For most of history, most people didn't think much about pursuing happiness. They were too busy just trying to survive…
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:01am -
    • newSuper PAC-Men: Obama Bundlers Gone Wild!
      The White House didn't blow a dog whistle for deep-pocketed liberal donors on Monday. No, the administration whipped out a supersized vuvuzela. Blaring message: Let loose the campaign finance-bundling hounds of super PAC war!
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:01am -
    • newIs the Constitution for Everybody
      According to The New York Times, the American Constitution is losing popularity with people around the world. "The Constitution," writes Adam Liptak, "has seen better days ... its influence is waning." Liptak points out that in 1987, over 160 of the…
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    • newWhy Wall Street Experts are Getting Nervous about this Rising Market
      After watching the S&P 500 run from 1,160 in late November to 1,280 in mid-January, I grew nervous about what Europe will look like AFTER the debt/currency crisis is addressed.
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    • newHow Obama Lost the Catholic Vote
      Emperors in medieval Christendom often disregarded Papal edicts because the Pope lacked the armies to enforce them. Times have changed.
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    • newTeachers Unions Staring Into Financial Abyss, Channeling Saul Alinsky
      Fresh on the heels of an exclusive report detailing a 7-day Caribbean cruise that National Education Association staffers are currently enjoying, Education Action Group has learned that dozens of teachers unions around the country are running out of…
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:01am -
    • newCrowdfunding
      One of the latest trends in financing for start ups is crowd funding. Various websites are trying to tap into the social media craze by establishing a social funding network for a start up company.
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    • newEconomic Chaos Ahead
      Let's think about the kind of mess that we're in. Federal 2010 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures totaled $800 billion. The projected annual growth of both programs is about 7 percent. Social Security expenditures are more than $700 billion a year.
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:01am -
    • newA Moment of Clarity -- Thanks to the Race for the Cure
      Those who run the Komen foundation, and make a mighty good thing of it, too, sound confused in the worst way: morally confused.
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    • newObama's True Unemployment Rate is Really 9.9 Percent
      WASHINGTON - President Obama seized upon last week's improved jobs report as "more good news" on the economy, though the true unemployment rate never made the headlines.
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    • newNightWatch: Fewer Deaths in Syria than Reported
      International news descriptions of a worsening crisis receive no offsetting coverage of testimony.
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    • newSome Random Tuesday Thoughts
      A few years ago, there was a great deal of commentary that the GOP was becoming the exclusive province of Southern evangelicals. And yet all the primary and caucus victories so far this year have gone to a Mormon from Massachusetts, a Catholic from P…
      - 51 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:26am -
    • new'ObamaCare's Great Awakening'
      A Wall Street Journal editorial sums it up: “HHS tells religious believers to go to hell. The public notices.” It concludes:Keep reading this post . . .
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    • newMitt's Path
      The big picture view is simple. Much like McCain in ‘08, Romney will continue to struggle to consolidate his position, even after it has become obvious that he is the only candidate with the national organization to grind out the 1,144 delegates ne…
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:49am -
    • newThe Santorum Path
      In Missouri, Santorum 55 percent, Romney 25 percent.  With Gingrich off the ballot, Romney is in big trouble. In Minnesota, Santorum 45 percent, Romney — a very distant third.Keep reading this post . . .
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:44am -
    • newMeanwhile in Hades…
      As the Greek economy shrinks, tax revenues fall, and the hole gets deeper.  Ekathimerini reports:Budget revenues were found to be lagging by a considerable 1 billion euros in the year’s first month, provisional January data compiled by the Fina…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:33am -
    • newMitt's Bad Night
      Romney’s shellacking as of 11pm EST is so great he is not leading in a single county in any state. That’s right — no county anywhere is giving him even a plurality of the vote. That’s a political equivalent of having a perfect game thrown ag…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:28am -
    • newWhat Santorum's Wins Mean
      I was just chatting with our friend Larry Kudlow, who shared his read of Santorum’s victories (Minnesota and Missouri, as I blog): It’s a referendum on Obamacare and the Department of Health and Human Services mandate. What’s Santorum known for…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:21am -
    • newSantorum Triuphant
      Rick Santorum’s hugely strong performances in Tuesday’s contests in Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado amount to perhaps the most remarkable showing in a presidential-nomination battle since the eminently forgettable Henry Cabot Lodge won New Hamp…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:21am -
    • newSantorum: I'm 'the Conservative Alternative to Barack Obama'
       “Conservatism is alive and well in Missouri and Minnesota!”Keep reading this post . . .
