On his Saturday radio show on WABC in New York City, “Kudlow Report” host Larry Kudlow voiced his displeasure with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s attacks on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s association with Bain Capital. (more)
President Barack Obama has begun trying to reach military voters from the campaign trail, praising soldiers’ accomplishments and scaling back his portrayal of soldiers as wounded warriors dependent on government services. (more)
Several of the audience members asking questions at Tuesday night’s GOP foreign policy debate have close ties to two different presidential candidates: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (more)
Despite Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s consistent calls for increased teacher salaries, a new study says that most public school teachers aren’t actually being underpaid. (more)
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain refused to answer questions Monday morning about a report that two women made sexual harassment allegations against him during the 1990s. (more)
Herman Cain said that if he were to dress up for Halloween as one of his Republican political opponents to scare people, it would be Texas Rep. Ron Paul. (more)
On the day of the CNN/Western Republican Leadership Conference debate in Las Vegas, the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute and CNN jointly announced Tuesday that they will host a Republican presidential debate focused on foreign policy and national security. (more)
While the latest jobs numbers were better than expected, millions of Americans continue to look for work. (more)
John Bolton recently sat down with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas for a wide-ranging interview in which he touched on the possibility he will run for president in 2012. (more)
It was certain to attract this sort of response, but Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan released his budget plan going forward that includes some sweeping changes to federal expenditures, including entitlement spending. (more)
White House officials are scheduling two more out-of-town trips this week to showcase the President’s energy strategy, possibly marking an uptick in concern about the political impact of rising gas prices. (more)
While groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and Koch Industries often get chided for the political spending, green groups are making their fair share of financial contributions to political causes, too. (more)
In an interview set to air on CNN’s Sunday broadcast of “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz sharply criticized the White House for its lack of response to the turmoil unfolding in Libya. (more)
The threat of a potential government shutdown as a result of the ongoing congressional continuing resolution (CR) battle has the leaders of the nation’s different Tea Party activist groups split. The CR would fund the federal government until Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year, because the Congress never passed a 2011 budget. (more)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie captivated his audience at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on Wednesday afternoon with a speech focused on what he called the “big things.” For him, the very biggest is getting America’s fiscal house in order – even if it means cutting entitlement spending. (more)
Some leaders of Tea Party groups say there are no “sacred cows” when it comes to spending cuts in Washington, and the traditionally Republican Party-protected Department of Defense budget is no exception — while other leaders in the grassroots movement say they are wary of cutting funds necessary to protect the nation. (more)
Sen. Jeff Sessions struck a defiant tone Monday toward President Obama in advance of the State of the Union address, saying he does not think the president is serious about deficit reduction and that the GOP should fight him the same way that Newt Gingrich fought Bill Clinton in the mid-90′s. (more)
State governments are beginning to choose one of two directions to dig out of deep budget deficits, and the resulting clash of visions between raising taxes or cutting spending has some conservatives salivating at the contrast between liberal and conservative philosophies of how to create economic growth. (more)
NPR recently ran a two-part series on media bias. The reports, by David Folkenflik, were quite good, with a couple major flaws. Folkenflik ignored the question of who gets hired by the major media and why. Isn’t it time to do a nuts-and-bolts investigation of who gets brought on to the Washington Post, New York Times, CBS, et al, and who does not? Answering that question may answer why the media has lost its capacity to report fairly, not to mention delight, compel, and surprise — characteristics that, idiotic pronouncements about “objectivity” aside, are part of what makes good journalism. (more)
