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Penn State's Joe Paterno Must Go | BLOG ENTRY
I lived in State College, Pennsylvania as a very young boy. Three. Four. Five. Even then, thirty-odd years ago, Joe Paterno was a legend. And his Nittany Lions were everything to that town. In particular to young boys. One of...
November 8, 2011 1:55 PM ET -
Rick Perry's Jobs Plan: An Energy Industry Wish List | BLOG ENTRY
Rick Perry's jobs plan ain't too complex. As the Texas governor outlines on page 12, it's got two parts: Increase American energy production... Create American jobs through increased domestic energy production. In case you missed that, Perry is going...
October 21, 2011 1:40 PM ET -
Romney vs. Perry: GOP Candidates Unload in Ad War | BLOG ENTRY
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have taken their war of words from this week's GOP debate to the YouTube masses with a pair of the harshest attack ads you're likely to see in a Republican...
October 20, 2011 11:55 AM ET -
Obama Solicits Designers to Work - Unpaid - on ... Jobs Poster! | BLOG ENTRY
The Obama campaign has more than $60 million cash on hand. In an economy this bad, you'd think a presidential campaign that flush would be happy to pay good money for a talented designer to create a campaign...
October 19, 2011 10:50 AM ET -
GOP Fight Night in Vegas: Notes on the Ugliest Debate Yet | BLOG ENTRY
Rick Perry has been the Al Gore of the GOP primary debates: You never know which guy is going to show up. After a pair of contests in which he played the part of the...
October 19, 2011 12:25 AM ET -
Obama, Occupy Wall Street and the Rebirth of the Left | BLOG ENTRY
Will Occupy Wall Street give the president running room on the left? Or another reason to tack to the center? Barack Obama was the first candidate to rise to the White House on the strength of a movement...
October 18, 2011 10:15 AM ET -
Why Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan Is a Disaster for the Middle Class | BLOG ENTRY
If you were trying to formulate a tax proposal to enrage and energize the Occupy Wall Street movement, it would be hard to improve on Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan. The Republican frontrunner is proposing a 9 percent tax...
October 14, 2011 8:55 AM ET -
Docs: Herman Cain's Cancer Is Not Disqualifying | BLOG ENTRY
Herman Cain was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in March 2006. "I had it in my colon and my liver — stage IV," the GOP presidential candidate said in a speech last year. "And to quote...
October 13, 2011 10:20 AM ET -
Debate Recap: Three Reasons Mitt Romney Is Smiling | BLOG ENTRY
The polls tell us we've got a three-man field in the Republican primary: Mitt Romney, None-of-The-Above (presently embodied by Herman Cain), and Rick Perry. Going into last night's debate in New Hampshire, each of these men had...
October 12, 2011 9:35 AM ET -
Exclusive: The Bad Lip Reader Speaks | BLOG ENTRY
Every election cycle brings a new wave of viral campaign humor — from Jib Jab in 2004 to AutoTune the News in 2010. The breakout hit of 2012? No question. It's Bad Lip Reading. Bad Lip Reading is just what it sounds...
October 7, 2011 3:15 PM ET -
GOP 2012: Why So Few Takers? | BLOG ENTRY
The GOP wants to go to the big dance, but it's having a hell of a time finding a date. Indeed, the top story of the 2012 campaign to date is not who's leading in the polls....
October 5, 2011 6:57 PM ET -
What Occupy Wall Street Is Really About | BLOG ENTRY
So what's Occupy Wall Street really about? The answer can be found at We Are the 99 Percent. Americans young and old are posting pictures of themselves on this Tumblr, along with their stories written on...
October 3, 2011 7:10 PM ET -
Rick Perry to California: Go On, Toke Up! | BLOG ENTRY
In his book Fed Up!, Rick Perry does more than denounce Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme"1 and (less famously) "a bad disease."2 He also mounts a vigorous defense of every Californian's right to get high. Fed Up! is a...
September 28, 2011 5:05 PM ET -
The Top Five Signs Roger Ailes is Still In Charge of the GOP | BLOG ENTRY
Howard Kurtz has a juicy exclusive on Roger Ailes in NewsBeast today, but he's buried the actual news under a fluffy, nonsensical storyline that Ailes has dialed back his control of the Republican party. From Kurtz' own...
September 26, 2011 2:06 PM ET -
GOP Immigration Split Is Pure Gold for the White House | BLOG ENTRY
Rick Perry had lived up to his campaign motto: "Nobody is going to outflank me on the right." But then last night, something funny happened. Perry outed himself as less-than-hardcore on immigration policy. While still insisting on a...
September 23, 2011 4:25 PM ET -
The Three Most Painful Moments From the GOP Debate | BLOG ENTRY
Mitt Romney ran away with this debate. He was steady, sunny and unflappable. The frontrunner Rick Perry, by contrast, started out sloppy and was, by the end of the evening, an incoherent mess — getting schooled by the...
September 23, 2011 12:13 AM ET -
Rick Perry's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' America | BLOG ENTRY
As of midnight last night, Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a dead letter. Gay and lesbian Americans in the Armed Forces can now serve honestly and openly, without fear of reprimand, reprisal or discharge. This is a great...
September 20, 2011 1:28 AM ET -
Rick Perry in GOP Debate: So Strong – and So Wrong | BLOG ENTRY
Say what you will about Rick Perry, there's a presence to the man. You saw it last night in during the singing of the national anthem during the, er, opening ceremony — how else to describe it?...
September 13, 2011 12:03 AM ET -
Jobs Act: Why Obama's Not Serious | BLOG ENTRY
Is President Obama serious about passing a jobs bill? Or is he more interested in creating a campaign platform for his reelection? To judge by the numerous political nonstarters – both in the plan itself and in the White...
September 12, 2011 4:22 PM ET -
GOP Debate: Rick 'The Gut' Perry vs. Mitt 'The Brain' Romney | BLOG ENTRY
The GOP's two frontrunners shared the debate stage for the first time last night. And the contrasts couldn't have been sharper: On the left, you had Mitt "The Brain" Romney, managerial technocrat, touting his new 59-point plan...
September 7, 2011 11:55 PM ET