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:15am -
    • newMitt Romney Has Reason to Be Concerned
      Mitt Romney’s campaign will have lots of explanations for their man’s poor showing tonight. Yes, Colorado and Minnesota were caucus states — the turnout is skewed in such contests toward a more conservative electorate. Yes, Missouri’s primary…
      - 2 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:14am -
    • newNetworks Call Missouri for Santorum
      NBC, CNN, and ABC have all called Missouri for Rick Santorum now. This is the state where Newt Gingrich isn’t on the ballot, and unfortunately for Santorum, this is also the state that will hold caucuses in March to determine who actually wins the…
      - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:46am -
    • newThe Candidates on Fannie and Freddie's Future
      Freddie Mac has played a large role in the presidential race: Newt Gingrich’s work for it has served as one of Mitt Romney’s key lines of attack. But all of the conversation has been backward looking: The candidates have said very little about wh…
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    • newFlashback
       May 2008, Mitt Romney on religious freedom, upon receiving the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty’s Canterbury Medal:Keep reading this post . . .
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    • newThe Contraception Mandate and Religious Freedom
      Our nation has a long legacy of defending individuals’ religious freedoms. James Madison, the father of our nation’s Constitution and the author of the Bill of Rights, once wrote that “conscience is the most sacred of all property.” Since our…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:34pm -
    • newSebelius's Spin
      If the federal government can succeed in forcing people to violate their faith, it will have the power to force anyone to do anything.It is therefore sad but not surprising that Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius took to USA Today…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:11pm -
    • newMitch McConnell Speaks for Religious Liberty from the Senate Floor
      Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor today:Throughout my Senate career, I’ve spent a lot of time to defending the First Amendment.Keep reading this post . . .
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:03pm -
    • newMarriage Means So Much and So Little?
      After slogging through the Ninth Circuit’s lengthy opinion overturning Proposition 8, I must confess that I’m confused. Does the definition of marriage matter? Or does it not? To the court the answer seemed to depend on whether the argument for m…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:47pm -
    • newNot a Catholic Issue
      A reader from Seattle writes, and she is right:Okay, earlier today I sent an email asking that Corner posters make it clear that we are not just talking about Catholics being the only body with objections to the HHS mandates — Protestants do, to…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:47pm -
    • newMeanwhile, in Another California Court
      From the Sacramento Bee:A federal judge for the first time in U.S. history heard arguments Monday in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as human beings.Keep reading this post . . .
      - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:36pm -
    • newPhoniness
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    • newAll That Glitters
      Romney's night of humiliation is capped as someone moves to glitter-bomb him following his Denver speech....
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:14am -
    • newWipeout
      It's looking like Romney will not win a single county in Missouri....
      - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:40am -
    • newPresented By:
      - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:40am -
    • newMinnesota Goes To Santorum
      Make that 2 out of 2 so far for Rick Santorum. Missouri and Minnesota, with Colorado still to be decided....
      - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:27am -
    • newThat Doesn't Make Sense
      The word coming from the Mitt campaign is that Missouri doesn't really matter because there are no delegates there and they didn't commit time or money. The problem, though, is that Santorum doesn't really have any time or money to...
      - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:44am -
    • newMitt Hoping for Jazz
      I'm looking at the county by county breakdown of the Missouri numbers here. And there are no results in from either Kansas City or St. Louis. I'd figure those have to be better for Mitt than most of the rest...
      - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:31am -
    • newIn WTF Territory?
      As they say, we're still really, really early. But we have 12% reporting in Missouri and Santorum is up over Romney by over 24 points. That's a big spread even with so few results. It's a similar margin in Minnesota,...
      - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:16am -
    • newThe First Trickle of Results
      8:31 PM: We've got a tiny trickle of results in from both Missouri and Minnesota. And they show Rick Santorum ahead in both states. But at again, at or 1%. So just the first hints. Nothing more. 9:02 PM: So...
      - 5 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 1:28am -
    • newResults Moments Away
      We're a few minutes away from the first results from the Missouri primary. We'll have live county by county results here. This is, to put it mildly, a weird contest. First, it's non-binding. No delegates are actually at stake. Second,...
      - 5 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:55am -
    • new#SecurityStateFail
      Free advice for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Don't use the password "12345."...
      - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:37am -
    • newAnd the Winner is ....?
