1.) Santorum Soars — Stories of Rick Santorum’s political demise seem to have been premature. Since edging out Mitt Romney to win the Iowa caucuses, Santorum hasn’t experienced another victory — until Tuesday. The AP reports: (more)
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson’s Monday interview with radio host Scott Ledger has been burning up Twitter. The hour-long conversation about the “Truther” movement pitted Ledger, a believer in conspiracy theories about 9/11, against Carlson, a no-nonsense journalist who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. (more)
CHICAGO, Ill. — At an extravagant penthouse apartment in downtown Chicago, The Daily Caller dined with former terrorists Sunday night. (more)
On “Fox & Friends” Monday morning, The Daily Caller’s senior editor, Jamie Weinstein, discussed TheDC’s Sunday night dinner with former Weather Underground leaders and friends of President Obama Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. (more)
1.) End the Fed? Let’s start with the SOTU — If you thought Monday night’s GOP primary debate was enthralling, you probably loved President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Fulfilling a presidential tradition of boring Congress into submission once a year with an interminably long speech, President Obama performed marvelously. TheDC’s Neil Munro gives the details: (more)
Tucker Carlson, meet Bill Ayers. (more)
On Hugh Hewitt’s Thursday radio show, National Review columnist Mark Steyn challenged the notion that George Stephanopoulos’s strange line of debate questioning last Saturday night was inspired by a drive for ratings. (more)
Washington, D.C. — The Daily Caller celebrated two years online today, with record traffic of over 1.9 million unique visitors during the week of January 2–8. Readership has grown to more than 3.6 million monthly unique visitors, and traffic increased more than 100 percent during 2011. (more)
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson will have a very special dinner date before the end of 2012 — with Bill Ayers. Yes, that Bill Ayers. (more)
Good news, guys: Researchers from Northumbria University in England have determined the dance qualities that women find most attractive in men. (more)
The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks saddens us, inspires us, and steels our collective national resolve. The Daily Caller invites you to share in a gripping portrait of reflections on this somber and universally stirring occasion. (more)
The Daily Caller may be making waves in the new media landscape, but last Thursday night it was Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson’s turn to make a splash. (more)
The current meltdown on Capitol Hill comes as no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention for the last 30 years. It’s been obvious for decades that at some point the U.S. government would be unable to make good on the promises it has made to its citizens. There isn’t enough money in the country to pay for it all. (more)
The debt limit plan designed by Senator Mitch McConnell is political engineering of the highest order: Take a thorny issue with lots of angles, distill it to its political essence and come up with a way to minimize your pain and maximize your benefit. No, the plan doesn’t reduce the size of the federal debt by one dollar. It doesn’t limit government or expand freedom, nor does it punish President Obama for failing to do the same. It may, however, give Republican officeholders an issue to run on in the next election cycle. For that reason, many in the Republican leadership consider it brilliant. (more)
Rep. Paul Ryan released a video about Medicare yesterday that you can watch on The Daily Caller. It is a compelling and substantive argument about the nature of the fiscal problems we face and the solutions he and other Republicans are offering. It’s almost certainly doomed. Unless his allies step forward quickly to bolster his points with an effective political argument, Ryan’s ideas will die a swift death. (more)
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Just a year after The Daily Caller’s launch, the Columbia Journalism Review says TheDC deserves as much recognition as anyone online for publishing original Washington reporting. (more)
Editor’s Note: Have a question for Matt Labash? Submit it here (more)
1.) House Republicans have not announced what they would cut from budget if they had power to cut budget — “House Republican leaders are so far not specifying which programs would bear the brunt of budget cutting, only what would escape it: spending for the military, domestic security and veterans,” reports the New York Times. “The reductions that would be required in the remaining federal programs, including education and transportation, would be so deep — roughly 20 percent on average — that Senate Republicans have not joined the $100 billion pledge that House Republicans, led by the incoming speaker, Representative John A. Boehner, made to voters before November’s midterm elections.” Even with security/defense/old people/catfood cuts off the table, there are still a few agencies that could stand to lose some weight: FCC, both DoE’s, FDA, IRS, NASA, &c. We could go on, but why bother? “Even if adopted by the House, the Republicans’ budget is unlikely to be enacted in anything like the scale they envision, since Democrats retain a majority in the Senate and President Obama could veto annual appropriations bills making the reductions.” (more)
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson drew a lot of criticism throughout the media last week as the fill-in host on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” when he took on the issue of Michael Vick and the public perception of his so-called comeback. (more)
