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Maria Cino Receives First Endorsements
Maria Cino has announced her first two public endorsements in her bid for RNC Chair. Maria Cino, the CEO for the 2008 Republican National Convention, announced her first two public endorsements on Saturday. Priscilla Rakestraw, the National Committeewoman from Delaware, and Evie Axdahl, the …DADT Repeal Vote Passes 65-31
DADT Repeal Vote Passes 65-31 Talking Points Memo reports : The Senate took a big step toward ending the military's ban on openly gay servicemembers today. By a vote of 63 to 33, the Senate voted to end debate on a bill repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, opening …
Senate Blocks DREAM Act
Senate Blocks DREAM Act Politico reports: The weeks of rallies, hunger strikes and sit-ins and the thousands of phone calls placed to Senate offices didn’t pay off for immigration activists. The decade-old DREAM Act once again failed to break a filibuster in the Senate on …
Obama Signs Tax Cut Bill
Obama Signs Tax Cut Bill Politico reports: President Barack Obama celebrated the spirit of compromise Friday as he signed a controversial $858 billion tax cut and unemployment insurance extension into law — but warned that bipartisan comity could be fleeting. The bill, the …
Why Romney's CEO Presidency Won't Fly
Romney's management consulting expertise might be great for running a company, even a large federal agency. But being president calls for different skills. Reading David’s piece on Romney’s triangulation as customer service, the "case" for Romney, then, reminds me of the famous quotation …California Takes the Lead on Cap-and-Trade
Cap and Trade might be dead in Washington, but in California, it has new life. Cap-and-trade is dead – at least for now, inside the Beltway, where these days, getting bipartisan agreement on the color of the sky might be too much to ask. On the other side of the country, however, in the …Study: Fox News Viewers Are Most Misinformed
Study: Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed The New York Times reports : According to the study, which can be reviewed online, order in most cases, the more a person watched and read the news, the less likely they were to have been misled about the facts. But …
CNN and Tea Party to Sponsor Debate
CNN and Tea Party to Sponsor Debate Politico reports : CNN, which has heavily promoted its nonpartisan brand through the midterm season, is jumping into the 2012 GOP primary debate fray with a bold move: teaming up with the Tea Party Express. The debate will take place …
Richardson: Korea in a "Tinderbox"
Richardson: Korea in a "Tinderbox" BBC reports : An unofficial US envoy visiting North Korea has warned that the situation on the peninsula is a "tinderbox". The envoy, Bill Richardson, made the comments after talks with officials in Pyongyang, whom he asked to exercise …
Ryan Leads Field for Wisconsin Senate
Ryan Leads Field for Wisconsin Senate Roll Call reports : Rep. Paul Ryan is Wisconsin Republicans’ top choice to run for Senate in 2012, according to a new poll from the Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling looking at Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl 's potential re-electi…
North Korea Vows to Strike South
North Korea Vows to Strike South AFP reports : SEOUL — North Korea's military threatened Friday to strike back with deadly firepower if South Korea goes ahead with a live-fire drill on a border island which the communist state shelled last month. The North "will deal the …
Dems and Obama Try to Make-Up
Dems and Obama Try to Make-Up Suzy Khimm reports : Just days ago, President Obama and liberal Democrats were practically at each other's throats, trading epithets and insults. But as the president's tax cut deal passed the Senate on Wednesday with overwhelming bipartisan support, …
Palin Rejects START Treaty
Palin Rejects START Treaty Newser reports : (NEWSER) – Sarah Palin comes out swinging against New START, the nuclear arms reduction treaty currently being considered for ratification by the Senate, in a National Review op-ed. The treaty is not "in America's interest," the former …
Palin Calls Tax Deal "Lousy"
Palin Calls Tax Deal "Lousy" CBS reports : In a rare interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Friday criticized the $858 billion tax cut bill that passed through Congress early this morning, calling the legislation "a lousy deal" …
The Prowl: Where There are Politicians, There are Escorts
Escorts are no surprise in D.C. What’s strange is the sense that operating out of five-star hotels, makes them more glamorous than women on street corners. Last weekend, I had a bit of a cold and instead of being brave and stoic about it, I turned into a hermit and spent what is perhaps an …The Fat Diaries: Drinking Away the Cold
Why is it that when the weather outside is frightful, all of our favorite drinks seem to be crammed with sugar and caffeine? Cold enough for you? If you’re like me, or anyone else in the D.C. metro area, you’ve been appalled by the unseasonably cold December we’ve been having. It’s not the …