Iowa Republicans, taking “liberties” and “rights” into some crazy territory. I guess this helps explain Rep. Steve King, sadly. Meteor Blades touched on one aspect of the Iowa Republicans’ official party platform: birtherism and investigating the non-existent ACORN. But it’s so, so much crazier than just that. For a start, they want to abolish the [...]

(ThinkProgress) The 2010 elections supposedly swept the tea party into great power in Congress, with great vats of ink spilled on the populist fervor they represented and on claims that these weren’t basically standard conservative Republicans. But in fact, the 2010 freshman class has been something of a dud in that regard, from their official [...]

Yeh Its A New Post I haven’t blogged since 1982 that is because I’ve been busy offline with things like iCalledit for one (stuff you can’t see). However, I’ve still been trading here and there. Currently I’m long from Thursday morning. Went heavy long there and closed 50% of that trade today. I think we [...]

“Planned Parenthood, we’re going to get rid of that.” All the whacko states are doing it, defunding Planned Parenthood. Now add Pennsylvania to the list. Pennsylvania State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) will introduce legislation on Wednesday that would defund Planned Parenthood, adding his state to a list of four others that have pending bills to [...]

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that if housing sales continue at the current rate of improvement, “2012 could be the strongest year for home sales since 2007,…” That’s good news indeed for anyone trying to sell a home, although we all know that the recovery won’t happen overnight. By contrast, though, the fortunes of some [...]

  Hello, human diary. It is I, Mitt Romney. Today I gave a speech at the Latino Coalition annual economic summit. This was good, because it had the word “economic” in it; it also had the word “Latino” in it, however, which was the trickier part. I have found connecting to ethnic units to be [...]

Let’s look at the latest national polling (excluding the daily trackers, which don’t provide gender breakdowns), plus a couple of recent state polls: Compare it to two weeks ago, and it’s clear that the gap hasn’t gone anywhere. Obama maintains significant leads among women in pretty much every one of those polls. What makes some [...]

By Timothy Leee, vice president of Legal and Public Affairs for the Center for Individual Freedom, arguing that US Airways would essentially be bailing out American Airlines’ unions and that this is not a good thing: The alternative is to allow American the opportunity to right the ship and carve out a new, mutually-beneficial agreement [...]

(9NEWS.com) A lot of politicians have “gone birther” over the last few years, usually when they didn’t think their remarks would reach a wider audience than the roomful of nutty conservative voters they were currently pandering to, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a subsequent walkback that’s as trainwreckish as this one. Previously, it [...]

McCrory over Dalton 44 percent to 39 percent with and Libertarian candidate Barbara Howe at 7 percent and 10 percent undecided in a new WRAL News poll. Margin of error: plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. Two points: There aren’t a lot of undecideds given the election is still nearly six months out. And then [...]