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George W. Bush endorses Mitt Romney

As presidential endorsements go, this one could hardly have been more low-key. ABC News caught up with former president George W. Bush in an elevator in downtown Washington on Tuesday and asked the qu...
High stakes in Romney-Obama battle over Bain, economy

President Obama’s Chicago-based campaign team has been waiting months to launch a real attack against Mitt Romney’s experience at Bain Capital. Even before Romney’s Republican presidential rival...
Centrist group having trouble finding a presidential candidate

The United States is still not ready for a third party. Americans Elect, a group that has spent the past two years securing ballot access for a yet-to-be-named centrist presidential candidate, has a...
John Edwards, Rielle Hunter may be called to testify, attorney says

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The lead defense attorney for John Edwards dangled the possibility that the former presidential candidate and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, might be called as witnesses on W...
Justice launches criminal probe into JPMorgan’s $2 billion trading loss

The Justice Department has initiated a criminal probe into the $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase, a law enforcement representative familiar with the situation said Tuesday. The inquiry is at a...

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The Daily Wrap

Today on the Dish, Andrew debated Glenn Greenwald on "sentiment" versus "detached purism" and Obama's gay rights record (update here), livechatted about his cover story, defended its comparison of Oba...
"The World's Scariest Drug"

That's how Vice magazine is hyping its half-hour documentary on scopolamine: VICE's Ryan Duffy went to Colombia to check out a strange and powerful drug called Scopolamine, also known as "The Devil's...
Seniors And Civil Marriage

Rob Tisinai highlights a double standard: [I]n 2009 over 110,000 women aged 55 and older got married. That accounted for 5.1% of all marriages that year. The birth rate of women in this group is so sm...
Face Of The Day

This picture taken on May 9, 2012 shows a man begging on a street in Shanghai. China's economic growth of the last 20 years has generally been met with declining happiness, especially among the poores...
Experiments On The Web

A/B testing is changing the way online business is conducted. How it works: Using A/B, new ideas can be essentially focus-group tested in real time: Without being told, a fraction of users are diverte...

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Big Upset in Nebraska

State Sen. Deb Fischer pulls off an upset in the Nebraska GOP Senate primary....
Da Dough Run Run

Depositors withdrew nearly $1 billion (U.S.) from Greek banks Monday....
Everybody's Doing It

Even Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) is evolving on gay rights -- now saying that sexual orientation should not be considered when nominating judges to the state bench....
Yeah, So Uh ...

Speaker Boehner's big threat today to tie up the lame duck session of Congress after the election with a debt limit showdown doesn't amount to much of a threat. Brian Beutler explains why....
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State lawmaker wins Nebraska's GOP Senate primary - MiamiHerald.com

CBS NewsState lawmaker wins Nebraska's GOP Senate primaryMiamiHerald.comBy LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON -- Upstart state Sen. Deb Fischer triumphed in Nebraska's bitterly contested Republican prima...
Romney gets solid wins in Neb., Ore. primaries - Arizona Daily Star

NDTVRomney gets solid wins in Neb., Ore. primariesArizona Daily StarFormer US Sen. Bob Kerrey, at a victory party, hopes to reclaim his Senate seat. The Democrat will run against a tea-party-backed ca...
Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bid - San Jose Mercury News

CBS NewsRole unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bidSan Jose Mercury NewsBy PHILIP ELLIOTT AP FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2004 file photo, President George W. Bush waves as Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romne...
Flame-thrower Mitt - New York Post

New York PostFlame-thrower MittNew York PostBy GEOFF EARLE Bureau Chief WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney yesterday compared the nation's growing debt to a raging prairie fire, and accused President Obam...
Supporter of Oregon medical pot law wins attorney general race - Chicago Tribune

KATUSupporter of Oregon medical pot law wins attorney general raceChicago TribunePORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - In a primary election race for Oregon's top law enforcement post, the candidate who pl...

