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The highlights of Thursday night’s Fox News/Google debate in Orlando, Florida, were predictable: Carefully aimed questions from the moderators set up the same back-and-forths between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on Social Security, jobs and health care that have transpired in recent debates.
Jonesboro, Arkansas I’ve got to take a break from road trip posting–there’ll be more tomorrow morning–to say: Finally! And Hoorah. Finally, the U.S. is acknowledging what some of us have been reporting for years: the Haqqani Taliban network is an asset of the Pakistani military. This means we’ve been played for suckers for the past [...]
–House Speaker John Boehner, expressing his confidence that Wednesday’s failed vote on a bill to fund the government after Sept. 30 does not mean that a government shutdown is likely.
Given how preoccupied everyone is with the economy, education is even less of an issue in this presidential campaign than usual. Most of the Republican candidates do not even include education positions on their websites. And the two GOP heavyweights who have garnered the best reviews from education reformers on both sides of the aisle [...]
Rick Perry’s whirlwind arrival on the presidential stage has made him a Texas-sized character in Americans’ political imaginations. But some early black-and-white images of Perry’s life and politics don’t quite square with the more nuanced facts.
Little Rock, Arkansas First things first, I have a new print column lurking here, behind the paywall, about my frolics with the Miller County Patriots down in Texarkana a few days ago. To make a long story short, the Patriots raised some very valid points about government intrusion into their own lives–very similar to the [...]
The percentage of 18- to 25-year-olds without health insurance in the U.S. The uninsured rate among young Americans has dropped almost 4% since last year when the Affordable Care Act was passed, according to Gallup. The new law allows children to stay on their parents’ health insurance until age 26.
Pleasant Hill, Iowa Bob Vander Plaats is a 48-year-old former high-school principal, three-time failed candidate for Iowa’s governorship and the head of a Des Moines-area Christian conservative advocacy group called the FAMiLY LEADER. On the national stage, Vander Plaats, who chaired Mike Huckabee’s Hawkeye State efforts four years ago, is known mostly for his unabashed [...]
A stop-gap federal funding measure fails the House as the Republican leadership loses Democrats on disaster funding and the Tea Party over spending cuts. Boehner and Cantor have a tough task avoiding a shut down. The flaw in the Fed’s twist.
