Browsing Month September, 2011
ELECTION 2012::GOP advantage over Dems grows – WASH Ex
By MB Snow at September 30, 2011 | 10:23 am
As good a year as 2010 was at the polls for Republicans, new Gallup polling this week shows 2012 could be even better. Last year, for the first time since President Bush’s first term, Americans told Gallup that Republicans “do a better job of handling the problem that you think is most important to you.” Republicans also bested Democrats on “protecting the ... Go To Article
Congress , Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
ELECTION 2012::Florida sets presidential primary for Jan. 31 – AP
By MB Snow at September 30, 2011 | 10:04 am
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida decided Friday to hold its Republican presidential primary on Jan. 31, snubbing a party rule against fast-track delegate-selection for 2012 and triggering angry responses from traditional early voting states which will now likely rejigger their calendars to stay ahead. The move actually thwarts efforts by both major political parties ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
TERRORISM::Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen – BBC
By MB Snow at September 30, 2011 | 9:47 am
US-born radical Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a key al-Qaeda leader, has been killed in Yemen, the country's defence ministry said. The US said that as a key figure in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), he had played a "significant role" in plots to blow up US airliners and had sought use poison to kill US ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , General , News , Terrorism , War
ELECTION 2012::Perry Attacks Romney, Obama in Policy Speech – ABC News
By MB Snow at September 30, 2011 | 9:31 am
In his first domestic policy speech as a presidential candidate, Rick Perry outlined his record as Texas governor Friday and accused rival Mitt Romney of governing Massachusetts the same way President Barack Obama governs the country. In a speech at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank, Perry discussed his record on health care and the ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Rick Perry
How far can Herman Cain go? – Political Hotsheet – CBS News
By MB Snow at September 30, 2011 | 8:58 am
Does Herman Cain actually have a chance to win the Republican nomination? There's no question that Cain, who was essentially unknown when he entered the presidential race, remains a serious long shot. But it's starting to look slightly more plausible that the former Godfather's Pizza CEO could actually become the Republican presidential ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
ELECTION 2012::Impending fundraising deadline brings flurry of last-minute appeals – The Hill
By MB Snow at September 30, 2011 | 12:11 am
Candidates are pulling out all the stops before Friday’s third-quarter fundraising deadlines: emailing heartfelt pleas, invoking the troubled economy (while asking for cash) and dispatching their spouses as fundraisers-in-chief. The November 2012 elections are more than a year out, but this campaign cycle has been characterized by an aggressively early start — so ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Economy , Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
ELECTION 2012::Fla. primary move hurts Fla., helps Perry
By MB Snow at September 29, 2011 | 11:25 pm
If Florida moves it's primary to January, as expected, despite Republican National Committee rules to the contrary, the state will have less of an impact on the Republican nomination process because of the proportional representation and loss of delegates that would ensue according to RNC rules; such a sequence would benefit Gov. Rick Perry, ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Rick Perry
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER:MIDDLE EAST::Middle East peace stymied by Palestinian rejections
By MB Snow at September 29, 2011 | 11:18 pm
While diplomatically inconvenient for the Western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' attempt to get the U.N. to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state has elicited widespread sympathy. After all, what choice did he have? According to the accepted narrative, Middle East peace is made impossible by a hard-line Likud-led Israel that refuses to accept a ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Islam , Israel , Middle East , Politics
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Is 2011 The Second Coming of 1931? – Via Meadia
By MB Snow at September 29, 2011 | 10:53 pm
1931 was the year that put the Great in the Great Depression. A banking crash in Europe knocked a fragile recovery off course and after the US Congress turned to protectionist trade policy with the passage of the Hawley-Smoot tariff in 1930, a global trade war wrecked everyone’s exports and the bad economic times turned truly savage. Eighty years later, policy ... Go To Article
DANIEL HENNINGER: Taking Cain Seriously – WSJ.com
By MB Snow at September 29, 2011 | 10:50 pm
You hear the same thing said about Herman Cain all the time: Herman Cain has some really interesting ideas, but . . . I love Herman Cain, but . . . But what? But he can't win. Why ... Go To Article