May 26, 2011 – (Newser) – Benjamin Netanyahu got plenty of standing ovations in Washington, but back home the “nearly unanimous assessment” is that he’s badly damaged the peace process and fueled Palestine’s push for a UN resolution recognizing its statehood, the New York Times reports. "Those who are scared of peace yesterday got...

May 26, 2011 – Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of D.C. Public Schools and self-described “card-carrying, life-long Democrat,” said she was instinctively opposed to school vouchers because she was “on the side of the workers.” In her former line of thinking, teachers’ unions oppose vouchers and teachers’ unions support Democrats, so Democrats should...

May 25, 2011 – conservative commentary) or that Loughner's actions are the responsibility of the tea party, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Townhall…

May 25, 2011 – South Carolina lawmakers, saying they were fed up with the inaction of the federal government to take up immigration reform, passed a bill to tighten immigration rules in the state. The state joins about 30 others that have considered anti-illegal immigration laws this year, the Charleston Post and Courier reported...

May 25, 2011 – Sarah Palin gets to tell her side of things in an "epic," two-hour-long, $1 million movie that portrays her as a "Joan of Arc-like figure" and premieres in Iowa next month, Real Clear Politics' Scott Conroy reports. The Undefeated is the work of conservative director Stephen K. Bannon, who screened...

May 25, 2011 – (Newser) – A federal judge declared today that Jared Lee Loughner is mentally incompetent to stand trial in the shooting of Gabby Giffords, reports the Arizona Daily Star. Doctors testified that he is schizophrenic and would not be able to understand the proceedings. The ruling came after Loughner was removed...

May 25, 2011 – (Newser) – Rahm Emanuel took the stand for the defense in Rod Blagojevich’s trial today, but he didn’t stay there long, offering some mono-syllabic answers to a few simple questions in an exchange that lasted just three minutes, the Chicago Tribune reports. Things kicked off with some pleasantries: Blagojevich’s lawyer...

May 25, 2011 – New York Magazine apparently believes that opposing foreign aid is literally xenophobic - rooted in irrational fear of foreigners - and is willing to engage in some pretty sketchy journalistic practices to make its case. Those are a pair of lessons Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., learned on Tuesday. Paul's opposition...

May 25, 2011 – Glenn Beck and his company, Mercury Radio Arts, are developing a web-based TV channel called “GBTV, according to TVNewser, which quoted sources familiar with the matter as well as trademark applications filed by the company. GBTV will be based at GBTV.com, which Mercury acquired in January. Read more on Newsmax.com:...

May 25, 2011 – As Tim Pawlenty finishes up his remarks at the CATO institute, an amused source passes on this video of senior CATO officials appearing rather ... lukewarm on his chances. It's clipped from this longer interview with David Boaz and John Samples, who also dismiss Mitt Romney whom Boaz describes...

May 25, 2011 – The runaway favorite of the western Iowa crowd at a Republican fundraising dinner Friday was Georgia Republican Herman Cain – the guy everyone was there to hear. But even in absentia, Alaska's Sarah Palin claimed a surprising second place in the Pottawattamie County GOP’s dollar poll, with 38 percent of...

May 25, 2011 – Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum will make an announcement about plans to throw his hat into the presidential ring in two weeks, an aide said Tuesday. Santorum, 53, a former two-term senator, will reveal his plans the week of June 5, but his staff said they're still working out the details...

May 25, 2011 – Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is furious with his fellow Senators' inaction. "We go week after week in the Senate and do nothing. I feel like sometimes I should return my check because I go up, they do no votes and no debate," Paul said Friday, during an interview on Anderson...

May 25, 2011 – Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty isn't bashful about touting the "A" grade on fiscal policy that the Cato Institute gave him last year. Listen to his stump speech, and you'll often hear him talk about being one of just four governors to score that high. He did get an "A"...

May 25, 2011 – House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan says President Barack Obama and the Democrats have got to stop demagoguing Medicare. Ryan also said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the plan did not come from the right — but rather, that President Bill Clinton proposed it in 1999. "The president and...

May 25, 2011 – Tim Pawlenty could end up as the last candidate standing in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but conservatives aren’t too enthused about any of the top-tier contenders for 2012, Richard Viguerie told NewsMax.TV. But all that could change if Sen. Jim DeMint threw his hat into the ring,...

May 25, 2011 – (Newser) – Syria “very likely” had a secret nuclear weapons program, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency report released yesterday, which concludes that the Dair Alzour site Israel bombed in 2007 was almost certainly an under-construction nuclear reactor. The allegations themselves are old news—US intelligence agencies presented evidence of...

May 25, 2011 – Britain has a message for Michael Savage: You’re still not welcome here. The conservative radio host was first put on a list of people not allowed to enter the United Kingdom in 2009. Savage was banned as a “hate promoter” whose views were considered likely to incite violence. Savage's attorneys...

May 25, 2011 – It's a good thing Rick Perry says he's not running for president — only 4 percent of Texas Republicans say they'd vote for the governor, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll. "This is a major question for a guy who's getting national buzz," says Daron Shaw, co-director...

May 25, 2011 – ANKENY - Saying the mood of the country "has definitely changed" from four years ago, presidential candidate Ron Paul said Monday, and he thinks more people are coming around to his economic and foreign policy ideas. Speaking at his Iowa campaign headquarters located next to a Quizno's sandwich shop in...

May 25, 2011 – In an interview with Townhall, Cain said his campaign expected a 5,000 person turnout at a rally held in Atlanta, Georgia.…

May 25, 2011 – As I said in my original column at Townhall Finance on Monday, the case is almost a treatise on why the public no longer trusts their…

May 24, 2011 – (Newser) – The unemployment rate just went down a bit: Michael Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee who stepped down in January, has signed onto MSNBC as a regular commentator. Steele was rumored to be in talks with CNN and Fox, but has also made several guest...

May 24, 2011 – (Newser) – Westboro Baptist Church could soon find itself foiled in Illinois. The state Senate passed a measure yesterday that broadens the protection granted to funerals, requiring any protesters to remain at least 300 feet away from the site rather than the currently required 200 feet. The original House bill,...

May 24, 2011 – (AP) – Iran is suddenly all about free speech, criticizing the decision of the Cannes Film Festival to ban Nazi-joking director Lars von Trier. Iran's deputy culture minister wrote that Cannes had smirched its history and rendered its claims to defend free speech "a meaningless slogan." Cannes declared von Trier...