Browsing Month November, 2011
CALLISTA GINGRICH::With Newt Back in the Spotlight, Callista Gingrich Follows | TIME
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:29 am
Callista Gingrich is probably the most recognizable spouse in the 2012 Republican presidential field. It’s not just her trademark look: the pastel suit; the perfect blonde coif; the frozen smile. It is that she is always there. In a campaign where some candidates’ partners are almost invisible–many political junkies probably couldn’t pick Herman Cain’s wife, ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , Featured , News , Politics
DANIEL HANNAN: Zone Out the Euro – NRO
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:28 am
Never mind Spain or Italy or even Belgium; the euro crisis has spread to Germany, which is struggling to sell its bonds. The Corner’s Mark Steyn likes to say that, if you take a quart of ice cream and a quart of dog faeces and mix ’em together, the result will generally taste more like the latter than the former. It’s true of international organizations (the context ... Go To Article
Commentary , Economy , Featured , Politics
ELECTION 2012::Schwarzman Backs ROMNEY as Wall Street Turns Away From Obama
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:26 am
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of the world’s largest private-equity firm, will host a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at his Park Avenue apartment next month, a sign that the Republican presidential candidate is closing the sale with Wall Street’s wealthiest donors. The event marks Schwarzman’s inaugural step to help Romney secure the Republican ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , Featured , General , News , Politics
HOLLYWOOD GINGRICH – NRO
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:25 am
Five years ago, Newt Gingrich was a millionaire pundit and author, living quietly and comfortably in northern Virginia. More than a decade had passed since he took the speaker’s gavel in January 1995, and seven since he had left the House. By day, he led a consortium of private, for-profit policy groups, nicknamed “Newt World,” that advised corporations and ... Go To Article
ROMNEY the 1st GOP candidate to plant flag in Fla. – AP Dispatch
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:25 am
MEDLEY, Fla. (AP) -- If there's any Republican presidential candidate who can afford to spend precious time and money focusing on winning in Florida, it's the one campaigning here Tuesday. While others focus on Iowa's caucuses or the early primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Mitt Romney is set to spend the day in the state welcoming endorsements from three ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
BARONE::More Solyndras? Antique visions of the future | WashEx
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:13 am
Another dud of an article in Politico: one Joe Horowitz, described as the managing general partner at Jafco ventures in Palo Alto, California, argues that the federal government should fund more Solyndras. “Some industries are just too capitalist intensive to succeed without government help,” he writes. Especially those who spend $6 to make a product that they then ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Economy , Election 2012 , General , Politics
NEWT GINGRICH on drug laws, entitlements and campaigning – Yahoo! News
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:12 am
In preparation for a Saturday morning book signing with Newt Gingrich, the bookstore printed numbered cards for the first 500 people looking for an autograph from the former House speaker and Republican presidential candidate. The store gave out its first card at 8 a.m. on Black Friday--27 hours before Gingrich was scheduled to arrive--and ran out before he stepped in the ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
ELECTION 2012:: The Future of the Obama Coalition – NYTimes
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:11 am
For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class. All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
SOWELL::Gingrich and Immigration – RCP
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:10 am
Now that Newt Gingrich has become the latest in a series of Republican front-runners, he is getting the kinds of scrutiny and attacks that have done in other front-runners. One of the issues that have aroused concern among conservative Republicans is that of amnesty for illegal immigrants, especially after Gingrich said that it would not be "humane" to deport someone ... Go To Article
Commentary , Election 2012 , General , Immigration , Politics
SECRET FED LOANS Gave Banks $13 Billion – Bloomberg
By MB Snow at November 29, 2011 | 12:08 am
The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that ... Go To Article