Economist Paul Krugman, who is also a columnist for the New York Times, says that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has been “assimilated by the Fed Borg” and has not done enough to fix mass unemployment. Republican Presidential candidate...
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Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Global Poll: Investors Back Bernanke
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At the Manhattan City Clerk's office in New York.
Senate Dems Use Obama’s Gay Marriage Stand to Woo Donors
No sooner did President Obama endorse same-sex marriage than Senate Democrats sent out a fundraising e-mail cheering him on and asking for donations. “Polls show that the public is on our side,” wrote Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. The Empire State recently...
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Mitt Romney
Romney: Marriage ‘Man and Woman’
President Barack Obama may have had a change of heart on same-sex marriage. Republican Mitt Romney says he has not. “My view is that marriage itself is a relationship between a man and a woman,” Romney told reporters today in...
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The LA Pride Parade.
Obama Affirms Same-Sex Marriage
President Barack Obama, who has said to be going through an “evolution” of thought on the question of same-sex marriage, signaled today that the journey is over. “At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that, for me personally, it is...
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Keith Russell Judd
Obama Outruns Texas Prison Inmate
West Virginia has been an uphill fight for Barack Obama. The senator from Illinois lost West Virginia to the senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, by 41 points in the Democratic Party’s 2008 primary election. Obama lost the state to...
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Post Office boxes.
Hamlet, Pop. 400, You Have Mail
Breaks, Virginia, will keep its post office after all. No picket signs or rock-throwing necessary. A long-shot petition drive by some of the Appalachian hamlet’s 400 or so citizens paid off when the Postal Service, bowing to congressional pressure, today...
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Jackie Walorski outside of the St. Joseph County Republican headquarters in South Bend, Ind.
Indiana May Help Republicans Narrow ‘Gender Gap’ in Congress
Indiana hasn’t had a Republican woman in Congress in more than 50 years. Next year it may have two. Susan Brooks, a former federal prosecutor, is a heavy favorite in the fall to win Indiana’s 5th District, a Republican-leaning area...
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Mitt and Ann Romney with their family in Bedford, N.H.
Romney Super-PAC Revives Rosengate for Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day, from Restore Our Future. The super-PAC supporting presumed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said it has a new television ad on the air today that includes comments Obama supporters Hilary Rosen and Bill Maher made last month...
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Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock signs a campaign banner in Indianapolis, on May 8, 2012, after he defeated incumbent Sen. Richard Lugar in the primary.
Mourdock Raises Specter of ‘Obama’s Super-PACs’ in Indiana
It’s a well-worn tactic of a political candidate to plead for campaign funds by painting an apocalyptic portrait of the well-funded opposition. Richard Mourdock needs money. And the Indiana Republican state Treasurer who vanquished Senator Dick Lugar yesterday has his...
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Sen. Richard Lugar after his concession speech on May 8, 2012, in Indianapolis.
Landslide Lugar Primary Loss Biggest For A Senator Since …
That Senator Richard G. Lugar was defeated for re-election in a Republican primary in Indiana yesterday wasn’t a surprise to anyone who had watched the tide turn against the 35-year senator in the past few weeks. What was stunning was...
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