      At CPAC, the big annual conservative confab that kicks off in DC on Thursday, Accuracy in Media will be presenting the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News....
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    • newPresented By:
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    • newGay (Marriage) Across the USA
      Map shows the status of Gay Marriage in states across the USA. Click image to see full chart....
      - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:08pm -
    • newPhoto of the Day
      Michelle Obama in a tug of war with Jimmy Fallon in the Blue Room of the White House. Really....
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    • new'Tear Down This Recovery' Watch
      Why the payroll tax extension is really in jeopardy....
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    • Awaiting the Tsunami
      Obama describes the looming $500 million Koch/Rove attacks that made them rethink Super PACs....
      - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 5:50pm -
    • Want To See This Movie
      Dems get out the popcorn for Ryan Plan: Part II....
      - 13 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 5:44pm -
    • Dissent on Contraception
      TPM Reader Anon asks for a rethink ... I'm a long time reader. I gave several hundred dollars to the Obama campaign in 2008 (and am sure I was well over a thousand given to all Democrats I supported). I...
      - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:32pm -
    • What Mitt Was After
      TPM Reader JW thinks he knows why Team Mitt went ballistic. (And I think he's right.) Ultimately Mitt's primary campaign is based on electability. If Republican voters don't think he is more likely to beat Obama, what is actually left...
      - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:26pm -
    • Change of Plans
      Obama campaign announces dramatic reversal on Super Pacs, will greenlight rivals to the mega-Super Pacs currently raising for the GOP nominee....
      - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:06am -
    • newGroup wants criminal investigation of Super PACs
      First Read: A top campaign watchdog group is calling for a Justice Department criminal investigation into Super PACs supporting President Obama and GOP front runner Mitt Romney.More... (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10341705-watch…
      - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 6:38pm -
    • newProp 8, California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Declared Unconstitutional
      ---Quote---*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/proposition-8-california-same-sex-marriage-ban-ruling_n_1260171.html*\[COLOR=#1A1A1A !important]*By LISA LEFF (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/proposition-8-california-same-sex-marriag…
      - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 6:27pm -
    • A Day Made of Glass 2
      http://youtu.be/jZkHpNnXLB0---Quote---*Corning's 'A Day Made Of Glass 2' Reveals More Innovative Ideas (VIDEO)*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/corning-a-day-made-of-glass-video_n_1257956.htmlCorning, the maker of Gorilla Glass displ…
      - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 6:00pm -
    • The "Debbie-Spend-It-Now" Ad -- If you haven't seen it, you really must
      This is Pete Hoekstra's ad that aired locally in MI around the time of the Superbowl. And it's stirred up a lot of controversy.kxw4uZAezaIAnd it's stirred up controversy, of course, because it's blatantly RACIST. Trust me, I don't use that wor…
      - 13 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 5:09pm -
    • First Read: A 'Super' reversal
      Anyone who is surprised by the Obama campaign's announcement last night that it's encouraging Democratic donors to give money to the pro-Obama Super PAC wasn't paying attention in 2008.More... (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/103401…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:23pm -
    • Make or break time for Santorum
      First Read: Contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri offer the former Pennsylvania senator an opportunity break through once more.More... (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10340134-todays-gop-contests-do-or-die-time-for-santorum)
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:23pm -
    • HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
      -------------------------------------------------Karen Handel, vice president for public policy at the Susan G. Komen Foundation, has resigned in the wake of the Planned Parenthood controversy, The Associated Press reports. Handel had supported cutt…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 3:52pm -
    • Messy caucuses in Nevada, Iowa raise questions
      After back-to-back fiascos in Nevada and Iowa, the term "caucus" may be on its way to becoming a bad word in the GOP lexicon.More... (http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10339599-messy-caucuses-in-nevada-iowa-raise-questions)
      - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:42pm -
    • Texas primary date in doubt after deal talks stall
      Texas is all but certain to have an even later say in choosing the Republican presidential nominee after what at first looked like a breakthrough deal over redistricting maps ended with wide rejection of the proposal.More... (http://nbcpolitics.msn…
      - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:42pm -
    • Earmarks fund projects near lawmakers' properties
      Members of Congress have pushed more than $300 million in earmarks and other provisions to projects near their own properties, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.More... (http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10337679-report-earmar…
      - 20 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 10:27am -
    • Why economic inequality leads to collapse
      ---Quote---During the past 30 years, a growing share of the global economic pie has been taken by the world's wealthiest people. In the UK and the US, the share of national income going to the top 1% has doubled, setting workforces adrift from ec…
      - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 5:06am -
    • Obama campaign reverses stance, urging donations to super PAC
      President Obama's re-election campaign made an about-face late Monday in its opposition to super PACs, encouraging donors to send their unlimited contributions to one such group founded by a former administration spokesman.More... (http://firstread…
      - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:51am -
    • Has anyone ever opened their home to out of state canpaign workers?
