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Carson tapped to speak at major conservative political conference
Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson will speak at a prominent conservative political rally next month, alongside the likes of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, the American Conservative Union said...
Tags: Carly Fiorina, Politics, Barack Obama, Executive Branch, Al Groh
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Obama calls for funding for brain science initiative
WASHINGTON – President Obama is asking Congress to approve $110 million in new spending for research on the human brain, an investment he said would benefit not just science but the economy. “Ideas are what power our economy,” Obama...
Tags: Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, Politics, Barack Obama, Science and Technology
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Republicans rediscover tolerance
WASHINGTON -- As lawmakers put the finishing touches on an immigration deal, veteran Rep. Don Young decided this would be a good time to come out with an immigration plan of his own. His involves calling Latino immigrants "wetbacks." For Young, now in...
Tags: Steve King, Republican Party, Todd Akin, Reince Priebus, Politics
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Boehner says Obama using military as 'props' in sequester fight
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans said President Obama was using the nation’s armed forces as a “campaign prop” when he should be working with his party’s leaders in the Senate to avoid across-the-board spending cuts set to take...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Politics, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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"Atlas Shrugged" evil alive and well
John Galt, the evil genius of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," is "alive and well" roaming the halls of Congress. A figment of Rand's imagination, Galt continues to do serious damage through any number of assorted tea party/GOP extremists,...Tags: Philosophy, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Michele Bachmann, Barack Obama
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Could TV have a done a poorer job of covering sequester?
The Baltimore SunThere is no excuse for the kind of coverage TV has delivered the last two weeks on the sequester. Television news has been polarizing, sensational and mostly focused on personality rather than the policy behind the $85 billion in federal spending cuts...Tags: Robert L. Gibbs, Republican Party, David Axelrod, Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics
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Sequestration? Not Scary. Try Fiscal Death Match
The Hartford CourantI'm trying really hard to get all worked up over sequestration, but it ain't taking. Congress has been no help. They called it a weekend on Thursday and went home the day before the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts was scheduled to begin....Tags: Anne Hathaway, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Entertainment Events, Budget Control Act of 2011
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A weak Boehner is bad for the GOP, Obama and America
Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner, embarrassed by his flock'...Tags: Mitt Romney, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Politics
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Inauguration 2013: Obama addresses gays, compromise, climate change
WASHINGTON – After Barack Obama publicly took the oath of office for his second term on Monday, he strongly defended the ideology of his party as he urged Americans to accept compromise as a path toward solving the nation’s problems. “...Tags: Republican Party, Literature, Jimmy Carter, Politics, Bill Clinton
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GOP to showcase Rubio as new face of party
In the Republican Party's developing effort to put on a new face after November's presidential defeat, the latest gesture is trotting out freshman Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to deliver the GOP response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Health Care Reform (2009), Republican Party, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell
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Republicans can't escape blame for sequester
If aliens came to earth from outer space in search of intelligent life, Congress is the last place they would look for it. The Republican-led 112th Congress -- in a good week, in session no more than two and a half days -- let the Standard & Poor's credit...
Tags: Government Debt, Republican Party, Health Care Reform (2009), Politics, Congressional Budget Office
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Tonight: State of the Union, ‘Cliffhanger,’ ‘Justified,’ Westminster best in show
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelPresident Barack Obama's State of the Union address will rearrange Tuesday prime time. The speech is scheduled to start at 9 on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox Business Network and Bloomberg. There will be responses by Sen....
Feb 27, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 2, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 2, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 25, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 3, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Mar 3, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 3, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
Jan 7, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 21, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 8, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 22, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 12, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
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