“Ralph Reed” on The Daily Caller

Behind most politicians are a bunch of young, overworked, tired and randy staffers, says Lisa Baron, author of the new memoir, “LIFE OF THE PARTY: A Political Press Tart Bares All.” (more)

Monday night, five potential Republican presidential candidates gathered in Waukee, Iowa to woo social conservatives in the early primary state with their conservative credentials. They panned the left, President Barack Obama, and even one of their own – Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, who has yet to decide whether or not he will enter the Republican primary. (more)

PHOENIX (AP) — Antsy for results, tea party supporters gathered for a weekend strategy summit say they’re intent on making sure the Republicans they helped return to power last fall live up to promises to dramatically change course in Washington. (more)

As high-school seniors across the country ready themselves for the grueling college application process, we at The Daily Caller have compiled a definitive ranking of America’s very best colleges. Over the next several days, we will lay out what schools made the cut. (more)

Some of the most conservative and combative Republicans running for Congress are convinced that the media have it in for them. (more)

Heritage Action for America, the Heritage Foundation’s grassroots advocacy spin-off, is urging congressional leaders to sign on to Iowa Rep. Steve King’s discharge petition, aimed at repealing Obamacare. (more)

In the ’90s, way back in the 20^th century, guys like Ralph Reed brought the Republican Party into the cutting edge of the age of technology. It seems so long ago, before the technology bubble burst, before the housing and credit markets burst and the private sector was larger than the public sector. It seems so long ago, but it was only a few years. (more)

Barack Obama’s poll numbers have plummeted further and faster than any incumbent president in modern times. Then came passage of Obamacare. With it a new conventional wisdom took hold: Obama is Superman! The diffident and detached intellectual had entered the final legislative battle over Obamacare as Jimmy Carter and emerged as Franklin Roosevelt. Amidst huzzahs from the lamestream media, Obama showed he could inspire both fear and enthusiasm, bending Congress to his will and forcing passage of the most sweeping social legislation since Medicare in 1965 and Social Security in 1935. Correspondingly, the media predicted, his base would snap out of its comatose stupor and rush to the polls to punish do-nothing Republicans who had sold their souls to the far right and the Tea Party crowd. (more)

CBN News has the presser: (more)

Barack Obama was inaugurated as president one year ago Wednesday to the hosannas of the mainstream media. He strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue hand-in-hand with his wife Michelle, exuding the confidence of a man basking in sky-high poll numbers that approached 70 percent. What a difference a year makes. (more)