After a high profile political battle this week over legislation to help victims of domestic abuse, its fate appears to be in limbo. And this policy-dispute-turned-election-year-brawl seems to be far from over. The Senate approved its version last month with bipartisan s …
Mitt and Ann Romney have donated a paltry $75,000 each to the joint Romney-RNC Victory Fund this month, The Hill has confirmed — the maximum that the two can give to it. This appears to be the first time the Romneys have chipped in any of their own money for the race, des …
Earlier this week we wrote a post about Jerry Johnson and his role in formulating a document calling on Christian leaders who decide to back Mitt Romney to also make clear that Mormonism is a cult. As Johnson explained, he personally will not be voting for e …
Meg Whitman never said she liked to fire people, but on the same day that news of her plansto lay off 30,000 Hewlett-Packard employees leaked to the press, Mitt Romney felt inspired to lavish praise on her managerial skills and to wistfully lament that she lost h …
Mitt Romney is struggling to contain a 50-year-old story that has people discussing why it shouldn't matter almost as much as why it does. The Washington Post ran an article about Romney's history of pranks at his high school, the tony Cranbrook Scho …
As The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur pointed out in the segment above, if the Supreme Court ends up ruling that the Affordable Care Act, otherwise commonly referred to as "Obamacare" is not Constitutional or against the individual mandate, Republicans may very well find themselve …
The House on Friday ignored a presidential veto threat and passed a $642 billion defense bill that abandons the deficit-cutting agreement that President Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer. On a 299-120 vote, lawmakers backed the spending blueprint that adds …
The continued talk, debate and discussion about church/state sepration has made me look at how the debate is going on about this whole separation thing. Since they are separate does that give them both equal power and status? Tell us what you think about church/state separat …
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Christian Right activists who give money, pressure politicians and organize against gay rights may think they’re accomplishing a couple of goals, like rolling back gay rights and asserting their religion’s primacy in American culture. Unfortunately for them (but for …
The tea party movement is kicking into gear again, buoyed by the success of Richard Mourdock in defeating longtime Sen. Richard Lugar in Indiana's GOP primary. They're intent on proving that the movement is not dead, as so many commentators have declared. To that …
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