L.A. Times - National News:
What the Republican vice presidential candidate would have said -- in victory or loss -- had she been allowed last year. A year ago Wednesday, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stood by while her Republican running mate, Sen. John McCain, deli (Read More)
GretaWire:
President Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe goes ON THE RECORD at 10pm Monday night.
We had hoped to show you our interview on Thursday night ( I went to Philly Thursday to do the interview and then we had breaking news -- the shooting at Fort Hood -- that bumped the interview until Monday night.) [...]
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Reuters: International News:
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A bitter four-month dispute over who is president has left many Hondurans too jaded with politics to care about voting for their next leader.
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Huffington Post:
In their new book Sarah From Alaska, Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy have provided drafts of two versions of a speech that vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin was to have delivered on Election Night 2008 in Phoenix--if only John McCain and his top brass, including Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, had allowed her to do so (Read More)
New York Times:
Mr. Mashek was a reporter and columnist for nearly half a century for U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe and other publications.
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Daily Kos:
You might have noticed as of late that the Wrap-Up has taken on a very predictable cadence. The polling news comes first, with numbers and analysis. Then, in bullet form, the political news of the day soon follows. Well, there is good news and bad news on this Friday afternoon/evening. The bad news: near as I can tell, th (Read More)
Tennis | Sports News from TimesOnline:
Katie Couric, the American broadcaster who did so much expert work during the dismantling of Sarah Palin a year ago, has done a more sympathetic job on Andre Agassi and can reveal the reason that Agassi unloaded the “crystal meth” confessions in his new autobiography, serialised exclusively in The Times, was apparently not (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
Look out Washington, Sarah Palin is coming.Palin will be the Republican speaker at the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club of journalists in Washington on Dec. 5.“The governor is very excited and was honored to accept the invitation,” said her spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton.The former Alaska governor, who rose to fame (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) criticized conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, on Friday, for drawing comparisons between President Obama and Adolph Hitler. And, in a sequence that seems rare in modern Republican politics, the Virginia Republican seems eager to publicize his rebuke. Cantor's office sent over (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Phil Noble describes Hope Plus, his upcoming online action network, as "a global eBay for caring." Hope Plus is being developed by Noble's PoliticsOnline, and plans to launch during December to coordinate with the Copenhagen Climate conference.The site is attempting to get involvement from Barack Obama and Bill Gates.So, wh (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Michele Bachmann took her paranoid campaign against the White House to new heights on Thursday, leading a mass protest inside the Capitol itself that led to multiple arrests. Antics like these have made her one of the breakout stars of the Republican Party in the Obama era, drawing praise from Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and e (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be the Republican speaker at the Gridiron Club's Winter Dinner on Dec. 5, the club announced Friday.Gridiron Club President Dick Cooper told club members earlier this afternoon that Palin accepted an invitation to speak at the black-tie affair, according to a member of the club's executiv (Read More)
Huffington Post:
The only thing more frightening than being caught in an angry mob of health care protesters is revealing to that angry mob that you work for the Huffington Post. On Thursday, I ventured down to Capital Hill with a professional death wish. I was going to mingle with a group of tea partiers to get a sense of what, exactly, ke (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is set to deliver remarks at a Wisconsin Right to Life event Friday evening, one of the few speeches the former Republican presidential nominee will have given since she resigned the governorship last summer.But Palin appears to be doing her best to keep a low profile on this trip: no press wi (Read More)
National Review Online:
If you were to ask the proverbial person on the street what the Catholic Church thinks about health-care reform, the answer would sound pretty much like this: Catholics have serious problems with the surreptitious inclusion of abortion in the current health-care proposal, as well as with the absence of serious protection fo (Read More)