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 ...
Texas Congressman Ron Paul was not amused. After being lured to a Washington DC hotel room for an interview with Austrian television, and, after experiencing lighting difficulties, Paul was directed to a separate bedroom where the show's host entered and, well, I'll let Slate take it from here: ...
Ron Paul may not have won the Republican presidential nomination, but he damn-sure won every debate, most notably embarrassing John McCain at the Reagan Library. So, who would you book to debate Paul on the legalization of marijuana, or any topic? I can't think of many names lower on that list than ...
People "from all walks of life" are lining up for donated bread in San Diego, 11% of U.S. mortgages are either late or in foreclosure, 8.3 million homeowners owe more than their house is worth, unemployment hasn't been so awful since 1948, 20% of Los Angeles County residents are on Public ...
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