Michele Bachmann’s team did a campaign version of a cleanup in aisle 9 tonight, trying to clarify a comment the congresswoman made earlier about how a Bachmann presidency wouldn’t allow “an American embassy in Iran.” The comment left some observers scratching their heads, since the United States cut ties with Iran three decades ago. Continue [...]
November 30, 2011, 10:20 PM EST By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Mark Niquette (Updates with Cain comments from press conference, starting in sixth paragraph. For more 2012 campaign news, see ELECT.) Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — Herman Cain, working to keep his Republican presidential campaign alive after allegations of sexual indiscretions, implored voters not to give [...]
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By LOUISE RADNOFSKY Newt Gingrich’s rise in Republican presidential polls has come as he positioned himself as the true conservative who could capture the small-government fervor of primary voters. But his long history of policy pronouncements suggests the former House Speaker also believes in the power of government to do big things. At various times [...]
Song of the Year: “All of the Lights,” Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters (performed by Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie); “The Cave,” Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford and Country Winston, songwriters (Mumford Sons); “Grenade,” Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars and Andrew Wyatt, [...]
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” November 20, 2011. (Credit: CBS) Newt Gingrich on Wednesday received further validation of his status as an emerging frontrunner in the Republican presidential campaign: He’s the subject of rival candidate Ron Paul’s latest attack ad. Paul, in earlier ads has focused his fire on the [...]
No, YOU listen! (HENNY RAY ABRAMS – AP) Rick Perry, speaking at the Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire on Tuesday, accidentally got the state’s voting age — and election date — wrong. “Those who are going to be over 21 on November 12th, I ask for your support,” Perry said. [...]
Really, even the TV networks are starting new mini-seasons. And they’ve got zombies. This is particularly important for Mitt Romney, who seems to be responding to the flip-flop critique by becoming more and more repressed. If we don’t do something to free him up, they’re going to have to start wheeling him around in a [...]
Richard Shiro / AP Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks at Tommy’s Ham House in Greenville , S.C., on Wednesday. COLUMBIA, S.C. — Newt Gingrich pushed back on a New York Times article published Wednesday that explored how he avoided the legal definition of “lobbyist” while still providing many of the services that registered [...]
Robin S. Rosenbaum, a federal magistrate in Fort Lauderdale, was nominated by President Barack Obama Wednesday to serve as a U.S. District Court judge in Miami. Rosenbaum, a magistrate since 2007, is a former South Florida federal prosecutor who clerked for federal appellate Judge Stanley Marcus. She received her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and [...]
