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One of the difficulties of print journalism is that news just keeps happening, sometimes right after your deadline–and so it was last night. I had just put to bed a column about the accelerating foolishness of the Republican presidential campaign, which TIME subscribers can read here, when Herman Cain took things to a whole new [...]
The number of times Rick Santorum has visited Iowa since June, including 37 stops in the last month alone, according to the Washington Post‘s nifty primary tracker. Herman Cain, meanwhile, has set foot in the Hawkeye State once during the last 30 days.
The Cain campaign tries to blame harassment leaks on Perry, which is both impossible to prove and irrelevant to the allegations. It loses him some conservative defenders. Team Perry denies any role and then, inexplicably, says Romney probably did it. Romney declines to criticize anyone but the DNC, probably while sketching out a nomination acceptance speech in his [...]
A lot of comparisons have been drawn between George W. Bush and Rick Perry. Critics have said both Texas governors weren’t smart enough to be President and relied too heavily on a circle of smart advisers. But in Texas, pols say those criticisms are too simplistic and there are significant differences between the two, the [...]
It’s not often that you hear teachers should be paid less. In fact, it’s almost always the exact opposite. From teachers unions to education reformers, the refrain that teachers are underpaid is a constant. So, when conservative thinkers at the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation issued a paper on Tuesday arguing not only that teachers are overpaid, but that total compensation for teachers is 52% higher than fair market value, it was bound to be controversial.
President Barack Obama told an Omaha news program on Tuesday that he will make the final decision whether to permit construction of the proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline, and whether to require that it be routed away from the Ogallala aquifer, which supplies 2 million people in the plains states with drinking water.
From humble roots to corporate success and his now controversial tenure at the National Restaurant Association, TIME examines GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain’s life in pictures.
The Obama Administration’s latest windmill tilting on its plan to juice the economy takes the form a colorful infographic posted to the White House blog under the heading “What a Jobs Plan Looks Like.” The two columns provide a comparison of Democratic and Republican stimulus proposals in the Senate, replete with the rosiest poll numbers [...]
Continuing the barrage of attacks against Mitt Romney, an outside group allied with President Obama on Wednesday unveiled a web ad depicting the former Massachusetts governor as a candidate who would put corporate and Tea Party interests ahead of the middle class.
–Kevin Smith, the host of a New Hampshire dinner last Friday at which Rick Perry gave a bizarrely manic speech.
