11:20 PM, May 19, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENThe Milwakuee Journal Sentinel, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin, has endorsed Republican governor Scott Walker in the June 5 recall election:
Read more... 12:00 AM, May 19, 2012 • By IRWIN M. STELZERThe tide sweeping from Greece across Europe and into the United States is washing away support for austerity, in some cases reinforcing opposition to it, largely from the left. President Obama is delighted at this support for his refusal to cut spending in the face of mounting deficits, and the Republicans are feeling beleaguered at what they see as the disinternment of the body of works of John Maynard Keynes.
Read more... 5:46 PM, May 18, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENSt. Cloud, Minn. Kurt Bills, a high school economics teacher and state representative, is the enodrsed Republican for U.S. Senate in Minnesota. Bills won 64 percent of the delegates on the second ballot at the state convention Friday afternoon.
Read more... 5:44 PM, May 18, 2012 • By JOHN MCCORMACKMilwaukee news radio station WTMJ reports:
Law enforcement officials are angered and looking for answers after Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett did not attend two separate law enforcement recognition ceremonies this week, including one that recognizes Milwaukee police officers killed in the line of duty.
Read more... 5:09 PM, May 18, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENMassachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was criticized by a fellow Democrat over her inability to explain the recent controversy over Warren's disputed Native American heritage.
Read more... 4:18 PM, May 18, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENSt. Cloud, Minn. State representative Kurt Bills earned 53 percent of the vote of the delegates at the Minnesota Republican party convention on the first ballot.
Read more... 3:42 PM, May 18, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERPresident Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, admitted at a Harvard Kennedy School of Government event in Massachusetts that "The economy, you know, will continue to be a challenge."
Read more... Chu thumbs up!2:31 PM, May 18, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERSecretary of Energy Steven Chu, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, takes to Facebook today to review the Avengers, a movie about a bunch of superheroes banding together to save the world, “which focuses on a new, limitless clean energy source called ‘The Tesseract,’” according to Chu.
Read more... But Hegseth still has an uphill battle.1:46 PM, May 18, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENSt. Cloud, Minn. As they have been at state conventions throughout the country, Ron Paul supporters are out in full force here at the Minnesota Republican party convention this weekend. But one might hardly know that from being on the convention floor. The only sight of Paul’s name here is on a brochure sticking out of a lone delegate’s pocket and two small “Ron Paul 2012” posters hanging haphazardly on the right-side wall.
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