Between now and August 2, Congress is highly likely to vote to raise the federal debt limit. And yet, much of what you read and hear seems to suggest otherwise. News headlines are forbidding. Business gurus issue dark warnings; …
Seven Republican presidential hopefuls will take the stage Monday night at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. With the possible exception of Mitt Romney, none of them have as much riding on the Granite State as Jon Huntsman. And yet the former Utah governor will be watching the debate on television, capping a day spent in …
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Newt Gingrich vowed to continue his presidential bid on Thursday afternoon after a slew of campaign staffers staged a mass exodus that raised questions about the future of the campaign.
“I am committed to …
The Anthony Weiner apology tour is not going well. Two days after the weepy press conference at which Weiner copped to swapping inappropriate online messages with multiple women, the chorus of Democrats criticizing him continues …
Once again, Herman Cain was in Iowa Monday, brimming with confidence as he pitched his presidential candidacy to voters. “This is where the vetting process really starts,” he told the crowd at a forum hosted by Iowa conservative …
Mitt Romney isn’t the only Mormon candidate making his case to evangelicals at the Faith and Freedom Coalition. Jon Huntsman delivered a deft speech Friday morning, one that provided a peek at the pitch he’ll be making to social conservatives as he continues to explore a possible presidential bid.
President Obama clashed with House Republicans at a White House confab, the Dow plummeted amid heightening fears of a catastrophic default and new reports revealed anemic job growth. Meanwhile, Washington spent its Wednesday atwitter over Chris Christie’s helicopter, the Palin-Trump pizza summit and Anthony Weiner’s Twitter …
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Jon Huntsman’s first trip to New Hampshire was a get-to-know-you affair, a chance to showcase his skills as a retail politician as he hopscotched through gun shops, VFW halls and living rooms. By virtually all accounts it was a success. The press coverage was fawning, even as Huntsman ducked policy inquiries, …
The conventional wisdom among the political punditry is that 2012 Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney will be hamstrung by the health-insurance plan he helped craft as governor of Massachusetts, which included a mandate to purchase insurance. That may not be true.
In conservative circles, the health-insurance mandate has become …
We ink-stained wretches have a habit of hyping the new new thing. We speculate breathlessly about the next model of iPhone, turn the NFL draft into a three-day spectacle, deploy packs of reporters to tail a Fox News commentator on a family bus tour of the mid-Atlantic. This tendency is particularly strong when it dovetails with our gift …
Vowing to help assemble “the most robust, aggressive presidential campaign in history,” Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the new chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, lashed Barack Obama’s Republican opponents in terms the …
Jared Loughner, the suspect in a January massacre that left six dead and 14 wounded in a Tucson shopping center, has been declared mentally unfit to stand trial by a federal judge. The ruling, issued Wednesday afternoon during a hearing in a Tucson courtroom, will send Loughner to a federal mental-health facility for treatment and delay …
Democrat Kathy Hochul won a special congressional election in Western New York on Tuesday night, riding a wave of discontent over Paul Ryan’s budget to an upset victory in a staunchly conservative district.
The Associated …
