by Terrance Heath | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog, Economy
"You gotta have a J-O-B, if you wanna be with me." - Gwen Guthrie, "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent" I'm off to cover CPAC tomorrow, where — in light of a federal court ruling California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional — I'm likely to hear a favorite conservative...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog
PBS NewsHour took a look at why Germany's economy is doing so well, while much of the rest of Europe is not doing so well. Here are a few notable excerpts from the transcript: With just a quarter of America's population and a quarter of its GDP, Germany exports more...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog
Funny how things change. When Herman Cain and Rick Perry imploded in one week last November, Jon Stewart called Mitt Romney "the luckiest motherfudger on Earth." That was before last night's "shellacking," when Rick Santorum trounced Romney in Minnessota, Missouri,...
by Bill Scher | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog
It was just one month ago when conservatives were complaining that ABC's George Stephanopoulos was displaying his "bias" while moderating a Republican presidential debate by being "obsessed" with contraception and asking Mitt Romney a "gotcha question" about whether...
by Anne Thompson | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog
Co-written with David Reeves. Several GOP presidential candidates have made competing claims to the Reagan mantle this election season. So in order to determine once and for all which candidates truly honor the Gipper’s legacy, we are submitting the following...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Economy
President Obama today will go to a fire house in the Virginia suburbs of Washington to tout his plan to promote hiring of veterans as first responders. It's a program that is sorely needed to address an American travesty: One out of every eight of the veterans...