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Texas governor and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry still knows about as much about monetary policy as Sarah Palin knows about American history—or, for that matter, about monetary policy—but maybe there was a glimmer of insight in Perry’s dopey rant about Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke’s treasonous plot to re-elect President Obama. Because if you [...]
I’m skeptical about Rick Perry’s sudden lead in Republican primary polling, which has some people declaring Mitt Romney’s campaign in a state of emergency. For one thing, Romney has lain awfully low this summer, whereas Perry’s been ubiquitous since he swaggered into the 2012 race this month. Perry has been the man of action this [...]
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week, from the Beltway and beyond.
Jon Huntsman, who is running last in the latest Gallup poll and first in the magazine-profile primary, earned another encomium this week, this one from Michael Brendan Dougherty of The American Conservative. The piece does a good job of laying out Huntsman’s record, which, as the author points out, is more conservative than you might [...]
Just one part of Andrew Rotherham’s very good Q&A with Education Secretary Arne Duncan: How do you respond to critics who say that linking waivers to conditions [such as improving teacher evaluations or data systems] goes beyond the authority you have under the law? Secretary Spellings had waiver authority and used it. We’re doing the same [...]
I interrupt my personal boycott of the artist formerly known as Glenn Beck because…I just can’t resist this. Here is what Beck said about his recent sojourns in the Holy Land: ”I love the Israelis, he said. “I love the Jewish people. But they drive me out of my mind when they talk over each [...]
Jamie Radtke announced she was running for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia last December, a month after five Tea Party upstarts swept into the chamber in the anti-incumbent wave. A rising star at the center of the commonwealth’s thriving Tea Party movement, Radtke “was supposed to be the Tea Party’s next giant-killer,” Dave Weigel [...]
Bernanke set to speak from Jackson Hole. Politics is stifling monetary policy, writes Paul Krugman. Having rescued Bank of America, Warren Buffett turns to the Obama campaign. George Pataki won’t run. Sorry Mike.
Since his entry into the GOP presidential race earlier this month, Rick Perry has rocketed to the top of national polls and attained frontrunner status. The position of the Anybody But Mitt candidate, briefly occupied by Michele Bachmann from June to early August, is now Perry’s. The man who hosted an evangelical Christian prayer-rally-slash-revival would [...]
He’s the guy who bucked the Obama administration on a nationwide investigation into foreclosure fraud and got booted from the executive committee of state attorneys general who are working to reach a settlement with banks. The disagreement between Schneiderman, New York’s AG, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, HUD’s Shaun Donovan and Iowa Attorney General Tom [...]