      I am considering hosting some out of state Presidential campaign workers. Has anyone here ever done this? It is scary and exciting at the same time. It's scary because I'm a widow and live alone. It would be exciting to be part of the campaign a…
      - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:35am -
    • Romney calls birth control rule 'violation of conscience'
      First Read: Mitt Romney injected himself into an ongoing battle between religious groups and the Obama administration, calling a new rule which mandates contraceptive coverage be required in healthcare plans a "violation of conscience" and an infring…
      - 1 day ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:33am -
    • I'm cooking a pizza right now.
      :food06[1]:
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    • newDemocrats Kickin’ It Old School
      Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was spotted this week gabbing away on his awesome retro handset. When we spoke to him about his cool new toy, which looks pretty much like grandma’s surviving landline, he walked us through how to find it on the Internet.
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:01am -
    • newItalians to Assemble
      Several Italianophiles will be protesting Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in front of the Capitol today and Thursday.
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    • newFarm Bill Gadfly Returns
      Congressional watchdog Daniel Imhoff is so primed and ready to join this year’s farm bill fray that he’s firing the opening salvo, updating his exhaustive examination of the last agri-political showdown in anticipation of this year’s legislativ…
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 4:59am -
    • newSantorum Victories in Minnesota, Missouri Boost Campaign
      Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum notched two symbolic wins in Missouri and Minnesota nominating contests tonight.
      - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 3:42am -
    • newRick Santorum Wins Missouri 'Beauty Contest'
      Thanks to the absence of former Speaker Newt Gingrich on the ballot and a dose of local campaigning, ex-Sen. Rick Santorum put together a large margin of victory tonight in Missouri's Republican primary.
      - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:59am -
    • newNevada: Kihuen Drops Out of House Race
      Nevada Democrats avoided a contentious primary in the open 1st district today as state Sen. Ruben Kihuen announced he was dropping out of the race.
      - 4 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:07am -
    • newPanel Approves Plan to Change D.C. Council Voting
      A House committee approved a bill today that would shorten the window between the opening of a vacancy on the D.C. Council and when a special election can be held to fill it.
      - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:27am -
    • newJeff Flake Calls for Permanent Earmark Ban in STOCK Act
      Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) called on leadership today to include a permanent ban on earmarks in a popular ethics reform measure working its way through the House.
      - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:12am -
    • newFederal Workers May Soon Contribute More to Pensions
      Federal workers would have to contribute more of their wages to their retirement benefits under a plan advanced today by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
      - 6 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:57pm -
    • newOhio: Marcy Kaptur Airs First Ad in Race Versus Dennis Kucinich
      Rep. Marcy Kaptur will kick off her television campaign against fellow Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich on Wednesday with a positive, semi-biographical spot.
      - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:06pm -
    • newCushing, Devoted Staffer, Dies at 59
      Frank Martin Cushing, a devoted Congressional staffer for more than 30 years, died at his home in Falls Church, Va., on Monday from sudden and aggressive brain cancer. He was 59.
      - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:03pm -
    • newLandry Says Silly Things, Wants Recognition
      Louisiana Rep. Jeff Landry (R) is having a fun contest on his shiny Facebook page.
      - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 8:59pm -
    • newDoomsdayers See End Coming on GOP Watch
      Whether the world blinks out this December (go Mayan calendar!) or further down the line, respondents to a new poll conducted on behalf of the National Geographic Channel suspect Republicans will be in charge when our fellow man decides to screw us o…
      - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 8:57pm -
    • newNorth Carolina: Sue Myrick Won't Seek Re-Election
      Updated: 4:02 p.m. | North Carolina Rep. Sue Myrick (R) announced today she will retire from the House this year.
      - 10 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 8:08pm -
    • newBoth Sides Promise More Push on Gay Marriage
      Interest groups across the ideological spectrum said they would step up their efforts after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled California’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional today.