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GOP Debate: Candidates Say America Should Stay Out of European Debt Crisis

Republican presidential rivals agreed Wednesday night that Europe's countries should rise or fall on their own without any American bailout...
Gov. Rick Perry Compared Homosexuality to Alcoholism in 2008 Book 'On My Honor'

The origin of homosexuality has become something of a political litmus test for presidential candidates, almost akin to their stance on abortion...
Rick Perry's Complicated Relationship with Latinos

To understand Perry's relationship with Latinos, it helps to consider the state he's governed for the last decade...
How Rick Perry Aggressively Pursued Federal Aid He Now Decries

In several cases, the Texas lobbying campaign won funds for programs that Perry now says he opposes as fiscally irresponsible intrusions on state responsibilities...
President Obama at Martha's Vineyard: Bad for the Vacation Spot?

As the First Family heads to this island retreat, one Vineyard lover fears imminent Obamization...

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Obama campaign head gets big book deal

David Plouffe has agreed to a seven-figure deal to write a book about last year's presidential election. “The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory” will...
Officials turn down Franken request

Democrat Al Franken is asking the Minnesota governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.
Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
Franken lead at 49 with absentees left to count

Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49- vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with almost all of the counting in Minnesota's Senate race done.
Minn. Senate winner won't be known in 2008

With the state Canvassing Board ready to award the last pile of votes in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, Democrat Al Franken clung to a narrow lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The final c...

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Romney’s bullying, Obama’s girlfriends: What can we really know about a president, anyway?

Take a step back from the “Mitt Romney, Teen Bully” dust-up, and ask yourself why The Washington Post spent 5,500 words delving into the details of Romney’s prep-school days, or why Barack Obama...
Surprise winner in Nebraska GOP Senate race

State Sen. Deb Fischer won the Republican nomination in Nebraska's Senate race Tuesday, beating odds-on favorite Jon Bruning in a surprise upset. Fischer narrowly edged out the state Attorney General...
Romney: Federal debt ‘threatens what it means to be an American’

Mitt Romney warned Tuesday that out of control government spending "threatens what it means to be American" and pledged that if elected he'll lead the country out of "this debt and spending inferno."...
Tony Perkins on veepstakes: Romney needs help wooing social conservatives

Mitt Romney could ease the concerns of conservative religious leaders who backed his rivals in the Republican primaries by selecting a strong social conservative to be his running mate, says Family Re...
George W. Bush: 'I'm for Mitt Romney'

Mitt Romney has the support of George W. Bush. “I’m for Mitt Romney,” Bush told ABC News this morning as the doors of an elevator closed on him, after he gave a speech on human rights a block fr...

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The War on Pizza?

Congressman introduces legislation that would make it tougher to serve pizza as a vegetable in the school cafeteria.
Federal Budget Office Asks All Agencies to Cut Conference, Travel Costs

Office of Management and Budget has sent a strong anti-waste memo to federal agencies.
Ron Paul Wins the T-Shirt Vote

Rep. Ron Paul tops Obama, beats the pants off of Romney in merchandise sales.
Could Obama's Embarrassment in West Virginia Happen Again?

Obama's energy policies are making him unpopular in coal and manufacturing states like Virginia.
The Republican Congressional Committee Misses Rahm Emanuel

NRCC says Rahm Emanuel knew how to pick candidates in tough districts.

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Romney Heads to Florida

Mitt makes two-day Sunshine State swing, starting Wednesday in St. Petersburg.
Leadership to Convene

PressSec announces POTUS to meet Wednesday with Boehner, McConnell, Reid and Pelosi at the White House.
POTUS Wednesday

Obama holds a roundtable discussion with small business owners and SBA admin. Karen Mills at 10:30 am ET. THEN: President lunches with Congressional leadership at 11:30 am ET. LATER: Meets with SecSta...
Biden Speaks

VP makes Wednesday stop in Youngstown to pitch Ohioans on the auto-recovery.
Obama Awards Medal of Honor

POTUS posthumously bestows nation's highest honor for military service on Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr.

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Margaret Talbot: Obama, gay marriage, and historical inevitability.

One day, not long from now, it will be hard to remember what worried people so much about gay and lesbian couples committing themselves to marriage. And, when that day comes, President Obama’s r...
Lizzie Widdicombe: Activists at the Museum of the City of New York.

Why can’t people in New York just get along? Play by the rules? Respect authority? Sarah Henry, the chief curator of the Museum of the City of New York, has a theory, involving four factors. 1)...
George Packer: Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, an uninspiring race.

