A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

Newsweek’s cover for it’s new edition is sure to arouse some conversation: The article apparently won’t be available till tomorrow……  

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul weighed in last night on President Obama’s recent endorsement of same-sex marriage: (CNN) – Sen. Rand Paul on Friday brushed off Barack Obama’s recent reversal on same-sex marriage by saying he didn’t think the president’s views “could get any gayer.” The remarks from the Republican senator from Kentucky scored laughs among [...]

Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to go all-in on opposition to same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, this is bad advice.

Mitt Romney is giving the commencement address at Liberty University today, which is interesting if only because of what the school’s Course Catalog has to say on the matter of Romney’s faith: LYNCHBURG, Va. — On page 173 of the course catalog for Liberty University, the country’s largest Evangelical Christian college, there’s a graduate course [...]

He may be running against Barack Obama, but Mitt Romney seems to mention Jimmy Carter a lot.

Mitt Romney wimped out. Again.

The General Accounting Office recently concluded a study of a Pentagon study about studies: The Pentagon was inundated with so many studies in 2010 that it commissioned a study to determine how much it cost to produce all those studies. Now the Government Accountability Office has reviewed the Pentagon’s study and concluded in a report [...]

Eduardo Saverin, one of the group of people that helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook, has renounced his U.S. citizenship in advance of the company’s multi-billion dollar Initial Public Offering: Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as [...]

Will Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage benefit him or Romney in the upcoming campaign?

For some bizarre reasons, someone thought this would be a good business idea: An unidentified entrepreneur admits he is trying to profit off Trayvon Martin’s death by selling gun range targets featuring the teen who’s death has sparked a nationwide controversy. Although Martin’s face does not appear on the paper targets, they feature a hoodie [...]

Harry Reid is apparently regretting not going forward with filibuster reform in January 2011.

The Founders would never have thought to do more than count people in the Census!

There may be reason to doubt reports alleging that Mitt Romney engaged in vicious bullying of a gay classmate as an 18-year-old prepster.

Americans are getting pessimistic about the state of the economy again.

President Obama’s public endorsement of same-sex marriage has apparently caused people to open their wallets: It’s too soon to tell whether President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage will help him or hurt him at the polls. But it’s already doing wonders for his pocketbook. The Obama campaign is enjoying a massive surge of contributions in [...]

Another example of Republican foreign policy taking precedence over fiscal conservatism.

Only days after it became public that she had obtained Swiss citizenship through her husband, Michele Bachmann has walked the entire thing back: Michele Bachmann no longer wants to be a Swiss miss. The Minnesota congresswoman asked the Swiss government Thursday to withdraw her citizenship, saying she wanted to make it clear that she was [...]

The Department of Justice has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio claiming that his Department has been systematically violating the rights of Hispanic inmates and suspects: PHOENIX — The Justice Department on Thursday sued Joe Arpaio, a prominent Arizona sheriff known for his crackdowns aimed at rounding up illegal [...]

Some blogger wants to pay someone to get Barack Obama’s college transcripts. It’s time for this silliness to end.

The Germans are taking this austerity thing a little far: their police fired only 85 shots at humans last year.

How the Vice-President’s comment’s on Meet The Press led to an historic Presidential announcement.

The battle is on for control of the Senate, but whoever wins is likely to have a very slim majority.

Danny Lesh freely admits to stealing a bicycle–back from the thief who stole it from him.

All of a sudden, people are talking about Mike Huckabee as a potential Romney running mate.

“No sir, the TSA agents at Ft. Lauderdale airport did what needed to be done and pulled that terror-baby off the plane.”—Erik Kain.

Via the BBC:  Russia President Putin will miss G8 Camp David summit Mr Putin, who was inaugurated as President this week after an absence of four years, told US officials he was busy finalising his cabinet. He will send the outgoing president, Dmitry Medvedev, who replaces him as prime minister, instead. My first reaction:  how [...]

The day after President Obama expressed his personal support for gay marriage, a report has surfaced of his presumptive general election opponent engaging in a mean, anti-gay “prank” back in 1965.

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

A blog post lampooning black studies dissertations got a writer fired, setting off a controversy over the limits of free speech.

Some thoughts on the potential impact of the President’s announcement on same-sex marriage.

The same-sex marriage pivot that everyone was expecting has come.

There are a number of problems with the notion that the Federalist Papers provide a perfect guide to the Constitution.

Further thoughts on Ron Paul’s game plan, assuming he has one.

I’ve ignored the mini controversy over whether Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was entitled to claim minority status on the basis of being one-thirty-second Cherokee, for the very good reason that I don’t give a damn.  Now, though, some on the right have dug into her ancestry and discovered that the great-great-great grandmother who may [...]

As we’ve detailed here before, Congressman Allen West has a history making bizarre and sometimes down right nutty statements. Most recently, he claimed that nearly half the membership of the House Democratic Caucus were members of the Communist Party. Now, he is looking at President Obama’s Afghanistan policy and seeing the ghosts of Munich: Rep. [...]

Another indication that Scott Brown wants Massachusetts voters to know that he’s not behold to the GOP: It’s a smart strategy, of course, and it appears to be working if the polls are any indication.

Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.

There’s an awful lot of speculation today that President Obama is going to have something new to say about same-sex marriage when he sits down for an interview at the White House this afternoon: The prevailing wisdom right now is that President Obama is going to have to take some kind of position on gay [...]

In “Why Dick Lugar lost,” Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake argue persuasively that the Tea Party was not the primary factor in the loss of the six-term senator. At its heart, Lugar’s defeat was attributable to the fact that he broke the political golden rule: Never lose touch with the people who elected you. “A [...]

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.

Mitt Romney has a big problem. People don’t seem to like him very much.

In November 2010, Scott Walker beat Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett by just over 100,00o votes to become Governor of Wisconsin. After a year long battle over labor union issues, the two men will meet again in the June 5th recall election to unseat Walker, but that’s not exactly what the labor unions had planned: Milwaukee [...]

Something tells me that the Obama campaign shouldn’t count on winning West Virginia this year: An obscure federal prison inmate gave President Obama an unexpected run for his money in the West Virginia Democratic Primary Tuesday, highlighting the deep dislike for the president in the Appalachian heartland. With 96% of the precincts reporting Tuesday night, [...]

Amendment One isn’t the first time that North Carolina has put an Amendment regarding marriage in its Constitution, they did it in 1875 too: If Amendment One passes on Tuesday, it won’t be our first state constitutional provision regulating marriage. In 1875, we altered our charter to declare that “all marriages between a white person [...]

Michele Bachmann, the Congresswoman from Minnesota who most recently ran for President of the United States, is now a Swiss citizen: Rep. Michele Bachmann is now officially a Swiss miss. Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently became a citizen of Switzerland, making her eligible to run for office in the tiny European nation, according to a Swiss TV [...]

An electoral setback for the marriage equality forces in the Tar Heel State: As expected, North Carolinians voted in large numbers on Tuesday for an amendment that would ban same-sex marriages, partnerships and civil unions, becoming the 30th state in the country and the last in the South to include a prohibition on gay marriage [...]

Dick Lugar entered the Senate in January 1977, and he’ll be leaving at the end of this year: Sen. Richard Lugar – the longest-serving senator in Indiana history – will lose his Republican Senate primary on Tuesday to state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, CBS News projects. With 62 percent of the expected vote in, the Tea [...]