Nine Takeaways From Arizona Debate
Nine Takeaways From Arizona Debate
Carl Cannon, RealClearPoliticsMESA, Ariz. -- They needled each other for the better part of two hours, ran roughshod over the moderator, and occasionally bent the facts to suit their narrative, but wh…

Santorum, Romney Duel in GOP Debate
Santorum, Romney Duel in GOP Debate
Zeleny & Rutenberg, NY TimesMitt Romney challenged Rick Santorum's credentials as a fiscal conservative in a fiercely combative debate on Wednesday, trying to redefine Mr. Santorum as part of…

Republicans Out of Air in Arizona
John Dickerson, SlateBy John Dickerson|Posted Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, at 1:17 AM ETJustin SullivanThe 20th and perhaps final Republican presidential debate wheezed across the finish line and col…

China says ready to improve U.S. military ties
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is ready to work with the United States to advance military ties, a defense ministry spokesman said Thursday, following a U.S. trip by China's vice president that featured a…

Romney clawing his way back in Republican race
MESA, Arizona (Reuters) - Mitt Romney is fighting his way back into the driving seat in the Republican presidential race, putting in a strong debate performance in Arizona and gaining in polls against…

Analysis: Obama goes on offense over high gasoline prices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Republican presidential candidates toss barbs at Barack Obama over expensive gasoline, the U.S. president and his team are going on the offensive with a strategy to divert bl…

White House unveils plan to protect online privacy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday proposed a "bill of rights" that would give consumers greater online privacy protection and could eventually give the government greater powers to po…

Republican candidates back arming Syria rebels
MESA, Arizona (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on Wednesday lent their support to the idea of arming the Syrian opposition in its fight to topple Presi…

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, CORPORATE FAT-CAT TAXES WOULD BE SLASHED BY 20%: And they …
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, CORPORATE FAT-CAT TAXES WOULD BE SLASHED BY 20%: And they were right! “The Obama administration proposed lowering the top corporate tax rate to 28 percen…

SHIKHA DALMIA: GM’s Profits Don’t Mean Taxpayers Will Be Off the Hook: The company’s cash cushion …
SHIKHA DALMIA: GM’s Profits Don’t Mean Taxpayers Will Be Off the Hook: The company’s cash cushion might go to unions, not investors. Ya think?

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Twenty Additional Law School Class Action Suits Are in the Works; Is Your S…
LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Twenty Additional Law School Class Action Suits Are in the Works; Is Your School One of Them?

JAMES TARANTO: Unplanned Parenthood: Illegitimacy and the liberal elite. Roiphe’s views are ful…
JAMES TARANTO: Unplanned Parenthood: Illegitimacy and the liberal elite. Roiphe’s views are fully consistent with the selective nonjudgmentalism that is an essential component of contemporary fe…

WHITE HOUSE HYPOCRISY: “Moments after White House Press Secretary Jay Carney eulogized journalists …
WHITE HOUSE HYPOCRISY: “Moments after White House Press Secretary Jay Carney eulogized journalists who have died reporting from Syria, ABC’s Jake Tapper asked him why the White House talks…

Analysis: Focus on social issues risky for GOP presidential candidates
The longer GOP presidential candidates compete for conservative activists' favor, the more they risk alienating centrist voters who might feel that arguments over birth control are crowding out talk a…

Judge: Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell emergency contraceptives
In a ruling that appears headed toward appeal, a federal judge has ruled that Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives.

US defends targeted killings of suspected terrorists, militants
The Pentagon's top lawyer defended Wednesday the use of targeted killings to eliminate suspected terrorists and militants, in an expansion of the Obama administration's public justification for its pr…

'Caylee's Law' stalls in multiple states
Lawmakers under pressure from constituents in the months after the Casey Anthony trial have found it's not easy to toughen penalties for parents who don't immediately report missing children.