Face it: the general-election campaign is under way. Rick Santorum has disappeared, and Newt Gingrich is still politically dead. With the Republican nomination wrapped up, Mitt Romney has dropped the...
Laura Secor: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s farcical election.

On February 29th, two days before parliamentary elections in Iran, I joined a few dozen foreign correspondents—along with official handlers—in the parking lot of the Laleh, a formerly five...
Adam Gopnik: Hollande, Sarkozy, and democracy in France.

The Presidency of France’s Fifth Republic is a monarchical role, shaped to the elongated scale and the grand manners first of Charles de Gaulle and then of François Mitterrand. Although Jac...

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Why Corporate America Shrugged at the Wal-Mart Bribery Scandal

When the New York Times reported last month that Wal-Mart had brazenly been bribing government officials in Mexico, the public responded with anger. According to the Washington Post, th...
Yes, Obama Can Win Arizona This Year

Many commentators responded with incredulity when the Obama campaign announced its intention to win Arizona this year, and with good reason. After all, this was a state that Obama lost by 8.5 points i...
President Obama’s New Role in the Fight Against Black Homophobia

There are many reasons to be glad that President Obama has finally decided to stop dissimulating and openly advocate gay marriage. Not least among them is that he is no longer giving tacit approval to...
All Opposed Say "Neigh": A Flawed Bill to Ban Horse Slaughter

“We’re Americans,” Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu told me two weeks ago in the Russell Senate building in Washington, D.C. “We don’t eat our dogs, and we don’t eat...
How 'Veep' Misses the Tragedy and Comedy of Liberal Politics

I love politics, and I have a sense of humor, but comedic takes on politics usually leave me cold. If there’s an exception, it’s the work of the Scottish director Armando Ianucci. His 2007...

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Health costs: Is Mass. the only model?

What about Vermont? (Not to mention Maryland)...
For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers

Political ads may not be all "gravy" for local stations—but they're still an awfully good deal...
What it takes to win the White House

A review of Samuel L. Popkin’s The Candidate...
Pushing back, making connections

Michigan political reporters have a job to do...
In Nevada, a candidate’s fecklessness on full display

Some sharp interview questions leave a congressional hopeful squirming...

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'Joe The Plumber' Race A 'Microcosm' Of 2012 Politics

The conservative known for his role in the 2008 presidential election is taking on a veteran Democrat in a new Ohio district. An analyst calls the race a microcosm of "the culture wars that are going...
Coming To A Political Campaign Near You: Outside Money, And Lots Of It

Congressional candidates are increasingly raising money from supporters and groups who are ideological and outside their district — leaving some to say local voters and local issues are playing seco...
Candidates Set In High-Stakes Neb. Senate Race

Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, setting the stage for a high-stakes November election against former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey.
Court Action May Lift Anonymity For Some Campaign Donors

As of now, nonprofit groups that want to run campaign ads within two months of the general election will have to reveal the names of their donors. That's because a federal appeals court refused to sta...
Records Show Edwards Paid Mistress $9,000 A Month

The trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards continued Tuesday in North Carolina. Edwards is accused of accepting almost a million dollars in secret payments to cover up an affair with his...

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Wednesday's Mini-Report

WEDNESDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * Bahrain: "Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into Pearl Square here late into the night as Shiite opposition leaders issued ass...
The need for partisan cover

THE NEED FOR PARTISAN COVER.... For all the talk about "entitlements" as the budget fight(s) begins in earnest, it's worth noting that congressional Republicans aren't exactly on the same pa...
House rebuffs Boehner, scraps F-35 Jet Engine Program

HOUSE REBUFFS BOEHNER, SCRAPS F-35 JET ENGINE PROGRAM.... Following up on an earlier item, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OhIo) asked for a few billion dollars to build a jet engine for the Pentagon th...
Giving the GOP's 'So Be It' response a closer look

GIVING THE GOP'S 'SO BE IT' RESPONSE A CLOSER LOOK.... As House Speaker John Boehner's "so be it" problem continues to percolate, I was glad to see some Republican officials take the time to...
A new standard for 'seriousness'

A NEW STANDARD FOR 'SERIOUSNESS'.... The political establishment's preoccupation with deficit reduction -- as opposed to, say, job creation -- is annoying enough on its own. What's worse is the presup...

