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Though David and Nancy French deny it, campaign finance experts say the couple’s group looks like a thinly disguised extension of the Romney campaign. “They appear to be able to spend lots of money, but won’t say where it comes from,” says Fred Wertheimer, founder and President of Democracy 21. “It is circumstantial evidence, but it suggests this is a shell group for a Romney operation.”
Callista Gingrich is probably the most recognizable spouse in the 2012 Republican presidential field. It’s not just her trademark look: the pastel suit; the perfect blonde coif; the frozen smile. It is that she is always there. In a campaign where some candidates’ partners are almost invisible–many political junkies probably couldn’t pick Herman Cain’s wife, [...]
When Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign was at its zenith over the summer, the gay rights group Truth Wins Out sent an undercover operative into the Christian therapy clinic her husband Marcus operates in Lake Elmo, Minn. John Becker’s hidden camera captured one of the Bachmann’s therapists agreeing to help try to turn Becker from [...]
Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman and perhaps even the surging Newt Gingrich might not have a shot at winning Virginia’s Republican presidential primary. As worried GOP officials in the state explain, that’s partly because there’s a chance some Republican presidential candidates might not even appear on the ballot. Virginia’s primary, which takes place on March 6–Super [...]
The former boyfriend of Sharon Bialek, the woman who has accused Herman Cain of groping her back in 1997, backed up some of Bialek’s story on Monday. The press conference by Shreveport, La., pediatrician Dr. Victor Zuckerman won’t sink Cain’s presidential aspirations, but it does add some credibility to Bialek’s assertions. Zuckerman said Monday that [...]
Two of the women who have accused presidential hopeful Herman Cain of sexual harassment have agreed to appear together at a joint press conference to discuss the specifics – and similarities – of their complaints against Cain. Joel Bennett, the attorney for Karen Kraushaar, who settled a sexual harassment complaint against Cain with the National [...]
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a stunning piece on Monday unraveling the twisted, potentially illegal financial spider web connecting Herman Cain’s presidential campaign and Prosperity USA, a Wisconsin corporation founded by Cain campaign manager Mark Block and his deputy Linda Hansen. According to internal company records, Prosperity USA gave the Cain campaign $40,000 for iPads, [...]
If you didn’t recognize Mark Block at the beginning of this week, chances are you do now. He is Herman Cain’s campaign manager, perhaps better known as the guy with the mustache in Cain’s viral campaign video who says, “Herman Cain will put United back in the United States of America,” before taking a drag [...]
Well-connected GOP operatives in New Hampshire, Florida and South Carolina say they see little or no evidence of Herman Cain’s campaign in those key early primary states, and some are even unable to name who is leading his localized efforts just a little more than two months before voters are expected to cast the first ballots of the presidential race.
Presidential hopeful Herman Cain isn’t just a former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and head of the National Restaurant Association. He is also a prolific writer, who produces a weekly opinion column syndicated by the North Star Writers Group. The columns have ranged from heavy economic pontification to colorful treatises on topics like why Tiger Woods [...]
Michael Morton faced a throng of reporters last Tuesday just after a Texas judge freed him following 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Now gray-haired and 57, Morton looked on the bright side. “I thank God that this was not a capital case,” he said. In the final years of [...]
On Monday I had a meeting on Capitol Hill with the chief of staff of a black representative in Congress. The subject: race and the 2012 election. Surprisingly, one topic that did not come up in the hour-long chat was the Washington Post front-page story on Sunday that seemed to portray Texas Gov. Rick Perry [...]
Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted of murder for killing his three daughters in a late 1991 house fire after a prosecution based almost entirely on a forensic fire analysis performed by an assistant fire chief and a state deputy fire marshal in the days after the blaze. Two weeks before Willingham’s execution date in 2004, famed arson analyst Gerald Hurst took a fresh look at the case.
The origin of homosexuality has become something of a political litmus test for presidential candidates, almost akin to their stance on abortion. Candidates are now expected to explain whether or not they believe homosexuality is a hard-wired predisposition. It’s an important distinction, and how candidates broach the issue can really matter. Just ask Ken Buck, [...]
It’s never a good sign when congressional staffers feel the need to reassure reporters that their boss does not hate women. But that’s where Florida Republican Rep. Allen West’s staff have found themselves on Thursday. “He has been married to a Ph.D. for 20 years, he has two teenage daughters,” spokeswoman Angela Sachitano told TIME. [...]
The therapists at Bachmann & Associates aren’t very good at turning gay people straight. I don’t just mean that the Lake Elmo, Minn., based Christian therapy clinic, founded by Rep. Michele Bachmann’s husband, professional counselor Marcus Bachmann, don’t know how to turn gays straight. Doctors say nobody does. Mainstream medicine has pretty much universally rejected [...]
Rep. Rob Wittman, the Virginia Republican leading a House subcommittee hearing on the burial scandal at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, noted at one point that the Army had promised to determine the correct location and identity of every person buried at Arlington. “It seems to me that now we have learned that the Army [...]
Since they can’t agree on much else, maybe Congress can come to a consensus on a resolution to keep Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe out of the pilot’s seat. The Smoking Gun has obtained FAA documents that show Inhofe, who’s a licensed private pilot, landed his Cessna plane on a closed runway last October in Port [...]
There is new criticism of the Army’s high-profile effort to train mental toughness into soldiers so they can better handle the stress of repeated combat tours. This time, the critique comes from a group of psychologists who say the program appears to be scientific research without consent. The Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program is a [...]
Stark similarities between the stricken nuclear plant in Japan and dozens of sites in the United States continue to emerge, suggesting that under similar drastic scenarios, the United States might face the same kind of disaster. It’s unclear what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or Congress are prepared to do about it, but they do have [...]
