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Last week started off with the eighth Republican primary debate of the year, on Monday night. According to my own count, there were 15 questions (and answers) on tax reform, 2 on energy and jobs, one heated back-and-forth on health care, 12 questions and responses on immigration, 5 on the home-mortgage crisis, 3 on the [...]
Hobbling along between cars in his walker, asking for change and proffering free newspapers in return, it is hard to believe he was once known as ‘The World’s Foremost Authority’. Professor Irwin Corey, comedian, actor and left-wing political activist, strolls along Manhattan’s East 35th Street pan-handling every day, seven days a week, for the last [...]
President Obama today declared Iran will be isolated from the rest of the world and ‘pay a price’ for its alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington D.C. His comments follow Saudi Arabia’s own stark warning to Iran that ‘somebody will have to pay the price’ and a U.S. [...]
At the GOP Bloomberg/Washington Post debate Tuesday night, Ron Paul, the longest-serving advocate of a Fed audit in Congress, asked Herman Cain, a former director of the Kansas City Fed, why he opposed an audit of the central bank, and why he called advocates of such an audit ignorant. “Mr. Cain, in the past you [...]
HANOVER, N.H. — Charlie Rose’s famous oak table ended up looking like the faculty lounge of the world’s strangest economics department. On speed. Rick Santorum wants to “beat” China. Mitt Romney warns that “if you don’t stand up to China, you will be run over by China.” Herman Cain denies that the criticism of his [...]
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) pressed Texas Governor Rick Perry on his support for Al Gore’s 1988 presidential campaign during Tuesday night’s GOP primary debate. Perry served as Texas campaign chairman for Gore during the then-candidate’s run for the White House. Rep. Ron Paul hammered the Lone Star State governor over the connection in a harsh [...]
While Jon Huntsman may be holding back from slinging attacks at his fellow GOP contenders, his daughters are not. Throughout the Republican primary debate in New Hampshire Tuesday night, Huntsman’s three oldest daughters — Liddy, Abby and Mary Anne — have been tweeting under the name, making fun of the other Republicans and defending their [...]
WASHINGTON — Herman Cain’s now-famous “9-9-9″ tax plan was crafted by a rank-and-file investment adviser working at a Wells Fargo branch in an affluent rural Ohio town with a population of about 6,000 people. Cain name-checked Richard Lowrie during Tuesday night’s Republican debate on economic policy, and his campaign confirmed to HuffPost that Richard Lowrie [...]
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that Occupy Wall Street protesters — as well as the rest of the American public — have a right to be angry about the economic situation in the country, but they shouldn’t be mad at Wall Street: They should instead be directing their ire at government officials. The remarks [...]
HANOVER, N.H. — Tuesday was Mitt Romney’s night. The former Massachusetts governor entered the ninth GOP debate riding a long, fortuitous wave of positive news. His nearest competitors for the nomination had crumbled amid missteps or mismanagement. Prospective candidates had declined to launch bids of their own. One of them, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, [...]