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The Greying of Green?

The writing is on the wall—in increasingly large type.
Janine Turner: It’s Time for TRUTH

Radical common sense.
Hamas Elections Solidify Split from Palestinian Authority

Still, Western media pretends the split never happened.
A Life ‘Destroyed’ by China’s Forced Abortions Tells All to Congress

Plus Chen Guangcheng, crusader against the "darkness" of this human-rights violation, calls into a hearing again with disturbing updates.
Un continente en ascenso

Hará América Latina los cambios necesarios para alcanzar todo su potencial económico?

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1997 Fordham Law Review article: Elizabeth Warren was Harvard’s ‘first woman of color’

Obviously...
Transparency update: Donors told to hand over cell phones upon entering Obama fundraisers

Confidentiality we can believe in...
#ObamaInHistory

If you don’t know what this Twitter trending hashtag is about, you’re missing out. Get in the know at Twitchy.
Noted MSNBC mocker of Sarah Palin’s intellect doesn’t do so well on Jeopardy

Glass houses, stones, etc.
The hits keep coming: Project Veritas exposes non-citizens, dead people registered to vote in NC — and so much more

Fraud? What voter fraud? While progressives continue to deny, deny, deny, investigative journalist James O’Keefe and Project Veritas continues to expose, expose, expose. The latest target: North...

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Open thread for night owls: Frackin' up the atmosphere

At Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, Jim Naureckas writes: You have to wonder: Do journalists covering energy issues imagine they and their loved ones are going to be living on another planet in t...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Tuesday brings mixed signals all over the polling map

Some conventional wisdom got sorely tested today, in the relatively smallish sampling of polls released on this primary Tuesday (if you are voting in Nebraska, Idaho, and Oregon). President Obama is i...
More than 230,000 lose unemployment benefits in eight states due to cuts

More than 230,000 people stopped being eligible for unemployment insurance benefits over the weekend—not because they got jobs, but because the emergency extended benefits program providing their be...
Elizabeth Warren presses for more financial reform, Scott Brown doesn't want to talk about it

Elizabeth Warren (Facebook) Elizabeth Warren is keeping up the drumbeat on the need for further financial reform in the wake of JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion trading loss. She released a radio ad tod...
John Boehner: Bring on the next debt ceiling hostage crisis

John Boehner, debt ceiling drama queen. Call it an electoral death wish or a leadership hail mary. Either way, House Speaker John Boehner is calling for future debt ceiling drama. In remarks at the 2...

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Morning Must Reads: Regression

NYT/CBS poll finds Romney narrowly ahead, leading Obama among independents and women, despite an uptick in economic optimism. The public detects the whiff of politics in the President’s gay marr...
Bashing Bain: Why Obama’s New Attacks on Romney Might Not Work

The much-heralded and long-awaited Obama campaign media attack on Mitt Romney began Monday with a reporter conference call and the release of two videos bemoaning the pain caused after Romney’s form...
At Barnard, President Obama Is Optimistic, Blames The Messenger

Don’t believe the hype. That was President Obama’s message to Barnard College’s 2012 graduating class. Though he used more words: This recession has been more brutal, the job losses...
Ron Paul Stops Active Campaigning, Vows Continued Delegate Fight

Ron Paul on Monday announced he will scale back his already diminished presidential campaign, effectively ending his longshot bid for the Republican nomination. In an e-mail that took the tone of a va...
The Politics of the JPMorgan Mess: A Footnote for Obama and Romney’s Existing Attacks

Forget the particulars of JPMorgan’s $2 billion blunder, if it might have been stopped by a robust Volcker Rule or who would’ve done what differently. Here’s what you need to know ab...

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Ron Paul Campaign Pull Back: Clarifications from the Campaign

A conference call Tuesday morning for the press with Jesse Benton of the Ron Paul campaign strove to clarify that in fact Ron Paul is not dropping out or suspending his campaign, though he still...
Columbia Professor and Students Reveal Texas Justice Executed the Wrong Man in 1989

Ann Coulter, George W. Bush, and Justice Anton Scalia have one thing in common; all of them have at some point expressed total confidence in the American justice system and, in particular, its abi...
Court Says NSA Doesn't Have to Disclose Its Relationship With Google

Saying that the National Security Agency has a history of poking its nose into other people's business understates the case — the NSA basically exists to creep the world out with over-the-top an...
Is the ObamaCare Legal Challenge Just a Shadowy Libertarian Plot to Repeal the New Deal?