GOP candidates face off in high-stakes debate in Arizona
Mitt Romney went on offense against Rick Santorum's record of spending while in the U.S. Senate, accusing his latest Republican arch-rival Wednesday of raising the debt ceiling five times, funding Pla…

Ex-Lobbyist Jack Abramoff: Money and Elections Do Mix, Except When Bribery Is Involved
Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! The Republican candidates for president face off tonight in the last debate before the next round of primaries on Tuesday, Feb. 28, in Arizona and Mi…

The Housing Market Bottomed Two Years Ago–The Only Way Is Up, Says Economist
Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Existing-home sales increased slightly less than expected in the month of January, up 4.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.57 million, and…

The Looming Threat to Gas Prices: Strait of Hormuz Explained
Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Global oil prices jumped to a nine-month high Tuesday to $106 a barrel after Iran announced it was stopping oil shipments to France and Britain. Iran…

NASCAR CEO Brian France: ‘The Future Looks Bright For Us’
Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! As NASCAR fans are gearing up for the season opener this Sunday, Feb. 26, in Daytona Beach, Florida, NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France sat down wi…

Rise of the Super PACs: U.S. Votes Essentially Bought, Says Reuters’ Felix Salmon
Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! If you had any lingering hopes that U.S. presidential elections are based on ideas and candidates, think again. More than in years passed, money is t…

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: GOP loses debate
Visual source: Newseum NY Times: And when Mr. Santorum sought to turn the discussion back to Mr. Romney’s health care overhaul in Massachusetts, saying it was the precursor to “Obamacare,” Mr. R…

Open thread for night owls: The moral authority of annihilation
When I was in first grade, or maybe it was second, our classroom teacher was an Iranian-born woman who had moved to the United States fairly recently. I remember her as of entirely average stature, da…

Netroots For The Troops round-up
(Posted on behalf of the organizers and participants of the NFTT blogathon) Netroots For The Troops® is holding a blogathon this week, Feb. 20-24, to raise funds to send Care Packages to soldiers ove…

Liveblogging Rickmittgeddon: #8
Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 6:49 PM PT: Last segment of the last GOP debate coming up. Last chance for John King to ask Rick Santorum about his Satan warning. 6:50 PM PT: I…

Liveblogging Rickmittgeddon: #7
Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 6:33 PM PT: Boy, is Mitt off base on sanctions.  POTUS has led the world in imposing most withering economic sanctions ever. — @david…

Day's End and Night Watch
Here are some assorted items that eluded blogging today: * PPP poll shows Obama running even with Romney, and ahead of Santorum, Gingrich and Paul, in AZ general election trial...

Like Higher Stock Prices? You Should Love Democrats!
At Business Week yesterday, Joshua Green made this unconventional but salient point, supported by a rather fascinating chart: Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly peaked above 13,000 be…

Never Mind Satan: How About the Angel Moroni?
As part of a larger effort to claim that their candidate is being persecuted for his religion, Rick Santorum's staff is pointing towards Mitt Romney's religion via the Washington Examiner's...

Enslaved By Freedom and Equality
In a long, circuitous, and characteristically haughty column for the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto makes the interesting claim that Rick Santorum is "ahead of his time" in warning that...

Mitt's New Tax Plan: Dessert Now, Broccoli Later
In discussing Mitt Romney's decision to offer some new tax cut proposals yesterday, I wondered whether Mitt would have the guts or deficit-hawk mojo to offer offsets by way of...

Pain at the pump: Gas prices will continue to rise sharply, analysts say
Several stations in the Ozarks are now charging $3.39 per gallon for regular gas. There's no relief in sight for motorists growing frustrated by the continual rise in price of gasoline, according…

Pain at the pump: Gas prices rising and will continue to do so, analysts say
Several Springfield stations have bumped their price to $3.39 this morning. There's no relief in sight for motorists growing frustrated by the continual rise in price of gasoline, according to ana…

Less pain at the gas pump
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The rising price of gas: Will it hurt Obama's re-election chances?
Obama's campaign could find itself running on fumes, if prices at the pump continue to tick upward…

High gas prices have consumers feeling the pain at the pump
Whether it’s cutting back on meals, entertainment or visits to a friend, people everywhere are feeling the pain at the pump as gas prices once again escalate. “It’s too much,” said Judy Jaikin…

Romney and Santorum spar throughout critical debate
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum traded barbs on issues as varied as health care reform and Senate endorsements throughout a pivotal Republican presidential debate Wednesday night.