      - 11 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 7:32pm -
    • newNew York: Rory Lancman Explores Bid Against Bob Turner
      New York state Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D) moved toward a campaign against Republican Rep. Bob Turner on Monday, filing paperwork for an exploratory committee with the Federal Election Commission. In September, Turner won an upset special election v…
      - 11 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 7:27pm -
    • newJohanns Giving Up Hope on 'Grand Bargain'
      Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) - a key cheerleader of last year's bipartisan deficit reduction efforts - said this week that he sees little chance of reaching a "grand bargain" in this presidential election year.
      - 11 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 7:09pm -
    • newAlexander Favors Prolonged Presidential Primary
      Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) doesn't appear as concerned as other veteran Republicans that a drawn out presidential primary campaign will put the eventual GOP nominee at a disadvantage against President Barack Obama in the fall.
      - 11 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 7:05pm -
    • Obama to Headline Senate Democratic Retreat
      President Barack Obama and his 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, will be the featured speakers at a Senate Democratic retreat Wednesday, multiple sources have confirmed.
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    • Komen's Prescient SOS
      Amid its ill-fated attempt to cut off Planned Parenthood and the issuance of its somehow even more polarizing about-face, the brain trust at Susan G. Komen for the Cure solicited for someone â€Â" anyone â€Â" to help skipper it through storm…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:17pm -
    • newSantorum: 'Conservatism Is Alive and Well in Missouri and Minnesota'
      "We doubled [Romney] up here and in Minessota," Rick Santorum enthusiastically told his Missouri crowd this evening. Santorum directed his fire at Barack Obama, saying that he does not listen to the American people, and indicating that Romney's posit…
      - 53 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:24am -
    • newRomneycare: Worth Getting Worried About
      Remember the second Florida GOP debate on Thursday night, January 26, in Jacksonville? Mitt Romney came out pummeling Newt Gingrich, Gingrich was ineffectual in response, and Romney sailed on to a decisive victory five days later in Florida. This wa…
      - 1 hour ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:05am -
    • newSantorum Wins Missouri Primary, Minnesota Caucus (Updated)
      Rick SantorumRick Santorum is projected to win the Missouri primary, the first of three GOP contests held Tuesday. At this point, Santorum has garnered 55 percent of the vote, a considerable majority if he holds it.
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    • newReuters Poll: Romney 29, Paul 21, Gingrich 19, Santorum 18
      A new Reuters/Ipsos poll of national Republicans suggests a continuing lack of consensus in the GOP primary more than a month after the Iowa caucuses.
      - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:09am -
    • newHappy Hour: Will Santorum Scramble the Race?
      Byron York: "Santorum good day could scramble race again"Washington Free Beacon: "Chinese Communists Influence U.S. Policy Through Ex-Military Officials"
      - 6 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 12:00am -
    • newSantorum's Big Night
      Rick Santorum has won the Minnesota caucuses and the nonbindingMissouri primary. At this writing it looks like he may win theColorado caucuses, too, but even if Mitt Romney pulls out a winthere, this is Santorum's night.As noted here at the time…
      - 49 mins ago, 8 Feb 12, 5:28am -
    • newNow Can I Get an Acknowledgement That Supporting Santorum Wasn't Meant to Help Romney
      For months and months now, some readers have accused me of beingfor Mitt Romney because I "only" wrote about ten or 11 columns andblog posts criticizing him (and none overtly praising him) while Iexpressed numerous criticisms, shared by may other…
      - 3 hours ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:52am -
    • newWhy The Pats Losing The Super Bowl Wasn't So Bad After All
      Maria Menounos, co-host of the syndicated entertainment showExtra and a diehard New England Patriots fan,lost a bet with correspondent A.J. Calloway. If the Giants lost,Calloway would dress up as a Pats cheerleader. But if the Pats lostto the G…
      - 8 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:56pm -
    • newPeace Pipe with Jeffrey Lord
      First, I owe Jeffrey Lord a bit of an apology. But it will comein roundabout fashion, because I must digress to say that hisopening line in his post below is absolutely classic, hysterically funny, andwell aimed. Injecting some levity into the si…
      - 9 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 9:40pm -
    • newRubin Again Wishes Santorum Well
      It is quite clear to me, from reading almost all of her posts,that Jennifer Rubin isn't turned off by Mitt Romney, but that shealso is very favorably disposed toward Rick Santorum. Indeed, herwritings indicate, I think, a slight -- very slight, bu…
      - 10 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 7:54pm -
    • newJennifer Rubin to Endorse Santorum, Reject Romney?
