12:01 AM, Feb 6, 2012 • By JONATHAN V. LASTRick Santorum had a pretty good week. He finished a distant fourth in the Nevada caucuses, but the turnout was so low--down nearly 25 percent from 2008--that the event became yet another indictment of the front-runner.
Read more... 4:44 PM, Feb 5, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLOn February 3, during a rare Friday prayer lecture at Tehran University, Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran would "support and help any nations, any groups fighting against the Zionist regime across the world, and we are not afraid of declaring this." Khamenei continued, “The Zionist regime is a true cancer tumor on this region that should be cut off.
Read more... 11:08 AM, Feb 5, 2012 • By JOHN MCCORMACKPublic Policy Polling surveys Tuesday's caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and finds good news for Rick Santorum:
Last night's results in Nevada were bad news for Newt Gingrich and PPP's first day of polling in Colorado and Minnesota indicates things may only get worse for him in the coming days.
Read more... 11:11 PM, Feb 4, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERHere's Mitt Romney's victory speech, as prepared for delivery, given tonight after he was projected the winner in the Nevada contest:
Tonight, I want to thank the people of Nevada. Once again, you have given me your vote of confidence. And this time, I intend to take it all the way to the White House!
Read more... 11:34 AM, Feb 4, 2012 • By JAY COSTThere's been a great deal of sound and fury over the jobs report. Here are two thoughts that come to mind.
Against the bulls: An increase in 245,000 payroll jobs was about 100,000 above expectations (at 150,000). But exactly a year ago, the experts were calling for a January 2011 increase of about 140,000 jobs and the initial number was just 36,000, or about 100,000 below expectations.
Read more... 12:00 AM, Feb 4, 2012 • By IRWIN M. STELZERSome fear America is about to go protectionist. Others fear it won’t. Where you stand on this issue depends on where you sit. Sit in the chair of the CEO of a major exporter, and you fear protectionism and the ever-rising spiral of retaliations. Sit in the chair of the president of a trade union, and you welcome what others call protectionism and you call fair trade. Sit in the chair of a Wal-Mart customer and you fear anything that will drive up prices, putting pressure on your over-stretched budget.
Read more... 3:10 PM, Feb 3, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANCan the Giants front-four get to Brady and—as the fastidious football locution puts it—disrupt his timing? That is to say...pound him into wet, pink pulp.
Multitudes will be watching Sunday night to learn the answer to this and other questions that the Super Bowl exists to ask and then, millions upon millions of dollars and tons of avocado dip later, to answer.
There are so many questions to be answered in Indianapolis . . . wait a minute, did you say Indianapolis?
Read more... Did 'Top Chef' jump the shark with special guest judge Pee-wee Herman?2:50 PM, Feb 3, 2012 • By VICTORINO MATUSGrayson Schmitz is never at a loss for words. According to the New York-based catering chef, "Whatever is in my head I say." So I couldn't resist asking her what went through her mind during the last episode of Top Chef: Texas when the special guest judge turned out to be the one and only Pee-wee Herman (who entered the kitchen set riding his trademark red bicycle). Grayson, who trained under Fabio Trabocchi ("the man taught me how to make pasta") and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, was first amused by the spectacle. "Okay, that's fun," she thought, "but he better not be one of our f—g judges." He was.
Read more... 2:10 PM, Feb 3, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENA new poll from PPP shows Mitt Romney with a commanding lead heading into Saturday's caucuses in Nevada. Romney has 50 percent support there, according to the poll of likely caucusgoers. His numbers double those of Newt Gingrich, who only receives 25 percent support, with Ron Paul and Rick Santorum at 15 percent and 8 percent, respectively.
Read more... 11:34 AM, Feb 3, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERLawrence Kaplan takes the Obama administration to task for prematurely declaring that “the tide of war is receding.” Here's a taste:
Read more... 10:53 AM, Feb 3, 2012 • By MARK SOUDERNewt Gingrich was hardly a perfect speaker of the House, but he did not resign in “disgrace” as has been repeatedly claimed by Mitt Romney. I say this as a former member of Congress who was part of both the “coup attempt” against him and the subsequent successful effort to remove him as speaker after the 1998 election.
Read more... 10:41 AM, Feb 3, 2012 • By IRWIN M. STELZERToday’s jobs report is all good news for the country, and bad news for Republicans who are hoping that a failing economy is all they need in order to unseat President Obama.
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