Potential presidential candidate Newt Gingrich quietly lined up $150,000 to help defeat Iowa justices who threw out a ban on same-sex marriage, routing the money to conservative groups through an aide's political committee.
Hawaii Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, 86, said Wednesday he won't seek re-election next year, the fifth member of the Senate Democratic Caucus to decide not to face the voters in 2012.
How that ultimately plays out would appear to depend, as another Democratic president once said in a different context, on what the meaning of the words "really good" is. What we know beyond dispute, however, after Mr. Obama's decision Wednesday to disregard unilaterally his executive duty to defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) against legal challenges, is that he is the most radical leftist president this country has ever had.
Throughout his Monday column about President Obama speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ted Nugent implies that everything America is or ever hopes to be is tied to business ("Hell just froze over," Commentary).
As scientists learn ever more about genetics, they may soon discover the Chinese have two unique strands of DNA: a gambling gene and another for hospitality.
It's amazing what getting "shellacked" in an election will do to a president. Instead of pandering to and embracing unions, condemning Wal-Mart and telling Joe the Plumber of the need to spread the wealth around, President Obama addressed the business community by speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
There are plenty of reasons to be dubious about President Obama's forced fence-mending efforts with the business community as he begins his 2012 campaign for a second term. His stout defense Monday of a mountain of job-killing business regulations before what was described as a "polite, subdued audience" at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce signaled that business has well-deserved doubts about him, too.
President Obama on Monday offered an olive branch — and a lecture — to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saying they can find common ground on expanding trade and cutting regulations, but also telling top business leaders that they have to "get in the game" by investing sidelined cash and hiring workers.
President Obama on Monday offered an olive branch — and a lecture — to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saying they can find common ground on expanding trade and cutting regulations, but also telling top business leaders that they have to "get in the game" by investing sidelined cash and hiring workers.
