From the AJC's Political Insider:U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss on Monday said he’s taken heart from Mitt Romney’s mention of the possibility of doing away with mortgage interest deductions on second homes, and said he’d like to see a presidential debate th... »
David Brooks writes in The New York Times: Going back to 1962, domestic spending has hovered around 3.3 percent of G.D.P. In big-spending years (the Jimmy Carter years), it rose to about 4.4 percent. In low-spending years (Ronald Reagan’s and Bill Clin... »
From The Wall Street Journal:Adm. Jonathan Greenert made an important observation last fall from the tower of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis while in the Strait of Hormuz on the southern coast of Iran, the world's busiest oil-shipping lane.Th... »
Charlie Harper writes in the Courier Herald:Days before the 2011 Session of the Georgia General Assembly convened, Senate Republicans chose to strip Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle of much of his power over the body. Despite Cagle having just won re-el... »
From The Wall Street Journal:The Supreme Court said Monday that jails can strip-search all inmates, including those held on minor charges, in an ideologically divided 5-4 ruling penned by Justice Anthony Kennedy.Writing that the policy "struck a reason... »
From The Washington Post:When the Affordable Care Act became law two years ago, many legal observers wrote off the ensuing court challenges as quite frivolous, posing little substantive threat to the Obama administration’s signature legislative accompl... »
This is an interest article from The New York Times. Just a sample:The Romney campaign’s shortcomings have been on vivid display in recent weeks, from verbal stumbles to a failure to stir the passions of the Republican base. But even his batter... »
From The Wall Street Journal:Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who for 33 years in Congress has personified an increasingly unfashionable Republican centrism, said she won't seek re-election, taking a final shot at the Senate's partisanship."I do find it fr... »
Gerald Seib writes in The Wall Street Journal:In political debate, the side that prevails often is the side that manages to define the issue in the way it prefers. And so it is with the still-simmering debate between church and state over insurance cov... »
From the 2-2-2012 Dublin Courier Herald:Georgia leaders were all smiles Friday as they officially announced the rumored biggest economic development deal since Kia chose West Point to locate their auto manufacturing facility. Caterpillar, the maker of ... »
From The Washington Post:In an unnoticed 1992 speech, Newt Gingrich in a single utterance took aim not only at a beloved conservative icon but also at a core tenet of the conservative movement: that government must be limited.Ronald Reagan’s “weakness,... »
From The Wall Street Journal:Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz had a sound bite ready when Donald Trump endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently. "They both like firing people and they've both made... »
From The New York Times:Mitt Romney on Tuesday moved to shore up support in his boyhood home of Michigan, preparing a new television commercial and writing an opinion article defending his 2008 position to let the auto industry go bankrupt.But the main... »
From The New York Times:For the White House, the decision announced Friday to soften a rule requiring religious-affiliated organizations to pay for insurance plans that offer free birth control was never really driven by a desire to mollify Roman Catho... »
Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal:The Romney campaign is better at dismantling than mantling. They're better at taking opponents apart than building a compelling candidate of their own. They do not seem capable of deepening his meaning, ma... »
