CURL: Time for a new Republican Party
ANALYSIS/OPINION:The Republican Party did not lose last Tuesday's election. It was obliterated, crushed, slaughtered, massacred, squashed, annihilated — and, let's hope, extinguished.For the party of...
View ArticleObama keeps job; others lose theirs
After an election campaign that featured jobs as a central issue, some of the nation's businesses have responded to President Obama's victory with a series of layoff announcements related to a variety...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Bumper Patrol
"Don't blame me. I voted for Romney."- Bumper sticker now for sale on CafePress, Zazzle, Amazon and other online sourcesHE-MAN'S LIBRARY"Real men don't eat tofu. They don't use lady-scented body wash....
View Article‘Fiscal cliff’ not Congress’ only looming peril
When Congress returns to work Tuesday for what is expected to be a hyperbusy lame-duck session, it will have more to worry about than just the looming "fiscal cliff," a series of automatic spending...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Fifty shades of bimbo
The mutating "Petraeus affair" has conveniently filled the media vacuum left after the presidential election ended, providing press, pundits and assorted officials a veritable gold mine of material. A...
View ArticlePetitions to secede are filed for 23 states since election
DENVER — It's traditional for Americans to threaten to move to France or Canada when their candidate loses, but this year some disappointed voters are implementing a different plan.In the wake of the...
View ArticleAlong with facing fiscal cliff, Obama must reshuffle Cabinet
President Obama took a few days after the election to regroup, play some golf and let his re-election victory sink in, but that didn't slow down Washington speculation about the expected reshuffling of...
View ArticlePetraeus shocked at girlfriend's emails to friend
WASHINGTON — Ex-CIA director David Petraeus has told friends he was shocked to find that his biographer and girlfriend, Paula Broadwell, was suspected of sending anonymous, threatening emails to a...
View ArticleCarbon tax finds unlikely bedfellows on left, right
Climate change is suddenly a hot topic again. The issue is resurfacing in talks about a once-radical idea: a possible carbon tax.On Tuesday, a conservative think tank held discussions about it while a...
View ArticleLawmakers urge compromise, but refuse to budge from ‘cliff’
Republicans and Democrats returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday pledging to try to reach common ground — but as each side reinforced its pre-election battle lines, last week's results appear to have...
View ArticleGOP pushes back at White House for easing layoff alerts
Republican lawmakers are pushing back on guidance from the White House saying that the federal government will reimburse defense companies' liability or litigation costs for not issuing legally...
View ArticleFirm in meningitis deaths long suspected
Nearly a decade ago, federal health inspectors wanted to shut down the pharmacy linked to a recent deadly meningitis outbreak until it cleaned up its operations, according to congressional...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: General quarters
"Too many generals are taking orders from their privates," summarizes Rush Limbaugh regarding the ever-mutating news about former CIA Director David H. Petraeus. Alas, there is collateral damage from...
View ArticleFreshmen learn way around Hill
While Congress returned to work Tuesday facing the looming "fiscal cliff" and a slew of other pressing legislative matters, the class of freshmen lawmakers who will be sworn in in January met at the...
View ArticleJustices spurn ID-theft suit against government
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued its first opinion of the new term, saying a lawyer cannot combine two laws to sue the federal government for violating identity-theft protection laws banning the...
View ArticleHURT: In sum, Democrats see voters as isolated parts
ANALYSIS/OPINION:All the nerdy political gurus with their chalkboard tablets on cable news have spoken, and it is official: Identity politics won President Obama's re-election last week.Analysts on all...
View ArticleCatholic Church resists birth-control coverage
BALTIMORE — A top American bishop said Tuesday the Roman Catholic Church will not comply with the Obama administration requirement that most employers provide health insurance that covers birth control...
View ArticleEvangelicals struggle to stay relevant in Republican politics
LAS VEGAS — A call by the head of one of America's top evangelical organizations for Christian conservatives to moderate their opposition to such issues as same-sex marriage, abortion and immigration...
View ArticleInside Politics: Re-elected Jackson leaves Mayo Clinic
CHICAGO — Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has left the Mayo Clinic, where he was being treated for bipolar disorder for the second time since taking a leave of absence from Congress in June.Mr. Jackson was...
View ArticleObama to face Libya, Petraeus questions
As President Obama prepared for his first full news conference in eight months on Wednesday amid burgeoning scandals over the terrorist assault in Benghazi, Libya, and the CIA director’s resignation,...
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