Dec 2, 2011 – Mitt Romney did something oddly appropriate during a post-Thanksgiving interview with Fox News host Bret Baier: He got peeved. … been a pillar to his family, community and country gets to listen as he's called 'weather vane,' a craven tool of the prevailing political … It's true that Romney took a sharp right turn when he moved from state to national politics.…

Dec 2, 2011 – performances have routinely focused on and blasted the president, and this accounts for his early lead in New Hampshire and strong national … The discussions concerning Newt's candidacy overlook such political indiscretions as the one noted below concerning poor children … Best regards, __________ Colorado Springs This correspondent then went on to excerpt from the Fox News article reporting…

Dec 1, 2011 – I wouldn’t switch my positions for political reasons.’’ But of course he has already done so many times. … UPDATE - Big news: The primary is over, apparently!   … “I’m going to be the nominee,” the former Speaker told ABC News.…

Dec 1, 2011 – Barney Frank, D-Mass., announced his intention not to seek re-election after a 32-year career, not one of the nightly news broadcast … How would consumers getting their news from ABC/NBC/CBS/Times learn about his central role in the housing meltdown? … But there's worse news.…

Nov 30, 2011 – He lacked serious organization in key primary states and his daily schedule at times seemed to lack political events. … It combines moral nonsense with political stupidity. … The question of character is among the most crucial issues of a political campaign.…

Nov 30, 2011 – Bret Baier -- who commands near universal respect among viewers of all political stripes.  … Newt Gingrich is the walking definition of a polarizing political figure.  … People just aren't paying attention to the news like they would at almost any other time of year. …

Nov 30, 2011 – And, of course, the rise of divisive Washington politics predates by decades the emergence of the Tea Party to national attention in … news) politicians could get back to the business of compromising out their differences. … Each of those historic epochs was brought on by decisive and sustained shifts in national majority opinion.…

Nov 28, 2011 – Today's BP Ledger includes items from: The Alabama Baptist Northwest Baptist Convention (two items) World News Service Forum 18 News … (World News Service) -- Madison Baczewski wanted to serve God, just not overseas. … Forum 18 News Service, based in Oslo, Norway, is a nonprofit news service which reports on matters of religious freedom as reflected…

Nov 28, 2011 – Cain broke the news himself in a 'prebuttal' interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer moments ago.  "Here we go again," he sighed.  … Okay, but Cain just went on national television to talk about these accusations.  … UPDATE V - Full video from Atlanta's Fox 5 News:   Georgia Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Herman Cain: MyFoxATLANTA.com…

Nov 28, 2011 – Reading the daily news stories out of Cairo is like following the fever chart of some disease whose course was traced long ago. … Next week's news out of Cairo -- indeed, next year's -- can be foreseen. … None of the news out of Egypt should surprise.…

Nov 28, 2011 – News may travel at the speed of Twitter among political insiders, but it moves much more slowly among voters who have other things … So despite all the progress he has made -- he's now leading in the RealClearPolitics average of Iowa polls as well as national surveys…

Dec 15, 2011 – Despite occurring on a weekend, last Saturday night's ABC News debate was the highest-rated affair of the election cycle -- although … He didn't participate in the ABC News debate because of his weak national polling position, so tonight will mark a chance to reassert … Tonight's debate kicks off at 9pm ET on Fox News. …

Dec 14, 2011 – Jon Huntsman, who has struggled for national name recognition for months, received some encouraging news Wednesday morning. … candidacy for president at Liberty State Park in June, the former Utah governor has yet to garner 5 percent of the vote in any national … Today, however, his polling numbers – which until recently were abysmal – have reached historic highs in two new national surveys.…

Dec 14, 2011 – Somewhat more recently there was an outfit named NCPAC – the National Conservative Political Action Committee. … Like Ogg and Flic, the citizens of those states, having no other information, believed the bad news about their previously beloved…

Dec 13, 2011 – Weinstein, an Air Force Academy graduate, is described on the foundation's website as "the undisputed leader of the national movement … It is something powerfully religious that is non-Christian, non-theistic and 'Earth-based' with deep pockets and a lot of political … Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com…

Dec 12, 2011 – Al Gore, in a year when political scientists' formulas pegged him as an easy winner, ran on a "people versus the powerful" theme and … But Gingrich clearly has posed a greater threat since he took the lead in national polls in Thanksgiving week. … "It's a character problem," the spot shows Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer saying of Gingrich.…

Dec 10, 2011 – Both events are being billed as slugfests between frontrunner Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, who sit atop most national and early state … The incoming political bullets aren't just flying from the Romney camp; the Wall Street Journal editorial board has skewered Newt's … Might a third candidate turn in a commanding performance and re-enter the Iowa or national conversation? …

Dec 10, 2011 – At the same time, the European Central Bank (ECB) yielded to political pressure to rescue the world's second currency by using an IMF … However, that problem was swept under the rug yet again by deft political maneuvers. … As with the dollar swaps the news was greeted with great relief by world stock markets.…

Dec 9, 2011 – They stood shoulder to shoulder at a 2004 news conference to make the announcement. … CDR was tied to a doomed bond deal in Alabama, which, according to Bloomberg News, threatened to cause the biggest municipal bankruptcy … Convention, the news service reported.…

Dec 7, 2011 – [Editor's Note: This article is authored by David Morris]   Gingrich seems a strange political animal, as there are many versions … It seems unlikely, however that anyone could take political advantage of Reagan's circumstances surrounding it. … fall, or stagnate based on whether they apostate from conservatism, fused with a general inexperience in communicating with a national…

Dec 26, 2011 – As USA Today’s Susan Page sums up the latest USA Today/Gallup poll:  the nation is “…more downbeat, more dissatisfied with its political … Obama’s current approval rating in the low forties, very low for any president at this point in his term, along with the very sour national … people, and when the central issue regarding the economy is the extent to which government should play a role in it, this is not good news…

Dec 24, 2011 – He still needed jobs on cable news networks or help publishing/selling his books and columns. … In fact, no insurgent candidate in modern American political history has had an organization this professional and well-funded. … He’s a national figure, who has run for president several times and has been running for the last five years.…

Dec 24, 2011 – John McCain essentially skipped Iowa, finishing fourth and marginalizing Iowa’s political impact. Should Rep. … counterproductive behavior was on display in 2008, when he refused to endorse then-nominee McCain and proceeded to hold a protest near the national … According to a recent Washington Post-ABC News national poll, a third-party bid by Paul would almost certainly doom the eventual Republican…

Dec 22, 2011 – At a news conference Wednesday at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the regulation … rest of us, it doesn't, since they're an independent agency with phenomenal, cosmic regulatory power, easily able to mask their political … " … The federal government, fail to understand the implications and neighborhood effects of implementing standards for political…

Dec 22, 2011 – BCS National Championship Bowl: Alabama will once again go up against LSU in a clash of two titan college football teams. … I have the Crimson Tide rolling over the Tigers to win the national championship. … Next year will culminate in a presidential election that I believe will mark the beginning of a political upheaval of both parties.…