The majority of all rapes in America take place in prison. Which means the majority of rape victims are likely men.

Today’s New York Times is reporting that Sheldon Adelson, who’s given millions of dollars to the pro-Gingrich SuperPAC Winning Our Future, isn’t necessarily wedded to backing the former Speaker forever: LAS VEGAS — Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino executive keeping Newt Gingrich’s presidential hopes alive, has relayed assurances to Mitt Romney that he will provide [...]

Romney continues to roll up decisive victories while Gingrich gets increasingly bitter and nasty.

Someone took a clip of a Romney/Gingrich debate exchange, added in a classic comedy routine, and had a little fun:

The tinfoil hat crowd has made its way back into the mainstream.

Regarding why he did not congratulate Mitt Romney on his Florida win, Newt Gingrich said the following: "They outspent me five to one to quote destroy Newt Gingrich?" Gingrich said in an interview on CNN’s "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." "You know, I think that doesn’t deserve congratulations. I think that’s reprehensible, I think [...]

Newt Gingrich won’t be holding the traditional post-caucus victory party in Nevada tonight, and that has led some to wonder about the state of his campaign: Instead of the traditional election night party, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will hold a press conference after the Nevada Caucus on Saturday, raising new speculation about his future [...]

This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?

One wonders why any Republican politician would want to be associated with this image.

The Birthers have suffered yet another totally predictable loss in Court.

Not surprisingly, the Commander of the Military District of Washington has chosen to accept the findings of a preliminary hearing held last year, and ordered that Pfc. Bradley Manning face a General Court Martial for the charges that he stole hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents which eventually ended up in the hands [...]

The backlash against the backlash is baffling.

UCLA political scientists, Lynn Vavreck shows in a post at Erza Klein’s WaPo blog that the unemployment rate is not the best predictor of election outcomes.  Instead, the place to look is GDP growth: The data suggest that for every 1 percent growth in GDP from the fourth to the second quarter of an election [...]

Yes, the US Constitution has been the most successful such document in human history. That does not mean it is a good template for other countries.

Who will be the Democratic nominee in 2016? Shut up, that’s who.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg had some advice on Constitution drafting for Egyptians

Virtually everything Stephen Colbert is doing was legal before Citizens United.

Rod Dreher highlights this clip from a recent Mitt Romney stump speech where he makes a claim that is completely untrue: Andrew Kaczynski, however, takes note that there are plenty of pictures on the Internet of those darn foreigners putting their hand over their heart when their nation’s anthem is played. Even the Chinese! This [...]

“Economic conditions are entirely different today than they were in Reagan’s era, and different conditions demand different policies. Those who say otherwise are simply engaging in cookie-cutter economics — proposing whatever was popular and seemed to work once, without regard to changing circumstances”—Bruce Barlett in a WaPo piece entitled “Why the GOP should stop invoking [...]

Mitt Romney’s statements about the planned early draw down in Afghanistan make no sense whatsoever.

The AFA strikes again.

In a move that is likely to only drag it further into the culture wars, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its decision from earlier this week to cut off grants to Planned Parenthood: (Reuters) – Susan G. Komen for the Cure said on Friday it was retreating from a decision to cut funding [...]

Once again, the culture wars intrude into yet another area of life.

When I first heard news that Heath Shuler was “retiring” from Congress at the end of this term last night, my reaction was to scoff at the notion of someone “retiring” after a mere five years in a job. No, that’s just quitting, I noted. But Josh Lederman’s piece for The Hill (“Rep. Shuler to [...]

The January jobs report was the best we’ve seen in more than three years.

Thanks in large part to an organization that’s been in existence since the 2008 election, not to mention a significant population of Mormons, Mitt Romney looks to be headed for a huge victory in tomorrow’s Nevada Caucuses. Yesterday, for example, we got a poll from the Las Vegas Review-Journal showing Romney leading Newt Gingrich by [...]

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor apparently got in a real zinger at last weekend’s Alfalfa Club dinner: Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor made a joke about the GOP candidates Saturday that reportedly drew much laughter. At the black-tie steak-and-lobster Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday among political and business elites in Washington, she [...]