      Quin, you ignorant slut.(Sorry, I still love that old Dan Aykroyd/Jane CurtinSaturday Night Live routine of TVpundits with Dan's classic opening line to his presumedcolleague.)Now, I like my friend Quin Hillyer. Seriously and really,I do. Life…
      - 11 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 7:17pm -
    • newMark Levin on Clint Eastwood
      I listened to the Mark Levin clip that Aaronmentions below. It seems to me that he does pick up that the adwas intended as propaganda for the bailouts, though he points outthat Karl Rove's boss George W. Bush was actually the first to paythe aut…
      - 11 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 6:48pm -
    • newNinth Circuit Court Panel Rules Proposition 8 Unconstitutional
      In a move that will shock few people, a panel of the liberalNinth Circuit Court of Appeals ruledthat Proposition 8, a voter-passed California constitutionalamendment affirming that marriage is the union of a man and awoman, is unconstitutional. S…
      - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 6:25pm -
    • In Defense of Clint Eastwood
      As I wrotehere shortly after it aired on Sunday night, I really liked theClint Eastwood ChryslerSuper Bowl ad and said it was the only ad worthremembering.Well, it may very well be the most remembered Super Bowl ad ofall time. However, a lot o…
      - 12 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 6:00pm -
    • Murderous Iranian Thinking
      For those of you who still don't believe that Israel's isolationby the Obama administration substantially increases the chance ofwar, or that Iran would risk nuclear retaliation by Israel for thechance to eliminate "the Zionist entity," one need l…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:29pm -
    • Obama Flip-Flops on Super PACs
      Remember those "shadowy groups" the president said wereinfiltrating our democracy? The political action committees createdby the Supreme Court decision liberals love to hate, CitizensUnited? The ones that can take bottomless contributions fromthe…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:28pm -
    • Jimmy Carter II Plays into Iran's Hands
      In an interview with the Today show's Matt Lauerrecorded on Superbowl Sunday, President Obama said that "Ourpreferred solution (to the Iranian efforts to develop a nuclearweapon) is diplomatic." Although he also stated "we're not takingany option…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:25pm -
    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Constitution
      Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's advice to Egypt ondrafting a constitution is still raising eyebrows almost a weeklater. Ginsburg suggested using South Africa's constitution as a model ratherthan ours. "I would not look to the U.S. Con…
      - 14 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 4:17pm -
    • Rick Santorum's Opportunity
      Three more states vote today, with Colorado and Minnesotaholding caucuses and Missouri having its primary. Zero delegate areawarded as a result of any of these contests (at least directly),yet this could have an impact on the race going forward. W…
      - 15 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 3:35pm -
    • The Day Ahead: Tuesday, February 7
      The Washington Free Beacon launched today (Free Beacon)Once considered "a threat to our Democracy," Obama embracesSuper PACs (CBS)Obama to return major donations tied to fugitive (NYTimes)Friday night Solyndra document dumps (Politico)Army trie…
      - 17 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 1:41pm -
    • The United Nations' Rogue Agency
      We have all heard the jocular remark about the inmates takingover the asylum. But I had never actually witnessed that unnervingevent until last October 31, when I spent an afternoon in the pressgallery of the United Nations Educational, Scientific…
      - 19 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:11am -
    • The Audacity of Obama's Secularism
      The secularists of the French Revolution regarded the RomanCatholic Church as the last obstacle to atheism's final triumph.Blurting this out, the French dilettante Denis Diderot proposed tohis fellow revolutionaries that they strangle the last pri…
      - 19 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:10am -
    • Santorum Rejects Reagan Space Legacy
      I like Rick Santorum.My former senator, whom I voted for three times and havewritten about here and hereis conservative, a great family man, smart and passionateabout his beliefs.So… I hate to say this, but at the moment: what adisappointmen…
      - 19 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:09am -
    • Let Mrs. Obama Eat Red Velvet Cake
      First Lady Michelle Obama leaves a bad taste in mymouth.Last week, the First Lady appeared on The Tonight Showwith Jay Leno to cajole Leno to eat his veggies. For his trouble, Leno had toeat a slice of veggie pizza with zucchini and eggplant (yu…
      - 19 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:08am -
    • Plains Plutarch
      Mari Sandoz's struggles as a writer were a metaphor for thelandscape of her origin, the Great Plains. A wind-whistled place,home to drought, blizzards, tornados, and plagues of grasshoppers,its very hardness has branded it America's most provincia…
      - 19 hours ago, 7 Feb 12, 11:07am -