HHS Sends $5.9M to Prog...

Keith Koffler,WH Dossier The Department of Health and Human Services last week announced it had awarded a $5.9 million grant to a University of Chicago Medical Center program tied to Michelle Obama and run by Eric Whitaker, one of President Obama’s closest friends.The Urban...

How Gay Marriage Might ...

Jamelle Bouie, American Prospect Login or RegisterDonate Jamelle Bouie May 11, 2012Obama has placed the former Massachusetts governor in a bind.If same-sex marriage will harm anyone in this election, it's not President Obama; his position is supported by most Democrats and...

Obama Returns to Topic ...

Jackie Calmes, NY Times RENO, Nev. — After unexpectedly endorsing same-sex marriage and injecting a volatile social issue into the 2012 race, President Obama returned to the topic of the economy Friday, promoting his proposals to allow more Americans to get low-interest mortgage...

Is It Standard WaPo Pra...

Bryan Preston, PJ Media Less than 48 hours after the Washington Post published a major, 5,000 word exposé that portrays Mitt Romney as a homophobic, high school bully, the story has started to unravel. Jason Horowitz’s profile alleged that Romney high school...

Obama’s Trying to...

William Galston, New Republic When Lyndon Johnson endorsed path-breaking civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, he knew that he was irrevocably changing the Democratic Party. As he was affixing his signature to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he reportedly remarked to an aide that he...

Echoes of ’67: Is...

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A Whiff of "Hope a...

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post WASHINGTON — President Obama's evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation's long march toward equality and justice. It is also a bold political gambit that sacrifices some votes in exchange for potentially...

Can Romney Breach Dems&...

Ron Brownstein, National Journal By Ronald Brownstein "Political Connections" focuses on the intersection of politics and policy."Blue wall" territory: Obama in Illinois.In the six presidential elections from 1968 to 1988, Democrats effectively competed for so...

Trolling for Dirt on th...

Kim Strassel, Wall Street Journal Here's what happens when the president of the United States publicly targets a private citizen for the crime of supporting his opponent. Frank VanderSloot is the CEO of Melaleuca Inc. The 63-year-old has run that wellness-products company for 26...

Jindal May Be the Answe...

Scott Conroy, RCP People have always told Bobby Jindal to slow down.The Louisiana governor has a tendency to speak faster than his audience is able to think, so when it came time to deliver the Republican response to President Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress in...