Chuck Norris — yes, everyone’s favorite ranger-cum-martial artist — is set to tour this weekend in support of Iowa gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats. Plaats, a social conservative, is in an uphill GOP race against former Gov. Terry Branstad, who ruled the Hawkeye State for 16 years during the ’80s and ’90s. And they’re …
The New York Times reported this morning that legislation regulating abortions is abounding at the state level, but the movement isn’t on a much larger scale than previous years — about 600 abortion-related state laws have passed since 1995, while 24 have passed so far this year. But that’s not to say there aren’t some notable …
Vice President Joe Biden, in his ever-loving, half-aware candor, has called it “The Blumenthal Mistake,” which is a pretty brutal epithet: Of all the deeds a politician wouldn’t want his name standing in for, lying about military service has got to be close to the top of the list. Perhaps the label won’t stick, but it probably …
Congressman Artur Davis, the man who hopes to become Alabama’s first black governor, is used to getting guff from other black leaders. First he was lambasted for being the only black member of Congress to vote against the President’s health care bill. Then he failed to get the endorsements of
This morning Sarah Palin was billed to give a speech for the Susan B. Anthony List’s anti-abortion breakfast (an event that seemed somehow less appetizing than a pro-life lunch). About 550 people, who each paid $150 for a seat, first heard the SBA president talk about how the group will fight to get anti-abortion politicians elected come …
What do you get when you put a rabbi, a mega-church pastor and two bishops together? Half of the Arizonan religious leaders that showed up on Capitol Hill today asking Senator McCain for some answers on immigration.
Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño, a bright-eyed Methodist leader who looked much more comfortable lobbying than many of her …
When Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced last Friday that he would retire at the end of this term, thus leaving a liberal gap on the bench, the next great legislative war was conceived. As Stephen Colbert colorfully put it last night, “No matter who the president nominates, cable news will be talking about this all …
All the higher-end hotel managers must have felt their hearts go aflutter — and their eyes light up with dollar signs like a slot machine gone jackpot — upon hearing that 40-odd heads of state (and their entourages) would be coming to Washington D.C. for a nuclear summit. As the talks have gotten underway, some hotel-heavy …
The White House isn’t just turning the other cheek to Hamid Karzai, though they’re not yet throwing counter-punches either. Following the Afghan president’s allegations of dastardly foreign meddling and fraud, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told a gaggle of reporters in his office this morning that the administration wants Karzai to …
Democratic gurus James Carville and Stanley Greenberg were the guests at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning, where they discussed the results of a Democracy Corps poll on the deficit. The results from the survey aren’t likely to inspire jaw drops: 93% of the 1,000-plus voters polled say they view the deficit as a major …
Following a statistical breakdown of the Tea Party, Quinnipiac University today released the results of a new presidential poll. Despite his 22-pen win on health care, Barack Obama only wangled a 45% approval rating from more than 1,500 American voters who were surveyed on Monday and Tuesday after the House cleared the bill. A Gallup …
National poll numbers released today affirm what primary run-ups have been suggesting: that the Tea Party has every potential of becoming the Republicans’ savior or Ralph Nader in the upcoming elections.
Of the 1,907 registered voters surveyed by the Quinnipiac University Polling Center, 44% said they would vote Republican and 39% …
The group of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 could rival Yahweh for most names. Various cross sections are called the iGeneration, Generation Y, the (Inter)Net Generation, Echo Boomers, Generation Next — or, as at the Pew Research Center’s youth culture panels on Wednesday, the Millennials.
Social gurus had convened to …