Romney calls for lower taxes, releases no details
First Read: Mitt Romney, seeking to kick-start his presidential campaign among recalcitrant conservatives, will propose cutting the top income tax for individuals to 28 percent, advisers said.

Latino voters: Missed opportunity for Republicans?
Hard-hitting immigration rhetoric is popular with conservative GOP primary voters, but may be costly in the fall because Latinos seem likely to account for a bigger share of the electorate than four y…

Romney's organization meets Santorum's momentum
First Read: Mitt Romney’s campaign machine is keeping him afloat in Michigan and Arizona but Santorum is benefiting from a surge.

For every presidential hopeful, a $1 million donor
Millionaire and billionaire executives have unlocked their personal bank vaults to write seven-figure checks to support the campaigns of President Barack Obama and Republicans Mitt Romney, Rick Santor…

To close tax loopholes, Obama would open new ones
Cutting corporate tax rates and deleting loopholes is just what most economists prescribe for the tangled U.S. tax code.

President Obama to talk about economy, raise campaign dollars in Florida
President Barack Obama is mixing business with his 2012 presidential campaign on a stop in Florida, where he will attend three fundraisers and deliver a speech at the University of Miami.

Poll: Obama benefiting from improving economy
President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading…

Poll: Obama benefits from better economy
Washington — President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nat…

Barack Obama Approval Rating Benefits From Improving Economy, Poll Shows
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation…

Commonwealth urges Maldives polls
The Commonwealth calls for early elections in the Maldives to help solve the crisis caused by President Mohamed Nasheed's resignation.

Are polls on foreign policy accurate?
“Lies, damn lies and statistics” is a jab sometimes aimed at political polls, and in the complicated business of foreign policy polling there’s plenty for people to argue over. Seventy-five perc…

Polls close in Yemen’s sham election
Polling stations have closed in Yemen’s one-candidate presidential election in what pundits are calling a mockery of democracy staged to keep the old order in power.

Ron Paul’s Influence on 2012 Election Persists
Polls and pundits don't predict Ron Paul's emergence from the primary races as the Republican party's 2012 nominee. When it comes to potential vice presidential picks, even prominent Democ…

UP polls 2012: West UP can be industrial hub, says BJP
Western UP has a potential to become the industrial hub of India but during last decade has turned into the epicentre of criminal activities, BJP said.


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GOP fears rise over 2012 tone, message
Evidence of the party talking to itself -- rather than reaching out to new voters -- is on sharp display Wed. night.

Santorum on defensive in debate
He's attacked for positions on spending, bailouts.

The GOP debate: 6 takeaways
CNN's Wednesday night Republican debate was a painfully long and often personally biting affair.

Gingrich back on his game
Staying above the fray, avoiding attacks and focusing on the issues pay off for him.

Head-Scratching Claims Dominate Debate
WASHINGTON -- Twenty Republican presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept coming. Did Mitt Romney really cut taxes as Massachusetts governor, as he asserted yet...

WikiLeaks Suspect's Trial Enters New Stage
FORT MEADE, Md. -- An Army private accused of spilling a mountain of U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks is being asked for the first time to...

Va. Gov. Supports D.C. Budget Autonomy
By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff Giving momentum to the growing movement for D.C. budget autonomy, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has signaled his support...

GOP Official Faces FInal Shot After Felony Convictions
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — Indiana's top elections official faced a final shot at regaining his office Thursday when his attorney planned to ask a judge to...

WATCH: John King, Rick Santorum's Awkward Clash After GOP Debate
After Wednesday night's showdown during the Republican primary debate in Mesa, Arizona, GOP Candidate Rick Santorum and debate moderator John King clashed during CNN's post-debate...