His job approval numbers may be facing a rocky stretch, but President Obama still leads all the possible Republican challengers for 2012 that Public Policy Polling tested in a survey conducted Nov. 13-15. ...
A House panel has voted to approve legislation introduced by Texas Rep. Ron Paul that would allow Congress to audit the Federal Reserve. The provision that passed the House Financial Services Committee Thursday would direct the Government Accountability Office to examine the Fed's monetary policy, ...
A count of missing delegate ballots from Nevada's Republican convention last year concluded with a surprising result. It turns out three delegates supporting Rep. Ron Paul should have been sent from the Silver State to the national GOP convention in Minneapolis. The result has no bearing on ...
LOS ANGELES – Yes, the people I've met here this week are quite interested in parsing the president's statements about Iran. It's just that some of them have other things on their mind. ...
Dr. Rand Paul, son of 2008 Republican Presidential candidate and fundraising juggernaut Ron Paul, announced his candidacy for US Senator from Kentucky in 2010. He teased the announcement on his Twitter feed, but let the cat out of the bag on the Rachel Maddow Show:As a candidate, Paul's stands on ...
In the words of Sarah Palin's speech writers, "Say it ain't so, Joe!" Time magazine reports that Joe the Plumber (does anybody care what his real name is anymore?) is readying to bolt from the GOP:Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he's so outraged by GOP overspending, ...
Things are bad for the Republican Party. How bad?The Mendoza Line, the low-water mark for a major league baseball player's batting average, is .198. Expressed as a percentage, that translates to 19.8%. In a recent Pew study, the portion of voters who identified themselves as Republicans was 22%. ...
When all the hoo-ha happened over Gov. Rick Perry's suggestion that the Lone Star State could secede from the union, I immediately looked forward to hearing the opinions of three Texans: Kinky Friedman, Ron Paul and Willie Nelson. In an interview with Briefing Room, Friedman said Perry had "gone off ...
We already know that Ron Paul enjoys the most devoted group of followers this side of Jonestown, but apparently he's expanded his ranks even further since his failed presidential bid last year.It seems that now he's counting a sitting Secretary of State among his admirers...Talk about an odd couple: ...
Anybody remember Rudy Giuliani? He was the presumptive favorite to win the 2008 GOP Presidential nomination, before Ron Paul took him out? Well, Rudy's back.The former Mayor of America tells the New York Post's Fredric U. Dicker that he is going to take his "traditional view of marriage," which I ...