Not surprisingly, Republicans are trying to reverse the automatic cuts to defense spending agreed to in August.

Jeb Bush at the Alfalfa Club dinner: With two presidents in the family, he said, you got to deal with a lot of bossiness. “If I say, ‘Who put you in charge?’, Dad says, ‘The American people.’ And George says, ‘The Supreme Court, five to four.’ “ Classic.

Why is the Republican frontrunner pandering to a megalomanical showman?

Senator Mike Enzi wants to replace the Dollar Bill with a coin. As with past efforts, it’s a great idea that is unlikely to succeed.

Is the presumptive Republican nominee too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans?

The latest example of no-knock mistakes:  FBI Uses Chainsaw In Raid On Wrong Fitchburg Apartment At 6:04 last Thursday morning, just before Sanchez’ alarm was set to go off, she heard a pounding outside her second floor apartment. [...] Within moments, the chainsaw had cut through most of her door, and someone on the FBI’s [...]

Newt may challenge the winner-take-all allocation of delegates.

Things aren’t all sunshine and roses for the Obama 2012 campaign.

Matthew Dowd asks: What happens in an election when two candidates who are each unelectable run against each other in the fall?

It looks like Mitt Romney is headed for a big win in Saturday’s Nevada Caucuses: A new poll shows Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney headed for a blowout victory Saturday in Nevada’s GOP caucuses. Romney wins support from 45 percent of Nevada Republicans who said they plan to participate in the caucuses, the survey commissioned [...]

The clown show that is the race for the Republican nomination is about to get even more ridiculous: LAS VEGAS — An advisor to Donald Trump says he will make a major announcement in Las Vegas tomorrow. Sources tell the 8 News NOW I-Team Trump will endorse Newt Gingrich. According to Trump advisor Michael Cohen, [...]

If Romney loses in November, it could be the start of a bitter fight insider the Republican Party.

Wisconsin voters who signed the petition to recall Governor Scott Walker may be getting more publicity than they’d bargained for. CNN (“Wisconsin releases recall petition names amid safety concerns“): Wisconsin released the names of more than 1 million people who signed a recall petition against Gov. Scott Walker, state officials said, despite safety concerns among [...]

The latest projections from Congressional Budget Office are sobering to say the least.

Mitt Romney stumbled a bit during his victory tour this morning.

During the lead up to the South Carolina Primary, there was some evidence of a growing problem for Newt Gingrich with female voters in the wake of the new allegations made by one of his ex-wives. As it turned out, no gender gap materialized in the South Carolina Exit Polls. That wasn’t true last night [...]

I honestly had no idea that this was an issue: House Republicans don’t want Uncle Sam paying for any more lap dances. A bill that GOP leaders are bringing to the House floor Wednesday would require states to prevent welfare recipients from accessing or spending their benefits at strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores. Republicans [...]

Mitt Romney’s first stop after Florida will be Minnesota, which holds a caucus on February 7th, but there’s speculation this morning that he could be going there for another reason as well: Mitt Romney is carrying a full head of steam after winning the Florida primary, but the Republican presidential contender isn’t headed first today [...]

Mitt Romney won big last night, Newt Gingrich was Newt Gingrich, and the race is coming to the beginning of the end.

Given the serious media attention that Florida has received over the last week or so, and given that Florida’s primary is going to be discussed as being decisively important for probably most of the month of February, I am betting that the state’s GOP leadership is actually quite pleased that it decided to buck the [...]

Well, that’s at least what Newt is going to say after tonight (Via The Hill): With 68 percent of precincts reporting, Romney led Newt Gingrich 47 percent to 31 percent. Former Sen. Rick Santorum came in third with 13 percent and Rep. Ron Paul was last with 7 percent. I, for one, find the attacks [...]

he rather incompetently handled aftermath of the Iowa Caucuses has claimed a victim: DES MOINES – The chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa announced his resignation on Tuesday after mounting pressure over his handling of the results of the caucuses that kicked off the presidential nominating process this month. The chairman, Matthew N. Strawn, [...]

Once again, the punditocracy is bemoaning the rise of so-called “negative campaigning.”