Romney targets entrepreneurs, forgets other people exist, by kos How the Associated Press used their poll this week to mischaracterize the race for the White House, by Steve Singiser Big Foot, Nessie, and Conservative Economics, by Mark Sumner A Love Supreme: John Coltrane, hope and jazz, by Denise Oliver Velez Mitt Romney, the 47 percent, and Republican anti-tax orthodoxy, by Dante Atkins The real Mitt Romney stands up, by Scott Wooledge What if the 47% really are victims—of folks like Mitt Romney, by Shanikka
Saying he has “never met anybody” he thought “was a better public servant” than his wife, former president Bill Clinton said in a Sunday interview that he doesn’t know whether Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will run for president in 2016, and added that she wants to take some time off and regroup after she wraps up her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat.
Actress Julianne Moore, upon accepting her Emmy for outstanding actress in a miniseries or movie for her depiction of Sarah Palin in HBO’s “Game Change,” told the crowd: “Wow. I feel so validated because Sarah Palin gave me a big thumbs down.” (Palin was a frequent critic of the film, which focused on the McCain/Palin ticket in 2008.)
Remember Rick Perry's presidential campaign? Me neither. But at one time the Texas Governor was the GOP frontrunner. Then, through a combination of gaffe-laden debates and behind-the-scenes disorganization, his campaign imploded. James Carville went so far as to call it "the worst presidential campaign/candidate in American history." In an except from his new book, Texas Tribune reporter Jay Root, who spent months following the Perry campaign, gives an explanation for Perry's cringe-worthy debate performances and general campaign mismanagement: he was just very sleepy. According to Root, Perry had a previously undiagnosed sleep disorder, which caused him to make mind-blowing statements in debates ...
According to Root, Perry had a previously undiagnosed sleep disorder, which caused him to make mind-blowing statements in debates ...
Four months before the world heard about the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal, two Pop Warner football coaches in Tustin began offering cash to their 10- and 11-year-old players for making big hits and knocking opponents out of games, according to an assistant coach, a parent, interviews with players and signed statements by two players.