Writing at The New Republic, George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen shares his fears about the growing influence of libertarian legal ideas on the conservative legal movement. Of...
Watch Brian Doherty and Rand Paul Talk About Ron Paul Live on C-SPAN at 6 PM ET!

Can't make tonight's super-duper event at The Cato Institute featuring Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) talking about Ron Paul's rEVOLution: The Man And the Movement H...

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Colorado legislature meets on civil unions

The Colorado legislature met Monday in extraordinary session to consider a number of bills that were not brought to the floor last week, chief among them a civil-unions bill that has strong bipartisan...
JPMorgan makes Wall Street regulation a campaign issue again

Even as his campaign portrays him as a champion of the middle class and a crusader to keep Wall Street from melting down as it did three years ago, President Barack Obama was set to leave New York Mon...
Leahy urges court to 'do right thing,' on health care

In an unusual message to the Supreme Court, a leading Democratic senator urged the court to "do the right thing" and uphold the health care reform law championed by President Obama and congressional D...
Congress threatens health services survey

Americans needing health insurance or disability services could be overlooked by their local governments if a bill now being considered by the Senate passes. It would eliminate a survey that some call...
Hearing scheduled on Secret Service scandal

The Senate Homeland Security Committee has scheduled a public hearing on the prostitution scandal involving U.S. military and Secret Service agents in Colombia.

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Fischer wins GOP Senate primary in Nebraska, CNN projects

(CNN) - Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer will win the Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat, CNN projects, and will face the winner of the Democratic primary, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, in November. S...
Romney wins Oregon primary, CNN projects

(CNN) – Mitt Romney will win Oregon's Republican presidential primary, CNN projects.
Obama to accept on night of MTV awards

(CNN) – President Barack Obama plans to deliver an acceptance speech on the night of the MTV Music Video Awards in September. Obama's speech, however, won't be for a statuette of one of the moon...
Ron Paul backers' plan: Transform the GOP

Arlington, Virginia (CNN) - Ron Paul supporters have a plan. As they doggedly work the Republican system from the ground up, electing more of their team as delegates to the Republican National Convent...
Kerrey wins Dem Senate primary in Nebraska, CNN projects

(CNN) – Former Sen. Bob Kerrey will win the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska, CNN projects. Sen. Ben Nelson, a Democrat, is retiring, leaving an open race.

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Obama the Sphinx

President Obama officially launched his push for peace in the Middle East yesterday, sending his new envoy George Mitchell to the region and declaring his desire for genuine progress -- "not just phot...
Is Reaching Out Futile?

In his first weekly address from the White House, President Obama on Saturday described his proposed $820 billion economic stimulus plan in more detail and appealed for public support.
Return to the Moral High Ground

All it took, at long last, was a few strokes of a pen.
'A Pretty Good Place to Start'

President Obama often spoke during the campaign about a new kind of politics. He promised a common-sense way of running the country that defied left-right stereotypes.
Picking Up the Pieces

What a difference a day makes.

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Virgins for Putin

And you thought American campaign ads were obnoxious... From Russia (via Buzzfeed.com), here comes an incredibly tacky, and very revealing, Putin ad. Text: Fortune teller [0:01]: Now we'll see, my bea...
Sununu Talks Up Granite State Tradition

HAMPTON FALLS, N.H. - The Granite State may be just a slight clip behind Iowa in launching momentum in the GOP presidential primary race, which is picking up this week, but it is poised to hold on to...
Barbour Criticizes Obama on Collective Bargaining

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Wednesday defended his Republican colleague, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and suggested that President Obama had been hypocritical in boasting about freezing pay f...
Gingrich Could Reap Rewards if He Jumps in First

A statement released by Newt Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler late Tuesday night raised more questions than it answered when it denied widespread reports that the former House speaker would announce the...
Pawlenty Releases Tea Party-Themed Video

On the heels of his speech at the Tea Party Patriots' policy summit in Phoenix over the weekend, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has released a new video designed to highlight his solidarity with t...

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