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Judge: Corporate donations ban unconstitutional

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - May. 27 (Breaking News) - A judge has ruled that the campaign finance law banning corporations from making contributions to federal candidates is unconstitutional. In a ruling issued late Thursday, U.S. District Judge James Cacheris tossed out part of the indictment against two men accused of illegally reimbursing donors to Hillary Clinton's Senate and presidential campaigns.

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Moving past right-wing rhetoric

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Joe Scarborough - Jan. 18 (Opinion) - Now that the right has proved to the world that it was wronged, this would be a good time to prevent the next tragedy from destroying its political momentum. Despite what we eventually learned about the shooter in Tucson, should the right have really been so shocked that many feared a political connection between the heated rhetoric of 2010 and the shooting of Giffords?

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Palin Was Terrific

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

American Spectator - By Quin Hillyer - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - I continue to believe that Sarah Palin is not yet qualified to be president, but my admiration for her continues to grow. Her interview with Sean Hannity, just aired, was almost pitch-perfect. It was dignified. It was well-modulated. It was strong. And it was thoughtful.

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Secretaries of state up the political ante

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

stateline.org - By Louis Jacobson - Jan. 03 (News Analysis) - As Kris Kobach and Scott Gessler prepare to take office as secretary of state for Kansas and Colorado, respectively, their elections are putting to rest any lingering notions that the job of secretary of state is a quiet, low-key, technocratic position.

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Why Mike Pence will run in 2012

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Jennifer Rubin - Dec. 09 (News Analysis) - A close friend and confidante of Pence's has been telling me for several weeks that Pence is "serious." This friend makes the case that Pence is a solid conservative on the range of issues conservatives care about and is the only candidate who can "seamlessly meld" the sometimes adversarial Tea Party and establishment wings of the GOP "without too much friction." He also points to Pence's demeanor, citing a favorite phrase of the congressman's: "Just because I'm a conservative doesn't mean I have to be a bad mood about it."

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The myth of Palin's frontrunner status

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Jennifer Rubin - Dec. 01 (News Analysis) - Talking heads and mainstream reporters who are certain that Palin will be the nominee may not be looking to make trouble for the GOP. They are just behind the curve. In six months, when the field is better defined, we'll see who might emerge from the pack. Right now the frontrunner is "none of the above."

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Text of President Obama's news conference Saturday

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Nov. 21 -

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Sen. Mitch McConnell Has Some Explaining to Do

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By Dan Farber - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - In his post-election Heritage Foundation speech, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said, "I re-extend an offer that's been on the table for two years to cooperate on shared goals -- because ultimately this isn't about an election; it's about doing what's best for our country." Prior to the Nov. 2 election, McConnell told the National Journal's Major Garrett, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." At the same time he said he would be willing to compromise on important issues "if President Obama does a Clintonian backflip," referring to how the former president responded after a tough mid-term election in 1994. President Obama took a swipe to McConnell's remarks regarding the 2012 election.

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Ex-UN envoy urges Taliban talks

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Nov. 04 (News) - The Taliban say foreign forces must leave Afghanistan The former UN special representative to Afghanistan has urged the international community to take advantage of a window for starting talks with the Taliban. Kai Eide warned that the current

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Officials: Nearly 1 in 4 Afghan ballots invalid due to fraud

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Joshua Partlow - Oct. 20 (News) - Afghanistan's election commission threw out 1.3 million fraudulent votes from last month's parliamentary elections, about a quarter of all ballots cast and roughly the same amount as invalidated in last year's presidential election, election officials said Wednesday.

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Citizens' Group Helps Uncover Alleged Rampant Voter Fraud in Houston

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Fox News - By Ed Barnes - Sep. 25 (News) - Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.

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Disappointed Supporters Question Obama

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:39:57 -0700

New York Times - By Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Sep. 20 (Special Report) - It was billed as “Investing In America,” a live televised conversation between President Obama and American workers, students, business people and retirees on the state of the economy, a kind of Wall Street to Main Street reality check. But it sounded like a therapy session for disillusioned Obama supporters. In question after question in Monday’s one-hour session, which took place at the Newseum here and was televised on CNBC, Mr. Obama was confronted by people who said, in short, that they had expected more from him. People from Main Street wanted to know if the American dream still lived for them. People from Wall Street complained that he was treating them like a piñata, “whacking us with the stick,” in the words of a former law school classmate of Mr. Obama’s who now runs a hedge fund

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2012 hopefuls to slam Barack Obama

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Mike Allen - Sep. 17 (News) - The tough rhetoric of the 2012 Republican presidential primary season gets a try-outFriday when former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) slam President Barack Obama at the Family Research Council’s “Values Voters Summit.”

