Monthly Archives: May 2011

House Republicans unveiled a nearly $650 billion defense package Tuesday that would fully back President Barack Obama’s war funding requests but attach new conditions demanding a better explanation of counter-insurgency aid promised to Pakistan. Core Pentagon spending would grow by … Continue reading →

NEW YORK – As the budget battle resumes today, one obvious fix—decreasing corporate taxes, but ending loopholes and subsidies—fights for traction. Zachary Karabell on D.C.’s latest irrationality. Washington is entering its summer of discontent, with no resolution of the budget … Continue reading →

New York – This weekend, Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account sent out a photo of a man in underwear from the waist down. Weiner says his account was hacked. What’s going on here? A “lewd” photograph of a man in … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination, says she thinks the race can accommodate both her and Sarah Palin. Both women are favorites of the tea party movement. But Bachmann says she … Continue reading →

When Sarah Palin was a child, her parents would pile their four kids in the car and take road trips across Alaska and Canada. “In our old car that the front door didn’t open and we all had to climb … Continue reading →

By Ronald BrownsteinNational Journal Almost no one noticed, but around George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004, the nation crossed a demographic milestone. From Revolutionary days through 2004, a majority of Americans fit two criteria. They were white. And they concluded … Continue reading →

GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Sarah Palin has found a new way to keep her political faithful guessing. Palin was a no-show for several hundred supporters, celebrity-watchers and media who turned out in hopes of seeing her at the Civil War … Continue reading →