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Santorum Injecting Faith Into Presidential Discussion

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Daniel Malloy - Sep. 09 (News Analysis) - In trying to become the second Roman Catholic president of the United States, Rick Santorum will seek to refute a key campaign plank of the first. Fifty years after John F. Kennedy gave a landmark speech addressing his faith and the need to separate church and state, Mr. Santorum will speak today in Houston about the need for an increased role for religion in public life.

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How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Michael Scherer - Sep. 04 (Special Report) - This shift in perception — from Obama as political savior to Obama as creature of Washington — can be seen elsewhere. When Obama arrived in office in January '09, his Gallup approval rating stood at 68%, a high for a newly elected leader not seen since John Kennedy in 1961. Today Obama's job approval has been hovering in the mid-40s, which means that at least 1 in 4 Americans has changed his or her mind. The plunge has been particularly dramatic among independents, whites and those under age 30. With midterm elections just nine weeks off, instead of the generational transformation some Democrats predicted after 2008, the President's party teeters on the brink of a broad setback in November, including the possible loss of both houses of Congress. By a 10-point margin, people say they will vote for Republicans over Democrats in Congress, the largest such gap ever recorded by Gallup.

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What If McCain Had Been President? And Other Climate What-Ifs | The New Republic

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Bradford Plumer - Jul. 24 (Opinion) - Did a climate bill ever have a chance to squeak through Congress? Could anything have saved it? Politico's Darren Samuelsohn has a piece today about the usual, tiresome round of recriminations among greens after Harry Reid killed cap-and-trade. (Okay, technically Reid's putting it off until after August recess, but the odds of survival are grim.) The underlying question, though, is a good one: Peering back over the past two years, there were a few pivot points where things might have turned out very differently.

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Hawaii Limits Requests on Obama’s Birth Records

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Cooper - May. 13 (News Report) - The conspiracy theorists who cling to the false belief that President Obama was born outside the United States outrage many Democrats and embarrass many Republicans. But to a group of state workers who toil away in a long building across from the Capitol, they represent something else: a headache and a waste of time.

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US questions support for Karzai

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:20:36 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 28 - The US defence department has said that only a quarter of what it regards as key regions in Afghanistan support the government of President Hamid Karzai. The Pentagon said much of the country was either neutral to the central Afghan authorities or

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The Revolution Will Be Commercialized

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Gabriel Sherman - Apr. 26 (Special Report) - From the time of her infamous wardrobe selection, money had been an issue in Palin’s politics. Her relationship with the McCain campaign had been plagued by financial misunderstanding. In her book Going Rogue, she claimed that the McCain campaign had left her on the hook for her Troopergate bills. Palin was furious. “Deep down, she wanted to make money,” a McCain adviser says. “There was always financial stress. They’re not wealthy people.”

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Analysis: Next Obama test is Afghanistan

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Steven R. Hurst - Mar. 29 (News) - Fresh from a bruising victory on health care and a nuclear arms deal with Russia, President Obama turns to a third campaign promise — victory and an honorable exit from Afghanistan. ...

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How Reagan ruined conservatism

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By Gideon Rachman - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Battling my way through Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, last weekend, I began to wonder how American conservatism had come to this. Ms Palin’s book is smug, lightweight, nationalistic, entirely free of original ideas. How has this woman become the darling of the American right? How has she become so popular that some bookmakers make her the favourite to win the Republican party nomination in 2012? And then I realised – the rot set in with Ronald Reagan.

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Five Questions for the Afghan Surge; Or, Getting Past the Hype

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Feb. 22 (News Analysis) - There was never any doubt that the US and NATO would win militarily, fairly easily occupying Marjah and nearby Nad Ali. Marjah at 85,000 or so is a city smaller than Ann Arbor, Michigan. The campaign is only significant in a larger social and political context. The questions are:

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Corporate Campaign Spending Backed by U.S. High Court

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Greg Stohr - Jan. 21 (Breaking News) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down decades-old restrictions on corporate campaign spending, reversing two of its precedents and freeing companies to conduct advertising campaigns that explicitly try to sway voters.

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Deeper in the mire

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Jan. 05 (News Analysis) - A worsening political crisis in Afghanistan THIS was supposed to be the month when Afghanistan would put an end to nearly eight months of political crisis and get on with beating back the Taliban insurgency. Western diplomats had talked optimistically of Hamid Karzai moving past his fraudulent re-election as president, with the appointment of a government of talented technocrats. And plans for another round of elections (this time for the parliament) would be quietly dropped, letting Stanley McChrystal, the American commander of NATO forces, concentrate on using the extra troops granted to him by Barack Obama to “secure the population” rather than just polling stations. But the local political class is proving reluctant to follow ...

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Afghan parliament rejects 17 cabinet nominees

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By Matthew Green - Jan. 03 (News Report) - Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, suffered a humiliating setback in his attempts to form a new government when the Afghan parliament rejected most of his cabinet nominees

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